Gerry Porter was a talented visual artist, designer, and humorist who made an indelible impact on the St. John’s arts scene.
He died in 2016, and on Sunday December 1st, a website of his work is being launched at The LSPU Hall, from 4 pm to 6 pm.
The website contains hundreds of Gerry’s cartoons, comics, posters, memes, and for his on-line followers, an archive of his twitter feed and news haikus.
“I’M TRYING TO STRETCH out a small moment, one that only takes a second, and examine that. I’m looking at subverting traditional representations of women. Basically, looking at the expected behavior and appearance, and unpacking that.”
It doesn’t seem fair To call it “New” or “Found” When its been waiting With weathered salted wisdom For as long as dark rocks have held line after line Of…
You’ve presented a couple of pop-up exhibitions, with the Memetic-Self Portraits at the Neele Building in 2018 and most recently When Gravity Fails at the Arts and Culture Centre. Why…