Friday, 10 August 2012

Vertical Painting



An interest in the possibilities of a 'billiards painting', now abandoned, led me to this interview with Malcolm Morley, from 1974 (by seminal early video documentary maker and artist Anton Perich). Morley's 'Day of the Locust' of 1977 was a past occupant of NOCM's TOP 10 PAINTINGS, and this particular interview sees him grappling, sometimes awkwardly, with interviewer Ray Gillian at his SOHO studio in New York

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