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Gema
@gema.bsky.social
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Ceramic/textile artist, SE London
Half of post-punk electronic duo London Clay & @nlannuities.bsky.social
"Like Aunt Sally, Thomas Leer, & ATV at a bus stop in Nunhead" - Jonah Falco
New album - https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/private-view
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Cool review of the London Clay record here, so nice to read someone else's thoughts on something we worked on for ages! Ihttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/london-clay-post-punk-electronics-explore-capitals-dreams-and-malaise/
London Clay: post-punk electronics explore the capital’s dreams and malaise Tom Phelan @tgphelan1 Tue 4 November 2025 8:00, UK The crowded convergence of post-punk and minimal-synth always works best when conjuring the anxieties of the day. Amid a vast swathe of uninspired tape hiss noodles clogging Bandcamp or listless drum machine flumps that shuffle aimlessly in a dispassionate fug, a duo like London Clay can rise from the fraught capital’s troubled energy and remind you just how powerful the industrial underground can be.Drawing on totemic examples set by Cabaret Voltaire or Suicide’s dilapidated electronics with the faint echo of From Nursery to Misery’s artful naivety, London Clay’s concrete synthwave scores a wholly contemporary urban milieu weathered, exhausted, and knackered by austerity’s perpetuity. The atmosphere is dark, the tensions subtle but stark, and each icy synth slice or brittle snare whip anxiously edges like a cornered animal. Behind their overcast swirl and leaden DIY collages lies a visceral electricity pointing toward a realm teeming with disparate energy belied by their mordant front, however. Album cover by Al Palmer
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Suzie Marlowe in the New Weird Britain column: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
7" cover in black and grey with floating text and overlayed seagull shadows 7" comes with postcard, cigarette cards and info card. 7" is hand stamped, sleeve is handmade.
November 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Stock check day! We have limited amounts of the first London Clay 7", we already sold 45 out of 100 copies of the new Suzie Marlowe 7", there is also some Harold Turgis tapes, and a few Viscount tapes - all available here: noblelowndesannuities.bandcamp.com/music
Picture of NLAnnuities releases: Blue and Pink versions of the first London Clay 7", Satellite: 1997-2021 and The Sentinels by Harold Turgis on cassette, the debut Viscount album on cassette and a limited mixtape. The London Clay debut album can be bought from La Vida Es Un Mus.
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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A new London Clay song! Have a listen at 6:04 am, 19th October, on the Sonic Reducer show with Jenn www.kexp.org/archive/
Playlist: Title: Semi Detached Band: London Clay Album: Private View Label: La Vida Es Un Mus
October 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Getting some really great responses to the new London Clay record - if you are in the US you can pre-order at Sorry State www.sorrystaterecords.com/products/lon...
Also up for pre-order on LVEUM is the debut LP from London Clay. Two songs are streaming now on LVEUM’s Bandcamp, but I’ve heard the whole thing and I am completely over the moon about it. It’s one of those records that scratches your pop itch, but the musicians shape that pop music out of sounds that are surprising and delightful. This one is out on October 24
October 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Urban wildlife of south east London
A Henry Hoover sans nozzle contemplating freedom on the streets of south east London
September 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Free exhibition showing the work of Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan at the new Ames Yavuz gallery in London.
Expansive miniature cardboard city attached to a white wall. Close up of recycled cardboard used to form a miniature housing complex.
June 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Test Pressing Wednesday!
Test pressing of the new London Clay record
May 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Free exhibition at Pi Artworks, London. Matt Golden/Golden Family: Thirty-Three Revolutions.
Various drums and cymbals, assembled into a procession of anthropomorphised musicians. More drum skins and percussion instruments assembled to look like they have a face. Close up of a drum 'musician'.
May 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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If you are near Folkestone do pop in Aimee Craddock's boutique, 25 The Old High St. I have some ceramics on show and for sale.
The shop window of Aimee Craddock's boutique in Folkestone, featuring my ceramic vessels, some Noguchi paper lamps and a midcentury Japanese chair. Two ceramic vessels inspired by modernist architecture in blue, ochre, coral and gold glaze. Three abstract hanging wall sculptures in blue, coral, ochre and black.
April 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Sneaking up on cats instead of making art down the studio
Black cat sat behind some old metal drums and plastic trays, facial expression declares 'do not step any closer buddy.' Grey and white cat sat at the top of some stairs, facial expression declares 'do not step any closer pal.' Scrappy black and white cat, total bruiser, facial expression declares 'you want some?'
