Exhibition
Wild England - Payne Shurvell
In his first UK solo exhibition Andrew Curtis combines photographic and painterly techniques to create a series of disquieting portraits of English suburbia. The resulting images reveal a physical and psychological landscape in which the familiar is rendered unaccountably alien. Many of the works include two familiar suburban symbols: the Monkey Puzzle Tree and the Torbay Palm. Now reassuring indicators of conventionality, they were once the exotic decoration of the new Victorian suburbs. Curtis obscures these plants with a layer of black paint so they become unsettling reminders of our colonial past and suggest a ‘Wild England’, the lurking menace of unresolved trauma.
Start
08 Oct 2010
End
06 Nov 2010
Times
Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
Venue
Payne Shurvell
Address
16 Hewett Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3NN. UK
Phone
020 0011 4115
Website
payneshurvell.com
Cost
Free
Posted
07 Oct 2010
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