Julie Cook: Olympia Moments Ltd | Paul Davies: When Sizzlin’ Stacy met Dazzlin’ Darlene

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Julie Cook and Paul Davies share an interest in the personalities, places and spaces of erotica and the exotic dancing industry. Cook’s work records the ‘make do and mend’ characteristics of exotic dancing in London pubs and celebrates the cheerful organised chaos that attend both the performances themselves and the preparations for them. Paul Davies describes the escort cards he has religiously collected in Las Vegas between 1994 and 2008 as ‘a form of folk art’ and as a souvenir of a ‘uniquely eroticized landscape’. Davies’ escort card collection is presented in pairs juxtaposed with seemingly innocuous images, which are the result of the artist’s ebay searches.