PRIVATE VIEW.(Brief Article)

Writing for Private View reminds me a lot of doing a best man's speech. You're always flattered to be asked, but come the big day it's quite a nightmare. Because you never quite know what's the appropriate tone. Try and be too funny and you're accused of trivialising everything. If you're overly sincere, it's boring. And if you take the sycophantic approach, well, you're just a sycophant. But at least at a wedding, your audience is tanked up and friendly. Anyway, I think that's enough babble to stretch the word count.

4 First out of the courier bag, a new campaign for Dr Martens. And what a relief. Very simple, bizarre, yet incredibly logical. A world populated by huge feet. A cinema packed to the rafters with feet, all watching a shoe film. Several feet working at an airport security check. They all …