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Hales Gallery: TOLD - 25 Feb 2011 to 2 Apr 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Emma Talbot, Tales from the Estuary, 2010, Acrylic oncanvas, 210x155cm
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TOLD Darina Karpov, Laura Oldfield Ford & Emma Talbot 25 February 2011 - 2 April 2011 Private View: Thursday 24 February 2011, 6-9pm Hales Gallery is proud to present TOLD, a group show that presents three artists reconsidering the role of narrative in contemporary art practice through use of biographical, subjective and personalised imagery. Darina Karpov enjoys the language of her native Russian folk tales and finds ways in which they can be woven into her slippery mounds of oil paint. The paintings revel in decorative elements as well as the contrasting suggestions of violence and unrest . Laura Oldfield Ford is concerned with the multiple narratives of the city and the repressed desires of its inhabitants. Her drawings open up plural spaces in the urban landscape channeling the counter-narratives of riots, sex and substance abuse. The drawings are a reworking of the �derive� or drift, a subjective process of mapping the city. Through her work we are able to track her mopvements through the brutalist architecture of the city and plot the lines of social antagonism. Emma Talbot deals with the claustrophobic family life of the suburbs in her melancholic, weird and sometimes touching dioramas that are, at once both theatrical and graphic. There is a nostalgic air about them that suggests a child of the 1950�s or 60s and a suffocating sentimentality of a girls comic book that is used to positive effect in her light and accurate brushstrokes. |
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