The Arts Hole - The Fuck Off Manifesto 2019 #ABV101%

full outline coming soon x

A Union for the Otherwise Un - unionized ?

around 2005/2006 it just seemed to me that every one was going nuts !! George bush and tony blair had just invaded the middle east …. it seems to ensure that everuone had the means to ' keep calm and carry on ' as was the mantra for the day …..

and keeping calm and carrying on basically entailed ensuring that an already bloated civil service could all carry on taking the couple of holidays per year they become accustomed too ….. for me it was quite enough … and the birth of ' The Arts Hole - international POP UP initiative '

you cant paint that here !

you cant sell those here !

you need a liscence !

you need to declare !

you need to abide … you need to adhere … you need to comply … you need permission ...


you need to
you need to

you need

you need

turns out after vigerous field testing … most of these busy body ,would be do gooders  are totally misinformed !!…they are the Nazi's of their own little prison states … they all need to live in the ordered notion that they need to comply … to adhere … to abide ….

but it turns out that ,.... this is the age of the charlatan , the age of ( then Tony Blair ) Donald Trump and Tereasa may's Brexit - of David Cameron's big society ….

it turns out it does not mean shit !!

not one single shit ladies and gentlemen … its the age of the charlatan and it seems you can pretty much argue the point of validity against these so called authorities in charge on every point !! and we should  - and have been able to ever since they started electing themselves into positions of influence - and started trying to ' administer ' you and me … for the sake of some greater good ideology bullshit !!

a greater good that usually see's them getting the better share of wine and the comfier bed

the church have done it

the corporations have done it

the militaries have done it

the governments have done it

the royals have done it

… as previously mentioned … jeezus hell wept … Donald Fucking Trump has done it

just convinced a lot of people that in the same Brexit ideology … if you keep sending the cheques … eventually your mail order unicorn will arrive !! you will win the lottery and be welcomed to Valhalla with an assortment of brand name prizes ….. if you just keep calm and carry on … keep playing the game !!

well, no, sorry luv.... ( not meaning to be sexist there at all  as actually in certain districts in the u.k it would be a common , generic term for current company - regardless of sex )

not happening

here I happen to sit ! completely by chance ….

I am happy enough to get on with and engage in a valid means of passing the day … but do not go so far as to concede that to include selling insurance, snake oil or working for government !

the validity I seek is through the act of rendering and the pursuance of proficiency within that task at hand so that the culminative result of both practice and theory might merit such a state of adulteration as to be ' artistic '

the validity I seek can not be imposed , bestowed , merited , declared upon or impeded by any other man , committee , government or king … without prior consent and accord

I aim to move humbly and without violence against persons , creatures or environment  in my aims and activities to better understand myself and my contemporaries … and our places in this tapestry of mystery , but will aim to maintain integral defence for that which I hold dear, so long as that which I hold dear does not impose loss on another

beyond all of that you can pretty much … Fuck Off !!

take your weird insistences for conformity …. and jog on pal

Architecture part 2 in ' The Arts Hole - POP UP INITIATIVE ' #ABV101%

SO I have had an additional thought to my ranging and unabridged previous thought ….

it came about from a very sensible question from one of my longer term students !

what the F'*^k are you raving about Dr Valerio …..

a fine question and it does have a basis of reasonable thought …. somewhere deep down in there ?

lets see if I can route the little bugger out ! ?

O.K

my basic premise is that we all en mass have to conclusively decide that we all need some where to live ( that is assuming that the environmentalists aren't now advocating genocide ? )

but we can keep consuming land in the un regulated urban sprawl that we have been using as the acceptable paradigm … up until now !

a paradigm that is built on several outdated notions

one of which , unfortunately … and I understand this will come as a bit of a blow to those that ' work ' in the' industry ' is the very idea of a CBD ?? the central business district !!?? in the age of complete international interconnectivity …. you don't have to confine your self into the middle of these dead and desiccated urban centres with questionable spatial allocations ? over inflated rents and rates … paying homage to whatever collective land barons have organized themselves into ' governing councils ' which in turn pay homage to a central bag of thieves , which in turn pay homage to a ancient line of murderers paedophiles and thieves … every one sucking each others dick and waving each others flag for a sad slice of a ration book of promissory notes   from ' the powers that be '

again, maybe I digress a little ….

