Author Archives: Shaun Caton

NEW BARBARIC PAINTINGS

Recent gouaches, watercolours and crayon drawings on paper.

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SPRING RITES – NEW COLLAGES

Collages made from scraps of coloured paper mounted on card. All March 2017. Photographs copyright 2017 by Julius G. Beltrame.

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STRANGE NEWES

Three performances by Paul Hurley and Shaun Caton at ARNOLFINI, Bristol, 15th to 17th March 2017. Photographs copyright 2017 by Julius G. Beltrame.

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CULT HOUSE 3 Performance

Artist in residence at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout from 21st March 2016 until 3rd April 2016. Durational performances on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th March 2016. Event also on 2nd April 2016. Generously supported by Caroline Wiseman Modern & Contemporary. Photographs copyright 2016 Julius G. Beltrame.

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Bury Me The Mask – Article 2014

Magazine article published in Mobile 3, November 2014. With inserts by Andrew Cochrane.

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Looking at the Watchers

In exploring the grotesque I am encountering new epiphanies in photographs found online or in obsolete books. The selective eye screens thousands, hundreds of thousands of images before, like a fly it settles on something choice to feed upon and …

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Codes of Conduct

Performance with Christopher Mollon. North Beach, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK. Friday 1st August 2014. Duration: 4 hours. Photographs copyright 2014 Graham Thirkill.

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Sleight of Hand

Whilst visiting Rome I stumbled across a curious painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch called ‘The Conjourer’ (c.1475-80) in an extraordinary exhibition, tucked away in a 16th century palazzo just a few streets from the Pantheon. There are at …

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Towards a new barbarism of expression – Essay March 2014

Notes from the Zone: Towards a new barbarism of expression. Some notes about prehistoric art objects, images and notions about shamanism/performance art.

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Bury Me The Mask – Essay 2013

Shaun Caton with inserts by Andrew Cochrane. Shaun Caton: I have been making performances since my childhood, when I created a secret world, with impossibly obsessive rules. A world of bizarre croaking languages, confined spaces full of weeds, broken glass …

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