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Heckel’s Horse Jr. on Black Exhibition
This was an exhibition I did at Black Ivory in Muswell Hill in late 2022.
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Free Art Frees Art is being done in London and New York. I’m doing London, Ron Throop is doing New York. I give away my art on the streets of Camden Market while Ron gives his away to members of the public in New York.
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New York:
Free Art Frees Art is a slogan I came up with for The Camden Market Free Art Man. Money keeps my art stuck at home. But I don’t need money directly to get it, so why ask for it when it’s the hardest form of payment to get? People spend money like it’s blood and time like it’s water. So charge time, I’ll be rich and my art can be free. Free Art Frees Art is therefore the platform for Advertism.
London on the streets of Camden Market:
New York at SUNY Osewgo:
Free Art Frees Art and is the future for artists willing and able to harness and ride the internet in favour of the traditional dinosaur gallery route. Like Napster did for the music industry, killing record labels and causing a complete restructuring of the industry. Art’s had it coming a long time and will be massively beneficial to all the good actors when it happens. This all relates to another project Ron Throop and I are working on, called Advertism. Part of the deal for getting one of my free artworks is they have to do a one minute interview for my YouTube channel. They nearly always overrun, sometimes to around ten minutes.
Free Art Frees Art Manifesto:
- Art doesn’t cost money.
- Galleries do to adults what computer games do to children.
- Free Art Frees Art isn’t radical, new, controversial or original. It’s at least 40,000 years old.
- Galleries face in. The streets face out.
- Galleries do to artists what bear traps do to bears.
- Streets are necessary. Galleries are unnecessary.
- The masses have what the elite want.
- You can’t be free and cost money.
- Galleries freeze artists. The street frees artists.
- The streets are galleries with free materials.
- The streets hold public views. Galleries hold private views.
- The streets community. Galleries commodity.
- The streets independent. Galleries dependent.
- The streets Edgeworth Johnstone. Galleries Delaine Le Bas.
- The streets outsiders. Galleries insiders.
- The streets shit creek. Galleries chique clique.
- The streets rise. Galleries lie.
- Advertism is tattoos all over your face.
- Advertism is designed to look shit in a gallery.
- The streets free. Galleries fee.
- The streets give artists a shop. Galleries give artists a shopping list.
- The streets express oppression. Galleries oppress expression.
- The streets walk galleries talk.
- Money is a fish. Free is a fishing rod. Get rich. Get Advertism.
- I’m the Napster of Art.
- The pin is mightier than the bubble.
- Freedom appears when money disappears.
- Galleries stamp approval. Advertism approves stamps.
Edgeworth Johnstone, 2025
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Batch 2 of the Masks paintings are on 300gsm paper, and have a lot more writing and stamping on the back than batch 1. 25 paintings in batch 2. Some will go in my Etsy shop, but most will be given away at The Camden Market Free Art Man Political Protest Against Expensive Art. These paintings are of the masks I made and wore in some home-made films. Most recently with Ron Throop, although this one isn’t published yet.
The paintings below are available to buy from my Etsy shop. Click each image for further info:
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The Stuckist manifesto calls for warmer, humaner painting exhibitions than you get in the traditional white wall gallery system. The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists call for them to be held on street pavements and given away, as per my recent alias: The Camden Market Free Art Man. I called this show paintings on paper, but realised later there were also ones on loose canvas. An exhibition that no-one visited as there was no one there and I didn’t tell anyone I was doing it. A possible contender for this year’s Stomach Turner Prize. Filmed 16th June 2025 at the ropery at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, UK. Smoking Room was a late addition.
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HHJ Home | Etsy | Ebay | Release Heckel’s Horse | Donate
I’ve started a series of “Two Cats” paintings. Painted in black Indian ink and yellow and red acrylic on 300gsm thick acid free A2 size paper. Under one of my aliases Heckel’s Horse Jr. All HHJ paintings are after HH. The HH one is after Schmidt-Rottluff. Buy them in my Etsy shop. The first batch is of nine. I’m keeping the first three for now. Selling 4, 5 and 6 on Etsy. Giving 7, 8 and 9 away at my The Camden Market Free Art Man Political Demonstration Against Expensive Art.
Some are mirror images as I pressed new ones on top of ones just sketched out while the ink was still wet enough. Check out the backs for hand stamped letters in black and red, and I wrote some text in pencil and permanent marker. The permanent marker shows through on to the front of the image.
Below is the feature length film of the entire process. More coming.
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Every Sunday night, 99p Ebay auctions of my paintings end. I call them 99p because the starting bid is 99p, and there’s no reserve. So, potentially, if only one person bids, they could get that painting for 99p. As a last ditch attempt to get some more bids, on Friday nights I post a YouTube video of auctions ending that Sunday. Above is the YouTube playlist.
The auctions start every Thursday night, and last 10 days. I list either 3 or 4 paintings each time. So, every Sunday night (UK time), auctions end. I paint these Ebay auction paintings under the alias Heckel’s Horse Jr. They’re acrylic on stretched canvas, 20 x 16 inches. Happy bidding!
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