it is my notion that every individual should have a reasonable means of lodgings just as a basic premise !! everyone should be allocated a homestead at birth !! a vested interest in the very country they have come to be resident in ( of course there will be an issue here where by intergenerational entitlements and large family monopoly will have to be endemically pursued by an active and functioning arm of whatever arm of administration will be left )

but if every individual had access to a safe and viable ' home ' - a home that was not built from cheap labour and cheap materials - on cheap reclaimed or contaminated land !

if every home was built using low impact , environmentally friendly methods and materials , locally sourced and completely sustainable in produce and transport... local labour and ingenuity .

if every home was able to render ( given aptitude and application ) the option of reducing standardized monthly outgoings - by being ' off grid ' and independent in at least a percentage of its monthly requirements Power / water / Food / Air Quality production requirements.

if the urban environment was incentivised to encourage people to grow orchards … instead of en suites and extensions to an already terrible urban mess

if dilapidated areas of obvious and inevitable urban decay were managed into cross collaborations with various, education / rehabilitation / skill based training / housing / urban farming / local produce / local arts and crafts initiatives

The Urban Farms that have begun to revitalise some of the worst of the Urban decay in the United states in Cities such as Washington and even Detroit … these grass roots neighbourhood initiatives are taking hold of the environment and allowing the inhabitants to grow their way out of poverty and a failed speculators model of an economy … and its proving to be a great success !! I am sure its only a matter of time before donald trumps government find a way to ultimately destroy this kind of self empowering enterprise so these people can go back to being mere consumers … as opposed to producers an traders … but again I digress into my own paranoid tinged ' Vietnam flashback ' of experience with government lol

but there is evidence that even in this weird little society we have built for ourselves … if you just give people access to the land .. they can generally work themselves out of poverty … as they have always been able to do !!

every home should have a spare bedroom , and a gerden ...that's big enough to grow for the household and at least one neighbour ….allowing scope for intercommunity trade ...as well as a social mobility incentive … although really we should have done away with the idea of ' class structure ' completely … so social mobility will also cease to be a thing ! hopefully !

every house should have a library … not only so the whole population might be well versed in a language or two , but the many fascinating subjects that actually concern a lifetime of experiences … but also so that every child has a reference point other than a screen …. the walls of the house and the  pages of the books should be made out of hemp … and the computer , less used though it should be … should remain a fundamental household item of course … I can only imagine humanities uproar if I was to insist on some kind of feudal dark age style peasantry .. without a viable wifi connection and a download or facetime option …. loathsome as I find it personally !!

every house should be warm / well ventilated and well lit … in a neighbourhood that manages its own community , its own needs and aspirations , its own waste .. its own communal spaces …. in a world where people are actually wanting to try to live more … 'consciously' this is the chance to do so ….

Now the internet seems to have heard of ' Never Sink Farm ' in up state new York … and its a pretty good example of how intensive farming practices can yield an exceptional commercial viability via produce from only a very small space …

there are other ideas and studies surfacing at the moment advocating small scale / permaculture farming to be the way of the future .. and indeed even the notion of ' Agri-hoods ' has become an idea … presumably all borne from  some of the ' Earth-ship ' and ' Bio Dome ' experiments that have been conducted over the years ( pretty much all of which I have studied at great length ..  far from the comfort and insulation of some dysfunctional academic faculty or government fouled syllabus )

all of this grass roots action really gets me going … from my own veld of eclectic experiences I know how preening and self congratulatory some of the worst cases of institutionalised, power wielding incompetence can be … so I totally approve the idea of a little more self determination … a little more self governance … self reliance!!

of course we cant just let the ' Government ' take all of our money and run …. as appealing as that does actually seem !let them all walk away with a better than average property stake gleaned from rallying to a terrible flag … working for a government !! and worst of all … this fucking government !!

so we will have to hold some fools to account , we will have to maintain some form of ' centralised ' form of governance and a means to conduct some simile to where we are now … but for now at least lets make sure the thing in its current format is utterly doomed and hung out ….

