Exhibition
Bex Ilsley: boom + bust
28 Jul 2018 – 18 Aug 2018
Event times
PV: Saturday 28th July 2018 6-9pm
FREE green screen workshop: August 11th 3-5pm
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- Carliol House
- New Market Street
- Newcastle upon Tyne
England - NE1 8NE
- United Kingdom
‘boom + bust' is a solo show by Bex Ilsley. PV Saturday 28th July, 6-9pm.
Kindly supported by Arts Council England
About
Bex Ilsley is an artist based in Coventry.
Ilsley’s sculptural practice explores the nature of body and personality in virtual, physical, and psychological spaces using fantasy, performativity, objecthood and paradox as a lens through which to question the authenticity of these structures and its relationship to mental health. Ilsley aim’s to create depictions of the self and the Other which twist in and out of the real and the virtual, the artificial and the authentic, progressing through journeys of discovery, only to end up where they began.
For boom + bust, Bex Ilsley links ideas surrounding intergenerational mental health, economic uncertainty and AI (Artificial Intelligence) generated internet content. Ilsley questions where the responsibility lies for unresolved emotional trauma within familial structures, and what parallels can be drawn between market fluctuations, technological progress and collective anxiety.
boom + bust is hosted and curated by GOLDTAPPED and Mia CathCart.