
RG: Would you say that you’re an unconfident artist?
JF: Yeah.
RG: So why is your work aesthetically and ethically confident?
JF: It doesn’t seem like that to me. I always think I’m winging it. I think that people are just going to start laughing at me; point at me, point at the work, point back at me, and laugh.
RG: The image that conjures up sounds like a work you would make.
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RG: Do you think your work takes the piss out of art?
JF: People could think that, but I think my motivation is… is kind of looking at art. Maybe looking at taste. I think the reason why I make things like I do is because these are the skills I’ve got.
RG: So those are the conditions under which you practise?
JF: I’ve just learnt to accept that I’m interested in lower aesthetics…
RG: I’m left confused by your work a lot, because you play so close to the border of irony.
JF: …when people are in a state of uncertainty I think it helps. You know, when you can’t pin work down it becomes about you, the audience.
(from an interview between Josephine Flynn & Ryan Gander)
Josephine Flynn was born in Leigh, Greater Manchester, in 1975. She gained an MA Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University in 2006, & a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1998. In 2005 Flynn was in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries and she has forthcoming shows at International 3, Manchester, and Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin, this year.
Associates is a non-profit gallery initiated and directed by artist Ryan Gander. A one-year project of twelve solo exhibitions by artists who have not previously had a solo show in London, Associates offers the artists 100% of their sales profits. Associates will have a regular programme of openings on the last Thursday of every month (except December).
We would like to thank the signatories for their support. Patrons: Jack Bakker, Philippe Piessens, & Adam Prideaux; benefactors: Matthias Hartmann, & William de Quetteville; sponsors: ArtUpdate, Firefly Tonics, Ian & Frances Gander, Will Holder, Mark Hix, Chef Director of Caprice Holdings Ltd., & STORE