This is a blurry photo I took of Swoon's work, at the Black Rat gallery in London. It is strange seeing her work in a gallery setting, she started off pasting up her work in the streets in Brooklyn, before she got spotted by Deitch in New York, and ended up getting a solo show there (installation pictures here and here - click and marvel) and being collected by the Museum of Modern Art and all. I like her Expressionist style.
Not only is she ridiculously extravagantly talented, but she's also socially engaged, setting up the amazing Switchback Sisters project where a group of people made a boat out of junk and sailed it down the Hudson River, having events and parties along the way, to publicise issues about recycling.
She's done work for Haiti and I think is currently setting up an artists' project to help regenerate a recession-hit city in the States. All power to her elbow.
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