Peter Fillingham Untitled 2004
Exhibition from 17th March – 14th April 2012
Peter Fillingham and Laura White use constructivist anarcho-punk aesthetics employing reconstructive surgery to our post industrial urban detritus.
Rebuilding intimate environments in a recyclical continuum, their intimate enquiries within the detached disposability of 21st century consumerism is as prevalent today in 2012 as it was intimated by Duchamp as he began work on the Large Glass in 1912 with the disposability of his Bachelors in a newly mechanised world.
Both Fillingham and White are magpies and hoarders mining their own respective localities as did Rauschenberg in New York in the 1960 s finding all the source material to use in his art within a block of his studio.
Fillingham’s art more circumspect intertwining personal dialogue and histories within gently persuasive interventions of everyday objects and White’s art, a playful replaying of modernist ambitions critiquing the mannerism’s of the art object as a desirable commodity.
Both artists employ interventionist techniques from widely differing origins to finally offer up analogies and insights in a confluence of shared ideas.
Peter Fillingham
Peter Fillingham often using found or inexpensively bought objects with their interplay creates problematic visionary art. It is the experience of sculpture and more prosaically Fillingham’s personal relationship to and with objects, which offer us a subtle but profound view of the world.
“I am interested in mimicry within spaces and places and with things, understanding their codes either installing works or making studies incorporated in works elsewhere.”
Peter Fillingham has exhibited widely in group shows and solo shows in The UK and in Europe, including: The Economist Plaza, London. Rachmaninoffs,London “The Institute of Contemporary Anxiety” ICA, London in 1994, “Watt” at Witte de With Rotterdam. 1996 Life / Live Paris Musee D’ Art Moderne,Paris. 1996 Peiling 5, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 1996 “Plastic” Richard Salmon Gallery,London. Arnolfini, Bristol. Walsall city art gallery. “Thoughts” City Racing, London, 1998 ” A to Z” The Approach, London. 1999 “Stimuli” Witte de With Rotterdam. 2000 “Century City” Tate Modern. 2001 Gymnasium Bregenz Kunstverein. 2003 “Sharjah Biennial”, Sharjah UAE. 2003 “Country life” Cell projects, London. 2007 “Citadel” David Risley gallery, London. 2011 “Fraternise” Beaconsfield, London. “Ideal Home” Chelsea Space, London. Ellen de Bruijne Projects Amsterdam. Lavomatic studio Seamus Farrell, Saint Ouen, France.
Laura White
Exploring the language of sculpture Laura White uses a range of materials from everyday objects to constructed matter. Interested in a relationship and negotiation with the stuff of the world, from the readymade to the handmade, cheap reproduced goods to church relics, playing with ideas of value, profile, association and meaning of individual and collections of objects. The works make both use of and referral to categories of objects, occupying a fluid space, on one hand demanding critical discourse, and on the other its own ambiguous and intuitive logic.
“The works I have made for the show locate themselves within a historical context and particular sculptural languages, such as to classicism and carved marble busts, the modernist abstract sculptures of Hepworth and Gabo, to ornate symbolic religious objects/relics. Relationships are set up and questions are provoked around value and taste through my works plasticized materiality and relation to current consumer culture. It is the trail of pastiche and replica objects in the aftermath of valued objects and sculptures that I negotiate my relationship to both. A category of objects I am currently working with, are the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth, where I am making pieces that parallel some of he intentions, such as to create simplified and reductive abstract forms, but as one looking back through art history and a current commoditized market of replica Hepworth type shapes and forms that appear in all kinds of retail outlets, from garden centers to craft shops, in the form ! of vases and ornaments etc. It is important for me to treat the everyday object with a regard to its production and authorship, as even the cheapest item from a pound shop has been designed by someone.”
Laura White studied on the MA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths College and has forthcoming exhibitions at Spacex in Exeter and at Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery as part of Sinopticon. She has exhibited, 2009 “Chromodomo”: Laura White. “Scratching Walls and Sticky Décor”. The Wall House #2, Groningen, Netherlands. Series of 3 Solo shows. Other artists – Erwin Wurm and Spencer Finch. The Earth Not a Globe 2 . Rokeby, London. “If I had a monkey I wouldn t need a TV Part 2”. Carter Presents, London. Exhibition and Book Launch. (Pub. Laura White: The Stuff of Images.) 2008/09, “If I had a monkey I wouldn t need a TV”. Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. Exhibition and Book Launch. (Pub. Laura White: The Stuff of Images.), 2007 Powwow. Gallery-33, Berlin. 2006 ” Into the Cold Light”. Transition Gallery, London. Laura White: New Work. Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
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