24th June – 1st July 2016
Preview: Friday 24th June 2016, 6-9pm
[toggle]Image: Rory Biddulph, A Game of Orbs (detail), acrylic, ink, spray paint and laser print on paper, on board, 122 x 94 x 3cm, 2016. Image courtesy the artist.[/toggle]
Rory Biddulph | Kate Hubbell
Curated by Xenia Langlois
The theme of the exhibition comes from the artists’ combined interest in portraying the effects of social and cultural identification through analogy and absurdity.
Both artists are graduates from the Slade School of Fine Art and have exhibited widely. Rory Biddulph was recently shortlisted for the Adrian Carruthers Award and the Clifford Chance Printmaking Purchase Prize, he was also included in the XL Catlin Art Guide and is a current finalist in the XL Catlin Art Prize. Kate Hubbell has attended numerous residencies including being resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Oxbow School of Art and Artist Residencies. She was also recently shortlisted for the Red Mansion Art Prize and the Sarabande Scholarship.
Rory Biddulph is known for depicting strange, carnivalesque characters using layered print alongside painted imagery. Stemming from a kind of urban gut, Biddulph depicts a crude and elaborate present. In his work iconography, ideology, the spectacle and the social become subject to reproach, plunged into visions of fantasy, metaphor and excess.
Kate Hubbell orchestrates experiences of empathy and connectivity through immersive installations, video and objects. She employs a wide range of materials, including synthetic hair, gelatin, food and makeup to analyse the tensions and anxieties manifested within the dichotomies of comfort and unease.
Xenia Langlois, curator, comments: ‘Fracture is an exhibition in which the taxonomies, ideologies and the habitual infrastructures of contemporary life become subjected to play, depravity, fancy and farce, questioning the role of the self in what is depicted as an arcane, tumultuous time.’
Please see the following websites for more information on the artists and their work.
www.rorybiddulph.com
www.katiehubbell.com
Exhibition continues:
25th June – 1st July 2016
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6pm
Free entry
Step-free access