Crocodiles With a Second Skin Thrash is an exhibition curated by myself and Kate Buckley at Over+Out in Lincoln. It is an exhibition that explores the re-use of existing material within
an artist’s practice. This material is specific and highly loaded, being
either that of existing artworks by the artist or incorporating the
work of other artists into new artwork.
The exhibition is a sequel of sorts to A
Blind Python with Jewelled Eyes, shown in the
Greestone Gallery, also in Lincoln, at the tail end of 2011. This
exhibition was also curated by Andrew Bracey and Kate Buckley and
included many of the same artists, it explored the idea of an artwork
containing two parallel elements within it, being both in one state and
another, almost like a parasite occupying a host. Both exhibitions take
their titles from imagery in J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World,a
dystopic novel where an unidentified and beautiful disease spreads
through a rainforest turning everything into shimmering crystalline
forms, like a Midas touch. The artists in these two exhibitions all, in
some way, have the ability to transmute material and imagery from one
thing to another, performing a kind of artistic alchemy.
I will be showing for the first time an ongoing series of self portrait photographs in other artists artworks which feature a reflective or mirrored surface.
Artists in the exhibition are Chris Bagnall, Nathan Baxter, Andrew Bracey, Kate
Buckley, Joana
Cifre Cerda + Laura Dodgson, Fiona
Curran, Thomas Cuthbertson, Cinema Elective, Dave Griffiths, Toby Huddlestone, Peter
Lamb, Ross Oliver, David
Osbaldeston, Aislinn Ritchie, Alec Shepley, Emily Speed
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