I personally think that it comes from this kind of non compliant individualism …. or least from my own perspective that would be how I would best quantify it !.... I am sure others would just label me a malcontent ! but then if I looked at their vested interests in ' the game ' you can see why they wouldn't want too big a switch in the rules, especially any to threaten a carpetbaggers grubby stake in a dirty game  !!

am I digressing again ?



so us peasants and would be producers need an affordable place to live and work !! we aren't all vying for high flying jobs in professionalism …. and as it turns out … pretty much every industry that calls itself ' industry ' is pretty much utterly unsustainable in its current format , so even those of us that are … its all got to be drastically overhauled !!

I have been debating the validity of ' urban protest ' with a ' comrade ' from the union rep party … and I have been claiming that the  real place for protest is actually out in the ' gentrified ' rural fringes ….

non of these policy makers live in the city... because most of the cities are quite horrible really !

so if we are going to protest !! if we are going to show a demonstration of solidarity against a particular party or politician … we have to go and take over their ill gotten acres … we need to go and occupy their little parcel of paradise … just as their legislation occupies what we have left of ours

showing up in the middle of a city with a few placards ?? signing an online petition ??

turn up at the fox hunt ! dump the guns in the reservoir ! turn over those silly little all terrain golf carts they play with draped in tweed and half pissed on sherry before heading back to the mansion to glorify some romanticiszed ' good old days ' …. dig your fucking heels in and throw a naked fucking festival all over their inherited little pile of shit …. I am sure that manner of protest will swing an immediate legislative change.... I am sure that instead of squatting an old jobcentre , if we all squatted George Osbornes land holdings etc etc … these people would be dissuaded from being such utter pieces of self serving shit while they are voting in this already broken democratic procedure  !! much faster than an online petition or forming a CIC anyway ….

jeex who the fuck are these people … they are out there , thrust me !! and they need to be stopped !!

I hope in many ways that we are on the tinge of the changes that we so desperately need ….

I pray to deities , cross my fingers and touch all the unvarnished grains of wood I can find … that the tipping point is taking place !

I hope that XR are actually what they seem to be ! I hope that Jeremy Corbyn will defect with all of the other ' not completely loath able ' individuals … from the remnants of tony blairs broken ass labour party into a kind of super Green Coalition that swamps out local councils and central government …. that it destroys the fetid stench of u.k.i.p and the prejudices of a hand full of prudently invested assholes

I hope that we can install a social housing programme that takes on a whole new meaning .. akin to the outline in the previous descriptions .. empowering the individual , the neighbourhood , the community , the society in general …..

I hope that the ' Value ' of a house made out of bamboo and hemp , that produces all its own electricity and food … with a basic construction cost equivocal to 10 % of the standard property investment model … will completely deride , undermine … and get rid of this ridiculous speculators ' percentage people ' - estate agent asshole marketplace that has resigned two generations at least to the idea that perpetual debt is a normal thing …. ( remember the economies of the world collapsing because of unsustainable models and ratios - how are people going to pay a 40 year mortgage when not only has industry diminished … but what industry remains has become completely fucking automated ??? … I mean fucking jeezus wept !! who is actually in charge here ….. ** enter Samuel l Jackson's favourite word right here *** )

I hope that those social/ community enterprise's ' business model ' lead institutions like ' the crown ' to realize their utter redundancy and overall drain on society … not to mention the terrible centuries of suffering that the dogmatic notion of one individuals sovereignty over another's has wrought …. maybe that's a little ambitious right now seeing as one of them had a baby , or got married , or both … or something ??

I hope that the unions notice that they have come to represent a lot of ' jobs ' that not only don't actually need doing … but are actively detrimental to environment and psychology ….

I hope Government ( in its current capacity ) realize the same !!

I hope that we all get a sensible and productive land allocation so that we might be able to figure a way …. a productive way forward and out of this age of Donald Fucking Trump …. of the age of the Charlatan !!

