Went to see Ashley Bickerton’s show at Newport Street gallery and was very taken with the hammerhead sharks floating around the space. For me Bikerton is something of a throwback to the eighties/nineties New York art scene. But I first saw the shark idea at Serpentine galleries in a show called ‘Some went mad some ran away.’ It was in 1994 and was curated by Damien Hirst, so its funny to see Bickerton displayed again at Hirst’s own gallery twenty three years later. I do find his latest painting horrible though. But the show had a few of the his Floating Costume pieces which are fun. Every one needs an Elvis suit in a glass casket with giant orange floats.