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As i began to become more confident in my work, i created a facebook album of some of my images. One image was noticed by a band named Jack Afro...










The Band

For gritty northern laments about trying to escape their miserable grey hometown, look elsewhere; Jack Afro have nothing for you because they’re having far too much fun skipping and stumbling through the technicolour streets of Leeds.

Frontman Mark Crossley – the songwriting talent of the Monkees under Leo Sayer’s hair – has assembled a dream team of tried and tested dancefloor hazards in James Rugg, Gav Bailey and Peet Hiley.

Supports to date include Babyshambles, The View, The Pigeon Detectives, Forward Russia and Larrikin Love, and among those representing the Fro on the airwaves are Zane Lowe on Radio 1 and Radio 6’s Marc Riley.

Debut single Take Me Home – released as a limited edition 7” released on 1965 Records in June 06 – sold 900 copies in its first week.

Toasting the girls, the boys, the bars - and even the grocery stores – with their three-minute pop seizures, the irrepressible ‘Fro don’t make time to reflect on a slap in the face, because as anyone lucky enough to have one knows, you can’t keep a good afro down.















Mark Crossley wrote
at 10:36pm on April 19th, 2008
This photo is cool as fuck Can I use it for my band please?
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Holly Jane Crossley wrote
at 3:37am on April 20th, 2008
yep go for it
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Mark Crossley wrote
at 12:50pm on April 20th, 2008
nice one. I take it you took this?
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Holly Jane Crossley wrote
at 1:09pm on April 20th, 2008
yeah i have a better one somewhere actually.
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Mark Crossley wrote
at 1:43pm on April 20th, 2008
oh?
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Holly Jane Crossley wrote
at 1:45pm on April 20th, 2008
yeah well theres one i prefer somewhere, ill search my i photos. i can change the purple to a different colour if you want.
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Mark Crossley wrote
at 1:58pm on April 20th, 2008
hmm well I've done our profile now. But we normally work in Black and red. Check out the rough idea I've done. It's tough for me though as I only have paint.

Do want to give something a go?

http://www.myspace.com/jackafro
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Holly Jane Crossley wrote
at 2:02pm on April 20th, 2008
oh nice.
yeah could do.
i know a girl with a pretty impressive afro, could do a similar thing using her seeing as your all for the fro.
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Mark Crossley wrote
at 2:04pm on April 20th, 2008
ok yeah your call
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Georgia Lucas-Going wrote
at 1:08pm on April 21st, 2008
;) impressive fro eh. oh holly. your too kind. i may get out my boobs for you..it is art isnt it. xx
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Mark Crossley wrote
at 1:24pm on April 21st, 2008
I like Georgia's profile picture? If you could shoot her against that wall paper with wayfarer's on we are laughing!! We are all about the wayfarers at the minute.

YOu both upn for that?
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Georgia Lucas-Going wrote
at 1:48pm on April 21st, 2008
ah yeah.. we love to laugh
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Holly Jane Crossley wrote
at 2:54pm on April 21st, 2008
Yeah cool ill book out the studio sometime soon.
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The bands website=http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=26535239

Robert Swain

Background Information

Robert Swain was born on December 7, 1940 in Austin, Texas. He received a BA Degree from the American University in Washington, D. C. in 1964. He has traveled and worked in Central America (1956, 1957), as well as having lived and studied in Europe (1961-62).

Since residing in New York City from 1965, he has had fourteen one-artist exhibitions, including two major museum shows; the first at The Everson Art Museum in Syracuse, New York (1974) and the other at The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts in Columbus, Ohio (1975-76). In addition, he has shown in over sixty group shows, including The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name a few of the twenty-one major museums in which he has exhibited. In 1968 he was included in The Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Thirty-First Biennial and again in 1998 for The Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Forty-Fifth Biennial.

Mr. Swain has been the recipient of a grant for painting from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 1969, a CAPS Grant (painting), from the State of New York, in 1982, and two Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (painting); the first in 1976, and again in 1989. In February of 1998, The College Art Association awarded Mr. Swain with, “The Distinguished Teaching of Art Award.” Mr. Swain has given numerous Visiting Artist lectures, served on various Fine Art Juries and participated in many panel discussions, such as the Artist’s Panel at The Museum of Modern Art, entitled “Tony Smith: Artists’ Responses” (1998) and “Seeing Red, Part III: Color as an Experience: A Two-Day Symposium on Contemporary Nonobjective Painting and Color Theory”, at the Goethe–Institut Inter Nationes, New York (2003).

In conjunction with these activities, he has done ten major commissions and architectural installations. Among these are paintings commissioned by Skidmore, Owens and Merrill, New York, for the Schering Laboratories in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and another at the direction of the architectural firm of I.M. Pei, New York for Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey. In addition, he completed a major commission for The University of Buffalo, in their Concert Hall, on the North Campus at Amherst, Buffalo, New York, (8’ X 61’).

He is represented in over 284 private and public collections, including The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Milwaukee Art Center, The Everson Art Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.








Color as Content in Painting:



" Color is a form of energy derived from the electromagnetic spectrum that stimulates our perceptual processes and is instrumental in conveying emotions.
In some instances, color is culturally encoded, projecting content through symbolism or associations. The origin for such references are found in the way that the energy (wavelengths), from a particular color, generates feeling; a physiological change produced by the wavelength (energy), of a particular color or colors. The energy which emanates from green is distinctly different from the wavelengths that define red. In some cultures, pure red is associated with danger. Feelings and attitudes created by the aggressive, radiate energy, which is unique to the red part of the spectrum. When pure red is altered, its emotional attributes change, as in the stability associated with red earth colors, or the whimsical fluctuation produced by pink. In this sense, color transmits feeling(s) through the perception of energy (wavelengths) from the electromagnetic spectrum. Freed from cultural restraints, red can be experienced by itself as a phenomenon, which possesses substantial content. When red is placed next to green, the contrast is heightened, as M. E. Chevreul has observed, and the experience resides in the energy generated by the convergence of these unique spectral wavelengths."



Robert Swain
January, 2003