Exhibition

Jonathan Baldock - There's No Place Like Home

11 Jun 2017 – 30 Jul 2017

Regular hours

Sunday
11:00 – 16:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 16:00
Thursday
11:00 – 16:00
Friday
11:00 – 16:00
Saturday
11:00 – 16:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Southwark Park Galleries - Lake Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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This summer Jonathan Baldock takes over both galleries at CGP London presenting his largest solo show to date.

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JONATHAN BALDOCK - THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Private View: Sunday 11 June 3-6pm
Exhibition: 15 June - 30 July (Thur-Sun 11am-5pm)

Taking its title from the 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz, THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME is Jonathan Baldock’s largest solo show to date. Newly commissioned and previously unseen works will populate both spaces at CGP London including an extensive installation.

Monumental sculptures and live interventions coexist during the six-week exhibition span. Jonathan Baldock has created this new body of work honing techniques and crafts traditionally associated with the domestic sphere, the home. Felting, basket weaving, candle making, appliqué and stitching allude to idealised domestic bliss and gendered roles. Some iconic references from the Wizard of Oz create an interplay with scale, terrors and wonder bordering on the monstrous.

A host of sculptures collaborate and become a chorus: a pouting stained glass window; a human-scale votive candle adorned with waxen ears; a wicker-chain morphs into a human spine; chandeliers shaped like breasts suspend over us with intent; a sandy table in the form of an eye are vying for attention. This fractured human body is patrolled by a mysterious, statuesque white horse further creating a surreal setting.

Dilston Grove having been a historic church, one of the first concrete buildings of its size in Britain, still carries the idea and the scale of the ritualistic. With Jonathan Baldock’s art occupying such a cavernous space where sculptures are stretching from floor to ceiling, once again encourages us to step within the artist’s created reverie loaded with mythological, folkloric and ceremonial meaning.

The Dilston Grove installation will become animated when Jonathan Baldock collaborates with Vancouver’s Kokoro Dance company who will interact with it in bespoke, sculptural costumes.

Performances by Kokoro Dance will take place at Dilston Grove on 2 and 8 July (4pm) and on the evening of Friday 7 July (7-9pm). Free, no booking required.

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME is generously supported by The Paul and Louise Cooke Endowment, The Foyle Foundation, Weber Industries, KERAX, Arts Council England and Southwark Council.

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