SPIKE MCLARRITY
Spike is a conceptual duration based performance artist, best known world wide as the Barnes white rabbit. He originally grew up in Pilton in Edinburgh, Scotland. His work also includes working with different artists and performance artists in collaborations from across the world.
Spike and his alter ego (Barnes white rabbit) has been known to sit on a wall by the river Thames in South West London, or appear on the boundaries of his community every first of the month. This is an on going performance, greeting in the month ahead, based on the myth White rabbit, White rabbit, White rabbit. Regardless if its raining, snowing, sunshine you will find the rabbit sitting greeting the morning traffic, people heading to work, school, college. He has been doing this since November 2015, waving from 7am until 8am. Spike takes the rabbit around the world, when he is a country it becomes part of that countries identity as no one knows that it is a British artist behind the costume, and since he never speaks, the rabbit itself becomes universal. The rabbit performance first began in 2011 in Le-Pecq a suburb of Paris.
In 2019 Spike attended the first ever Islamabad art festival, where he was presented with an award for his performance of White Rabbit becomes. The IAF19 attracted 230 International artists as well as over 300 artists from all over Pakistan, it was an incredible achievement that was the vision of the renowned actor Jamal Sha. Spike met and spoke to the first lady of Pakistan as a British artist as well as attending tea in the garden of the President of Pakistan along with other artists.
https://www.islamabadartfestival.com/
Islamabad Art Festival is built upon the foundation of cultural diversity that is so deeply embedded in the land that is now Pakistan, and in the people that are now Pakistani.
Art has the unique capability of enabling people to engage intimately with their natural and cultural heritage in a creative and critical manner. The spirit of creativity and innovation brings people together and strengthens society as a whole.
Islamabad Art Festival is built upon the foundation of cultural diversity that is so deeply embedded in the land that is now Pakistan, and in the people that are now Pakistani.
Art has the unique capability of enabling people to engage intimately with their natural and cultural heritage in a creative and critical manner. The spirit of creativity and innovation brings people together and strengthens society as a whole.