Gema

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Ceramic/textile artist, SE London Half of post-punk electronic duo London Clay & @nlannuities.bsky.social "Like Aunt Sally, Thomas Leer, & ATV at a bus stop in Nunhead" - Jonah Falco New London Clay LP https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/private-view

Screenshot from Bandcamp with a picture of the London Clay record
A photo of The Ex at the 100 Club, taken quite far back in the crowd with lots of big heads in the way because everyone is taller than me
Three framed linocuts, one is a portrait with a cat sat as part of the hairstyle, another is a cat in the sun, the third just a cat sitting. The two cat prints are in a more primitive style. Two more unframed prints are in the background.
Picture of a 10" record sleeve - Huggy Bear Peel Sessions: Basic Strategies For Going Out
Huge fluffy tabby cat looking magnificent.
Picture of the front cover of the record Private view by London Clay. Text is in yellow on a monochrome background by artist Al Palmer.
Black sign with yellow writing saying The Cat Show with a cat drawn underneath.
A picture of a large fluffy white cat wearing a neckerchief sitting on a stool in a bar.
A picture of The Wire magazine with a London Clay interview inside
Screen grab of the Staff Picks from the Sorry State Newsletter including the London Clay LP at the top left corner.
Two minimal ceramic cats made from one clay slab each - one is orange & pink texture glaze and the other is a mixture of white mica, glossy black, white, orange, copper and silver
Screen shot of Daniel Lupton (Sorry State Records), Eric Anderson (MaximumRocknRoll, Cult Nation, DIY Conspiracy) and Mike Analog Attack. Daniel holds the London Clay record.
A wall, covered in various framed posters and art, including a Videodrome poster.
Taking inspiration from the suburban London landscape of concrete footbridges and apartment blocks, LONDON CLAY has updated post-punk sensibilities with industrial beats and minimalist keyboards. Even within the LA VIDA ES UN MUS catalog, they've been noted for bridging the gap between DIY punk and synth music, resonating with conceptual UK electronic music of their generation, such as WARRINGTON RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
A fly-tipped recliner arm chair in bright red leather, some of the seams have come loose and pure white filling spills out.
Shelves in a disused doctors surgery with old medicine and tinctures
London Clay: post-punk electronics explore the capital’s dreams and malaise Tom Phelan @tgphelan1 Tue 4 November 2025 8:00, UK The crowded convergence of post-punk and minimal-synth always works best when conjuring the anxieties of the day. Amid a vast swathe of uninspired tape hiss noodles clogging Bandcamp or listless drum machine flumps that shuffle aimlessly in a dispassionate fug, a duo like London Clay can rise from the fraught capital’s troubled energy and remind you just how powerful the industrial underground can be.Drawing on totemic examples set by Cabaret Voltaire or Suicide’s dilapidated electronics with the faint echo of From Nursery to Misery’s artful naivety, London Clay’s concrete synthwave scores a wholly contemporary urban milieu weathered, exhausted, and knackered by austerity’s perpetuity. The atmosphere is dark, the tensions subtle but stark, and each icy synth slice or brittle snare whip anxiously edges like a cornered animal. Behind their overcast swirl and leaden DIY collages lies a visceral electricity pointing toward a realm teeming with disparate energy belied by their mordant front, however.
7" cover in black and grey with floating text and overlayed seagull shadows
Picture of NLAnnuities releases: Blue and Pink versions of the first London Clay 7", Satellite: 1997-2021 and The Sentinels by Harold Turgis on cassette, the debut Viscount album on cassette and a limited mixtape. The London Clay debut album can be bought from La Vida Es Un Mus.
Playlist: Title: Semi Detached Band: London Clay Album: Private View Label: La Vida Es Un Mus
Also up for pre-order on LVEUM is the debut LP from London Clay. Two songs are streaming now on LVEUM’s Bandcamp, but I’ve heard the whole thing and I am completely over the moon about it. It’s one of those records that scratches your pop itch, but the musicians shape that pop music out of sounds that are surprising and delightful. This one is out on October 24
A Henry Hoover sans nozzle contemplating freedom on the streets of south east London
Expansive miniature cardboard city attached to a white wall.
