 |
| Tongue Tied - pen on paper - 100cm x 136cm |
Tongue Tied and The Broken Pattern's
Pattern will be on display at Sink Art's new pop-up exhibition...
The Crooked Tree
.png)
Private View: 6-8pm 26th November
Exhibitions Runs: 27th November – 7th December
1st
Floor, Building 3,Creed
Court,5
Ludgate Hill, London, EC4M
7AA
Lily Rose Thomas | Luke George and Elizabeth Rose | Mary Wintour | Serena Porrati | Natalie Ryde | Natasha Peel
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.
I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
Source: Tom Waits -Buzz Magazine (USA) 1993
Hidden in the shadows of St Paul’s
cathedral, Sink art has transformed a large office into a pop-up contemporary
art gallery. The project is in collaboration with The Renaissance Foundation
and money raised by the exhibition will go towards their cause.
Nietzsche said that no artist
tolerates reality- the issue of art therefore arises in the creation of work as
a rebellion against how things are. To overcome the status-quo has long been an
ambition of artistic movements, each one aiming to overcome an issue with the
current art of the time, each defying it in new and interesting ways while they
all simultaneously shout ‘Renaissance’.
This exhibition makes use of aesthetic
qualities to overcome personal issues. Forming these personal experiences are
underlying forces in the work which ultimately benefits from irregularity,
imperfection and the realm of the imaginary. Cracks appear
through paint-works and journeys are explored through photography
whilst routine life is re-imagined and disruptive forces shape new
identities.
The exhibition therefore examines the
process of and reaction to circumstance. Be it personal, natural or
metaphysical the outcome is a result of strength through hardship, a
celebration of imperfection.
For further information and images please contact Alex Baddeley:
07507491907
No comments:
Post a Comment