Architecture by Valerio 2019

I was tallying all of my past addresses just the other day  … you know I have actually had an address for every year that I have been alive ..maybe more lol

everything from boats , yurts, tipi's , circus tents , two man tents , manor houses , castles , hot air balloons ,caves , chateau's , bodega's , factories , cinema's , wagons , caravans , polytunnels , tiny houses ,eco pods, train stations, underground lairs, islands , mainlands  … and even conventional four wall suburban dwellings lol  … and I have attempted comprehensive studies on long term eco viability for all of them !

wandering around various continents and finding all manner of curiosity tucked away in all manner of places! it has in many ways been both a burden ( mostly because I get a kind of punch drunk disorientation envelop me at times) and a blessing - the range of experience that is available out here is really incredible … and the more you find testament to your own validity from small pockets of isolated resistance that does still sporadically remain ….

any way Architecture ….

I have lived in every form of ' shelter ' from every facet of the evolution of human habitation ritual that has ever been developed … I have engaged in the manner and business of attempteing to ' live ' a viable and sustainable existence from all manner of edifice … some certainly proving more difficult than others ! and my observations and conclusions have brought me round 360 degrees and back again …

ultimately of course one has to conclude that the basic premise is that the very calculable value of land ….is utterly outmoded , outdated and in dire need of reform …. and unfathomably overpriced !!

and that is currently sadly, an international truth but sadly no where is it more evident than here in my homeland !!!.....

now there are reasons to assume that the ever speculative model of ' growth ' that we have come to accept as a given ...is completely unsustainable, our expanding population requiring more and more resource 'factoried' through a bizarre modern model of capitalist slavery ….. is now the subject of international protest !

we are running out of hills to quarry , out of valleys to dam … out of viable wildernesses to ' develop '...out of fish to eat and air to breathe !! we are running out of room for the ever expanding population that vie for the continued destruction of a finite planet so that they might extend their collection of beanie babies or vacation photo's …. in this now out of control age of the obsessive compulsive acquisition …..the age of the charlatan !! …. the age of Donald Trump ! and all of this obsessive consumption who really benefits ??

well I call them the ' percentage people '

a kind of half human creature that can find no better means of survival than to operate in  a parasitic fashion to sustain its own meagre self …. its really a sad shame that since the age of Thatcher so many of them seem to have found themselves rather lucrative positions in the ' service economy ' … but that's an analysis for another day ….

so amid my travels and various stays in various manner of abode ( and for good or ill, keeping various manner of company )

I have made some deductions !! firstly well lets be frank at least half of the current labour market needs to be dismantled …. well we need to desperately reappraise quite what it is that we en mass consider to be worthwhile pursuit of time … let alone worthwhile vocation ( but again perhaps that's a mission for another day  infact perhaps the current and inevitable shrinking of global markets and economies will derive the obvious result ,as reaction alone … well one can hope anyway )

the applicable ' value ' of labour itself needs to be largely reconsidered … but again I will leave that alone for just one second ( no point creating an enemy of absolutely every one in the first blast )

A humans contribution to a financially orientated economic model will always use the labour to derive a product ( in this case cash ) … this has to change !! we need to once again have a tenable value to a currency that has rendered itself the only means of barter in our currently warped market !

so once we have begun to build legislation to enable this kind if grass roots empowerment of the individual … and not just the strength of community organization ...we might start to get somewhere

the result of  the millions of pounds that will be thrown into think tanks and consultation and breifings and meetings … will be colossal !! as the perentage people all cling to their clip boards and try to figure out how they might be able to preserve their position of administration in well paid - low output- latte fuelled clique  ...for just a little while longer any way !!

really we all need to be farmers to get rid if this entire ilk… and not over a slow transition period that is run out according to the populist chasing politic we have all come to know and loathe over the past few decades … oh no !! we need to break up the national trust … dismantle most of our current programmes !! turf some ' old blood ' out of the spaces that they have buried themselves in like ticks amid sprawling green acres …. we need to shut down the agricultural commission and the forestry commission ….

