Kate Moss Statue & Razorlight Playing The Forum

Today was the first day that Marc Quinn's solid gold statue of Kate Moss, 'Siren', was displayed, so I went down to the British Museum to get some photos. Artist Quinn said Siren cost £1.5m to make, £1m of which was the price of the gold. He expects it to fetch up to £10m when it is sold following its time with the British Museum in January. Siren is made entirely of 18 carat gold and is the largest gold statue made by man since ancient Egyptian times, weighing 50kg, around the same as its subject.
It was impressive and it was amusing to see unsuspecting museum goers walking past Kate in her yoga pose, with legs around her head, as they made their way past the other ancient statues in the Nereid Gallery.



While there I took some other photographs of the architecture and Ron Mueck's slightly bizarre piece 'Mask II' (below).



I said after the Seasick Steve gig that my Nikon D300 body would come in handy in low light and so it proved tonight for Razorlight's Q Awards launch gig at the Kentish Town Forum. There was barely any light on Johnny Borrell, but being able to bump the ISO up to 2400 without too much noise being created meant I could still get some reasonable images from this.
The band's manager admitted after little effort had been made in terms of lighting and stage set up for this one off show as their UK tour started properly in a month's time, when they would be aiming to get everything right.

The Newspaper House

I was back in Dalston today to photograph artist Sumer Erek and his newly completed newspaper house as it was unveiled to the public.
It's a great idea to make use of discarded newspapers to highlight the need for recycling through art. It really gets on my nerves the amount of free papers thrust down our throats every day throughout London. You see so many discarded free newspapers all over the city, so much must get wasted.