Locky Morris

I drove up to Belfast today to see Locky Morris's retrospective exhibition: this then in the Golden Thread Gallery.
http://www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/

I first saw his work twenty years ago on the walls of The Well Fed Cafe in The Dublin Resource Centre- painted dust bin lids and cardboard land rovers, in either 89 or 90. I saw more  the following year on a trip to London in either The Tate or The Whitechapel. It wasn't like anything anyone else was doing. I was in Derry on a theatre gig in 91 and lots of people were  talking about him.  I thought he had given up art for music and  because I'm so out of touch with the Irish Art scene I missed his exhibitionat Mother's Tank Station in May.
  http://artpatrol.blogspot.com/2010/05/locky-morris-7-april-15-may-2010.html

But seeing those cardboard land rovers and bin lids was like travelling back in time to a time when I was actually excited about art.