#denzil forrester

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Spatial distortions of London's reggae clubs

Dub Strobe I by Denzil Forrester (1990)

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Funeral of Winston Rose, Denzil Forrester [1982]

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Denzil Forrester. Spice 2021. Oil on canvas.

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Denzil Forrester (Grenadian/British, b. 1956)

Shebine, 2005

Oil on canvas

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Round 2 Matches

(This post will be linked in the pinned masterpost)

Round 2 will start being posted in....a few days? I don't have an exact date for you yet but I'll let you know when I have all of the polls ready. The last poll in each group is a 3 way, due to the character count not coming out to 2 per match every time.

GROUP A 

The Faceless One (Masters of the Universe) vs Leila Vernon (The Magic Misfits)

Rosalia Rossellini (Trauma Team) vs The Blue Electric Angels (Matthew Swift book series)

Chaerin Eun (Surviving Romance) vs Miyabi Hanakouji (Persona 2)

Merim Felspar (Three of Hearts Podcast) vs Ragna the Bloodedge (Blazblue)

Tragedian (Pathologic) vs Shadow Joker (Kaitou Joker/Mysterious Joker)

Rose Red (Ghost Quartet) vs Catherine Winters (Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll)

Nin (Paranatural) vs Seijyu (Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru/Mashin Hero Wataru)

Itakura Akira (Talentless Nana) vs Whisper (Golden Treasure: The Great Green)

Raikou Shimizu (Nabari no Ou) vs Kasane Fuchi (Kasane)

Kozlov Leifvich Grebnev (Biomega) vs Cyber 6 (Cybersix)

Zolophilia (Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss) vs Kate (Shadow’s House)

The Guardian (Hyper Light Drifter) vs Jyu Free (Dobutsu no Kuni/Animal Land) vs The Player Square (Adventure (Atari Game))

GROUP B

Sulfus (Angel's Friends) vs Tougou Mimori/Washio Sumi (Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero & Washio Sumi is a Hero)

Yellow Tempest (Ending Makers) vs Tirsiak (Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion)

 Sugar Peace (High Card) vs Anima (Why Shouldn't a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love?!)

Walter Walzac (The Brave of Gold Goldran) vs Lex (Cryptid Crush)

Pappy van Poodle (Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball) vs Denzil and Cuthbert (Count Duckula (episode: Ducknapped))

Isaac (Awful Hospital) vs Tughril Mahmut (Shoukoku no Altair)

Oopsy Bear (Care Bears (2007 series)) vs Yin Yu (Heaven Official's Blessing)

Xuanli (Lanxi Zhen) vs Kondou Seiichirou (Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai)

Hikaru (Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu) vs Chase Beckley/Coworker (Elevator Hitch)

Uncle Flipping Hades Terwilliger (The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, by Daniel Manus Pinkwatee) vs Red Savarin (Solatorobo)

Bennett (Hello Charlotte) vs Senri (+Anima)

Nero (The Boy Who Fell) vs Sheila (Witch’s Heart) vs Queenie (BACK)

GROUP C 

Bolt (Crypt of the Necrodancer) vs Pearl Forrester (MST3K)

Vella/Velouria Beastender Tartine (Broken Age) vs Garrett Miller (Extreme Ghostbusters)

Dr. Anna May (Scott the Woz) vs Bai Lang (My Tooth Your Love)

"Järnarmen"/"The Iron Arm" (Jönssonligan Dyker Upp Igen (1986)) vs Aliya Elasra (Heaven’s Vault)

Sawamura Tetsuo (Yuureitou) vs Doris Frances Barbara (Blood & Syrup: A Vampire the Masquerade Podcast)

Psianop the Inexhaustible Stagnation (Ishura) vs Katook (The Katurran Odyssey)

Kim Koizumi (Chroma Key) vs The Spider Core (The Lab - Core Slingshot) 

Satyarani (Raven: The Secret Temple) vs Bamba (Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger)

