Monday, October 14, 2013

The Dream Machine at Sluice Art Fair

Image: Corinna Spencer, Fleeting Obsession 4

I'm very excited to be showing my new animation and paintings with Transition Gallery for the Dream Machine at Sluice Art Fair

The Dream Machine
Transition Gallery at Sluice Art Fair
47-49 Tanner Street, Bermondsey, London SE1 3PL
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19-20 October 2013 12-9pm

‘Even though life isn’t black and white
it often looks better that way.’
Barry Gifford


Behind every starry silver screen performance there is a real person who has been sucked into the machinery, restyled and re-presented in a recreated environment as the hero or villain of our dreams. Since the early 20th century Hollywood has transformed these mere mortals into gods, stripping them of their skeleton-laden identities and grinding them out as perfect, plastic covered, star shaped deities. This machine of dreams is of course a charade, and the cinema is a place where nothing is as it seems, a place where the real is always mingled with the imagined.
The Dream Machine is a group show of eleven artists who inspired by the recent renaissance of black and white at the cinema, mine the archives to juxtapose early film magic, glamorous imagery, PR driven myths and dreamlike stage sets with the downbeat behind-the-scenes construction and all-too-frequent real life tragedy that is the reality of Hollywood’s dream machine.


As Joan Crawford said ‘You manufacture toys, you can’t manufacture stars.’


Kirsty Buchanan shows a series of cinema inspired etchings.
Sarah Cleaver shows a series of photographs inspired by black and white cinema.
Sarah Doyle’s animation reactivates the onscreen moment where John Gilbert first sets eyes on Greta Garbo and captivated by her beauty instantly falls in love with her.
Paul Kindersley’s performance We Make Cinema, will be inspired by the stars of silent cinema.
Cathy Lomax examines the publicity and propaganda that turns mere flesh and blood into ethereal, shimmering meta-humans.
Alex Michon’s paintings draw on the sadness, melancholy and fear that she associates with her experience of watching early cinema on TV as a child.
Common Objects and Travis Riley’s work is inspired by the concise poetry of inter-titles
Alli Sharma bypasses the angry young men of the 1950s to spotlight the ‘kitchen sink’ women in her series of paintings.
Corinna Spencer - presents a new series of paintings - Hollywoodland that feature early Hollywood stars Olive Thomas and Virginia Rappe both of whom met tragic ends.
Charlotte Squire’s sculptures take their inspiration from film lighting.
Mimei Thompson – Inspired by the dark mise en scene of Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter, Thompson’s printed paintings capture the high contrast and constructed atmosphere of this timeless masterpiece.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Big Deal No.5



I will be showing my piece "I've Looked At Clouds That Way" at Big Deal No5.
Its an exciting show in a giant car park in W1 with lots of great artists, do come along if your free →

Curated by Vanya Balogh & Cedric Christie


Big Deal No 5 film reel curated by Daniel Buckley

BIG DEAL No5
In association with Geoffrey Leong

Private view 17th October 2013

Artists Preview 4 – 6 pm

Open for public 6 – 10pm (free entry)

Exhibition open

18th - 20th October 2013, 11am - 7.30pm

For further information call +44 (0)75 8745 4613

Q PARK · Cavendish Square · level -3

W1G 0PN · London
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ARTISTS:
Richard Niman · Cedric Christie · Raul Pina · Nicola Hicks · Paul Sakoilsky · Tiziana Mandolesi · Michael Sandle · Petula Girndt · Twinkle Troughton · Ray Gange · Rebecca Scott · Ben Hopper · Garry Doherty · Mark O’Rourke · Forge & Cutter · Oliver Perkins · Steve Smith · Danny Pockets · Liz Sheridan · Slobodan · Trajković · Ightw Continent · Dannielle Hodson · John Stephens · Hedley Roberts · Calum F Kerr · Sian-Kate Mooney · Miyuki Kasahara · General Harm – Phillip Raymond Goodman · Stephen Hall · Dean Todd · Li Li Ren · Tomaž Kramberger · Sophie Asthon · Maria Teresa Gavazzi · Michael Petry · Valerie Driscoll · Marisa Polin · Sarah Doyle · Gzillion Artist · Mark Woods · Lee Cavaliere Robert Barta · Paul Freud · Francesco La Porta · Peter Roston · Rekha Sameer · Martin Sexton · Nadia Ballan · Roman Taher · Mark Johns · Aly Helyer · Tracey Moberly · Roberto Ekholm · Joe Barrell · Aldo Giannotti · James Alec Hardy · Lee Maelzer · Tasleem Mulhall · Marie-Louise Jones · Agnetha Sjogren · Sooz Belnavis · Peter Gravelle · Louise Riley · Art Hate · Richard Ducker · Karolin Schwab · Negin Vaziri · Anna Niman · Patrick Dodds · Jim Bond · Jude Cowan Montague · Amy Sharrocks · Mineo Kato · Sarah Sparkes · Gordon Faulds · Eva Raboso Garcia · Patrick Morrisey · Clive Hanz Hancock · Lorenzo Belenguer · Piers Jamson · Jessica Voorsanger · Susan Stockwell · Mark Maxwell · Ibby Doherty · & Charlie Whetaley · Stimulus Ltd · Jonathan Raven · Henry Mulhall · Christina Mitrentse · Aya Fukami · Michael Grieve · Loukas Morley · Nader Barhumi · Critical Decor · Elisa Cantarelli · Ernesto Romano · Tinsel Edwards · Jake Modern · Russell Herron · Vanya Balogh · Maria Jose Arceo · Franko B · Ritva Raitsalo · Andrew Stanney · Thorbjørn S. Andersen · Alex Noble · Thomas Draschan · Mona K · Igor Kuduz · Pascal Rousson · Cathy De Monchaux & Richard Smith · Tim Burns · Daniel Pasteiner · Fitzy · Simon Liddiment · Michael Pennie · Rebecca Quirk · Paul Tucker · Sophie Dickens · Robert Phillips · Una d’Aragona · Jose Carlos Teixeira · Lucinda Burgess · Fiona Haines · Mitra Tabrizian · Julie Young · Kjersti Crossly · Jeanne Susplugas · Rebecca Meanley · Florence Drake · Perry Roberts · Susana Sanroman · Demelza Moreau · Roger Clarke · Tom Durnford · Paul Gildea · Sara Mark · Edward Clark · Dragan Aleksić · Momoko Fukuhara · Rachel Megawhat · Urban XXX · Brad Pitts & Downey Juniors · Kash · Sandy Porter · Yukako Sakakura · Jacky Porter · Tracey Emin