8 JULY - 30 JULY TUE - SAT 12:30 – 6PM PRIVATE VIEW: TUE 7 JULY 6:30 - 9:30PM
GALLERY: THIS WAS NOW - THE RUSSELL HERRON COLLECTION
Following the recent death of London artist Russell Herron, Sartorial Contemporary Art presents This Was Now The Russell Herron Collection, a selection of works from the artist's private collection. The exhibition is curated by Harry Pye, and presents a selection of works from some of the 300 pieces which were in Herron's possession, the majority of the works purchased from emerging artists over the last 12 years.
The selection has been curated around the themes of history, location and identity, reflecting the concerns which informed much of Herron's own work over the last few years, and includes painting, sculpture and photography.
Artists: Sarah Baker, Charlotte Bracegirdle, Maria Soledad Checa, John Clayman, Julie Cockburn, Katie Cuddon, Oona Culley, Stuart Cumberland, Beverley Daniels, Jeremy Deller, Steve Double, Lee Edwards, Karin Eklund, Stewart Gough, Lucy Harrison, Mark Harrison, Graham Hudson, Tim Knowles, Hugh Mendes, Mie Mørkeberg, Chloe Mortimer, Humphrey Ocean, Hadrian Pigott, Cian Quayle, Brian Reed, Giorgio Sadotti Dallas Seitz, David Shrigley, Melanie Stidolph, Barry Thompson, John Tiney, Bedwyr Williams
David Shrigley, Melanie Stidolph, Barry Thompson, John Tiney, Bedwyr Williams
PROJECT SPACE: JAMES UNSWORTH - I LOVE YOU LIKE A MURDERER LOVES THEIR VICTIMS
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The End (Having Reached A Climax at the .............................. ........
I I Think of Demons 2009
Age
of 29 1/2 I Was Dead) 2009 (29.7x 42cm).................................... (29.7x 42cm)
James Unsworth presents a series of photographic prints and his first large-scale film installation ‘Shithead'.
Set on a university campus the photographs and movies from ‘ I Love You Like a Murderer Loves Their Victims' revel in their low budget aesthetic, framed by empty educational spaces that induce a sense of isolation, tension and danger. The scenes are populated by hyper-unreal depictions of murder, sex and dismemberment, comic/horrific figures engaged in acts of disembowelment, degradation and desecration while piles of body parts are splattered with simulated bodily fluids and are gradually engulfed by smoke.
The projection ‘Shithead' features characters occupied in activity beyond the common realm of human behaviours, transgressing natural boundaries and descending into a devolved state of blood lust and self-gratification.
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