Topping on Friday night

 Went to see the fabulous Paul Kindersley showing work with Matilda Moors & Jennifer Campbell in Blackhorse lane It was great to see his drawings, which I have only ever seen on Fb. The scantily clad young men on the floor bring not only painting alive but the exhibition space. It was not a big space but felt like it had been really considered and the works flowed well together. It did suggest in the blurb that they were rubbing up against each other fighting for top spot, however, I personally would have liked to have seen more of a fight and those topping ending up in each others face a bit like Tiswas from the eighties. However in my mind there was only one clear winner and that was Paul.  I did arrive early and left when it started to fill up after all I could not stand there looking at those Green pants mush longer in doing so perhaps I missed the real battle for top spot.

 Topping
Jennifer Campbell, Paul Kindersley and Matilda Moors 
Opening: Friday 10th October 6-9pm
Saturday 11th October and Sunday 12th October 12-6pm

Topping is a group show of new work by Jennifer Campbell, Paul Kindersley and Matilda Moors. The pieces of work in the show will push up against each other jostling for top spot. Topping is about what sits on the surface, the work in the show relates to what is applied as an alterable addition to the structural elements of things.

The ritual of making-up, whether its spreading paint across a surface or dolling up novelties to a level of votive significance, is present in all the work in Topping. Jennifer Campbell, Paul Kindersley and Matilda Moors invest themselves in conjuring an artifice. All three artists wield a pop-look knowingly yet genuinely.

Jennifer Campbell makes brittle chunks and drooping slithers of substance. These precarious physical impositions are hosts that carry paint. Their surface colour is composed into flippant expressions of character. Having stepped into the room, her paintings become a gymnastic performance, thriving off the viewers gaze.

Paul Kindersley makes drawings and performance that use a mythologised film experience. A moment removed from its narrative, set up and captured like a publicity still. He assimilates freely from TV, everyday imagery and his own past; destroying and meshing hierarchies and the personal. Creating confused narratives and façades that play with cultural fictions and present a melancholic hankering for the never real.

Matilda Moors makes sculptures and posters that investigate the organisation and structure of the world via novelty objects and cartoon imagery. Presenting neat re-stagings of the complicated and varied visual languages and levels of artifice that make up lived experience.

Though the artists make work with a varied set of references all three engage with the idea that things sometimes need that extra something special, that topping. Like a piece of burnt toast, dressed up but still plain underneath.

www.jennifercarolinecampbell.co.uk
www.youtube.com/user/thebritisharecumming
www.matildamoors.com

Memory lane

Looking through bits and pieces clearing out and sorting out. I found this till receipt from a trip to Berlin in May 2014

The story of the tiger and the sheep

‘Why is it that you are so scared of rats?’ asked the little sheep.

‘They are slithery and slimy and dirty,’ said the tiger .

‘That is not true,’ protested the sheep. ‘How can you know what they are like if you have never spoken to them?

Studio work in progress

Since leaving Chelsea I have spent a considerable amount of time working on my studio which is the garage at the and of our garden. I replaced the roof and build the extra part at the front. The doors where  from a house in Ilford, who had just had double glazing and yesterday, I got 5 doors from free cycle to replace the garage doors and let in more light. Its not been without its problems the worst being Asbestos roof which we had checked out at a local roofers they said it was not the asbestos we need to worry about and although they were right you still need to dispose of it the same way Asbestos is asbestos and it needs to be either kept in whole sheets or double bagged and the council will provide these  http://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/ because we hired a skip we had contaminated the whole of the skip which then all needed to be bagged up. Costing us over a grand in the end... Ouch !

Life Drawing of Holloway road

Its been a while since I went to a life drawing class, perspective has not improved ! Really enjoyed it though :-)

Wed 1st Oct 2014 Free To Dance

After a great time With Dolores de Sade http://www.doloresdesade.com and Katie Saxby & Dave Smithers, shooting a small film for Frank Bobbins Institute. We decided to take our artistic and Music endeavours out into the streets of London. With conflict erupting and Cameron going to war on Isis and the recent dispute between Hongkong and China we decided to try and cheer people up by offering them some light entertainment on the way to shows or out drinking or just going home. If you see us out and about feel free to dance,

take photo's and send them to me I will post them on here. Thanks X

I have also created a Gif from these images

 http://www.pinterest.com/pin/356417757984185398/ 

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/boobs_and_butts_embroidery_is_strictly_adults-only

I have seen this work @ the Stone Space in Leytonstone love the simple yet evocative nature of her work. Questioning beauty and the natural.