Group exhibition with Olly Beck, Gordon Beswick, Katerina Botsari, Mikey
Georgeson, Russell Herron, Alison Marchant, Liz Neal, Paul Tecklenberg, Harry
Pye, Florin Ungureanu. Russell Herron curated shed with Marianne Spurr and
Stewart Gough.
Private View Saturday June 26th 18:00 - 21:00
Open every Saturday from July 3 th to July 17th also throughout September and by
appointment
To celebrate the beginning of British Summer, Sartorial Contemporary Art has
invited artists to interact with 9 sheds situated on a roof terrace overlooking
Kings Cross. THE SHED is the intersection between the inside and outside, a
British symbol of sanctuary that opens a new world of dreams and
possibilities.
Was the original gallery space making Gretta Sarfatyclaustrophobic and trapped once more? She has been using the sheds as a
space to store her many lives. Here past experiences are combined with new
experimentation and
transformation.
Harry Pye and
Gordon Beswick are using their shed to screen two films;
'Trojan Horse' and 'Bring Back the Prince'. Both films feature music
from a new band called, The Values. This shed is intended as a tribute to the
2-Tone record label. 2-Tone was the home of bands such as Madness, and
The Specials from 1979 to1984. 2-Tone bands were famous for mixing pop
with politics and their music often had an infectious ska beat.
Mikey Georgeson and Paul
Tecklenberg in their collaborative piece 'A Matter Of Life and Death' -
inspired by a National Trust street sign informing us that 'the interior
is viewable through the
window'.
Georgeson and Tecklenberg use common or garden birdboxes
to play with ideas of inside and outside. They aim to both amuse and entrance
visitors by channeling the spirit of accidental romanticism personified by Sir
John Soanes and passion his for bringing light inside for it's ability to not
only enlighten but also define the meloncholy of shadow.
Olly Beck's installation
creates the illusion that liquid gold is seeping out of the shed and onto the
floor around it. The work continues Beck's fascination with mirage-like imagery
and in this particular piece explores capitalist economics and its manifest
contradictions.
Katerina Botsari will be
creating her sculptural piece from the leftover debris in the gallery, aptly
named ‘Junk'. She will rejuvenate the old scrap and in doing so will
challenge traditional perceptions of what is seen as beautiful
Russell Herron is a
sometime artist, writer and curator. His work, often featuring his own name,
alludes to ideas of history, place, identity, objects, value, authenticity,
success, failure and the infrastructure of the artworld itself. He lives and
works in London. For this exhibition he will be presenting a new work:
‘You Haven't Heard the Last of Me,' he said. That Was the Last We
Heard of Him.
Alison Marchant super
market shopping trolleys, baskets and other objects mounted on casters are used
as planted spaces to grow vegetables, herbs and flowers which have the potential
to be parked, suspended or placed any where in the city. The plants have been
grown from seed in bio-degradable peat flower pots in her attic studio with sky
light windows as a make shift greenhouse and art lab.
The installation is a kind of disturbing faux-supermarket that seeks to explore
our relationship with the food we buy, and the endangered pollinating species
that enable its production.
Liz Neal explains:
"The shed evokes in me a warmth and nostalgia that is quite saturating . It
takes me back to my childhood where there were many old sheds in which we
enacted domestic scenes amongst ourselves and sometimes with other children. I
would sometimes direct my older sister in theatrical performances, whilst my
younger sister would be found in an old horse trailer mixing mud
pies.
This shed is a mini house in which I have set my dolls to
play".
Gretta Sarfaty says: "My past lifes
are portrayed here with stuffed animals representing an outward appearance of
happiness and togetherness. They are incorporated with famous faces of
celebrities and dignitaries to give the impression of a united relationship; the
viewer has to draw their own conclusion if this is indeed the case."
Florin Ungureanu explores
the concepts of power, politics, history, identity and death through irony and
humour. Being interested in how they influence beliefs and perceptions by
altering and subverting
them.
>From here derives the desire to further explore the need for uncertainty and
the metaphysical loneliness of the human being, addressing such issues as
solitude, amnesia, memory, suppression, doubt and the sublime.
Marianne Spurr and Stewart Gough (curated
by Russell Herron)‘Various titles, but ultimately not
titled.'
Two artists have been invited to show work, with Gough using only the
exterior of the shed and Spurr the interior.
Gough's sculptures are playful assemblages
of ready made plastic objects and component systems. For this show he has made a
new temporary intervention. A guttering and drainage system has been attached to
a section of the roof's run off, and this playfully morphs into a fantastical
electrical storm fixed in a moment as it arcs to the ground.
Spurr employs a range of materials and
objects to explore formal concerns and the interplay between abstract and
figurative languages. She is interested in boundaries and the liminal spaces
between them: painting and sculpture, nature and artifice, the real and the
imagined, the absent and the present.
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