May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
You know when I do these “shrine art” pieces, I sometimes add a random number to the post because I really have no idea how many of these I’ve done. Come September, I’d have been making these (not to this level of quality, mind!) for five years. And given for quite a bit of those…
A few of my very favourite Virginia Turbett photos currently on display in my bedroom…
A new release by Hanging Around Books sees images taken in 1978 by Laurie Evans feature in the book. I feel ssooo bad as I made the horrendous assumption that Laurie is a man! My apologies, Laurie. I’ve been waiting a while on this one as I had contacted Laurie some time back from seeing…
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He is just too beautiful… I miss all my photos from Virginia. My shrine. I know how absolutely pathetic I sound! I’m not going to apologise. Hate me all you like, Sir… but I love you ? This was the only way I had available to me to copyright protect it and share. My iPad…
My collection of Virginia Turbett prints of Simple Minds grows slowly yet strongly. A new batch arrived last week and I wanted to show what is in it without comprising the copyright of Virginia’s images. This is still just a small taster, and probably now the last you will see. The prints are of stunning…
I think I have a final tally and “want” list with Virginia. I visited her on Saturday and came away with 13 original vintage prints and a big old list of digital prints to be done. It’ll be some collection at the end of it all….
Hey peeps! If you find yourself in Brighton on Sunday, you could do worse things than get yourself to the Volks Club along the seafront in Brighton. There’s a celebration of all things Mod going on over the weekend and on Sunday, Virginia Turbett will be there selling Mod themed prints – both digital prints…
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So, here’s the thing. I was working on social media and my work took me to Instagram. The name Tom Sheehan pops up. A photographer. I thought “His name seems familiar to me in terms of having worked with Simple Minds. I’ll go to the blog and search for him and see what crops up.”…
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In January last year I went and visited Virginia Turbett so I could take a proper and extensive view of her archive of Simple Minds images. She has something like 1000 images or more of the band so you can imagine what total fangirl heaven I was in just even TRYING to view over 1000…