Gretel My
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Personal Brief
Gretel splits her time between Cambridge, where she works for the publishing company 'Salt', and London, where she is studying for her masters in Art Writing at Goldsmiths. She has self-published three artist chap books- ‘Gamine’, ‘Stolen Gifts’ and ‘Notions of Staying and Leaving’, limited editions of which, to Gretel’s surprise and vague alarm, sold both speedily and internationally.
She considers nearly everything to be dirty and would like to slowly transform her double futon into a cocoon or a nest, lined with the pages of her favorite books and the spit of her loved ones.
Her life long dream, at this time, is to own a claw foot bathtub, to keep bees, and to learn how to properly play her banjo ‘Delphine’.
She considers nearly everything to be dirty and would like to slowly transform her double futon into a cocoon or a nest, lined with the pages of her favorite books and the spit of her loved ones.
Her life long dream, at this time, is to own a claw foot bathtub, to keep bees, and to learn how to properly play her banjo ‘Delphine’.
Artists on your radar, shout them out!
Dirty girls and broken boys with backcombed hair that like to roll around in the gutter spouting the language of televangelists.
She has a secret, lifelong obsession with the patron saint of guttersnipes, miss Lillian Butters
She has a secret, lifelong obsession with the patron saint of guttersnipes, miss Lillian Butters
Which is your number one location – and what’s it best for?
Anywhere with things dead and stuffed where one can conduct picnics in the bellies of great whales and educate oneself, or delude oneself that it is still the Victorian era.
Of late she has special fondness for the Natural History Museum, and the Hunterian Museum
Of late she has special fondness for the Natural History Museum, and the Hunterian Museum
‘Getting creative’, what’s it all about?
“I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the Universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.” Buckminster Fuller.
Gretel is aware of the small irony of posting this missive in quote form, and would like the reader to know that it is in fact ‘new’ due to it’s shifted site. Appropriation is unavoidably implicit, and context everything.
Gretel is aware of the small irony of posting this missive in quote form, and would like the reader to know that it is in fact ‘new’ due to it’s shifted site. Appropriation is unavoidably implicit, and context everything.
Your Life, Right Now – what’s the soundtrack?
Matt Elliott’s delicious Howling Songs- they cause a stirring in her loins and make her muscles twitch twitch, her eyes big pupil saucers ever staring in delight at his guttural guitar dirges.
What is your idea of a jolly good time?
Being curled skin-to-skin post city adventures, in bed or bath, being read to sleep, mutual red wine lip stains ever present and forehead kissed.
What happened the last time you were a complete disgrace?
Gretel is a finely groomed and finished young lady and thus never in, or in the company of, disgrace.
Unless she is watching it….. through the glass.
In this city, where is your most romantic spot?
In a ship made of everyday throwaway, firmly lodged in the dredges of the Thames, drinking out of jam jars.
Or lying prone in abandoned underground stations surrounded by the flickering of dusty moths.
Or lying prone in abandoned underground stations surrounded by the flickering of dusty moths.