Exhibition

Breaking the Narrative

21 Oct 2023 – 5 Nov 2023

Regular hours

Saturday
12:00 – 17:00
Sunday
12:00 – 17:00
Thursday
12:00 – 17:00
Friday
12:00 – 17:00

Free admission

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Thames-Side Studios

London
England, United Kingdom

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  • 161 / 177 / 180 / 472 Bus stops are located; east-bound and west-bound: Woolwich, Warspite Road (6 mins walk)
  • North Greenwich (Take the Route Bus 472 towards Thamesmead Town Centre)
  • Woolwich Dockyard (8 mins walk) and Charlton (12 mins walk)
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A multi-disciplinary group show curated by artist duo Broughton & Birnie.

About

Breaking the Narrative brings together six contemporary artists (two collaborations) whose work delves into the creative studio practice - identifying a move towards a collage aesthetic, a conversational approach to the subject and the crossing and mixing of genres to fashion compelling works of art that speak to our relationship with the digital world. 

Broughton & Birnie's conversations on canvas using hyper-real colours to disarm the viewer, propelling them through carnivalesque situations. Alex Pearl's ingenious site specific installation of vintage monitors and furniture displaying glitched anthropomorphist gif animations, slippages through the internet that throw brief glimpses and echos of the paintings on the walls.

Paul Brandford's large oil paintings go head to head with art history and social media, badly photoshopped images from his Twitter feed are parachuted into masterpieces of Manet and Rembrandt. The exchanges that follow are no longer ringfenced, everthing is on equal footing, embracing the collisions of high and low art, we are literally asked 'Which Way Now Western Man?.

Locky Morris's large format photographs and playfully edited looped videos ask us to look again, as our chaotic lives are slowed down and reviewed, a skeleton of a white angle poise lamp lies flattened on the road, to be constantly run over by a police van. Pathos and humour reign.

A feeling of conversation and exploration is also at the heart of the collaborative practice of Nicola Bensley & David Dipré, painting and working over black and white photographs to capture a fluid state of being. The reworking and editing of original works create an open dialogue between the physical and fleeting moment as we career through a fast and furious digital experience.

Simon Leahy-Clark's fascinating collages of newspaper clippings look more like paintings, but on closer inspection they reveal an intricate labyrinth of carefully  chosen and placed parts, everything is considered. Made from yesterdays news Simon's work skillfully equates our reality from discarded fragments.

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Broughton & Birnie

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Paul Brandford

Broughton & Birnie

Nicola Bensley

David Dipré

Locky Morris

Alex Pearl

Simon Leahy-Clark

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