Richard Strange
Encyclopedia
For the Jesuit, see Richard Strange (Jesuit)
Richard "Kid" Strange (born January 1951) is an English
writer, actor, musician, curator, teacher, adventurer, and the founder and front man of seminal mid-seventies protopunk
art rock
band Doctors of Madness
.
, formed in 1975, recording three influential but non-commercial albums. The band was supported by the Sex Pistols
, The Jam
and Joy Division
. He disbanded the band in 1978, after Dave Vanian of The Damned briefly joined him on vocals. Richard toured Japan in 2005 and 2007 with multi-instrumentalist David Coulter and the Japanese band Sister Paul, playing a selection of Doctors of Madness songs.
He subsequently recorded as a solo artist, releasing two albums The Live Rise of Richard Strange (Ze Records 1981) and The Phenomenal Rise of Richard Strange (Virgin Records 1981) before further releases with The Engine Room up to the early 1990s.
Strange has collaborated on recordings by International Noise Orchestra, Anni Hogan
, and Jolie Holland
. He has produced records by Way Of The West (Don't Say That's Just For White Boys), Tom Robinson
(Martin's Gone), and The Nightingales
album Pigs on Purpose
In 2007 he was part of Jarvis Cocker
's Meltdown Festival, at the Royal Festival Hall
, in an evening of songs from Walt Disney
movies; performed with the producer/arranger Hal Wilner in Brooklyn; and performed at The Barbican
, alongside David Byrne
, Tim Robbins
, Steve Buscemi
, Shane McGowan and Suzanne Vega
.
In 2009 Strange performed at Glastonbury Festival, performing his 1981 political concept album The Phenomenal Rise Of Richard Strange live, in its entirety. He also played Port Eliot, Hay-on-Wye and Fenton Festivals.
in 1980, which he reopened after a thirty year hiatus in 2010. Guests artists have included Michael Nyman
, Gary Kemp
, Sarah Jane Morris
, Stella Duffy
and boyleANDshaw. Cabaret Futura has subsequently been commissioned to curate a number of national and international live art events, including New Moves-The International Festival of Live Art in Glasgow (2011) and Festival of Art and Ideas in Hay On Wye (2011).
In November 2011 Strange was invited by the Tate Gallery
to curate an evening as a response to the exhibition "John Martin and The Apocalypse." Working with his partner Kelly Dearsley, he created Cabaret Apocalyptica, a live event with installations, performances and films, staged in The Historic ROOM 9 (pre-Raphaelites and 19th Century masters) of Tate Britain. For this event Strange was joined by artists Gavin Turk
, ichard Wilson}} and Sean Dower, plus dancer/choreographer Rene Eyre, Poet Kate Tempest and singer/cellist Bonfire Madigan.
Alongside Cabaret Futura Strange hosts his own "live Chat Show", A MIGHTY BIG IF, in London's Soho. A monthly event, Richard interviews guests from the world of art, music, literature and film. Recent notable guests have included Mike Figgis
, Gavin Turk
, Robert Elms
, Cornelia Parker
, Michael Nyman
and James Rhodes
.
by Tim Burton
, Mona Lisa
by Neil Jordan
, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and Gangs of New York
by Martin Scorsese
. He can be seen in the Harmony Korine
movie Mr Lonely, playing the part of Abraham Lincoln
, and in the movie Inkheart
, with Helen Mirren
and Paul Bettany
. He can also be seen in the final Harry Potter
movie, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 under the directorship of David Yates. In summer 2011 he was cast in the British Film "Theatre Of Dreams" alongside Brian Cox
.
He has been in TV programmes Men Behaving Badly
, Trial and Retribution, The Bill
and Footballers Wives.
Between 1989 and 1990 Strange toured the world with a production of Hamlet
, directed by the Russian Maestro Yuri Lyubimov
. He played A Gravedigger, one of the Players, and The Ghost.
