welcome to the website of stolen-image, sculpture and design studio.
a word on navigation, if you click on the bird you will return to the index.

i am a print maker and a sculptor, i have lived and worked in walthamstow in north east london for the past thirty years. for most of my life have drawn, modeled and made things whilst supporting myself as a telephone engineer, print worker, gardener and odd job man. always in my union, always a socialist.

the influences on my my work are many, from guyasamin, romero and rivera in south america, hartfield, picssao, gargallo in europe and brangwyn, epstien and klein in the uk, with many others in between. all moderated with a philosophy that art should not just be decorative, it should try to help us find out who we are and what we are doing to each other and the world we live in, it should engage with life.

why stolen image? the name reflects the idea that when you take some ones photograph or draw their image you steal their soul. But more than that, i want to question who owns an image anyway. we mix up the images that life throws at us, create a "new" image and claim property rights over it. why we do that is conditioned by the way we are brought up, our education, social relations, etc, inseparable from the society we come from. too much is made of individualism and not enough is made of the social basis of creativity.

and if you would like to buy anything just contact me; info@stolen-image.com
or by phone; 0 (0 44) 7984654350

martin.

2010
"Society of Wild Life Artists", London
"E17 Arts Trail", London
"Exhibition of Typography", London
"We Are Your Friends", London
"Visitors", London
"Going South", London
"A Suite of Lighted Rooms", London
"Shades of Green", London
"Left in Vision", London
"I do like to be Beside the Lea", London
"Art on the Green, Walthamstow Comes West", London
"Beyond Words", london
"100 Sq Ft", London
"Artists Against Fascism", London

2009
"Pushing Print", Margate
"Lino-cut", London
"E17 Arts Trail", London
"The Art of Politics", London
Leytonstone Arts Trail
"Left in Vision", London
"Signature, works on paper", Durban.
Waltham Forest Arts Club Summer Show
"Signature, works on paper", Berlin, Durban.

2008
"Urban Jungle", London
"Signature, works on paper", London
"E17 Arts Trail", London
"State of the Borough", London
"Inspired by William Morris", London
Leytonstone Arts Trail
Waltham Forest Arts Club Summer Show

2007
"E17 Arts Trail", London
"Inspired by William Morris", London
Waltham Forest Arts Club Summer Show

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