Child 1, 2007.Swansea Love StoryVice Guide to LiberiaVice: Let’s talk about the new work you’ve just done.Gee Vaucher:Did you paint them from memory or make them up yourself?What started you on the path to collages?A lot of people thought the original Crass works, things like 1978’s Feeding of the 5000, were collages.
Penny Rimbaud, San Francisco, 2008.How come you were in New York at the time?Such as?
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New York TimesNew York TimesEbonyHigh Times.What was it like in the UK compared to the States?Have you ever had an agent?Over the last 20 years the art market has gone bananas.
Inside Head,2009.With your experience of the art world, did you see a change when the likes of Charles Saatchi came in and commercialised art?Can you give me a bit of background on why you became an artist?And you grew up in?As a child, what would you say had an influence on your artistic sensibility? Were your parents dragging you to galleries?What happened after you left art school?Were you living at Dial House at this point?When did it become clear that you were going to do all the artwork for Crass?International Anthem
Children, 2007.Have you ever gone through with a job where people have pressured you into altering your work?New York MagazineAre you religious or superstitious in any way?There’s not much iconography in a Methodist church compared to a Catholic church, is there?
Inside Head, 2009.What do you like about communal living?Do you ever feel that it’s a bit dangerous?What’s your favourite kind of art to make—film, painting, music?How many will you have done when you finish that one?Have you ever had a cow eat something?Are you offered a lot of opportunities to do shows?The Crass back catalogue, complete with new artwork by Gee Vaucher, has been remastered and released by Crassical Collection through Southern. New work by Gee can be seen at the “400 Women” show at Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, 380 Old Street, London EC1V 9LT, until November 30. More at 400women.tumblr.com.