Ink (Going Home) vs Rambler (Happy Happy Clover)

Felix Iskandar Escellun (Last Legacy) vs Nancy Neil (Snowboard Kids)

Nephis (Shadow Slave) vs "good" Tom (El Goonish Shive)

Ernő Nemecsek (A Pál Utcai Fiúk (The Paul Street Boys)) vs Dee Kennedy (Dayshift at Freddy’s) vs Kirinda (Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger)

GROUP D 

Todoroki Kakeru (Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter) vs The Exsurgent Virus (Eclipse Phase)

Heart (Moonlight Chicken) vs Captain Grace (Magical Girl Raising Project: Limited) 

Es (Milgram) vs Copen Kamizono (Azure Striker Gunvolt)

Lady Bat (Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch) vs Ulala (Space Channel 5)

Diggory Graves (Hello from the Hallowoods) vs Phon (3 Will Be Free)

Hizame (Amatsuki by Takayama Shinobu) vs Brutha (Discworld) 

Raven (Gravity Rush) vs Kusuriuri (Mononoke)

Tin (Triage The Series) vs The Biologist (The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer)

Silver (Oneshot) vs Raven (Raven (CBBC series))

Gary (Faith the Unholy Trinity) vs Roxis Rosenkrantz (Mana Khemia) 

Shijima Tsukishima/Shimeji (Shimeji simulation) vs Cynthia (Incryptid)

Jefferson (Death's Door) vs Gruftine (Die Schule Der Kleinen Vampire / The School for Little Vampires) vs Nuch (Not Me The Series)

GROUP E 

Sarah Collins (Dark Shadows (1966-1971)) vs Tangie (The Tangerine Bear)

Zaknafein Do'Urden (The Legend of Drizzt (Forgotten Realms)) vs Richard Conway (Gunpoint)

Zinn (Monstress) vs Leonie Beaumort (Aviary Attorney)

Magda (Vapors) vs Maki (Darker than Black)

Reo Miyao (Bokutachi no Ikita Riyuu (Our Reason For Living)) vs Principal Shirley Oddwell (Oddport Academy)

Cursebringer Angel (Baroque) vs The Cashier (Midnight Museum)

Inien (Thrilling Intent) vs Seaweed (Gloomverse) 

Stag Malinay (Krystar First Fragment) vs Randy Rosebud (Maggie's Apartment) 

No Significant Harassment (Rain World) vs Libby Day (Dark Places)

Sally Swing (Betty Boop) vs Conrad (The Castle of Otranto)

Goo (Inanimate Insanity) vs Shrimp (The Upturned) 

Cecilia Sylvie (Cross-dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie) vs Sullen the Magic Mirror (Barbie as Rapunzel CD-ROM) vs Dash X (Eerie, Indiana)

GROUP F 

Su Moting (God Troubles Me/Hanhua Riji) vs Gabrielle (Gabrielle's Ghostly Groove

Michiko Hada (Helter Skelter: Fashion Unfriendly) vs Liv (Spooky Month)

Etcetera (Cats (Musical)) vs Fumi-ba (Kamen Rider Ghost)

Corona Hoshino (Swans in Space (manga)) vs Karl (All Hail King Julien)

Wolfman (Darkwood) vs Granger (NeverHome game series)

Gaap Goemon (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun) vs The God of Hunting (A Herbivorous Dragon of 5000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized)

Mission-chan (Mission-chan no Daibouken) vs Forest Friend (Gris)

Ellie (Monster Tale) vs Protagonist (Melatonin)

Dadish (Dadish) vs Turnip (Chicory: A Colorful Tale)

Guillermo "Dixon" Alverez (Rebelde (2022)) vs Agent (Penguinronpa)

Uhh… these guys? (Rhythm Heaven Fever) vs Mallory (Escam) 

Miyauchi Rena (Blue Reflection: Second Light) vs Tiger of the Wind (Monster Rancher (1999)) vs The High Ki of Twi (The Enchanted Island of Yew by Frank L. Baum)

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Denzil Forrester's vibrant works immortalise the dynamic energy of the London reggae and dub nightclub scene during the early 1980s, a subject that has endured throughout four decades of his practice.

