13 – 22 November 2015
The Bread and Jam series gives artists the run of a near-empty, soon-to-be-remodelled house in Brockley. In the third show, eleven artists explore the territory between order and disorder, potential and realisation, unformed and defined.
Each has chosen a shape to insinuate or impose – to varying degrees – in advance of the fuller reshaping to come. Yet it doesn’t seem conventional family living will follow: none of the artists define themselves as purely a man, although Brian Dawn Chalkley does gain the rare distinction of featuring in all-male (Chercher le garcon at Mac/Val, Paris) and no-male exhibitions in the same year. Ten men are, however, busy doing the washing in Claire Macdonald’s film Launderette, and Frances Richardson is fully in control of moulding the phallus. What can it all mean for the shapes we’re in? Jennet Thomas’s film threatens to provide an answer, but it keeps slipping away…
Alicja Dobrucka mushroom shape
Oona Grimes toast
Brian Dawn Chalkley leaf
Frances Richardson phallus
Emma Cousin heart
Rana Begum irregular polyhedron
Selma Parlour trapezium
Natasha Kahn rectangle
Claire Macdonald circle
Miriam Austin nonagon
Jennet Thomas amorphous shapes
Private View: Fri 13 Nov, 6-9 pm
Open brunches: Sat 14 & Sun 15 Nov, 12-6pm
Curator / artist talks: Wed 18 Nov, 6pm
Open by appointment until Sun 22 Nov2015
Contact: Emma Cousin emma.cousin@live.co.uk 07841832501
Press enquiries: Emily Austin emilycpa@gmail.com 07733321395
Address: 52 Whitbread Road London SE4 2BE
Transport: Brockley (Overground & southern), Crofton park (Thames Link)
Generously sponsored by Cooper’s Bakehouse
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