Happy Birthday to the king of kings. I love this photo, you look like the messiah, which in many ways you are to me. It was taken on your 30th birthday at Wastwater, the deepest lake in England. You were determined to get hold of a dingy and Dave and I couldn’t understand why, we were queuing up for the Big Dipper at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and you found one on your Samsung on free ads in Blackburn, we drove up to this mans house in the middle of the night and picked up a bright yellow Challenger 3, fitting name really, the next day you, me and Dave rowed out into the middle of the black lake in the scorching sun and we understood why. It’s your sense of adventure I miss most. That and your big strong hugs that could only come from a big brother. Lucky to have lots of brothers around me 🌹❤️🕊
In an utterly surreal turn of events, I was recently commissioned by @channel4 to write a poem about modern Britain to accompany 25 new idents by some of the most exciting directors of our time.
If you know my work and my words, you’ll know how much of a gilt-edged opportunity this was for me and I am so grateful to @lynseyatkin & @mikeskrag for lowering a branch so I could climb the tree.
These are words I had began to think were destined to be recycled in my mind until the end of time, I can’t tell you how much of a release it is to let them fly.
To make something so positive out of some things so crushing, has given me a renewed purpose in life. My infinite thanks to @lynseyatkin@mikeskrag for your unbelievable belief and to @holdlauren31@willcogram for keeping me calm ❤️🌹🕊️
John Joseph Holt (10/01/2026)
If pictures could sing, I wish they could play John’s poems.
This picture was taken after his performance on the last day of his “Bivio” art residency.
Printed by @marco__barigazzi
Poster from my show BIVIO @youthtransfer artist residency, which concluded with a live performance on 10th January 2026, 9 years since losing my brother to suicide.
Bivio means crossroads, it’s where I’m at in my life. Make peace with the past or leave your future behind.
Grazie Millie to the saints of San Siro, the Duomo, San Giovanni Bono and King Carlo @cacacis of Milano.
Graphic design by @williamlyall
Forza 🕊️
Make it Happen
Written for LAW 3, 2013
This came as a riso insert inside Issue 3, I drew 15 kisses in a triangle on every copy, like the secret Valentines cards you would get at school. I’d always be frantically doing something completely unnecessary but absolutely vital like this 5 minutes before a launch. Which for LAW 3 was an infamous night at the original @goodhood store on Coronet Street. Followed by the first outing of our club night - Joyride in @troybarofficial on Hoxton Street. One of the last great independent bars in the area that would become our spiritual home for New Years Eve parties over the next few years.
Some real OG’s on this contents list, people I’ve come to kno & really truly love ❤️
Forgive the spelling mistakes I was learning on the job, think of it as an apprentice bricklayers wall. It seems my pride burned a lot brighter in 2013.
RIP Lewis Seymour who loved LAW. See you again on the dance floor my friend 🌹
