As Visual Artist
See http://www.londonart.co.uk/sales/view_art.asp?ArtistID=1260
Some of this art still available to buy.....yep Ive already sold more than Van Gogh I reckon......at least above 10 anyway..........
ARTISTS BACKGROUND
EDUCATION
PGCE Art and Design Goldsmiths College London 2003
BA(hons) Fine Art Kent Institute Of Art And Design (Now University of East England), Canterbury 2000
SHOWS
The Creation Today - Old library in the Derbyshire Dales - a show with friend and sculptor, Paul Jones. March - May 2008
Hand Stand - 4 year retrospective of studio work - The Art House New Cross London , October 2006
Arts Unwrapped Europe Wide Open Studios November 2005
Antidote - Group Exhibition -shop windows - Brixton Village Market April 2004
Paintings shown at The Foundry , Shorditch Jan 2004
Open Studios, Bond House 2002/03/04/05
Brief Biography
Christian Mann is a painter and sort of musician (once known as Three Strings On My Guitar.) He is a multimedia outsider ish artist, and he has released several home made records. He has lived and worked in London since graduating in 2000, and is currently teaching art up to A level. His paintings usually clash with with poetic musings. His music is a ghostly reflection of his poetry. His poetry is an uncaged creature looking for the right climate to bare roots........
He has many artworks (prints, books and paintings)in private collections around the UK, Europe and Japan. He has only made one painting in the last decade because of his music.....but will one day return to it.........he has a habit of going with what feels right.........
His ideas tend to be stongly influenced by what ever is going on (or not going on) in his life at the time.
His favorite artists at the moment are Gerhard Richter, Kyoshi Yamashita, John Baldesarri, Film Makers like Wim Wenders, Bands like Faust and Godspeed! You Black Empore, and poets like William Blake.
He loves film - and dreams of directing - He would like to have the powers of Wim Wenders blended with Guillermo Del Toro, finished off with Miyazaki and a touch of Blake's blatantly challenging sense of spirituality. What a great film superhero that would make.
Music
ZeitGhoul has self published 9 albums as ZeitGhoul since 2008
New album as ZeitGhoul & Lady Claws The Mountain out end of 2018
https://soundcloud.com/zeitghoulandladyclawsthemountain
https://zeitghoulandladyclawsthemountain.bandcamp.com/
Albums
2017 Haunted By Spirals (Asleep*Awake!Aware*Apart....)
2016 The Time Writer Collection - Part 1 - Shimmering / Part 2 - Fugue System
2015 Arise Fair Sun and Kill The Envious Moon
2013 Surprise! The Ghosts
2012 Zeitghoul (Moonfish)
2011 Surrounded By The Surrounded
2010 Without Insects We Are Dead!
2009 Simple Fades / Mirrors of the Speaker
2008 The Chill Returns
2008 Next To New X Gate (orginal Haunted By Spirals recording session)
Other Published music
The Chill from Next To New X Gate on South Facing - By Kennington Recordings - 2009
Film / Soundtrack Credits
Stuck Up The Up, from Without Insects We Are Dead 2010 -The Lotus Eaters, 2011
Refection noitcefeR (In the Mirror Of The Speaker), Animated By Sam Wilson, 2009
As a Writer / Poet
His writing is integral to all of his ideas, whether making music, or painting and is the true core of his identity (always has been and always will be.) He means to perform and publish his writings in some way, but needs to decide the best way how.....so watch out.....he used to make very short poems and spent more time illustrating them...once he gets time he will work out how to perform them.........I mostly write in note books sent to me each xmas by my old college friend Luigi. They come uniquely covered by him (he's also an artist), usually with creatures doing funny poses, or strange cultural retro glimpses - the recent book I've filled called 'Forest Hills' for example contains many pics of old people doing yoga, kissing cows, a Bela Logissi classic shot which reminds me of Ed Wood , some dodgy dinasaur illustrations and finishes with an old man in bed looking at his jack russell - no that's not a euphamism. Here is an example of my writing from Forest Hills - this is the poem next to the old people doing yoga which starts the book......
1. Stretching
She beckoned her flexible Hindu finger
(Yoga!)
Eye contact fleeting
(Yoga Yoda!)
Correct hip postured by need
with no name.
A spire
(Yoga Yoda Yoman!)
Inspired by hearing
each breath reciprocate
(Yoga!)
Colour onto a harder grayer world.
Mourning,
(Yoga Yoda!)
Healing grief stretches the pains
and almost tastes of the sweet
taffy of the past.
(Yoga Yoda Yoman!)
I've copied this over as original version - so it is subject to change....but I like it because it exemplifies my current state of mind in a nice way - mid life crisis meets a respect for older people enjoying life, still finding their feet, and a newish respect for my younger self, being able to chew on awful things like Wham bars in the mid 80's!! - yes that explains the taffy ref!
And just who is the lady attached to my name...? Encase You are wondering, Lady Claws The Mountain is my muse...........
Writing Commissions
SMASHED PLANET, Short story, sketches and prints 2 copies made in 2002 for private artbook collector.
SMASHED PLANET, 1 off colour print edition for private commission, 2003
Completed Poetry Collections (meaning I've edited it several times and presented them nicely)
1998 Excretion spades
Currently working on (meaning I've yet to do even 2nd draft for most)
The More You Pick At It
Print Foot
Forest Hills
Shimmering
Fugue System
Ghost Culture Blurs
Organica
Severe Twists of Fate
The Disturbing Truth
We /\ Me
Fiery Tales
Karma Become
In Love With The Zeitghost
Can You Publish a Broken Sun?
Last Words
(yep that's quite a bit to be doing....but then I just love figuring it out more than anything....)
All Time Favorite Writers / Poets are....
1. Stephen Donaldson
2. Neil Gaiman
3. Ted Hughes
4. J.M. Coetzee
5. Ursula Le Guin
6. William Blake
7. Terry Pratchett
8. Paul Auster
9. Roald Dahl
10. Haruki Murakami
11. J.R.R Tolkein
12. Stephan King
13. Philip Pullman
14. Patrick Rothfuss
15 Philip K Dick
16. Leonard Cohen (yep his lyrics)
17 Bob Dylan (yep his lyrics)
18 Black Sabbath (yep their lyrics)
19 Captain Beefheart (yep his beautifully chaotic lyrical poetry)
20 Kate Bush (yep her amazing artistry with words - not just her voice!)
21 David Bowie (had to be - he was always a poet!)
22 George Harrison (All Things Must Pass in a nutshell....
and many others.......but all the above are those authors Ive re-read at least one of their books many times or more, or Ive read something of theirs and it's stayed with me no matter how much time passes............My list looks like the most popular authors / lyricists ever count down......guess I'm less a ZeitGhoul and more a ZeitGreatAuthorsInspireMeAlotGhost........
