Dave Anderson is an artist and filmmaker whose career is more a development of the rude drawings in the back of his maths book than anything ever done in the front. His scathing, ironic wit has seved him well, taking him to Philadelphia, Miami, London and Berlin, and he has worked frequently with Bermuda Shorts, Start Creative and Shifty Disco Records.

‘The slender, entwining, Rennaissance forms of some of the recent work I have done for Swear were partly to reflect the company’s sense of history. However I found myself wearing my pair of Swears in a small, isolated pub in Wales. A ruddy-faced local piped up from across the bar and pointing at their distinctive shape, piped up ‘look at those medieval shoes!’.  I think most of the ideas stemmed more from this incident.

I got thinking about time, the past, the present, the future, life, death, the decline of the hovercraft. So of course the enduring childhood memory of one of our oldest ancestors, a chimpanzee, urinating on a Widlife on One cameraman, had to be represented.

Dave Anderson