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I made these drawings back in '94 when I joined the anti-road protesters who had occupied the East London street to resist its demolition by the builders of a new motorway link being pushed through the area.  The number of campaigners living in the street fluctuated around the 70 mark.  They had held the street for several years during the later of which there had been several sudden and short-lived invasions by demolition gangs managing to take down one or two houses at a time.      I joined them in the latter part of 94 and stayed up until,(and during) the final, spectacular, 'Battle of Claremont'.  During this time my role was to help se

STUFF ABOUT ME AND MY WORK (Edit | Delete)   Posted 4 days ago FIRST, A FEW BITS ABOUT MYSELF.... I have had no formal art training, having started to learn by trial-and-error at the age of about fifteen or so.  I was born in London's East End and began by trying to capture the street scenes around my home. Below, I list the various professional jobs I've worked at as an artist but, in between those, I've also had a variety of so-called 'unskilled' jobs.  I've been a hotel night porter, labourer, clerk, cleaner, park keeper, bus conductor, barman and the like.  I also served two years compulsory National Service in the army (yuck). Apart