The exhibition examines a new sensibility in art. Made by girls and about girls it makes a virtue of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners.
Delaine Le Bas
Cathy Lomax
Alex Michon
Liz Neal
Stella Vine
Private View Friday 16 January 6-9pm. Performance: HK119 7.30pm
Girl on Girl examines a new sensibility in art. Made by girls and about
girls it makes a virtue of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad
manners. This work reclaims the girly and the slutty not in a riot
girl, feminist or ‘woman in art’ way but with a cultural celebration,
that has both the shy and the brash as equal role models. Think PJ
Harvey, Frida Kahlo, The Slits, Karen Kilimnik, Artemisia Gentileschi,
Patti Smith, Meg White, think sense of conviction and to hell with the
consequences.
These girls know they’re smart, they don’t have to justify their
romantic, sensitive, hesitant, angry, witty, dark, naïve, quirky work –
they just make it. This show defines their new aesthetic, it’s both
honest and tongue in cheek and gives a barely interested come on to any
posturing males. Girl on Girl is above all not about being nice.
Liz Neal’s subject matter is often culled from fashion and consumerism;
her work juxtaposing the slick and disposable with the carefully
crafted and hand made. She has recently shown at One in The Other and
her work is currently part of The Saatchi Gallery’s new displays.
Cathy Lomax paints the girls she becomes in her dreams and nightmares.
Kim Marsh, Mary Bell and Chechen terrorists are combined and
romanticised, creating a disjointed landscape of the unnatural. Cathy
is the editor of art fanzine Arty and has recently been in Vaguely
Romantic at Rosy Wilde
Alex Michon draws, paints, embroiders and decoupages over the pages of
romantic fiction; layering images of sexual encounters, and personal
disappointments she disrupts the nicey, nicey text whilst acknowledging
a fascination with its romantic hinterland of imaginary fulfilment.
Alex was recently in Fanclub at Rosy Wilde
Stella Vine shows a painting of that icon of beauty, goodness and wile
– Diana Princess of Wales. She recently curated Snow at Transition was
in Chockerfuckingblocked at Jeffery Charles and runs the Rosy Wilde
gallery.
Delaine Le Bas asks “what are little girls made of†as she twists and
collages her female subjects, disrupting and adding layer upon layer of
meaning. “Don’t be fooled by appearances, take a closer look, laugh, be
disgusted, like it, hate it but stop being one of the sheepâ€. Delaine
is a celebrated Outsider artist, she was in Dead or Alive at James
Coleman and Scritch Scratch at Transition
For more information please contact Cathy Lomax on 07941 208566
Fri - Sun 1-6pm
Transition
110a Lauriston Road, London E9
07941 208566 / 0208 986 3888