Blog Party

Due to recent disappointments, WebsterGotts decided that they needed to cheer themselves up. Just the other day they realised that this very blog was 1 year old in April! They were so busy feeling sorry for themselves that they stupidly let this landmark occasion pass them by without a momentous celebration.

This mistake has been put right. WebsterGotts have heroically picked themselves up, dusted themselves down, and, despite their current poverty, partied hard.

Here is a video of this stylish and dignified blog party.

Woe Is WebsterGotts

Once again WebsterGotts' hopes and dreams have been shattered- this time in a particularly mean fashion.

WebsterGotts are currently leading a life of poverty, they have no money or food, and this is the reason for their recent lack of activity.

For a short time there appeared to be a light at the end of the tunnel, as a group called Centrifuge offered a possibility of funding for WebsterGotts to make a new video. With this money, they could have eaten, clothed themselves and maybe even afforded a studio. Certainly, it would have allowed them to make some more truly great art work.

But at the eleventh hour, this flickering glimmer of hope was cruelly extinguished. The money will now go to other, more privileged artists who wish to continue jetsetting and pretending to make art work.

Below is the appeal video that WebsterGotts sent to Centrifuge. See if you could bear the guilt of not making a donation to them. Unless of course (like the Centrifuge group), you think they are just not good enough to get funding.





Sadly, everything in this video is actually true. WebsterGotts do indeed use a cupboard as a studio, they have terrible part-time jobs, and cannot afford coffee.

To top things off, Centrifuge would still like WebsterGotts to contribute to a publication. For free. What do YOU think they should do?

Happy Birthday Site Gallery!!!

Site Gallery is 300 years old on 18th March 2008! Congratulations, that'll be a hat-trick of letters from His Royal Highness The Queen!

To celebrate this happy event, and thank them for their support, WebsterGotts have commissioned the Let's Have A Look archaeology team to delve into the history of the gallery.

Rejection Dejection

This week WebsterGotts' dreams went down in flames. They discovered that they had been turned down for yet another exhibition proposal.

Perhaps this indicates that they should stop making such appalling and childish 'artwork'.

Your comments please....

Millenium Galleries Held The Greatest Exhibition Ever

Just the other day, WebsterGotts visited the best exhibition ever, and decided they must show it on their blog.

At Millenium Galleries, they learned that Sheffield is the most important place on earth.

Celebrating 150 years of business and football in Sheffield, this exhibition confirmed some facts that WebsterGotts were unaware of;

* Sheffield INVENTED Football.

* Sheffield is the HOME of all Music.

* Sheffield is the BIRTHPLACE of Business.

* Sheffield is one of the most technologicaly ADVANCED cities in the world.

The exhibition consisted of the most visually informative display boards that depicted these vital legacies Sheffield has given mankind. Visitors were treated to first-hand sensory experiences of music and football, and also a spectacular insight into what the FUTURE of Sheffield will look like.....

The layout of the show was stunning, and over half the gallery was given over to corporate sponsorship and planning information. WebsterGotts learned that a key part of Sheffield's cultural heritage and shopping oasis will be brilliantly wiped clean and replaced by large glass buildings housing the sort of big brand names that simple folk can only dream of. What 'Moor' could Sheffield ask for?

This sets the example for WHAT galleries should show, HOW they should show it and that the most important thing in art (and what people really want to see) is corporate business sponsorship.

"It's so good I don't even know what it is."

This morning, WebsterGotts visited the Sausage Ink House Collective studios. Here they met the two founding members, Chumpsy and Udder Boy (their real names are a secret), Sheffield's original 'Underground Redesigners'. These two have been hailed as graffitti heroes of the North, even representing 'The North' in the National Draw-Off finals.

We wanted to know a little bit about them, to scratch the surface of their childish drawings, and find out how they came to be taken seriously.



U B: "We draw our inspiration from politics, the World around us, urban redevelopment, that sort of thing."

