INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW

03/20/08 • -1 min

Name
- Christopher Bucklow

Current job and place of employment
- Artist

What did you study at sixth form or college?
- History, Art and English A-Levels

Did you go to University or any other higher education institution? If so, where and what did you study?
- Leicester Polytechnic, BA Hons Art History

What was or who was the biggest influence on your choice of career?
- Alfred Sisley

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INTERVIEW WITH JAH WOBBLE

Our video interview with Jah Wobble (born John Wardle, in Stepney in 1958) English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two years. Following his departure from PiL, he went on to a successful solo career. He also owns his own record company based in Stockport.

Name
- Jah Wobble

Current job and place of employment
- Musician/Record Company Owner

What did you study at sixth form or college?
- N/A

Did you go to University or any other higher education institution? If so, where and what did you study?
- BA Hons Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London as a mature student

What was or who was the biggest influence on your choice of career?
- Music just took me.

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INTERVIEW WITH BILLY CHILDISH

Mike Chavez Dawson interviewed Billy Childish during a performance evening at The Whitworth Art Gallery.

Billy Childish is a cult figure in America, Europe and Japan. Painter, poet and song writer - in a twenty year period he has published over 40 collections of his poetry, recorded over 100 full-length independent LP's and produced over 2000 paintings.

Name
- Billy Childish

Current job and place of employment
- Painter, writer and musician

What did you study at sixth form or college?
- Left secondary education at 16 and entered the Naval Dockyard at Chatham as an apprentice stonemason.

Did you go to University or any other higher education institution? If so, where and what did you study?
- St Martin's School of Art to study painting, BA Hons Fine Art, however this was short-lived and I was expelled in 1982.

What was or who was the biggest influence on your choice of career?
- Vincent Van Gogh

Mike Chavez-Dawson is an interdisciplinary artist, fascinated with the place where the worlds of Media and Art collide and intermesh. He is also Visual Arts Editor for "Flux Magazine", founding curator for Flux Space and adviser for State Of Flux.

Name
- Mike Chavez-Dawson

Current job and place of employment
- Artist

What did you study at sixth form or college?
- Art, Photography, Art History and Film Studies

Did you go to University or any other higher education institution? If so, where and what did you study?
- Manchester Metropolitan University, BA Hons Interactive Arts and MA Art as Environment

What was or who was the biggest influence on your choice of career?
- My Grandad

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