Exhibition
Emma Cousin & Milly Peck. Mudhook
18 Jan 2017 – 18 Feb 2017
Address
- 107 Essex Road
- Canonbury
- London
- N1 2SL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 38, 56, 73, 341, 476 (and on neary Upper Street 4, 19, 30, 43)
- Angel, Highbury & Islington
- Essex Road
Tintype is pleased to commence 2017with Mudhook a presentation of two emerging artists, Emma Cousin and Milly Peck.
About
Emma Cousin walks the line between the serious and the humorous - and, indeed, legs are her vehicle. “I currently use legs as a unit, a sign, a representation, a pun and an architectural element to build, make pattern or compose space with. The leg stands in for the human.”
Cousin’s practice is rooted in an interest in the human conditi on, visual semiotics, the history of painting and the material readability of paint itself. Oscillating between the figurative and the geometric, her paintings communicate an exuberant energy.
Encompassing drawing, collage and sculpture, Milly Peck’s work mines the congested optical fields of advertising and commercial display. Peck interrogates the interphase of the flat image and the three-dimensional object. “I am intere sted in the disjuncture between our constant image ingestion and our physical handling of real stuff.”
Milly Peck often plays with representations of the natural world, paying particularly close attention to clumsy imitations of biomorphic forms and human gestures.
In a parallel manner to Emma Cousin, Milly Peck graphically renders images pulled from the everyday into outlines or chunky cut-outs. Both artists court a line between comical misinterpretation and exaggeration.