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...Comes the Spirit
Lolly Batty, Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Richard Reynolds, Eva Rotschild, Polly Staple, Geerten Verheus.
Suspended ceramics oozing foam, hand-drawn murals, woven posters with burning incense, sumptuous flower-arrangements, multi-coloured fly screens, embroidered figures and hand-carved geometry.
Trespassing ambiguously into areas of pleasure …comes the spirit is an exhibition of seven young UK-based artists. Wilfully adopting a range of craft techniques, often more easily associated with a domestic environment, the work confounds expectations of tradition and material. Exaggerating and exploring these techniques within formal compositions, …comes the spirit presents a diverse range of work whose incongruity is intended to delight and confound.
…Lolly Batty crafts flawless crystalline forms that exist as hybrids between artificially generated geometric models and the organic forms of nature. Sculpted from polystyrene, lightweight and yet exact, they are a humorous retort to minimalist sculptures.
…Enrico David’s embroidered paintings feature fabulous but enigmatic figures, derived from the photo-spread of fashion magazines. A table covered with an indigo cloth, ornamented with silver lurex, becomes their life-style accompaniment.
…Roger Hiorns’ suspended glazed ceramic post gently extrude columns of dense foam which eventually topple, unable to sustain their extended structure.
…Richard Reynolds drawing of a tree trunk and root system , is literally an implant within the gallery, offering a changed landscape within the space. Dwarfing the viewer the drawing simultaneously describes and disguises the surroundings in which they stand.
…Eva Rotschild seeks to rediscover afresh the alternative side of youth cultures, rescuing them from their off-the-peg existence. Working with found posters as a medium, she weaves them together to reveal not the hopeful aspirations of youth but a latent melancholia.
…Polly Staple’s interest in beauty extends to presenting lavish displays of fresh flowers and videos of cheerleaders. Her tribute to the home-grown aesthetic , considers not only the domestic environment but also seeks to re-examine an “English” sensibility.
…Geerten Verheus’ installation of a room filled with suspended brightly coloured strips is
the adult equivalent of a child’s playroom filled with multi-coloured balls as found at IKEA. Disorientating, but non-threatening, it offers the pleasurable prospect of immersion.
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