RESIST!
An exhibition from May 13th to June 28th2003
Tuesday to Saturday 10 - 1pm & 2 - 5pm
Free Admission
This exhibition is inspired by the massive wave of global protest started in Seattle. It brings together different kinds of political art from documentary work and socialist realism, to work made as a direct response to the current political climate.
Some of the artists featured are:
- Paul Brandford works from images in newspapers to try and trace back a fragment of the real event
- Peter Lewis makes large ceramic pieces that highlight the struggles of the Palestinians
- Robert Lee Jenkinson uses advertising as a medium for challenging elitism in art
Robert Lee Jenkinson
- Rart and Sete play with the notion of class
- Laura Oldfield A.K.A Lauranorder
A large panel of canvases portray protesters as though they are being photographed by the police. Her smaller drawings draw startling comparisons such as one between Mcdonald's and Mcdonald Douglas (a weapons manufacturer)
Laura Oldfield
- Loberto Leone’s 'Writing On The Wall' series is a visually stunning documentation of political graffiti
- George Heslop’s chocolate crucifix examines seduction and value through materials
- Tim Davies’s haunting series 'still lives' reflects on how the redundancy of tools impacts on people’s lives
- Ken Clarry questions the role of the media after the recent war with Iraq
- Sally Madge literally shows us how blood and oil don’t mix
- Yoke And Zoom’s new piece 'Not In Our Name', an ammunintion box subverted by press cuttings
- Catherine Graham’s dodgy wiring in 'F**k The System'
Catherine Graham
- Michael Prince embeds text into photographs of rural landscape to represent the 'Lost Voices' of conservation.
Preview Saturday 10th May 2003, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.
Please contact Crescent Arts for more information.
Patrick Burke
Voluntary Exhibition officer
Preview Saturday 11th January 2003, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.
For exhibition related events see the calendar