I think the only things that we really need right now are fundamental survival options built into our basic accommodations and very basic infrastructure  - a few academic ' institutions ' … well places of learning ,absolutely … but I think that we can largely discredit the current model of operation that once again like everything else has come to benefit the percentage people far more than it benefits the dedicated student ….

the whole things has to be shut down !! we need to stop fuelling it , stop feeding it , stop adhering to it , complying with it ,certainly stop applying to join it !!

personally I advocate that from the grassroots implementation scheme … we cant really petition the governments and failed financial services sectors of the world to ' cease to be ' … they will claw at the last thread of survival and come up with some mc vegan ' we want to be your friends really ' kind of slimy supplication …

no better to just insist that the whole thing be put on hiatus and managed interparochial fashion until some sort of semblance of sense can be established


I ham not the first one to entertain the idea of sweeping humanity up in its constant untidy sprawl and refine the urban model into something a little more refined !!

indeed walt Disney and frank loyd wright ..  and of course Jaque Frescoe of the venus project all advocated notions of ' the super city '

and indeed now science fiction has come to enlarge the principle idea again and even take those super cities into orbit or even into interstellar explorations ??

wonderfully fantastic notions of course … of for the completely delusional and hopeless romantic of course !!

unfortunately if we are going to survive for even another thousand years ( which by the way would probably make sense as a time frame  for a limited construction margin with limited resource and more theory than experience to build anything that might actually stand a chance of transporting any semblance of what's left of this ' civilisation  across galaxies ) … we are going to have to figure out a terrestrial means of doing so

of course we can just kill half the current population - but which half ?? at the moment it seems that this might be an actual ' unofficial  mandate ' for some of the people of the world that own most of the world , but don't want to share …. and it does seem that we have rendered such a failure of ourselves that the world will be inherited by the children of  the Donald Trump's of the world and the civil servants that assisted them to power … its really a bleak state of affairs I know !!

so lets say that we can have a wealth redistribution … and we can run a viable education programme that will give everyone suitable legal and agricultural acumen to be able to self govern and self sustain for a viable period of political upheaval within an emerging resource based economic model …

its amazing that I just cant leave politics out of planning !!

but the two have become so mercilessly interwoven that I suppose that one is always worthy a mention in the company of the other …

so we have a huge population that all just need somewhere to ' live ' …. and we have a smaller population that claim to own all the spaces where all the people could live …. and then ' live ' ??… how??

in the perpetual urban sprawl … on the gas guzzling commute to some ' service based economy ' administration or sales position taking 'cheap ' flights of the back of the latest middle east invasion ...or walt Disney holiday promotion ?   ….its all geared to the end of the world !! in fact at this very late stage its very hard to side step the self imposed ' end of the world ' that this particular herd of lemmings are hell bent on careening over the edge of ?

but we have to start somewhere right !!!

so all complaints and mistrust of governments / corporations and the types of people that would actually vie for positions in either …. bleeuugghhh !!!

we need a population of individualist orientated -individual communities - integrated through broad networking and common goal methods, operating on a basic democratic model with collaborative enterprise being at the forefront of community aspiration, yet operating in a fashion allowing for deviation and prescribed experimentation from the emerging formats

how the fuck do we do that ??

well its not easy I grant you … and when you start to peel the onion you really do start to wonder about the idea of ' social conditioning ' and the machinations of evil men and women

anyway ….

we need an empowered and independent individual within an empowered and independent community … self reliance and self sustainability are the key!!

within our ' conventional ' and failed urban models we obviously need to integrate the ' re ruralisation ' principles that I have personally been advocating for over 20 years - and which now are actually becoming more mainstream and even being adopted by some of the more progressive urban planners / architects and designers all over the world - which is all great news !!

and we are hearing interesting things coming out of some of the larger and more questionable ' status quo ' companies - about large scale urban planning contracts of this nature actually being taken seriously by international governments . Japan for example is set to be one of the first countries in the world to design / develop / and build the worlds ' first ' Single structure city scape …. although of course such scales of construction have been attempted and completed to date never has a full integrative and habitable city been accomplished and completed with any margin of success

I am sure the first examples will be doomed to failure …. huge titanic style enterprises with tiny accommodation offerings , very little privacy and some half baked notion of attempting to construct ideal inhabitants for the ' ideal ' society by all manner of weird suggestive and subversive augmentations of environment and or perception … but again maybe I digress a little … but definitely something to watch out for ??

the current and basic model that every one is using is absolutely and fundamentally flawed .. of course !!

