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27/10/2005

Laurence Figgis and William Horner

Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow

Two solo shows

“Through his own ‘monstrous frieze’ the artist speaks in thrown voices and forked tongues. Though seemingly sequential and iconographic, the storyboard is composed of submerged and slippery narratives which fade and dissolve before our eyes as others appear in their place, lapping against the frame.

If ‘subliminal reality paints numerous, divergent surfaces of the human enterprise to suggest subterranean roots of narrative potential,’ this is surely Figgis’ own fakelore, the artist’s own subliminal realities at play.” (Susannah Thompson 2005)

Laurence Figgis’ cites Tex Avery, the Fleischer Brothers, Art Nouveau illustration and fairy tales amongst his foremost influences. His drawings and collages illustrate “an anxious cast of dysfunctional characters, interacting with floating cryptic utterances,” that are personified, but not wholly clarified within complex visual sequences.

As if satirising narrative as a formal construction, Figgis’ images interweave and overlap with ‘characters,’ that are no longer simply visual definitions of text. Instead, interpreted and rearranged, they collide within their own descriptions and setting.

Born in 1977 in Hammersmith, Laurence Figgis lives and works in Glasgow. Recent exhibitions include a solo show, The Great MacGuffin, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2005), Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich, Red Bus Go, 273, Glasgow and Transmission at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, all 2004.

William Horner’s works venture into differing facets of performance and sculptural process, composed into a theatrical fugue. Objects act as gesture and action within a ‘staged’ environment, constructed as both subject and character.

Referencing Brancusi and the performance works of Vito Acconci, Horner’s sculptural works become like props in an unknown and unseen tableau, accompanied by both a comic and tragic unwritten narrative. Like players on a stage, Horner places the work on a platform, exposing their history as made forms and in parallel, vessels for projected sentiment and objective.

Living and working in London, William Horner (born 1971) recently completed a PhD in Sculpture at the RCA, London. Recent exhibitions include Untitled, Café Gallery Projects, London and Vice, Henry Peacock Gallery, London.

Image: Laurence Figgis

Opening: 28th October from 6 - 8 pm

Mary Mary Gallery
45 Alexandra Park Street, Flat 2/1 - Scotland

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