Tom Burtonwood

Recently it’s all infrastructure all the time. Working on getting studio spaces set up and ducks in a row. Not so much time for actual art making However i thought i’d share two images, that have for different reasons had a big impact on my practice. The first image, above, is a club flyer from the late mid 90’s probably 95 or thereabouts for a collective called Desert Storm. I went to a few of their nights in Nottingham at that time. I loved what they were doing politically as well as musically. In 1996 Desert Storm took their sound system on the road to war torn Sarajevo.

The Desert Storm flyer shows a turn table sporting a “Nort” insignia from the 2000AD story Rogue Trooper. Again this comic was a big influence i’m not sure how or if it gets expressed thru the work so much… but in terms of downtime i’ve spent a lot of it reading Rogue Trooper and of late tracking down collected trades at Wizard World and such….

Despite the “Southers” being portrayed as the “good” guys in Rogue Trooper i love that DS took the “Nort” logo…… as a Northern Englishman i could never quite relate to the idea of cheering the “Southers” on…. ok back to my infrastructure play.

It’s comedy friday again, time for some really really bad high school pieces from around 1991, that at the time i thought were really cool and “right on” but now i gotta say it’s pretty rough stuff, both conceptually and technically, enjoy….