Natasha Bird & Nicole Morris / Line Through a Room (A Bittersweet Parting)
27th November 2009 - 8th January 2010
‘Points joined together continuously in a row constitute a line. So for us a line will be a sign whose length can be divided into parts, but it will be so slender that it cannot be split’
Leo Battista Alberti, De Pictura, 1435.
The Bun House Bandits present ‘Line through a room (a bittersweet parting)’, a new collaborative work by Natasha Bird and Nicole Morris. The piece presents a line as both a demarcation, and a physical object placed in a space. By linking two spaces, this object simultaneously highlights a separation; a feeling in the viewer of something elsewhere.
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Karolina Dudek / The Great Harmony; Division
22nd October - 18th November
The project ‘The Great Harmony- Diversion’ is a vision of world without humans present. Nature is in some way attacking the space, normally occupied by us. This installation depicts an ordinary domestic space, where the house remains a totally forgotten space without any individual mementos. In the space that is void of life nature has found a way to flourish.
Karolina is creating new possibilities for her work by combining installation and photography. She wants to engage the space in the same kind of reality that she presents in the photograph. There is a continuous narrative running through the photograph and installation. She explores the unique ability of photography to be seen in both realistic and allegorical terms, communicating its message by means of symbolic representation of a memory or a feared possibility.
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Tristram Bellotti / Education on When to Overthrow Us
9th - 20th October 2009
I can’t believe the old monument of the billowing dress woman down the dramatic staircase still hasn’t been demolished at the “JSNF” train station. (But this morning from my window, I’m surprised to see that they’ve managed to get scaffolding right up there against the rocks to reach her.) Firstly, eyesight registers a reflection of extreme illusion.
One scaffolder obviously couldn’t stand the old fortress on newsprint flapping out of the aircraft- he’s engraved on the flapping page opposite, making it;
‘Pathetic ~ Fortress’
*billboard- my money, my politics!
Actors actually injecting a good rig up the general council meeting and a not too ridiculous scene unfolding now where the bosses painfully resist the impulses from the worker-tampered drug.
The passive refinement is uncompromisingly overridden by sexually shameworthy treatment of female members of the audience and aggressive outbursts of military threats.
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FdA Students / HALFWAY
17th September - 5th October 2009
"Halfway" was a group show presented by Magda Szostak, showing work by FdA students who are halfway through their courses in Design Practice and Illustration for Sequence and Interaction at Camberwell College of Arts.
"Halfway" was produced on the basis of a brief set one month before the exhibition. The show consists of six designers and seven illustrators who have all produced work using the theme of "Halfway" as a starting point. In response to this brief they explored subjects such as journey, transformation and hyper-reality. Each artist has taken the show title in completely different directions, some using abstract interpretations and others looking at more obvious link.
Design: Astrid Joublanc; Deavid Cannon; Dionne Helene; Felix Manuel; Magda Szostak, Tendayi Vine
Illustration: Åsa Wikman; Tom Dorkin; Penni Ralph; Karin Söderquist; Maria Vladimirova; James Jacques & Jo Ley
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Alicia Logan / Red Shift
31st July - 20th August
Somewhere a story is being told, where people do things of good reason and no good reason and reasons they don't understand. These things happen without our knowledge and we are not the concern of the story teller or them whose story is told. Alicia Logan's painting are not those stories. They are not windows out of which scenes are set, nor screens on which action is played. Where there is landscape it is lain down with a line of mountain lost beneath a wash of sky. Actions are traces of traces, forgetting what they ever meant to be doing. There is no illusion or deception in what we are looking at. If things appear unclear it is because they are not clear. There are, however, connections between things removed from their context and the places they might make sense.(...)
Press Release by John Hill
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Olaf Brzeski / Breath
20th June - 22nd July 2009
Brzeski received a diploma in sculpture at the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, quickly developing his own and easily recognizable style - created in his installations, experimental films, and, perhaps, above all, in his highly narrative sculptures. The traumatic obsessions and visions - of which the characters are just characters from cartoons or mutant hunting trophies - create a singular, deformed image of the world in which creative destruction is the most indicative of human activity, and the victim becomes imperceptible.
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Matt Day / Does Andre The Giant Cry?
22th May - 18th June 2009
The Bun House Bandits present Does Andre The Giant Cry?, the first solo show from artist, and proud wrestling fanatic, Matt Day.
Interview with Matt Day 7/03/2005
What makes you tick?
I like all things glazed, glistening, gloopy, flobby, obese, saggy, old, thick and wrestling toys.
I like it when wrestlers put Oil on their skin. It adds a transparency which makes the skin appear to have depth and it makes the light glisten off their bodies. I could compare the pleasure of seeing two oiled up, athletic wrestlers grappling on the floor, to pouring thick, hot treacle into a glass jar.
Who are your biggest influences?
Particular characters drive me to make representations. James Marshall Hendrix- Electrifying, slick, cool, stylish most importantly an individual. The selfishness, focus, and passion of Hendrix influence every aspect of my life. His unique lifestyle choices are everywhere
What is your fondest memory?
Childhood- Eat Sleep WWF 1980’s VHS’s, wrestling figures, back drops, drop kicks, body slams, suplex’s, character theme music, costumes, acrobatics (athleticism) and Gorilla Monsoon.
If you could ask me any question What would it be?
Is John Cleese always funny, and does Andre The Giant cry?
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Jesse Wine / Meat & Eggs
31st April - 19th May 2009
Greasy hands running down worn blue jeans, Brock hoisted himself out of the pit. Wiping the sweat off his brow he ambled out into the yard, beating sun and a distant radio. Leaning on the rough timber of the garage he lit up a Marlborough, closed his eyes and sucked in deep.
A soft hum, Brock knew that sound all too well, glancing at the street this sight would hold his gaze. Cherry red bodywork and a flash of blonde, the Chevy pulled into the yard, engine purring.
Clip, clip. Black patent stiletto's graced the concrete. The tightest white dress mapped out the curves of her body, cut high on the leg, low on the neck, nipples reaching skyward, the fabric clung to her perfectly bronzed skin. Brazenly she removed her sunglasses, sliding one arm into her cleavage, the weight teased her dress down.
“Can I be of service?” Brock’s gravelly voice posed.
The sunglasses swung, brushing her form. Brock imagined the areola pressing into pure white. Suddenly they slipped, the arm opened up, silently dropping to the floor. The glasses landed with a soft click betwixt parted heels, lenses gazing upwards. Their now rosey cheeked owner looked down at the sunglasses, up at Brock and down at the glasses once more, a sultry giggle.
"I need a fuel injection, know someone who's up to the job?"
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Littlewhitehead / So This Is Romance
16th March - 18th April 2009
Littlewhitehead are Glasgow-based artists Craig Little and Blake Whitehead. Littlewhitehead's sculptures and installations are hyper-real places that are equally ominous and comic. This time they created a new, site specific, sculptural piece for the Field Project Space within the Bun House pub.
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Rhiannon Hunter / Along Corridors
27th February - 12th March 2009
Along Corridors, across landings and through stairwells, our limbs are guided. Brushing against surfaces, steered through walkways we move through the urban lounge. As we wander our physical being is in a state of transience along predetermined routes.
But what happens when the familiar merges with the unknown. When rigid structures that have defined our movements change, soften, and disappear. Our travels become a psychological journey as much as they are a material experience.
Looking, searching, touching…
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Camberwell Sculpture Elective / I Am An Art
22nd January - 23rd February 2009
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