New club on the block, Oxford Art Factory, features a big glass cube in the middle of the venue linking the main dance floor to the bar. So when the lovely peeps at “Get Together” asked me to come up with an idea for the booth I excitedly set my mind to work. I recalled a video of Farrah Fawcett I had seen one night late on TV when I was about 14. She was painting… with her body… naked. I recall her covered in gold paint naked using her breasts as a paint brush. This became my inspiration for my performance art piece in the glass cube.

 I started off the evening entering the cube, which had been set up as a dressing room, with all of my friends. We sat down cracked open a bottle (or two) of bubbly and proceeded to have our own little get together. I put on my hair and makeup through out the next hour and a bit, and finished up in a white dressing gown. As the get together wound down I said goodbye to my guest and sent them on their way. Then there was a knock at the door! It was my art subject, Simon, wearing a white robe, just in time to be my still life model. He entered the booth, hoped up on the podium, next to the paint brushes, paint and bowl of fruit and dropped his robe. I began to paint, instead of the canvas, his body. First with a brush and then, when the brush was not giving the coverage I required… with my fingers. One thing led to another and pretty soon Simon and I (as close to naked as one can be ie flesh coloured underwear) were smearing lashings of paint all over eachother and the booth. The spirit of Pro Hart entered the cube and i could hear the voice of his cleaner, from those great Australian commercials from the 90′s, “Oh Mr Hart what a mess!!”. There was paint splattered all over the walls, the floor and us.  But  soon we grew weary of stepping on tubes of paint and rubbing our bodies up against the glass and so Simon grabbed the bunch of grapes from the, already upturned and smashed, bowl of fruit. He proceeded to branch out into viticulture and squash the grapes… all over me. We ate from the forbidden fruit and threw oranges and bananas around the room. It was the most fun one can have standing up.