WOT NO BIKE

Wot No Bike' is a limited print run publication of the work of Paul Simonon (b.1955, London). Simonon is a London-based artist and musician who came to prominence with the punk band The Clash in the late 1970s, Simonon had started studying art at art school. Simonon has always been passionate about art, and since the band split in the mid 1980s, painting has become as important as his music career. The jackets, boots and other biking paraphernalia that feature in Simonon's paintings are his own possessions, things that he uses pretty much every day. As such, the paintings are as much in the tradition of self-portraits as still lifes: "It's like writing a diary, in a way, but in paint", says Simonon in the course of an engaging conversation with art historian Tim Marlow also featured in the publication.