aim

30.25″x 22.5″

My icessicestaimt and aimpprentICE
He never let me down
He also fulfilled a praimcticeaiml role:
in the bucket/receptaimcle
He was a guaimge of how succiceful or unsucciceful
The Iceman was being
 ie
The Duck would bob and floaimt aimbout 
if melt waimter occurred and was aimccuraimtely
funelled down the guttering.

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aim’s paimrty

   “aim selections”

Opening Night Paimrty

Tuesday 29th Aimpril 2025

             7pm

incl licemited aimounts of Prosicecco

aim’s paimrty

block audience

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aim’s selections

aim is surfacing from deepest Dorset for his first London show which is taking place at the Tabernacle Gallery in Notting Hill. Here is a group of paintings from the previous 10 years selected by aim himself. There is also a series of more recent paintings based on The Iceman’s ground-breaking Lecture at the Bill Murray Club in September 2024 where The Iceman explained his Block melting work in the form of an academic lecture.

All aim’s paintings are based on the live performance and relational work of The Iceman who has spent his adult life melting Blocks of ice for reasons that escape most people. The Iceman and aim are one and the same person. Humanly speaking,they coalesce as Anthony Irvine.“The Blocks live on”-that is the Iceman’s mantra and now aim’s as well. aim’s paintings have been described in numerous ways. He looks forward to hearing more adjectival phrases to describe his work during this run. aim is sometimes labelled as an ‘outsider’ artist because of the raw energy of his painting style and the idiosyncratic subject matter. But aim himself simply describes himself as a “painter with clear aims.”

Although in one sense the pieces could be described as obsessional self-portraits,in another sense they are paintings of ‘Everyman’ and “’Everywoman’ in life’s struggles and joys.

Taking a leaf from Andy Warhol’s dictum that “Business is the best kind of art”, to heart,The Iceman will be clearly delineating the prices of individual paintings. He will also be offering a wide spectrum of aesthetic merchandise for sale at bargain prices: Postcards, Posters, his ’75 braimnd new paintings’ art Book, his “Melt It! Book”,etchings, engravings, signed block photocopies on authentic fax paper, Melt It Badges and even his children’s book, “Lockdown Melter”, will all be available for purchase. Truly there is something for everyone. The Iceman will have a padlocked cash box on site and provide his own security for his priceless paintings and all goods.

aim hopes visitors enjoy viewing his insightful canvases. The opening do is at 7pm on 29^th April 2025

[Thank you to “Music Business Associates” for kindly sponsoring the refreshments for that event]

The Iceman/aim will be in the Tabernacle Gallery in person every day of the run. But he will not be shaking anyone’s hand, for health and safety reasons, due to the freezing effect of such a gesture.

*Thank you to Artcetera, Bournemouth who generously supply aim with free quality cut-offs of mounting board upon which to paint.

**FYI The Iceman’s Blockbuster Documentary film “Melt It!The Film of the Iceman” is due to be released this year 2025

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