When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...

Banksy Wall and Peace

CLIMBING OUT OF THE BOX

Rule 1: Be prepared to upset people.
rule 1.1: Learn to accept the consequences

Rule 2: Woollen swimming trunks should be avoided



Rule 3: There is a whole world of difference between the spoken word and the written word.

Resolutions:

It was resolved to devise the male equivalent of Sex in the City and thereby make our fortunes. Then we discovered it had already been done and it’s called Last of the Summer Wine for fucksake!

Mr Coombes was to make it his task to solve the hitherto unsolvable mystery of the Unknown Formula for Successful Photography.

The First Meeting

For the 2006 inaugural meeting of Whatever The Fuck We Do we met in the sleepy Pennine village of Holmfirth, surrounded by rolling hills [not to self: the Pennines are a plateau] [further note to self: should that be: the Pennines is a plateau?] and loudmouth twats shouting by cash machines.

Topics up for discussion would have been:

Is the universe a) expanding or b) contracting?
Does it matter?
Who was James Lovelock, and what was his hypothesis?
What does a Reluctance Thickness Gauge for non-magnetic materials actually do?
Is Sean Connery dead yet?
Should art shock?
Have biros and socks got a thing going?
Black pants/white pants – personal choice or coded message?
Women – if you can’t live with them why can’t you shoot them?
Where are they going to play Beach Volleyball at the London Olympics?

but Mr Jones forgot to bring the bit a paper with it printed on, so we had to make it up as we went along.

Which is more shocking:
a) that a potter won the Turner Prize
b) that a transvestite won the Turner Prize

LIFE IS A BEACH

Some dip their toes in the sea, some sit on the sand and read and some play volleyball...

Moral or Amoral?

Should art be a moral practice? or does that exclude it's main purpose of illuminating the world we live in? Can art operate in moral terms or are artists by their nature outlaws?