Dave Baby - Icon Artist - The Devil?
Rebel Reel Cine Club meets the legend
Dave Baby drawing Gothic for Rebel Reel Cine Club x Underground EnglandDave Baby – an occult obsessive and creative punk …
This coming Wednesday we’re screening two short films starring Dave along with his artwork along with the brilliant (and of its time) Hammer Horror Films The Devil Rides Out
Dave Baby is an Artist, Model, Clothing Designer, Punk, sculpture, last standing member of House Of Beauty & Culture.
Judy Blame and Dave Baby, Photography by Cindy Palmano for Vanity, 1986 © Cindy PalmanoThe House of Beauty and Culture was a fashion movement born out of the 1980s and encompassing some of the most creative post-punk talented makers including shoemaker John Moore, Super Stylist Judy Blame, Furniture makers Frick and Frack and Dave Baby – look in almost any photo of the boutique and you’ll see Dave’s tell tale
Alan Macdonald, Photography by Cindy Palmano for Vanity, 1986 © Cindy PalmanoA boutique, design studio and crafts collective The House of Beauty and Culture (HOBAC) changed the cultural landscape. Experimenting with deconstruction and pushing home-spun a DIY aesthetic championing androgynous style.
An important part of this was the semi-erotic paganist and satanic sculptures and images made by Dave Baby who I’m delighted to say is coming to our screening for an early Halloween on Wednesday.
I visited Dave’s home which is stuffed full of objects he’s made and collected over a lifetime – a studio/ home/ workshop – a flat that can only exist as it does from a lifetime of collecting/ creating and being Dave Baby …
Dave handed me a VHS recording of John Maybury’s Circus Logic I – IV which I’ve had transferred to a digital file – Dave also starred in Love Is The Devil and his friend Derek Jarman’s films.
Dave also made a short film Blindman’s Lane which fittingly seeing him doing a deal with The Devil created by DI.AL (Diego Indraccolo and Alice Gatti).
As with the Punk screening we did in August it’s seating at tables and benches with multiple screens – it’s relaxed and fun – you can order drinks and food to your table, mix with other people (it’s outside but covered and heated), Please do watch here for a flavour of PUNK.
You can find out more about Dave’s work with Judy Blame and the exhibition Never Again that ran at the ICA and the accompanying book (which is sadly sold out and out of print - The House of Beauty and Culture, written by Kasia Maciejowska and edited by ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir.