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Aesphonly Framed
Handprinted monoprints on paper, PVA glued to cardboard. Individually handstamped red letters. Have string weaved into them and a hanging cord. Painted over with PVA.
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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.
London:
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 music, 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.
- The masses have what the elite want.
- You can’t be free and cost money.
- Galleries freeze artists. The street frees artists.
- Streets are galleries with free materials.
- Streets: public views. Galleries: private views.
- Streets: community. Galleries: commodity.
- Streets: independent. Galleries: dependent.
- Streets: Edgeworth Johnstone. Galleries: Delaine Le Bas.
- Streets: outsiders. Galleries: insiders.
- Streets: shit creek. Galleries: chique clique.
- Streets: rise. Galleries: lie.
- Streets: free. Galleries: fee.
- Streets give artists a shop. Galleries give artists a shopping list.
- Streets express oppression. Galleries oppress expression.
- Streets walk galleries talk.
- 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
Check out Ofgridlife’s Free Art Frees Art Claymation shorts:
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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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