Blame came to prominence on London's 1980s club scene, where he made an impact through his signature punk aesthetic and the original jewellery he fashioned himself from modest resources, such as chains and bones plucked out of the Thames using a technique known as mudlarking.
In 1985, Blame helped John Moore to set up The House of Beauty and Culture in Dalston, a craft collective of like-minded artists including Fiona Skinner, Dave Baby, Fiona Bowen, John Flett, Peter Foster, Mark Lebon, Alan Macdonald and Fritz Solomon, Richard Torry and Christopher Nemeth.
This hub would be the first of many collaborations straddling various creative fields. Over his career he consulted for John Galliano, Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons, Gareth Pugh, Marc Jacobs and Kim Jones at Louis Vuitton, produced fashion editorials with photographers including Mark Lebon, Jean Baptiste Mondino and Juergen Teller, and helped shape the images of Boy George, Björk, Kylie Minogue and Neneh Cherry.
Blame continued to make his DIY jewellery throughout his career and last year presented his first major solo exhibition at the ICA. Judy Blame: Never Again showed an arrangement of artefacts, including clothing, collages, jewellery, fashion editorials, sketchbooks and T-shirts, with Blame considering it a "montage", rather than a "chronology" of his work.
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