Throughout 2004-7 Strange worked with Marianne Faithfull
on the Tom Waits
/William Burroughs/Robert Wilson
collaboration The Black Rider
, singing and acting in this stage musical in theatres in London, San Francisco, Sydney and Los Angeles.
for 6 months in 2000. More recently he has worked with the Anglo-Pakistani artist Haroon Mirza
on several projects including A Sleek Dry Yell (London, Dundee and Hamburg) and Regaining a Degree of Control (2010), (Hayward Gallery
London, Chisenhale Gallery London, New Moves, Glasgow, and Vivid Gallery, Birmingham). He frequently works with the Live Art collective boyleANDshaw, performing with them notably at the Calvert Gallery, London in 2010, and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
in 2011.
In March 2011 Strange was invited by the New Moves International Festival of Live Art to curate an evening of events and to premiere a new performance work, I've a Feeling We're Not In Kansas Anymore which he devised with the photographer and academic Kelly Dearsley. The work was shown in Glasgow in March 2011 alongside other artists including Liliane Lijn
, Richard Wilson
, and Haroon Mirza
, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent
, Tatler
, The Art Newspaper
, Art Monthly
, The European
, Time Out, GQ, The London Standard, and Travel and Culture, among other publications.
In June 2011 he presented This Is Not Magritte, a programme on the Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte, on BBC Radio 4.
In July 2011 Strange chaired a Tate Gallery
discussion on watercolours at The Camp Bestival
Festival.
Richard's memoir Strange- Punks and Drunks and Flicks and Kicks, was published to critical acclaim by Andre Deutsch in 2005.
Richard is a guest lecturer and teaches "Creativity in Context" at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
in London.
In November 2011 he was invited to be CREATOR IN RESIDENCE at The Hong Kong Design Institute
Strange lives in London with his wife, the photographer, lecturer and academic Kelly Dearsley. He has a son, Eugene.
Richard Strange (Jesuit)
Richard Strange was an English Jesuit, now remembered as the sponsor for Titus Oates's short period of studies under the Society of Jesus, despite Oates's lack of Latin and poor reputation.-Life:...
Richard "Kid" Strange (born January 1951) is an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
writer, actor, musician, curator, teacher, adventurer, and the founder and front man of seminal mid-seventies protopunk
Protopunk
Protopunk is a term used retrospectively to describe a number of musicians who were important precursors of punk rock in the late 1960s to mid-1970s, or who have been cited by early punk musicians as influential...
art rock
Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...
band Doctors of Madness
Doctors of Madness
Doctors of Madness were a British protopunk art rock band formed in 1974 in a cellar in Brixton, south London by the composer and lead singer/guitarist Richard Strange, known as ‘Kid’ Strange...
.
Music
Strange's first band was Doctors of MadnessDoctors of Madness
Doctors of Madness were a British protopunk art rock band formed in 1974 in a cellar in Brixton, south London by the composer and lead singer/guitarist Richard Strange, known as ‘Kid’ Strange...
, formed in 1975, recording three influential but non-commercial albums. The band was supported by the Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
, The Jam
The Jam
The Jam were an English punk rock/New Wave/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were formed in Woking, Surrey. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore smartly tailored suits rather than ripped...
and Joy Division
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...
. He disbanded the band in 1978, after Dave Vanian of The Damned briefly joined him on vocals. Richard toured Japan in 2005 and 2007 with multi-instrumentalist David Coulter and the Japanese band Sister Paul, playing a selection of Doctors of Madness songs.
He subsequently recorded as a solo artist, releasing two albums The Live Rise of Richard Strange (Ze Records 1981) and The Phenomenal Rise of Richard Strange (Virgin Records 1981) before further releases with The Engine Room up to the early 1990s.
Strange has collaborated on recordings by International Noise Orchestra, Anni Hogan
Anni Hogan
Anni Hogan is a British musician, record producer, composer and Club DJ, born in 1961. Originally known for her association with British music artist Marc Almond, Hogan now collaborates with a diverse variety of artists including Rachel McFarlane and Cagedbaby....