we are running a spatial allocation paradigm that is offering maximum financial return for investor and landlord and  minimum spatial allocation or 'liveability' for the inhabitant -

I have been pointing out in the u.k for well over a decade that the spatial allocations over cost have been in reverse gear for a very long time … that the amount of space that you get for your money has exponentially reduced and that is indicative of more than just a rise in property price … but also a simultaneous reduction in the conveyable value of labour !!

we started running a rabid speculative building campaign here in the u.k around 2010 .. when they just started throwing up these tiny ' match box ' houses , just so people could start to get a ' foot on the property ladder ' … it was a mainia that I couldn't believe took hold … let alone that it still seems to be operational as a viable and legitimate con !

what if we suddenly have another war I proclaimed … and we all suddenly have to start to ' grow for victory ' again …. ''it'll never happen'' they said !!  - then we ended up doing or partially doing a Brexit !!

the same thing happened to me around 2005 … I was sat in a chamber of commerce meeting concerning a local produce and trade collective - '' there might be a recession in a minute '' … I was met with hatred !! when the credit crunch happened … no one once said to me - well you saw that coming

then the recession hit - not a jot !! not a single credible acknowledgement for foretelling the future

fuck these people !! that's where my attitude comes from !!

so we now have a huge amount of a population that have over speculated on the price of the apartment they brought for a quarter of a million pounds that doesn't even have a window in the bathroom …. or more than a window box's worth of green produce potential in the entire sad little 80m2

you do see my frustration …. why I consider this all to be wholly and completely bat shit crazy !!

so back to the over all premise ….

what are we going to do with this weird dispraxic population ….



I am having a thought here Barbosa ….

The Full Range of '' Art By Valerio's - the Arts Hole -Architectural Considerations are going to be the main focus of the touring exhibition this year … so if you have an interest in Art / Architecture / integrative Urban Design / Permaculture Design and Planning / Circular Economy Models/ Resource Based Economies.... a bloodthirsty peasant land seizure …. or alternative … then look out for the local promotion materials that will be appearing in accordance with the ranging pop up schedule this year

e mail for details

artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk  

Vacant Spaces for Pop Up's always required

''The Owl and the Pussy cat went to sea in a beautiful pea - GREEN boat , but neither had a single clue how to keep the thing afloat '' - original illustration from the autobiographical series ' 101 Reasons to choose a Vocation in the Creative Industries ' 

I have been on some esoteric missions over the past decade or so ….

pretty much all of them ' Art ' orientated in one way or another ! or closely excusable as such !


These past few years we ( mostly I )  have been crashing around various places offering a rather eclectic show of Art and Design under various banners and pseudonyms.... and although I seem to merit very little obvious ' credit ' , I think that there is definitely evidence of ' Validity ' within all of the arms of my rather diverse and ongoing ' portfolio ' of interests …

at first I was just some long haired hippy / arty type guy that was running a gallery operation , that had a few interesting architectural projects in the portfolio .. .. ..slightly outspoken, with an obvious left wing tendency ….

then I started to really address a subject rather close to my heart ….. spatial allocations !! during a time that saw the rise of a very dangerous right wing and rather - property price orientated government !Fortunately, not one to be deterred ! examples of my obvious ( albeit largely uncredited )Architectural works and influence  can be found the world over, demonstrating working examples of original theories that were developed in/ by Artby Valerio's' The Art's Hole ' -' The Valerio Institute of Alternative Learning ' and the various research and development projects that have ended up forming an entirely separate body of work

these days the Architectural Arm of the Portfolio has evolved into something quite by itself … offering fantastic, award winning, bespoke designs for modular / podular / family / community /  town / city- off grid - eco -sustainable architectural projects for every budget and intent ( see The Arts Hole Catalogue 2019 for the current design and build options available  )

Dinosaurs were really borne of a state of mania really … and a revisiting of a child hood inspiration ! these days the Dinosaurs and interior features that I have produced can be found in displays and collections the world over …. and of course I do still enjoy the occasional excursion off into the mud to sit in a trench and dig up some fossils and interesting geological strata - because well why not ? :)

so if you have a vacant space , a shop front / and industrial space / and empty barn or old attic space that you would be glad to assign to a temporary pop up initiative , one that although maintains a thorough Home Made - Hand Made - Anti Corporate - Non Government Affiliated - Fiercely Independent entity …. absolutely in solidarity with the current XR direct action initiative in both product ranges and philosophy !!