Test pressing of the new London Clay record
Various drums and cymbals, assembled into a procession of anthropomorphised musicians.
The shop window of Aimee Craddock's boutique in Folkestone, featuring my ceramic vessels, some Noguchi paper lamps and a midcentury Japanese chair.
Black cat sat behind some old metal drums and plastic trays, facial expression declares 'do not step any closer buddy.'
Ella Kruglyanskaya at Thomas Dane - contemporary painting of a woman in pink broad strokes against a dark background, sitting on a striped monochrome cushion, with a broken lute and two apples. The woman sits away from the viewer, her head turned to the left, her blue eyes peek out under her black bob.
Painted artworks by Billy Childish
Various hanging ceramic tiles, including a large angular piece in a coral mica glaze, with various shapes attached in blue, green, pink, black, white and orange.
Vinyl record by the band Add n to (x) in the shape of a hexagon
Pile of books including: Culture is not an Industry by Justin O'Connor, Ex Wife by Ursula Parrott, She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clark and Others Like Me by Nicole Louie
White walled art studio with bright coloured hanging ceramic tiles on the wall, various ceramic vessels on industrial shelving and painted tiles/pattern studies dotted around.
Abstract painting named 'Les Faneurs' in blues/greens/pinks. Scythes seem to be present as is the movement of the blades. By Hélène de Beauvoir
Collection of vintage adverts and geology maps for the London Clay zine
Chislehurst Common Nature Reserve looking frosty
Pulp paperback cover featuring a man in tattered clothes, using a stick to hold himself up. Behind him is motorway detritus and a woman, below a concrete parapet.
Front cover of the book Poor Artists which is hot pink with a large acid yellow lemon taking up the whole page.
Various hanging wall tiles, inspired by modernist and brutalust architecture
A Christmas Record, an LP from 1981, featuring Suicide, The Waitresses, Material, August Darnell, Charlelie Couture, Cristina, Was Not Was, Davitt Sigerson.
Collection of new work that has been bisque fired or had its second glaze firing. Lots of brightly coloured abstract shape/bold colour hanging tiles, alongside a few pots and ceramic cats.
Grace Jones Christmas tree bauble, replicating her look from the album Nightclubbing, including black tuxedo and lit cigarette.
Various colourful 'Stained Glass' vessels decorated with multiple layers of glaze to create contrasting finishes.
Gallery space filled with recreated ceramic relics. The main piece is a large terracotta figure, created in a niave style.
A fake plastic crab drinking a fake plastic beer
Picture of a black short haired cat high up on a brick wall. The angle makes the cat look look like a miniature furry diplodocus.
A bottle of Babycham (sparkling perry) complete with deer logo
Yellow abstract portrait, gallery wall also painted with abstract limbs in pink/yellow
Various midcentury planters on a geometric rug, sun shine through the window, highlighting the green leaves of the plants
A car covered in floral carpet surrounded by hanging textiles
Tuxedo cat staring down from a metal staircase
Black cat looking down from a roof with a look of disdain
A flat abstract shaped ceramic tile, with shapes added and removed, with carved clay and imprints. The glaze is multi-coloured, using glaze layering techniques. It is hung via a nail.
Review of the London Clay 7" by Byron Coley in The Wire
Tuxedo cat sat in the middle of a front window
Audacity screen grab of new London Clay record
Black and white cat with pink diamanté collar sitting in a plant trough at Gipsy Hill station, south London. The cat looks unimpressed.
Close up of a the Nick Blinko artwork named Infant Eater
Traffic Light Tree by the French sculptor Pierre Vivant.
Geometric concrete mural and architectural model by Shizuko Yoshikawa