, and Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland is an American singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional, country, rock, jazz, and blues...
. He has produced records by Way Of The West (Don't Say That's Just For White Boys), Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson is an English singer-songwriter, bassist and radio presenter, better known for the hits "Glad to Be Gay", "2-4-6-8 Motorway", and "Don't Take No for an Answer", with his Tom Robinson Band...
(Martin's Gone), and The Nightingales
The Nightingales
The Nightingales are a British punk/alternative band formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England. Original members were Robert Lloyd , Joe Crow on guitar, Eamonn Duffy on bass and Paul Apperley on drums, all formerly of The Prefects...
album Pigs on Purpose
In 2007 he was part of Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...
's Meltdown Festival, at the Royal Festival Hall
Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...
, in an evening of songs from Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
movies; performed with the producer/arranger Hal Wilner in Brooklyn; and performed at The Barbican
Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory...
, alongside David Byrne
David Byrne
David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
, Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the former longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon...
, Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi is an American actor, writer and film director. An associate member of the renowned experimental theater company The Wooster Group, Buscemi has starred and supported in successful Hollywood and indie films including New York Stories, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs,...
, Shane McGowan and Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.Two of Vega's songs reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner"...
.
In 2009 Strange performed at Glastonbury Festival, performing his 1981 political concept album The Phenomenal Rise Of Richard Strange live, in its entirety. He also played Port Eliot, Hay-on-Wye and Fenton Festivals.
Albums
- The Live Rise of Richard Strange (1980), ZE RecordsZE RecordsZE Records was originally a New York-based record label, started in 1978 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban. It has been re-established by Esteban since 2003.-History:Michael Zilkha ZE Records (always written with two capital letters) was originally a New York-based record label, started in...
- The Phenomenal Rise of Richard Strange (1981), VirginVirgin RecordsVirgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...
- Going-Gone (1988), Nightshift - with The Engine Room
- The Rest is Silence (1990), Ausfahrt - with The Engine Room
- This is War (2005), Richard Strange Records (mail order only)
Singles, EPs
- "International Language" (1980), Cherry Red - UK Indie #48
- "International Language" (1981), Virgin
- "The Phenomenal Rise of Richard Strange" (1981), Virgin
- "Next!" (1983), Albion
- "Wild Times" (1984), AristaArista RecordsArista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
- as The Engine Room - "Your Kiss is a Weapon" (1985), Arista
- Damascus EP (1988), Nightshift
Curating
Strange founded the hugely influential mixed-media Cabaret Futura club in SohoSoho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable...
in 1980, which he reopened after a thirty year hiatus in 2010. Guests artists have included Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
, Gary Kemp
Gary Kemp
Gary Kemp is an English pop musician and actor who is the guitar player and chief songwriter for the 1980s Synthpop band Spandau Ballet. His brother, Martin Kemp, plays bass guitar in the band...
, Sarah Jane Morris
Sarah Jane Morris (singer)
Sarah Jane Morris , is a pop music, jazz, rock and R&B singer and songwriter.In 1982, Morris joined The Republic as lead singer. A London-based Afro-Caribbean-Latin band with leftish tendencies, they received enormous publicity from the music press including cover stories with NME and City Limits...
, Stella Duffy
Stella Duffy
Stella Duffy is a writer and performer born in London who spent her childhood in New Zealand before returning to the UK.-Biography:Born to a New Zealander father and an English mother, Duffy is the youngest in a family of seven children. The family moved to New Zealand when Duffy was five, and...
and boyleANDshaw. Cabaret Futura has subsequently been commissioned to curate a number of national and international live art events, including New Moves-The International Festival of Live Art in Glasgow (2011) and Festival of Art and Ideas in Hay On Wye (2011).
