Exhibition
This Place Must Be Earth
30 May 2015 – 27 Jun 2015
Event times
Mondays - Saturdays 10am-6pm.
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 54-56 Hoe Street
- Walthamstow,
- London
United Kingdom - E17 4PG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 3 minutes walk from Walthamstow Central Underground (Victoria Line), train and bus stations
Using collage to devastating effect, Tim Fishlock aka Oddly Head launches an attack on the morally hollow world of Hollywood.
About
E17 Art House is proud to present Oddly Head's potent and dynamic 'This Place Must Be Earth' as the first solo show in their new gallery space at 54-56 Hoe Street, Walthamstow.
Laid low by life and hooked up to an IV drip of Pop Art, Adam Curtis documentaries and books by John Gray, all the while soundtracked by John Cooper Clarke's Chicken Town, Oddly Head has coughed up a body of work that is both alarming and hilarious. It's also rather beautiful.
Using collage to devastating effect, he launches an attack on our own ravenous species and its subjugation of all other life forms, the relentless pressure to consume, the resulting Death Star-sized trash heaps of defunct product and our increasingly unnatural attitude to food production. And all the while, we have our beaks stuck in a box of battery farmed chicken bones.
Elsewhere, the creatively impoverished, morally hollow world of Hollywood is distilled into its three innate components - guns, explosions and women in peril.
Oddly Head's approach has a heavy air of cynicism and misanthropy, yet the craft is so so accomplished and the detail so intricate, it's never less than thrilling to look at.
Artist Reception Sunday 31st May.
Showing as part of the E17 Art Trail 2015. Venue number 78
Nearest Underground/Train/Bus Station; Walthamstow Central - 7mins walk.
