Paul Sakoilsky - Good Times Rag Store

About

It was early 2007 when Paul began collecting London’s free newspapers (Evening Standard, Metro, City AM & co.) from trains, buses, the street, ‘editing’ the covers using paint and collage techniques, adding, altering and deconstructing images and text to create a new periodical: ‘The Dark Times’. This exhibition at The Steam Room project space focuses on the artist’s, The Dark Times  & related works (2007-2020). The space will be transformed into the GOOD TIMES DARK TIMES PRESS OFFICE centred around the Editor’s Desk: An exhibition meets time-spaced installation, un-think tank, art and broadcasting studio. The artist is making a new series,  'The Good Times' during the show which will be on display on the 7 March. Good Times Dark Times programming from the new online channel to be announced shortly.

GOOD TIMES LIVE PAINTING EVENT: The Good Times Rag Store 7 March

All in line with the Steamroom’s sustainable ethos. SteamRoom Customers are invited to come and have something of their wardrobe reworked, rejuvenated and painted over by our resident artist Paul Sakoilsky.

Artist Bio

Paul Sakoilsky is an East London based artist, writer and poet. The artist is well known for the darkly humorous, subversive media hijackings of his potlatch newspaper ‘The Dark Times’ and his performance based alter ego ‘Kunst-The-Clown’, work that sits alongside other series such as his iconographic and expressively painted cityscapes: A unique series of ‘urban expressions’ that accord with a city in transition, capturing the skyline as a sensual and conceptual engagement with the world. His work embraces both traditional painting and ‘avant-garde’ practises and strategies; aesthetics, literature, philosophy, poetics, politics, change, arcane histories, & pataphysical realities. He has exhibited across Europe and extensively in London. Sakoilsky’s work is collected and published internationally.