In November 2011 Strange was invited by the Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
to curate an evening as a response to the exhibition "John Martin and The Apocalypse." Working with his partner Kelly Dearsley, he created Cabaret Apocalyptica, a live event with installations, performances and films, staged in The Historic ROOM 9 (pre-Raphaelites and 19th Century masters) of Tate Britain. For this event Strange was joined by artists Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...
, ichard Wilson}} and Sean Dower, plus dancer/choreographer Rene Eyre, Poet Kate Tempest and singer/cellist Bonfire Madigan.
Alongside Cabaret Futura Strange hosts his own "live Chat Show", A MIGHTY BIG IF, in London's Soho. A monthly event, Richard interviews guests from the world of art, music, literature and film. Recent notable guests have included Mike Figgis
Mike Figgis
Michael "Mike" Figgis is an English film director, writer, and composer.-Personal life:Figgis was born in Carlisle, England and grew up in Africa. Figgis for several years had a relationship with the actress Saffron Burrows and cast her in several films...
, Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...
, Robert Elms
Robert Elms
Robert Elms is an English writer and broadcaster. Elms was a writer for The Face magazine in the 1980s, and has a self-confessed love of clothes and fashion...
, Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Ann Parker OBE, RA is an English sculptor and installation artist. -Life and career:Parker studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and Wolverhampton Polytechnic...
, Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
and James Rhodes
James Rhodes
James or Jim Rhodes is the name of:*James Rhodes , English pianist* James Ford Rhodes , American historian and industrialist* Jim Rhodes , American politician, governor of Ohio...
.
Acting
Strange has worked as an actor since 1984, appearing extensively on stage, in films and on television. His numerous movie appearances include BatmanBatman (film)
Batman, in films, may refer to:*Batman , starring Adam West and Burt Ward*Batman , starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson...
by Tim Burton
Tim Burton
Timothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...
, Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa (film)
Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan. It was produced by George Harrison's HandMade Films...
by Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...
, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York is a 2002 historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. The film was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book, The Gangs of New...
by Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
. He can be seen in the Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine
The story is told from the perspective of a young man suffering from untreated schizophrenia, played by Ewen Bremner, as he tries to understand his deteriorating world. Julien's abusive father is played by Werner Herzog...
movie Mr Lonely, playing the part of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
, and in the movie Inkheart
Inkheart
Inkheart is a young adult-child fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the Inkworld trilogy....
, with Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.-Early life and family:...
and Paul Bettany
Paul Bettany
Paul Bettany is an English actor. He has appeared in a wide variety of films, including A Knight's Tale, A Beautiful Mind, and The Da Vinci Code...
. He can also be seen in the final Harry Potter
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
movie, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 under the directorship of David Yates. In summer 2011 he was cast in the British Film "Theatre Of Dreams" alongside Brian Cox
Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox, CBE is a Scottish actor. He is known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He has also appeared in many Hollywood productions playing parts such as Dr. Guggenheim in Rushmore and William Stryker in X2: X-Men...
.
He has been in TV programmes Men Behaving Badly
Men Behaving Badly
Men Behaving Badly is a British comedy that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives of Gary Strang and his flatmates, Dermot Povey and Tony Smart It was first broadcast on ITV in 1992...
, Trial and Retribution, The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
and Footballers Wives.
Between 1989 and 1990 Strange toured the world with a production of Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
, directed by the Russian Maestro Yuri Lyubimov
Yuri Lyubimov
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov is a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally-renowned Taganka Theatre which he founded ,...
. He played A Gravedigger, one of the Players, and The Ghost.
Throughout 2004-7 Strange worked with Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....
on the Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
/William Burroughs/Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson (director)
Robert Wilson is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video...
collaboration The Black Rider
The Black Rider
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a self-billed "musical fable" in the avant-garde tradition created through the collaboration of theatre director Robert Wilson, musician Tom Waits, and writer William S. Burroughs. Wilson was largely responsible for the design and direction....
