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14/3/2003

Temple of Bacchus

MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

The artists will be exhibiting both collective and individual pieces and collaborating on the show's overall conception, themes and installation. Sarah Lucas comments that ''the idea to do a show together came about because we see quite a bit of each other and somewhere along the line we realised that there are quite a lot of correspondences between our works''.

Sarah Lucas shares with Lowe and Thomson the subversive use of humour to unsettle and provoke. All three confront conventional interpretations of familiar imagery and are interested in the commonplace, the common man. Lucas’s provocative sculptures have used appropriated objects and common materials to form visual puns concerning sex, death and gender but her most recent exhibition, Charlie George (Berlin 2002), introduced new elements into her work such as the semantics of the seventies and football culture. Lucas’s work for Temple of Bacchus, both individually and with Lowe and Thomson, continues to look at established English imagery both high and low with new considerations of St George and the dragon and the pub drunk.

Colin Lowe and Roddy Thomson met at St Martin’s School of Art in the late 1980s but only began to work together a few years later. Their work is often text-based and frequently humorous. The Hurangutang Letters, a collection of pleas for corporate sponsorship and other correspondence, was shown in City Racing: A Partial Account at the ICA in 2000 and recently in To whom it may concern at CCAC Whattis Institute in San Francisco, both curated by Matthew Higgs. Their mobile bar, The Dark Throttle, was commissioned by BBC4 and shown at the Royal Academy’s Galleries Show last autumn. Matthew Collings, who included Lowe and Thomson’s piece Enthusanasia in Art Crazy Nation Show at MK G, has said of their work that it ''seems to distil that excellent moment when the first couple of drinks kick in and any thought that occurs seems funny, creative and inspired. Drink, its comedy and its tragedy, is often the subject of their work but it’s not their only subject. No artist has ever expressed the pathos, self-doubt, delusion, fear, strivings and ambition of creativity with such a light and bitter touch''.

Biographical notes Sarah Lucas was born in 1962 in London. Recent exhibitions include Beyond the Pleasure Principle at The Freud Museum, London, 2000; a survey installation at Tate Modern (until March 2002), and Charlie George, an exhibition of new work at CFA Berlin, 2002. A comprehensive monograph on her work by Matthew Collings has just been published by Tate.

In Conversation with Sarah Lucas, Colin Lowe & Roddy Thomson and Matthew Collings Wed 2 Apr | 19.30 | £5 (£3 concs) to include a glass of wine | The Berill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Writer and broadcaster Matthew Collings discusses the exhibition with the artists. Tickets must be booked on 01908 676 900 during gallery opening hours.

Art for All: Free Exhibition Tour Wed 19 Mar 13.30-14.00
Join Stephen Snoddy for an informal tour of the exhibition. Book on 01908 676 900.

Image: Sarah Lucas, Au Naturel, 1994

Opening times
The gallery is open every day except Monday and during exhibition changeovers. The opening hours are Tues - Sat 10.00 - 17.00 Sunday 11.00 - 17.00

Milton Keynes Gallery
900 Midsummer Boulevard Central Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire England MK9 3QA

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