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Q & A: DAVID WHITTLE FROM BRISTOL, LONDON
by CHRIS GROSSO on Apr.28, 2009, under DAVID WHITTLE
DAVID WHITTLE "A BOY CALLED JESUS"
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ART?
pretty much since i could hold a pencil. I’ve drawn o everything in sight since i was about 4 years old!
WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BECOME AN ARTIST?
I don’t really know to be honest, as far back as i can remember i have loved drawing. My older brother Ian was always drawing and designing stuff, so I’m sure that rubbed off on me a bit.
DAVID WHITTLE COLLISION WALL
Q & A: PATRICK HOELCK PHOTOGRAPHER + DIRECTOR
by CHRIS GROSSO on Apr.16, 2009, under PATRICK HOELCK
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ART?
In a way since I was a little kid. I always felt really outcast and alone and art was a way of amusing myself.
WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BECOME AN ARTIST?
I moved to NYC when I was young and started running with the downtown art scene. They would talk shit about entertainers and how unimaginative they were, coming from LA this was news to me. My friend, Vincent Gallo, would invite me to these dinners and gatherings to and sit listen in awe. I was a young fly on the wall collecting mental notes. I used to get laid a lot by borrowing their stories and metaphors and points of view.
WHO ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE ARTISTS?
The ones from those days Jean Michel Basquiat, Vincent Gallo, Francesco Clemente, Richard Serra. Of those I didn’t meet Jackson Pollock, Diego Velasquez, Ed Ruscha, the list could go for miles. I don’t know all of the names of artists nowadays, I just like movement. Damien Loeb is amazing, David Shadi Perez, Jose Parla and Richard Prince all have really interesting work I have seen recently.