Born in Grenada in 1956, Denzil Forrester moved to London in 1967. He now lives and works in Cornwall, UK. Forrester received a BA in Fine Art from the Central School of Art, London in 1979 and an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art, London in 1983. He was awarded the decoration of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire or MBE in December 2020.

https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/35-denzil-forrester/

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

1. Ecco Hommo (Andres Serrano) - 1988

Inmediatamente Piss Christ came to mind, that strong coloring and fixation I had with that piece while in high school just bubbled back into my memory and even the same teenage angst could be felt in my body. I’ve would have never thought to be able and see a piece from Serrano. Freshly out of an Opus Dei school, the image of a Christ submerged in piss is such a weird orange and yellow colored as if the piece rusted within the urine, it was just a taste of how other ways we may view religions and/or idols.

2. Unspecified Promises (Allora & Calzadilla) - 1993

I have never been to ICA, but when the front desk mentioned a sculpture garden I hope of expected more, not only in quantity but for the care of the pieces. I would have loved to view this piece in its all glory, specially a polished stone where you can barely see your reflection on but it felt powerful nonetheless. Loved it, to the stone to the buttery effect of how easily it seems to have cut that truck.

3. We Culture (Denzil Forrester) - 1978-1985

One of my favorites, not only due to sizing but the coloring throws it out of the park. Feels as unconventional colors in painting but really keen up to real like. I can image myself in that party. It’s energetic.

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‘Night Strobe’, Seven Sisters, ‘85, Denzil Forrester

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Artist research:

Denzil Forrester. Painting velvet rush (photography by Stephen Friedman)

Denzil was brown in Grenada in 1956. His painting of London’a 1980s reggae club scene and police brutality have been exhibited at Tate Britain and white columns in New York. Denzil would squeeze behind the long, narrow bar that ran down one side of the room, he would then prop his A1 sketchbook on the counter… and start sketching. It was dark, hot and crowded. The air fogged with weed and tobacco smoke while he was sketching. He turned his youthful clubbing adventures into a career. At Jah Shaka’s nights, though, he found his inspiration as an artist- as well as a sense of belonging. His theme of going on nights out match my theme/take on movement. His work and words had a huge influence on how I approached movement. Forrester’s work captures night life perfectly and helped me get a better understanding of it all.

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Denzil Forrester

Pappy Show, 1983

Oil on linen

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Life Between Islands

Tate Britain, Millbank

London SW1P 4RG

Until 3 April 2022

£16 (free for members of Tate)

This exhibition explores the work of artists from the Caribbean who made their home in Britain, alongside other British artists whose work has been influenced and inspired by Caribbean themes and heritage.

Spanning visionary paintings to documentary photography, fashion, film and sculpture, Life Between Islands traces the extraordinary breadth and impact of Caribbean British art, in one setting.

This exhibition celebrates how people from the Caribbean have forged new communities and identities in post-war Britain – and in doing so have transformed what British culture and society looks like today.

The exhibition features over 40 artists, including Aubrey Williams, Donald Locke, Horace Ové, Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson, Peter Doig, Hurvin Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner and Alberta Whittle.

More details and book a ticket here

Photo: Denzil Forrester Jah Shaka 1983 Collection Shane Akeroyd, London © Denzil Forrester, courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery

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~Sexypink~ Grenadian Artist Denzel Forrester’s work.

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Denzil Forrester, Three Wicked Men, 1982, oil on canvas, 2.7 X 3.7 m.

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Denzil Forrester (Grenadian/British, b. 1956)

Night Strobe, 1985

Oil on canvas

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I wrote about the artist Denzil Forrester and how music influenced his practice for Art UK