https://www.jamesgubb.com/home daily 1.0 2023-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1616132943688-5UYZ4P89X4KXZGU5SFFI/James+Gubb Home - About The Artist James has spent most of his life chasing the buck, but has recently changed course thank goodness, otherwise he would be dead. His previous life as a hedge fund manager resulted in some cash but also cancer and arterial disease. A full recovery after indulgence in some interesting mind-altering programs resulted in a re-orientation to the arts. He enrolled full time into the Post Grad Diploma course at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, and substantially increased the average age in his class all by himself. He got his 15 minutes of fame when he protested against the Guptas by defacing their listed company Oakbay with a manipulated share price that outlined a middle finger on their stock chart. He then created a series of sculptured pigs that represented various corrupt companies in South Africa. There were quite a lot of pigs. He has since been obsessed with making arbitrary marks on canvasses with oil pastels that reflect his journey of improving his mindfulness practice. James lives in Plett with his wife Libby, plays bad online poker, is a video game nut, a crypto convert, and surfs like a kook. His local spot is the wedge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/6a0aed1b-ee1f-43a5-bcad-8b3b2e1c31e5/P1255531+%281%29.JPG Home These Little Pigs Went to the Market https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/4352cd57-61df-4889-86e7-0ab2266f791e/Giving%2520One%2520To%2520The%2520Guptas%2520%2520%2520Chine%2520Colle%2520Etching%252030%2520x%252047%2520cm%2520%28B1%29.JPG Home The Finger - Where it all started https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/35ab8ea0-a956-4684-b716-465315700235/Mockup+copy+7.png Home Focusless Fields - A mindfulness practice https://www.jamesgubb.com/focusless-fields daily 0.75 2021-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1596015935133-6PWT9AEPAK9DRXYKGEEC/_GUB2886+%282%29.JPG Focusless Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/bde6ac74-b096-403d-bef6-ad8c1403c4c2/Mockup+copy+6.png Focusless Fields 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1615382275181-4LOHXHORPVMHEAPKNCRG/The+Economist%2C+9th+November+2017 The Finger - The Economist A South African trader finds an artful way to protest Zuma JAMES GUBB was finishing off the knuckles when the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) shut him down. Trading single shares between two accounts, Mr Gubb had managed to “draw” the image of a fist with an upright middle finger onto the share-price chart for Oakbay Resources and Energy Limited, a company controlled by the Gupta brothers, cronies of President Jacob Zuma, that is at the centre of allegations of “state capture” in South Africa. Mr Gubb, a former hedge-fund manager, considers his middle-finger salute to be protest art. South Africa is in the grip of a sprawling corruption scandal; the Guptas are accused of abusing their close ties with Mr Zuma’s family to influence cabinet appointments and win government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars (they deny allegations of wrongdoing). Mr Gubb created his artwork after Mr Zuma fired a respected finance minister. “Protest art has a very strong foundation in South Africa, crude as this might be,” Mr Gubb says. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1615382559304-GPRXG7MZP156I9VHGHPX/Bloomberg%2C+6th+November+2017 The Finger - Bloomberg This Artist Is giving the Finger to the Stock Market "There really is no such thing as Art," wrote E.H. Gombrich. "There are only artists. Once these were men who took coloured earth and roughed out the forms of a bison on the wall of a cave," but nobody lives in caves anymore. Now we live in computers, and in financial markets, and the artists' tools have changed. And so we have talked here from time to time about artists whose medium is financial markets, who create art projects that consist of manipulating stock prices. And why not? You can use stock prices to draw lines just like you can chalk or ink or Microsoft Paint, and if you can draw lines then you can make art. But so far that art has been abstract: The art consisted of pointing out that the artist was drawing the lines for Art, rather than to make money. (Or: She was drawing them to make money by selling the art.) The lines may have had a certain beauty of their own -- I for one would love to hang a Sarah Meyohas stock-chart painting on my wall -- but they looked like stock charts. Here, though, is as far as I know the first instance of representational art produced in the medium of stock prices: James Gubb created what must rank as the first piece of protest art on a financial media platform in the world – trading between two accounts, illiquid Oakbay Resources and Energy shares in order to create the image of an “up yours” middle finger in the price chart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1615382785896-KBCSLUH11JW50LNNUBEJ/Screenshot+2021-03-10+at+15.24.57.png The Finger - Daily Maverick Finding Art: James Gubb’s stock price protest poetry breaks boundaries. JSE disagrees. On 31 March Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, while addressing the media outside of the Treasury offices in Pretoria after he and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas had been fired via SMS the night before, called on South Africans to mobilise and organise against corruption and State Capture. In Cape Town, seasoned equities trader and hedge fund manager James Gubb heeded the call. As a form of protest, Gubb began trading Gupta-owned Oakbay shares in order to create, in the price chart, a work of art depicting a middle finger. By MARIANNE THAMM. Three days after James Gubb created what must rank as the first piece of protest art on a financial media platform in the world – trading between two accounts, illiquid Oakbay Resources and Energy shares in order to create the image of an “up yours” middle finger in the price chart – some market analysts speculated that the surge might have been due to a “renewed optimism about the nuclear programme”. https://www.jamesgubb.com/the-piggy-catalogue daily 0.75 2021-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1616134950075-6TW1BNIQYCC854EGD6TM/Maurizio-Cattelan-L.O.V.E.-2010-White-Carrara-Marble-roman-travertine-1100-x-470-x-470-cm-36.1-x-15.5-x-15.5-feet-Piazza-Affari-Milano-Italy-4-800x513.jpg The Piggy Catalogue L.O.V.E., Carrera marble, figure. Piazza Affari, Milan, 25th September 2010- https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1616135383941-X50870C3HFA0REDP7HCP/2005_CKS_07176_0071_000%28105758%29.jpg The Piggy Catalogue L.O.V.E., Carrera marble, figure. Piazza Affari, Milan, 25th September 2010- https://www.jamesgubb.com/articles daily 0.75 2023-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1616143234390-KY6GM6T3I4Z5ZSYZ0E5O/3.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1616143267491-W9PUGUUESB7GSYW23LPY/1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1616143242478-SJZW7EFE1HPPJ2MXX3QA/2.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/be63efb7-3b6f-49ff-b861-a77c613237ae/1.png https://www.jamesgubb.com/the-pigs daily 0.75 2021-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1599576854514-LG25B33DIXRM15LGXXC8/P1255531+%281%29.JPG The Pig Sty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1599576836236-M4KR6KZPM2MOVLS4Q8TU/P1255529+%281%29.JPG The Pig Sty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1599576568379-HORBXZ6TURDPPIERQYXI/Piggy+Exhibition.jpg The Pig Sty https://www.jamesgubb.com/the-pigs/black-swan-pig monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/fd2e2c0f-548b-44e7-b5f9-e9c0a6797ec2/3.png The Pig Sty - Black Swan Pig / "Swig" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/a4071793-d7c2-49a2-b241-08582de5141b/1.png The Pig Sty - Black Swan Pig / "Swig" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/3f12f2ef-b905-46f6-baa1-bf291472738b/2.png The Pig Sty - Black Swan Pig / "Swig" https://www.jamesgubb.com/the-pigs/green-gupta-pig monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/2fdf1360-4464-4019-8cd5-c22908e8cfd1/2.png The Pig Sty - Green Gupta Pig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/a7591691-6cbb-42b0-ae78-a1a3fb428167/3.png The Pig Sty - Green Gupta Pig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/a15b75d7-7526-4f3c-9c67-0c722bdc90f6/1.png The Pig Sty - Green Gupta Pig https://www.jamesgubb.com/the-pigs/ayo-itpig monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/6465fbf9-0eed-447b-abb2-ed81ffbf6f84/2.png The Pig Sty - AYO Itpig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/be63efb7-3b6f-49ff-b861-a77c613237ae/1.png The Pig Sty - AYO Itpig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/cede0831-d750-4a5d-a1d6-4e62f5a7f87a/3.png The Pig Sty - AYO Itpig https://www.jamesgubb.com/the-pigs/unicorn-pig monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/a11e5fb0-efa2-4f4a-8e38-eeb15fa35a9d/1.png The Pig Sty - Unicorn Pig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/30f5db57-da3e-4acb-897e-b06b437e9e2b/3.png The Pig Sty - Unicorn Pig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/249ef62b-292e-4efb-9b35-3d02fca67d2c/2.png The Pig Sty - Unicorn Pig https://www.jamesgubb.com/the-pigs/vbs-bank-elliepig monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/85c42e1d-cbea-4cb2-80d9-246650982320/3.png The Pig Sty - VBS Bank Elliepig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/da45e24a-2da5-4b38-bdad-8c529a98ec5b/2.png The Pig Sty - VBS Bank Elliepig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/1c06acb3-fd9d-4e11-a78a-0c9d4d7f366d/Untitled+design.png The Pig Sty - VBS Bank Elliepig https://www.jamesgubb.com/the-pigs/ziggie monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/bcc6ab89-b650-47e6-a67d-d69687edd0d0/3.png The Pig Sty - Ziggie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/acdba03c-e46c-4459-bc99-e017b6bbe761/2.png The Pig Sty - Ziggie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16a0e532c5c170bce35c76/0e27e5ed-0b26-4da8-a8a5-673981ce07f8/1.png The Pig Sty - Ziggie