11/6/2009
Luke McCreadie
Supplement, London
Little Puppet Made of Pine... The exhibition takes the form of an index of his practice. Although disparate in medium and approach McCreadie's work is linked through enigmatic visual and conceptual associations.
For its third exhibition of 2009 Supplement presents new work by Luke McCreadie.
McCreadie's exhibition takes the form of an index of his practice. The show
consists of a diverse and divergent body of work produced in the last year.
Although disparate in medium and approach McCreadie's work is linked through
enigmatic visual and conceptual associations. The indexical nature of the
presentation of the works allows for unexpected connections and links to be
made and highlights the heterogeneous, and multifaceted nature of McCreadies'
practice.
McCreadie practice is defined through a complex and shifting set of interests
and engagements with the world. It is influenced by the minutiae of daily life
and the moments of possibility that lie in the often unobserved details. It is
underpinned by a constant process of making that attempts to make sense of the
multifarious network of associations and relationships that exist all around
us.
The motif of hands often appears in different formulations. In With These
Hands McCreadie takes an iconic poster of Jimmie Hendrix and sands off the
entire image leaving only the hands oddly suspended in space. This idea of
hands as symbols of labour recurs throughout McCreadies practice.
Language and its representation is also a recurrent theme in the work.
McCreadie is interested in the way words exist in the world and how through
their saturation, there is a point where they become nonsense. On one wall of
the gallery a noticeboard covered in photographs, observations and bits of
found text is a work that functions as an examination into the way words exist
all around us. This is also developed in Untitled (Boulder), which is a large
sculpture of a boulder peppered with three-dimensional letters.
The title of the exhibition comes from the story of Pinochio and it is this
sense of objects becoming animated that pervades the work. Though artistic
gestures McCreadie vivifies everyday objects in a way that takes away their
traditional function and renders them strange and enigmatic. In doing this he
poses questions about the way we navigate and respond to the world around us.
Private view 12th June 6 - 9
Supplement
31 Temple street - London
Free admission