then we ( mostly I ) would love to hear from you

drop a little message to one of our online contact methods and we will see what we can do

artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk

Summer Competition 2019 -The Arts Hole- Morocco Artist Retreat Giveaway #ABV101%

We Have Dug ourselves out some very interesting little spaces to use for some fairly esoteric ' Art ' practices this summer …. and The Wits End - Morocco Project is absolutely no exception :) 

I will be travelling around quite a lot again this year and the perpetual state of trading transience can really take its toll on this poor battered and bruised little creative psyche so these fortuitous little cache's of calm are absolutely vital in maintaining a level head ! 

I have indicated in previous posts that we would be giving away a full on  ' the Arts Hole - Morocco ' experience this year, and as it turns out  … we will in fact be offering two !! 

I will be conducting some ' experiments ' in Marrakesh at the beginning of this years tour - offering the usual ' Art By Valerio - Art B&B packages and immersive artist's experiences ' 

and then again at the end of the tour and summer season I will be hosting a wonderful Art B&B package in Tangiers 

both of these pre organized dates will have a bonus ' Giveaway ' for each retreat option see below details for more information on how to enter for your chance to win one of these fantastic mini break packages worth over £1500 each 

 

The Arts Hole - Alamo XR

      '' Pick your battles they say - pah this has been ' The Arts Hole - Alamo ' for a decade already ''

an additional thought to scratch onto one of the bodies of works , within the broader series of works … It's really great being totally unappreciated in your own time !!

The Arts Hole On Tour 2019

Art By Valerio

#ABV101

Neil Young: Let's Impeach The President 2006 same year as the birth of the Arts Hole ABV101%

The Same year that Niel Young put together this fantastic little album as a  knee jerk protest reaction to , well I guess most of the stuff that I was protesting at the time too

The Arts Hole Really Took Root as this soundtrack resonated around that summer, this and Bruce Springsteen's Seeger Sessions … both great anti establishment albums

Catalogue 2019 x x x The Arts Hole on Tour x x x

Art By Valerio Presents : The Arts Hole - International Art Gallery and Design Studios -Pop up Initiative :

Catalogue 2019

A full Catalogue of all Art By Valerio Products Past and Present comprising over 100 individual ' product lines and bespoke services ' From Valerio's Arts Hole ;) from originally in house produced -limited release literature , through various painting portfolio's and designs for everything from Houses to Habitats and pretty much everything in between x x x …. of course every single one of them 101% absolutely originally devised / designed / executed and manifested by Art By Valerio and The Arts Hole Pop Up Initiative

The Second ' Catalogue ' is the full accompanying catalogue booklet that goes with the Full ' Bourgois Billionaires Boxset of 101 Original Hand rendered cartoons -(RRP £50,000 still only works out to just £500 per Original Artwork  ) detailing with thumbnail an brief anecdote each Hand-drawn Illustration within the collection 

so there you have it …..just as an example ! the second catalogue of 101 handmade products that is in itself just a single ' product ' along side 100 others within the content of the first catalogue!!!…. there is always a lot to think about at The Arts Hole international Pop Up Initiatives 

but we can only do what we can with what we have …. its with a fantastic customer and fan base that we are able to carry on smashing around the world bringing this calibre of art and community ingagement through the arts , to areas that would otherwise be deprived of such innovative notions

at the bottom there you can see a glimpse of something new !! 

I have been travelling around a fairly circuitous route for a few years now and I have become quite familiar with a few of the places on my regular ' stop off ' list ….. and so it seems quite apt to produce a few little ' guide book - sketch book ' things 

so this year I am especially proud to introduce as an wonderful addition to the ' Original Sketchbook Page ' releases ( in lieu of prints - because jeez we really don't need any more mass produced anything - even if you do call it ' limited edition ' ) 

The Arts Hole On Tour - ist : Guide to :

The Westcountry ( expanded edition )

The English Channel (expanded edition)

The Bay of Biscay (expanded edition)

Beyond the Straight (expanded edition ) 

Plymouth 

London 

Amsterdam 

Rotterdam 

Venice 

Prague 

Hamburg 

Berlin 

Tangiers 

Marrakesh 

Each hand produced completely hand-drawn passport sized ORIGINAL sketchbook  comprising 16 leaves of 100% original beautifully rendered Notations, Maps, Sketches and Watercolour Studies …. offering any avid traveller a little insight into some trails worth following , and any art collector a beautiful unique collectors edition to this artists ever expanding body of works ! 

