???Harrington, Choe, Micallef, JR, Vhils??? not interesting, oh dear oh dear Mr Silky have you banged your head.

i popped into the laz shop today and they had another great harrington sketch...didn't ask for the price so i wasn't tempted, i guess it was the same price as the earlier ones - £750 ish which isn't bad for a brilliant sketch. no vhils originals though, just a couple of the prints disappointingly.

This article is from the evening standard website. Is anyone from here going to the opening?

"Fans of Sir Cliff Richard may wish to turn away now. They may find it difficult to look him in the face again.

An artist has produced a portrait of the singer with morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse out of pornographic cuttings from top-shelf magazines. From a distance, the collage looks harmless. But on closer examination, intimate body parts and various sexual poses become clear.

The portrait, measuring 42cm by 42cm, goes on display with a price tag of £25,000 at a new West End gallery which opens tonight.

The artist, Jonathan Yeo, told the Standard today he had chosen Mrs Whitehouse, who died in 2001 aged 91, because he “always had a problem with her”. Sir Cliff is targeted because “anybody who has lived in apparent abstinence deserves a bit of ribbing”.

Yeo, 39, a highly-acclaimed portrait painter whose subjects have included Tony Blair, Dennis Hopper and Erin O'Connor, said: “If Mary Whitehouse was still around I hope she would treat this picture as an insult. She equated nudity, bad language and violence as if they were all equally dangerous.” He added: “I presume Cliff will have a sense of humour about it.”

Yeo painted the pair in oils from a photograph of Sir Cliff and Mrs Whitehouse in the Sixties. He then overlaid this with pornographic cuttings, matching colour, tone and brush strokes with sexual images. Yeo thinks he must have gone through 50 magazines, drawing in particular on Big Black Butt magazine.

The image is the latest produced by Yeo using porn. He depicted George W Bush “to offend a man I found offensive”. His latest portrait is likely to stir controversy. Sir Cliff 's spokesman Bill Latham said today: “It is so tacky I don't think Sir Cliff would want to give the artist the satisfaction of a reaction.”

John Beyer, who took over Mrs Whitehouse's campaign, said: “To have her memory besmirched is contemptible and passé. He needs to grow up.”

But Mrs Whitehouse's son Richard, 63, said: “It is quite witty really.”

The portrait goes on display tonight at The Rathbone, Rathbone Place."

There's not enough Cliff in street art.

make that decision for yourself

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Having looked at it, I don't think the top shelf could take the weight.

More interestingly would be which adhesive he used.

Many forum heads going down? Im probably getting there about 6

no photos couldnt be bothered.
nothing to really remember

Yeo was the highlight for me with the Cliff/Whitehouse being a genuinely standout piece. A very busy night for Laz but not much going on on the sales front from what I could see. JR pieces also stood out in terms of quality.

look forward to going tomorrow - the building itself is awesome - they've bought the lease on it for (i think it was) 80 years.... a place of permanence??

Thanks for the photos, looks like a great evening was had.

does anyone know if Micallef's 'Red Siren" was at this opening?? and if so, anyone have pictures??

top pics butterfly!

Some good stuff I thought, and was interesting to chat to Conor Harrington - his original was probably the stand out piece for me