Issue 14
SWINDLE concludes 2007 with our most cohesive, beautiful one to date. We’ve got rock ‘n’ roll—with a report on the new Liverpool music scene; we’ve got style—fashion editor Claw Money takes a unique look at holiday office parties; and we’ve got art—in an unprecedented interview, the intensely private Barry “Twist” McGee opens up to fellow artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright about the ‘80s, mopeds, and approaching gallery work with minimalism and purpose.
Barry McGee; TWIST
By Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Photos By Dan Murphy
Other artists blazed the trail that brought graffiti from the urban landscape into galleries. But no street or graffiti artist who came before Barry “Twist” McGee had executed the transition with such finesse. Born in San Francisco in 1966, a city he continues to make his home
Liverpool
By Alex Zamora
Photography By Rebecca Miller
Recognized globally as the birthplace of The Beatles, the city of Liverpool, on the banks of the River Mersey in the north of England, is in the throws of a cultural and economic renaissance. 2008 will see it proclaimed the European Capital of Culture as it opens its doors to the world for a year-long [...]
Office Party
By Elizabeth Perrin
Hair By Michael Anthony
Prop Styling By Sana Hashmi
Makeup By Gloria Elias-Foeillet
Styling By JenniLee (www.williamsimagegroup.com)
Cricket
By Chris Flynn
Illustration By Damien Correll
“Nothing of interest comes from Australia except gold nuggets and black cricketers,” joked England’s Daily Telegraph in 1868 upon the arrival of the Parramatta ship at Gravesend, Kent, 87 years to the day after the first fleet set sail from the same port to colonize the wild and barbaric island of Australia.