Keep an eye out for the '' Arts Hole on Tour - ist Guides ''   as they are released throughout the tour x x x 

 

Career Prospects ?! Credit Score ?! what on earth are you blithering about you sorry little son of an Admin ....

Any one that is still self employed in the U.K economy at the moment deserves a fucking medal ! its been 15 years of relentless absurdity , with high tax tariffs and commission percentages flying off to admins of admins like you wouldn't believe … and its all left the economy in general … completely inside out and upside down !! its a basket case ! ….. so every time some utterly insulated and .Gov Interned little speck assures me of an easier way via the online application process !! I have a tendency to call it in the generally correct supposition: that its some white washed - tory style -corporate shite - incompetent government backed horse shit !  

'' Sounds Like a Load of Tory Style Horse Shit to Me '' 

''Career Prospects ?! Credit Score ?! what are you blithering about you sorry little son of an admin !! ''

any one ever seen that movie with Jeff Bridges , where he plays a washed up drunk country and western singer …. well I have days that I can very much relate to the main characters postulated predicament … that seems to happen quite often actually !! I remember when I first heard Bob Dylan , above and beyond the abrasive sound … there were some fascinating stories , full of intrigue and mystery , of adventure and turmoil …. these days, in full hindsight of the so far ! there are far too many episodes of my life that I can easily relate to even the most abstract Bob Dylan song …. I used to think that would be a great thing , but after so many miles ...the endless highway can just start to look like a careening dead set plunge towards , what many refer to as the edge ! the abyss …

maybe I just need a holiday ! but no doubt there will be windmills to fight , no matter the variety of the horizons !

Attention x 2019 XR Emergency !! Arts Hole on Tour Summer Competition x

''Wait …. WHAT??!!''

partially titled ' sketchbook page ' 

Original Artwork By Valerio 

The Arts Hole On Tour 2019 

what have we got … say four or five months of sailing around and popping up here and there offering the always well received quality in Art And Design that people have come to expect of - The Arts Hole -Pop Up Initiative- Art Gallery and Design Studio's #ABV101%

so in the interest of keeping things ' available to all audiences ' I will be giving away an Original hand rendered sketchbook page!!! ( RRP £350.00 - £550.00 EACH )  on the first of every month of the tour !! 

as I have said before I hate all this like and share stuff … everyone pandering for likes and shares , its grotesque !! especially for someone like me that prefers to be left the F alone ! 

so instead what we will do is I will take written entries from folks that would like to own one of these personalised renderings , I will swap a sketchbook page for the most original 3 paragraphs of personalised text : by all means feel free to annotate with all the imagery you would like … 

but really I want you to sit down and write something and engage in a bit of barter with me … so come on folks have a smash at it and give me some written correspondence to keep the cabin fever at bay as I am sailing around , smuggling innovation into Brexit Britain from the Grass Roots up x x x 

its been a pretty rough Decade for most of the people that I know that would call themselves ' self employed ' … and for many of us we have struggled through credit crunches , recessions , depressions , tory governments , austerity , referendums , Brexit's and god knows what else !! and the few of us that are still technically ' trading ' and that haven't been driven to despair or dementia by stress and uncertainty … are still looking to the future with fairly tentative hopes !! 

so these days whenever someone presumes that their was an easier method .. it makes me want to scream and demand what kind of overly insulated , highly privileged, piece of a civil servants gentic spillage you actually are !! …. as the title of this latest little effort and addition to the ' 101 Reasons to Choose a Vocation in the Creative Industries ' will attest … qiuite often I have to say to myself .. and not all that quietly '' what kind of tory style- council funded- mummy boy bullshit is this??'