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31/5/2002

Ausgang!

Studio Voltaire, London

"A chance to say thank you, and to have a good time"
HM Queen Elizabeth II

Golden Jubilee Opening Party - Saturday 1st June 2002 6 - 9pm

2 ­ 16 June 2002
Tuesday ­ Sunday 12 ­ 6pm

Patrick Coleman, Ben Copperwheat, Richard Cuerden, Shez Dawood, Liz Neal, Genevieve Kalnins, Christian Newton and Holly Johnson.

To celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, Liz Neal presents AUSGANG! an exhibition and party in honor of HM Queen Elizabeth II and all things royal and British..

The Golden Jubilee celebrates 50 years of the reign of Elizabeth II. It is also a time to examine how ideas of national identity and nationhood have changed in the UK in the past 50 years. What does it mean to be a subject of the Queen in 2002? The Jubilee was last celebrated in 1977, the year of punk, strikes and terrorists. How much Britain has, or has not, changed since 1977, and who is now included in Britishness are the main focuses of this celebratory exhibition.

AUSGANG! brings together a group of artists and friends for whom the Jubilee has many different resonances including: Shez Dawood, a young artist based in London whose advertising inspired paintings, posters and objects take as a starting point his own position as a young person of Pakistani origin who has grown up in the UK. Dawood has exhibited as part of Century City at the Tate Modern and 000zerozerozero at the Whitechapel Art gallery, 1999. Holly Johnson is renown as the lead singer of the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood and has exhibited his art works, paintings, videos and installations since 1994. Johnson also wrote his highly acclaimed autobiography A Bone in my Flute. Liz Neal's work was last seen in London in Death to the Fascist Insect, curated by Martin Maloney for Anthony d¹Offay in 2001. Neal's sexually explosive canvases are punk inspired odes to subjects normally outside of mainstream art discourse. Prostitutes advertising cards and banner slogans shout for attention in paintings that are smart, intelligent and slowly compelling.

For further press information / images contact:

Freire Barnes (Studio Voltaire) or Liz Neal E mail: lizneal@hotmail.com T: 0207 561 9451

Forthcoming exhibitions in June 2002
[ur]banality a group show exploring the urban landscape. ( watch this space for information on the show ! )

Studio Voltaire is an artist run space that promotes innovative work from a cross section of the arts.

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