Keyboard Rebel's friend, long-time collaborator and sleeve artist Bea Turner presents her solo exhibition 'Dreadful Holiday' in London this month. Highly recommended, go be entranced, confused, repulsed and amazed:
BEA TURNER
Dreadful Holiday
Solo Exhibition
15th May – 24th May 2009
Private View Thursday 14th May 6-10pm
Acquire
Arts is pleased to present ‘Dreadful Holiday’, the first solo
exhibition by Royal College of Art graduate, Bea Turner, whose
multi-disciplinary practise spans mechanical sculpture, drawing and
video.
‘Dreadful
Holiday’ brings together a series of works in which domestic materials
and banal objects are animated by mechanisms and reinterpreted
with reference to the horror genre. In the upstairs gallery space,
Turner shows ‘Black Wire’ and ‘Black Rain’, two new works using found
objects. Emphasis is placed on practical items such as electrical
plugs and cables, which, once mechanised, present a feeling of the
uncanny.
In
the dimly lit downstairs gallery, she parodies the emotive techniques
used to create tension in slasher films and B-movies. Half-baked
illusions bare their internal workings and the rough gestures of the
making process are exposed as clues towards the nature of the studio
activity.
Turner
encourages the viewer to engage with familiar objects in a state of
transformation or disintegration and to re-evaluate their function. In
‘Cave Brains’, tin foil and kitchen roll are manipulated to represent
human tissue, while ready-mades such as ‘Black Rain’s’ pepper grinder
retain their intended use, becoming absurd caricatures in the context
of the gallery space.
Bea
Turner lives in London, where she works as a technician for Godolphin
and Latymer School. She is currently working towards part two of
‘Dreadful Holiday’, which will be shown at Tutu Pan Pan, Salisbury,
from the 29th May to 11th June 2009.
Listings Information:
Acquire Arts
155 Battersea Park Road
London, SW8 4BU
www.acquirearts.org
Exhibition Dates: 15th-24th May 2009
Private View: 14th May 6-10pm
Opening hours: Thursday – Sunday 12-6pm
For further information or images, please contact Amanda Scott at amanda@acquirearts.org