Ch: "We watch a lot of shit cartoons on Nickelodeon too."

U B: "I think most people find our art more accessible because there's not much to think about."

Ch: "Yeah, there's not really much depth in what we produce. You can just look at it and you get it."



U B: "Sausage Ink House have recently had some interest from the Sheffield Council to decorate the entire pavement for Sheffield's Moor redevelopment."

Ch: "It's great. You know, a few years ago loads of us had warrants out for our arrest, for criminal damage. There were posters up with examples of our tags and rewards for any information on us! Now the council are actually asking us to redesign public property."

U B: "Now the council understands that what we do is Art in it's purest form, we can draw dicks and tits wherever we like!"

Ch: "The other day I was redesigning a shop front, when the owner ran out and told me I was shit, that I should fuck off or she'd call the police. I replied 'Do you know who I am? I've just tripled the value of your property!'. Then I gave her the rods and did one."



U B: "Everyone thinks that it's only us who've redesigned the whole city, but there's actually shitloads of other redesigners out there. Fortunately their work looks exactly like ours, and we totally respect that."

Ch: "We just want to thank all those in other cities who are changing the face of urban spaces to look all cluttered and cartoony, just like we are. Soon everywhere will look the same! And that would be mad wouldn't it? There'd be cows and pirates and sexy cartoon girls and cute worms with big eyes and freaky creatures all over all the bars and shops and vans in all the cities!"

Looking around at the Sausage Ink House studios, WebsterGotts can see many great examples of this awesome subculture. Far from being the rambling scrawlings of hopeless morons, these are the products of backward-thinking underground geniuses. It's great to see that these guys are the Art Ambassadors of The North. They've gone from scratching their names on buses, to producing hi-gloss coffee table books for the culture crowd that hasn't cut its ties with the streets it came from.



All these works are available to buy, or you can commission Chumpsy and Udder Boy to display their mad skillz on your shop front or in the corridor of your local night club.

A Graves Mistake

WebsterGotts went to The Graves Gallery in Sheffield today. The Graves Gallery is situated above the City Library, and there are many steps to climb to this filthy gallery.

Like many other libraries, the Sheffield City Library has loads of quotes smeared all over the walls, telling us how great libraries are. Amongst others, there are quotes from; Albert Einstein, Samuel Johnson, Michael Palin and of course The Manic St. Preachers.

WebsterGotts were utterly distraught and horrified to discover a quote from 'Anonymous' nestling amongst these pillars of culture;



How could the Graves Gallery allow such foul base filth to be daubed across the walls of this prestigious public building? Is it no longer safe for our children in public?

Further outrage was to be forced onto the unsuspecting library goer, in the form of public health and safety advice posters, offering the following information;



Breathless and shaking with rage, WebsterGotts finally managed to get to the Graves Gallery featured exhibition; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: An Extraordinary 18th Century Woman. This Lady is described as being a prolific writer and traveller, who was a contemporary of Alexander Pope, and also strove to introduce Smallpox inoculation to Britain. What this exhibition actually revealed, was that she was merely a loudmouth gossip and total ugly bitch, whose colourful use of the English language was shockingly offensive and a very real danger to our children's education.



Here you can see her moronic writing style makes no sense. And should not be so highly regarded. Honestly Graves, what were you thinking?

Art Sheffield 08

A few months ago, Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum (SCAF), a group who co-ordinate and promote art events in Sheffield, asked WebsterGotts for a small portfolio of work. We assumed that this interest in our artwork might possibly lead to an approach from SCAF to include us in the prestigious Art Sheffield 08.

We recently received a letter from SCAF explaining that our proposal for Art Sheffield 08 was unaccepted. This was a surprise to us, as were unaware that we had put forward a proposal for Art Sheffield 08.

We captured the moment we found out we were not to be included in Art Sheffield 08 on a laptop camera.



We just don't understand why no-one takes our artwork seriously....