A YouTube mash up film I’ve made opposing the DSEI Arms Fair, which opens in London tomorrow, has been viewed over 1500 times on YouTube.  Click on the link below to watch it.

Britain: Stop Arming the World!

I’ve been working on some interesting projects recently including DVD work for US performance group Goat Island and philospher and writer Hélène Cixous; conference exhibition work with the illustrator Marcus Oakley; and launching a new campaign with Jamie Catto opposing the UK arms trade called Stop Arming the World.

So I thought it really was time to update the design portfolio section of this site…

I’ve been working on loads of new projects with some amazing clients recently including activist Jamie Catto, the Live Art Development Agency, artist and sculptor Hannah Woodhouse, film director Ross MacGibbon and ethical agency, Forster.

If you’d like help or advice with design, campaigns or branding – across any media – then why not get in touch?

David

COME AND SEE

David’s current exhibition of paintings

SUPERSINGULAR

at the lovely converted bakery

Basket House Village Universe
Leswin Place
Stoke Newington
London N16 7NJ
Google map

until Sunday 20 March 2011

OPENING TIMES
Saturdays & Sundays
from 12-6pm

OR MAKE AN APPOINTMENT
Email: david@davidcaines.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)787 988 3593

GETTING THERE
Bus: 67, 73, 76, 106, 149, 243
Rail: Rectory Rd, Dalston Kingsland, Dalston Junction

Thanks to everyone came along to the opening of the exhibition Supersingular last night in Stoke Newington. BHVU was packed and the beer ran out. The highlight of the evening had to be a fantastic set of French pop classics by the wonderful  SURI ET LES COPAINS. Watch them perform Les Cactus at last night’s opening here! Thanks to everyone who helped, especially Charlotte Lindsay from BHVU.

Don’t miss the exhibition which is open each weekend for the next month from 12-6pm.

SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS

25 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
MAP
Open 12-5pm
Saturday & Sunday
or by appointment
Email: info@bhvu.co.uk
Tel: 0207 2410568

A reminder that tomorrow FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY is the opening of my solo painting show

SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS

at the lovely converted bakery

Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
MAP

6-9pm

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LIVE MUSIC
I’m proud to annouce that the marvellous band
**SURI ET LES COPAINS**
will be performing a live set on the night at 8pm.
Hear them explore the Gallic world of 60′s mondo yeh-yeh, 50′s lounge and psychedelic swing!!
Don’t you dare miss them!
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Drinks afterwards at THE WHITE HART in Stoke Newington High Street.

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SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS

25 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
MAP
Open 12-5pm
Saturday & Sunday
or by appointment
Email: info@bhvu.co.uk
Tel: 0207 2410568

Here’s a sneaky preview of what you can expect to see…

I’m proud to annouce that the marvellous band

**SURI ET LES COPAINS**

will be performing a live set at the SUPERSINGULAR PRIVATE VIEW at 8pm on Friday 25 february.

Hear them explore the Gallic world of 60′s mondo yeh-yeh, 50′s lounge and psychedelic swing!!

Don’t you dare miss them!

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SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS

25 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
MAP
Open 12-5pm 
Saturday & Sunday 
or by appointment
Email: info@bhvu.co.uk 
Tel: 0207 2410568

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David’s figurative paintings show us real people, but don’t show us the real world. It’s a carefully rearranged world of anxious encounters and deviant ritual aiming to invoke feelings of foreboding and melancholy in us.

The pictures sit outside of a recognisable time-frame and often represent unlikely groups of curious and seemingly disparate characters (a shaman, a figure wrapped in polythene, masked children, contortionists). Their intentions are ambiguous. Are they the welcoming committee or the death squad? Entertainers or sorcerers? It is left up to us to conjure the narrative.

Other pictures suggest a fundamentally ridiculous relationship between humans and simple machinery (a woman who seems to have coalesced with her sewing machine, a headless man being led around by a wheelbarrow).

“I heard someone describe David’s work as poignant and I think that’s true… without wanting to get too deep, it seems like a comment on the human condition, that in the end we’re all alone.” Simone Pereira Hind, critic

SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS

25 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
MAP
Open 12-5pm 
Saturday & Sunday 
or by appointment
Email: info@bhvu.co.uk 
Tel: 0207 2410568

David’s next exhibition is SUPERSINGULAR – a solo show of recent paintings at the fantastic BASKET HOUSE VILLAGE UNIVERSE space in Stoke Newington. The date to put in your diary is the opening night on Friday 25 February 2011. More details to follow soon…

SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS

25 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
MAP
Open 12-5pm 
Saturday & Sunday 
or by appointment
Email: info@bhvu.co.uk 
Tel: 0207 2410568

Lots of new work in my design portfolio. Take a look…