, singing and acting in this stage musical in theatres in London, San Francisco, Sydney and Los Angeles.
Art and performance works
His collaborations include work with Sam Taylor Wood for the giant banner XV Seconds (2000) that covered the facade of the London department store SelfridgesSelfridges
Selfridges, AKA Selfridges & Co, is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK and was opened on 15 March 1909.More recently, three other stores have been...
for 6 months in 2000. More recently he has worked with the Anglo-Pakistani artist Haroon Mirza
Haroon Mirza
Haroon Mirza is a British artist, working in London and Sheffield. Mirza's work combines domestic materials such as furniture and found electrical appliances together with audio compositions to create site-specific installations...
on several projects including A Sleek Dry Yell (London, Dundee and Hamburg) and Regaining a Degree of Control (2010), (Hayward Gallery
Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings and also the Royal National Theatre and British Film Institute...
London, Chisenhale Gallery London, New Moves, Glasgow, and Vivid Gallery, Birmingham). He frequently works with the Live Art collective boyleANDshaw, performing with them notably at the Calvert Gallery, London in 2010, and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch...
in 2011.
In March 2011 Strange was invited by the New Moves International Festival of Live Art to curate an evening of events and to premiere a new performance work, I've a Feeling We're Not In Kansas Anymore which he devised with the photographer and academic Kelly Dearsley. The work was shown in Glasgow in March 2011 alongside other artists including Liliane Lijn
Liliane Lijn
Liliane Lijn , is a prominent American-born artist who was the first woman artist to work with kinetic text , exploring both light and text as early as 1962...
, Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson
Ian Colquhoun Wilson OBE better known as Richard Wilson, is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster, best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. He currently appears in the BBC drama Merlin.- Life and career :Wilson was born in Greenock, Scotland...
, and Haroon Mirza
Haroon Mirza
Haroon Mirza is a British artist, working in London and Sheffield. Mirza's work combines domestic materials such as furniture and found electrical appliances together with audio compositions to create site-specific installations...
Other
As a writer and journalist, Strange has contributed to The GuardianThe Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
, Tatler
Tatler
Tatler has been the name of several British journals and magazines, each of which has viewed itself as the successor of the original literary and society journal founded by Richard Steele in 1709. The current incarnation, founded in 1901, is a glossy magazine published by Condé Nast Publications...
, The Art Newspaper
The Art Newspaper
The Art Newspaper is a monthly newspaper about the visual arts based in London.It is published in a newspaper, rather than a magazine, format...
, Art Monthly
Art Monthly
Art Monthly is a magazine of contemporary art founded in 1976 by Jack Wendler and Peter Townsend. It is based in London and has an international scope, although its main focus is on British art...
, The European
The European
The European, billed as "Europe's first national newspaper", was a British weekly newspaper founded by Robert Maxwell. It lasted from 11 May 1990 until December 1998....
, Time Out, GQ, The London Standard, and Travel and Culture, among other publications.
In June 2011 he presented This Is Not Magritte, a programme on the Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte, on BBC Radio 4.
In July 2011 Strange chaired a Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
discussion on watercolours at The Camp Bestival
Camp Bestival
Camp Bestival is a British music festival, the "little sister" of Bestival, both organised by BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank. It is held annually, in July, at Lulworth Castle in Dorset and is targeted at families with small children. It has a capacity of 10,000 adults and 5,000 children...
Festival.
Richard's memoir Strange- Punks and Drunks and Flicks and Kicks, was published to critical acclaim by Andre Deutsch in 2005.
Richard is a guest lecturer and teaches "Creativity in Context" at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance , is an independent, specialist music education provider located in London, UK. They offer courses in guitar, bass, drums, vocals, music business and songwriting...
in London.
In November 2011 he was invited to be CREATOR IN RESIDENCE at The Hong Kong Design Institute
Strange lives in London with his wife, the photographer, lecturer and academic Kelly Dearsley. He has a son, Eugene.