April 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Private view round-up, recommend these free exhibitions if you are in London over the coming weeks #kimyunshin #ellakruglyanskaya #dominicbeattie
Ella Kruglyanskaya at Thomas Dane - contemporary painting of a woman in pink broad strokes against a dark background, sitting on a striped monochrome cushion, with a broken lute and two apples. The woman sits away from the viewer, her head turned to the left, her blue eyes peek out under her black bob. Kim Yun Shin at Lehmann Maupin/No 9 Cork Street - a strong geometric painting in bold shades of green/blue/red/yellow. The pattern features squares, lines and diamonds, reminiscent of trellis and tower blocks. A wooden sculpture sits in the foreground, like short angular tree trunks, hand carved and engraved with more geometric patterns. Dominic Beattie at Saatchi Gallery - a large contemporary work in green/pink/lilac/purple/black/yellow. The background is a glitchy geometric pattern or recurring rectangles and squares. Eight bright yellow circles are scattered across the painting.
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Free Billy Childish exhibition at No.9 Cork Street, ends 15th Feb #billychildish
Painted artworks by Billy Childish Billy Childish in front of his self portrait at the private view, No 9 Cork Street, London.
February 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Made a massive hanging tile, pretty pleased as it survived the drying out process, a bisque firing and then a glaze firing #clay #ceramics #artstudio
Various hanging ceramic tiles, including a large angular piece in a coral mica glaze, with various shapes attached in blue, green, pink, black, white and orange.
February 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Getting back into Add n to (x), might only collect hexagon-shaped records going forward.
Vinyl record by the band Add n to (x) in the shape of a hexagon
February 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Trying to read more this year, reduced the book pile by 4 in January! All worth a read!
Pile of books including: Culture is not an Industry by Justin O'Connor, Ex Wife by Ursula Parrott, She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clark and Others Like Me by Nicole Louie
February 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Quick studio tidy-up #ceramics #contemporaryart
White walled art studio with bright coloured hanging ceramic tiles on the wall, various ceramic vessels on industrial shelving and painted tiles/pattern studies dotted around. More ceramic vessels, painted tiles and green ware clay waiting to run through the kiln.
January 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Really enjoyed the Hélène de Beauvoir exhibition at Amar Gallery in London, very busy private view so will have to go back for a second visit! www.amargallery.com?utm_campaign...
Abstract painting named 'Les Faneurs' in blues/greens/pinks. Scythes seem to be present as is the movement of the blades. By Hélène de Beauvoir Another abstract painting, "Visage dans un Miroir Brisé", features facial features in a broken mirror, with a yellow flower and bright multi-coloured triangles, by Hélène de Beauvoir. 'tigres et damiers', a loosely painted green tiger with abstract multi-coloured chequerboard, by Hélène de Beauvoir
January 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Mastering the London Clay record, compiling a zine, things are coming along nicely...
Collection of vintage adverts and geology maps for the London Clay zine
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Getting a little bit bored of winter actually
Chislehurst Common Nature Reserve looking frosty
January 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Great book! I love the Ballard Panther paperback edition cover...
Pulp paperback cover featuring a man in tattered clothes, using a stick to hold himself up. Behind him is motorway detritus and a woman, below a concrete parapet.
December 31, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Dunno what happened but I've really slacked off reading books recently. I did finish Poor Artists by Zarina Muhammed & Gabrielle de la Puente, which I'd recommend, in particular for the last chapter.
Front cover of the book Poor Artists which is hot pink with a large acid yellow lemon taking up the whole page.
December 30, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Kiln drop, end of year round-up. Looking to make a much larger wall sculpture next year, along with sorting out the London Clay record, maybe make a zine to go with it...
Various hanging wall tiles, inspired by modernist and brutalust architecture Various vessels inspired by modernist and brutalist architecture Inside the vessels, glossy metallic and sunset orange
December 30, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Hope everyone had a great Christmas!
A Christmas Record, an LP from 1981, featuring Suicide, The Waitresses, Material, August Darnell, Charlelie Couture, Cristina, Was Not Was, Davitt Sigerson. The Dacre Arms pub in Lee looking Christmassy, lots of tinsel and baubles in an old fashioned pub, including bar stools and horseshoe seating area. A Christmas present, a book of collected works by Picasso....
December 26, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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End of year push to get everything through the kiln! Looking forward to glazing my biggest tile yet after it survived its first firing!
Collection of new work that has been bisque fired or had its second glaze firing. Lots of brightly coloured abstract shape/bold colour hanging tiles, alongside a few pots and ceramic cats.
December 2, 2024 at 9:56 PM