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David Abse - Artist

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Artist living and working in Les Matelles in the south of France.   See matelles-art.com.   I have been drawing as long as I can remember.   My grandfather was a shop steward for years in the Pilkingtons’ glassworks in St Helens, but after he retired he went to art school every day for 30 years.   He died over 20 years ago, aged 99, still a communist, determined not to get a telegram from the queen.   He was and is my inspiration.   I studied art and design for four years in the UK and subsequently exhibited throughout the UK and elsewhere in the...more
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Blacklisted

March 8th, 2011

I have received countless emails from "International Contemporary Masters" for the incredible opportunity of paying them several hundred euros to appear in their book. When i finally emailed them back and told them to leave me alone, that I didn't wa... 

Banned by RedBubble for protesting against profiting from genocide

January 24th, 2011

I woke up this morning to discover I have been censored and banned. Yesterday I uploaded two works that I loaded here ('Profiting from genocide is evil' and 'If you tolerate this') onto RedBubble. As I note on this blog, these two pieces were create...