Bobbie Russon - Cold Comfort

About

In this new body of work, for her first solo show at Arusha Bruton, Russon looks beyond the dark interiors of her childhood, casting around for alternative objects or belief systems – the stories we tell ourselves which define our personal sense of reality and provide us with hope in our increasingly secular, multicultural and fragmented society. They can take many and various forms: amulets and talisman (pieces of jewellery, a lucky charm, a favourite teddy, a faded, sepia photograph in a wallet – in fact any object imbued with the imaginary power to encourage, protect, reassure or inspire the wearer or carrier) as well as superstitions, ancient rites and shared community-based folk traditions which have persisted for centuries.

- Alison Swan on Bobbie Russon