Private View at InSpire on 27/04/11, 6-9pm

Acute Awareness (2010)

wood, correx, latex, varnish

131 x 42.5 x 6 cm

I would like to invite everyone to The Texture of Lines exhibiton.

at the Crypt at St Peters Church,

Liverpool Grove SE17 2HH

Nearest tube station: Elephant and Castle.

Private View Wed 27th April 6-9.

This is a joint exhibition instigated by David Manley who graduated last year with work from him and second years Philippa Edwards, Tafari Grant, Julie North and Désirée Ickerodt.

There will also be some classical music plus a poet performing.

Please also have a look at the exhibition blog:
http://thetextureoflines.blogspot.com/

Private View at The Camp 24/03/2011

Androgynous Crucible (2011)

Mixed media

ca. 120 (h) x 50 (diameter) cm

This androgynous crucible is self-contained. It can penetrate itself, fertilize itself and conceive all by itself. It is its own source of inspiration and motivation.

Photo by: Rad Kubon

www.radphotography.net

The Androgynous Crucible will be shown at the group exhibition Twenty Twelve.

Venue: The Camp

70-74 City Road

London EC1Y 2BJ

www.thecamplondon.com

Private view: 24/03/2011, 6pm - late

The show runs 24-30/03/2011

Everyone is welcome.

For more details on this exhibition please go to

http://twentytwelveexhibition.blogspot.com/

The Grail

The Grail (2011)
plastic glass, bioresin, mooncup

This mooncup has been donated by Mooncup Ltd.
http://www.mooncup.co.uk/

Photo by: David Olsan
http://davidolsanphotography.com/

‘The great non-Christian legend of the Middle Ages was that of the Quest of the Grail. The Christian knights of King Arthur’s table were tormented by a vision of the cup used at the Last Supper that contained blood from the wounds of the crucified Jesus. Only the pure knight without stain, Parsifal, was admitted into the Grail Castle where the genitally maimed Fisher King sat awaiting the question that would bring life back into the Wasteland. Parsifal watched the show of knights and maidens carrying the last dripping blood into the cup of the Grail, and he was thunderstruck. He was speechless. Being speechless, he did not ask the question that would have redeemed the Wasteland. He showed no curiosity. The show came and went - and the Castle vanished. Parsifal had failed.’ (Penelope Shuttle & Peter Redgrove, p.190, The Wise Wound)

In order to understand The Grail we have to answer the following three questions:

1. Whom does the Grail serve?

2. The world is in the Grail and the Grail is in the world: what is the Grail?

3. Where is the Grail Castle, that is surrounded with water, that is everywhere at once, and which is invisible?

The mooncup that is contained in this artwork gives a clue to these questions.