Oona Grimes Chapter Two |
natural puff 2014 spray paint on paper mounted on di-bond 74.5 cm x 111 cm |
8 November - 14 December 2014 |
‘They are playing games. They are playing at
not 'The real secret of magic is that the world is
made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made
of you can make of it whatever you wish.’ The series of work for Chapter Two begins
as a book of protective spells or science fiction hieroglyphics: a cocktail
plundering the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Flann O’Brian, Terry
McKenna, Swedenbourg and 1001 Nights. There is a distinct emotional and technical precision
to all of Oona Grimes’ work that gives it its idiosyncratic and fascinating
lure. You’re lured inspite of yourself, inspite of not knowing what
the shady characters and disjointed hieroglyphics represent, nor exactly
how the jagged lines have been manufactured without any digital input
whatsoever. Surely to create trust in a distrustful world is some of
what Grimes succeeds in doing. Oona Grimes was educated at Norwich School of Art
and the Slade School of Fine Art UCL. She is a compulsive drawer and
story-teller. Working with books and multiples, etching and mixed media,
she embraces redundant print processes; salvaging and recycling discarded
and obsolete materials. Narratives gleaned from such diverse lives as
William Bligh, Mary Bell, John Dee and Fred West are mapped and served
up as cocktail-shaken distillations of individual and collective memory. |
garden of flowers and potatoes
2014 spray paint on paper mounted on di-bond 75.5 cm x
168 cm |
kamul crubeens
2014 spray paint on paper mounted on di-bond 74.5 cm x 111 cm
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kamul crubeens
2014 spray paint on paper mounted on di-bond 74.5 cm x 111 cm
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Axel Munthe and the otter eaters
2014 spray paint on paper mounted on di-bond 74.5 cm x 111 cm |
a choir of potatoes 2014 clay photograph by Oskar Proctor |
slightly foxed
2014 spray paint on paper mounted on di-bond 74.5 cm x 111 cm
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Prints and editions 2014 photograph by Oskar Proctor |
small puff
2014 spray paint on paper 28 cm x 40 cm edition of 10 |
the dress me up
2013 spray paint on paper mounted on foamex and shelf 75.5 cm x 168 cm |
toes n toast 2014 ceramic edition of 3 photograph by Oskar Proctor |
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