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ALISTAIR GENTRY
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Career Suicide is about the realities of working in the contemporary art world for most professional artists, the thousands of unfashionable, little-known and underpaid ones who have to do all manner... More > of unfashionable, little-known and underpaid things to survive. It will also answer some of the questions that outsiders often ask about contemporary art, and some that they don’t: Why do some artists spend their whole careers doing stupid stuff like mutilating mannequins or painting old bits of wood with baffling phrases? Why does everyone in the art world get paid, apart from the artists? Why do most art students spend years doing their MA, closely followed by them doing sweet FA? Who are the HoWiAs, and what the hell do they think they're doing? How and why did a bunch of paintings that looked like vandalised portraits of SpongeBob get taken so seriously at an international art fair?< Less
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Uncanny Valley By Alistair Gentry
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Collected short fiction by Alistair Gentry. A magic talking dog castrates the Estuary Gaffer Tape Rapist with his teeth... A robot maid becomes infatuated with a painting by Gauguin and trades... More > housework for sabotage... Lies and sexual deviance at the offices of Gene, the Magazine for Modern Parents... The last living intellectual escapes from his cage at the zoo and goes on a rampage of contemplation... A bookseller discovers a novel that takes over his life more literally than usual... Love affairs are complicated by spontaneous human combustion, kleptomania and car crashes... Young British Artists discover that some things just aren't art... A psychopath successfully impersonates a doctor, until he drops someone's brain... in the Uncanny Valley.< Less
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Why do some artists spend their whole careers doing stupid stuff like mutilating mannequins or painting old bits of wood with baffling phrases? Why does everyone in the art world get paid, apart from... More > the artists? Why do most art students spend years doing their MA, closely followed by them doing sweet FA? Who are the HoWiAs, and what the hell do they think they're doing? Artist and writer Alistair Gentry reveals all... it's career suicide!< Less
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Career Suicide is about the realities of working in the contemporary art world for most professional artists, the thousands of unfashionable, little-known and underpaid ones who have to do all manner... More > of unfashionable, little-known and underpaid things to survive. It will also answer some of the questions that outsiders often ask about contemporary art, and some that they don’t: Why do some artists spend their whole careers doing stupid stuff like mutilating mannequins or painting old bits of wood with baffling phrases? Why does everyone in the art world get paid, apart from the artists? Why do most art students spend years doing their MA, closely followed by them doing sweet FA? Who are the HoWiAs, and what the hell do they think they're doing? How and why did a bunch of paintings that looked like vandalised portraits of SpongeBob get taken so seriously at an international art fair?< Less
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Collected short fiction by Alistair Gentry. A magic talking dog castrates the Estuary Gaffer Tape Rapist with his teeth... A robot maid becomes infatuated with a painting by Gauguin and trades... More > housework for sabotage... Lies and sexual deviance at the offices of Gene, the Magazine for Modern Parents... The last living intellectual escapes from his cage at the zoo and goes on a rampage of contemplation... A bookseller discovers a novel that takes over his life more literally than usual... Love affairs are complicated by spontaneous human combustion, kleptomania and car crashes... Young British Artists discover that some things just aren't art... A psychopath successfully impersonates a doctor, until he drops someone's brain... in the Uncanny Valley.< Less
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Why do some artists spend their whole careers doing stupid stuff like mutilating mannequins or painting old bits of wood with baffling phrases? Why does everyone in the art world get paid, apart from... More > the artists? Why do most art students spend years doing their MA, closely followed by them doing sweet FA? Who are the HoWiAs, and what the hell do they think they're doing? Artist and writer Alistair Gentry reveals all... it's career suicide!< Less
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Uncanny Valley By Alistair Gentry
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Collected short fiction by Alistair Gentry. A magic talking dog castrates the Estuary Gaffer Tape Rapist with his teeth... A robot maid becomes infatuated with a painting by Gauguin and trades... More > housework for sabotage... Lies and sexual deviance at the offices of Gene, the Magazine for Modern Parents... The last living intellectual escapes from his cage at the zoo and goes on a rampage of contemplation... A bookseller discovers a novel that takes over his life more literally than usual... Love affairs are complicated by spontaneous human combustion, kleptomania and car crashes... Young British Artists discover that some things just aren't art... A psychopath successfully impersonates a doctor, until he drops someone's brain... in the Uncanny Valley.< Less

About Alistair Gentry

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"As far as I can judge, I am not actually mentally ill." (Vincent Van Gogh, 1889)

I’m a free range writer and artist from the UK. My work is diverse and has been seen and heard in digital media, on radio, television and the stage, in art galleries, at film festivals, in print and on the net. I make and show work across Britain and internationally.

Group exhibitions include ‘New Forest Pavilion’ at the La Biennale di Venezia 2005, ‘Blink’ at Gasworks Gallery, London in 2006, ‘Broadcast Yourself’ at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle and Cornerhouse, Manchester 2008, Art on the Underground, London 2012, plus many other shows, performances and festivals in the UK, the EU, Scandinavia, the USA, Japan and China.

I've been artist in residence at New Media Scotland and at the University of Edinburgh's Genomics Policy & Research Forum, among others.

My other books include the novels 'Their Heads Are Anonymous' and 'Monkey Boys', plus the art books 'Three Times True' and 'Situation Normal

 

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