Cathie Pilkington – Peaceable Kingdom

Exhibition dates: 3 December 2010 – 21 January 2011
Private view: Thursday 2 December 2010

The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art are delighted to announce their second London exhibition of sculptures by Cathie Pilkington.

Cathie Pilkington’s new sculptures are cautionary tales, stories of lust, violence and visions played out by dramatis personae of strange, familiar creatures and characters. Pilkington is both a fabulist and a fabricator, meticulously working pieces from a heterogeneous array of materials. Her art is a kind of meta-crafting, brilliantly deploying techniques and imagery from the collective unconscious of painting, sculpture, cheap souvenirs and children’s books.

As Neil Walton writes on walking into Cathie’s studio `The battered workshop door creaks open to reveal…a primordial tangle of forms, an emerging miscellany of bodies in space; complex, intricate, but unified and essentially sculptural, or an aggregation of wildly varied surfaces and textures; glossy, glittering, organic, matt, coarse or delicate. And then there are the images, the characters, the fables, the morals; grotesque, ludicrous, fantastic and disconcerting. The unconscious is looking mighty crowded.’

A fully illustrated catalogue of the works will be available with text by Neil Walton.
For further information please contact John Erle-Drax or Frankie Rossi on +44 7 629 5161 alternatively email
frossi@marlboroughfineart.com or jdrax@marlboroughfineart.com