Throughout history, still life painting has proven to capture the essence of time using everyday objects. From the Great Artists to students today, the concept remains a valuable and absorbing way of exploring the relationships between shapes and colour. 

Following the colour chaos of ‘Gossip Calypso’ as part of this years Pictoplasma Character Walk, Billy steps out of the whirl and continues with the second phase of her residency at the HUBstore Berlin with her new exhibition ‘Still Life’.

With a hint of sarcasm, Billy presents her own light-hearted still life installation capturing a positive moment in time. It is a visual exploration on growth and trends depicting how life is anything but still. That is until some objects are placed on a table, arranged in a fun and interesting way and multiple drawings and paintings are made of them and eventually stuck on the wall for people to look at and enjoy. 

Join Billy for her third solo show in the year 2013 as she recognizes that there is always too much to do and real life never stays still.

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Pictoplasma in Berlin was a cool time! BIG thanks to everyone that was part of it. Great people great work great fun yeah! Some pics from my exhibition. THANK you everyone that came and to my lecture too! 

I had quite an epic month in Derby - being a teacher, adjusting to life in the midlands, getting acute vapour poisoning, and painting a very long wall. 

It’s been GREAT and a big big big up to the kids and to everyone at Subism HQ for all their amazing organising and hard work.

And now there is a very bright wall in Derby so everyone’s happy. 

More pictures on my website.

Some pictures from set up to opening night. 

I don’t think I’ve ever painted so much in my life… or drank so much vimto, or vino of course. 

A big big big up to everyone at Common for accommodating me and feeding me and watering me and basically being great. 

Prints and tshirts available from Common. 

More info here. 

‘Too Much Vino’ is a visual account from Billy beginning in her younger days on a river in South Africa, observing her parents and their friends get completely drunk and disorderly, right through to the present day where Billy resides in Berlin and enjoys a drop of wine herself. It is a documentation exploring how the development of a taste for wine, a love of colour and the search for happiness can work together in such harmony (or not, if you’ve drunk too much).


Exhibition launch party Thursday 24th January / 6pm at Common, Manchester

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In partnership with Dulux, Groundwork London and Team London Bridge.

Thanks to all the residents of White Grounds Estate at London Bridge for helping out with the design and painting.