grey area: July 2010

Jul 14, 2010

Bunker beautiful

Mike Stoakes

Exhibition: 24/07/10 – 08/08/10

Open: Thursday – Sunday, 1-5pm

Artist Talk: Saturday 31^st July, 7.30pm

PV: Friday 23^rd July, 7-9pm

Featuring a performance of 'Bunker Application Suite' by ModeX

“Designing spaces involves not only dealing with materials on a physical level; it is a process of redefining personal boundaries and examining the aspirations of the inhabitants. Our aim is to create for you an emotionally secure and aesthetically pleasing environment, to express and project your personality into the space via texture, colour and light.” JAG Design

Bunker beautiful is a makeover show in an underground shelter suggested by Grey Area’s location in a basement. The gallery and its previous function as residence are displaced by a space that privelages and protects the observer and their lines of sight. The distinction between the gallery and the house as spaces to view art blur and recombine under the sign of protective décor, the works being chosen to complement the bunker’s function as store and mirror.

Grey Area, Lower Ground Floor, 31, Queens Rd, Brighton

Swamp Salon, Paige Perkins

Swamp Salon

Paige Perkins

Exhibition: 19th June - 11th July
Open: Thursday - Sunday, 1-5pm
Artist Talk: Saturday 3rd June, 7pm
Opening event: Saturday 19th June, 7-9pm

'Silk on silk is lovely…despite the danger.'

Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carre

Swamp Salon is constructed from a series of new sculpture and video works that combine to create an indistinct meeting place for separate elements, linked by shared narrative fragments.

The scene is set by Charles Laughton's 'The Night of the Hunter'(1955) and the motif of 'Leda and the Swan' in Greek mythology, in which Zeus transformed into a swan and seduced Leda.

Swamp Salon is Paige Perkins' second solo show, following her 2008 installation at Grey Area entitled 'The Elect, Soft Restriction'. She lives and works in London.

A Love and Hate Lullaby where natural forces tangle with machines and desire.