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arebyteLASER is pleased to announce Frenzied Plainsong, the first solo show by artist George
Yarker.
Here in the middle
Intimate yet distant
Time signatures shift
Can’t bear any closer
An aisle so far from shore.
Myth/Meme that which seems to me to be nothing more than picture languages we invent to
embody and make accessible to casual reference, our deeper shared understandings which keep
us intact as a group-so far as we are intact as a group. Inhabiting middle grey here in a hedge,
abandon all workday tones and inflections resort to this more or less frenzied plainsong a poetics
of catastrophe.
The exhibition encompasses recent work treading a verge between image and text. A publication of
poetry will also be launched at the show, entitled Bíta. To bite and split, the mouth shall lead in jest.
Overshadowing awareness of presence.
No inflection
No direction
Not strong
Not stable
Our songs are short because we know so much,
I do not know nothing.
Frenzied Plainsong is part of arebyteLASER's 2017 programme titled Hotel Generation - a series of
exhibitions by a generation of young artists from around the UK, all responding to either contemporary
Ordinaryism, information overload, collective practice or reacting to the 'extreme present'.
Currently studying at the Royal College of Art, George is working towards developing further publications of
poetry. George graduated from Kingston University in 2014.
Previous group shows include Output, CGP, London 2017, Artists as Independent Publishers, Research
Centre for Artists’ Publications Bremen 2016, Dis Play, CGP, London 2016, Line of Flow, Art Hub, Deptford
2016, Luftschloss, Tom’s Etching Studio, Hackney Wick 2016, WIP Show, Royal College of Art 2016
Autoparts, Lokaal 01, Antwerp 2014 and International exhibition of Contemporary Student Printmaking,
Various locations 2014. Forthcoming exhibitions include Degree Show Royal College of Art, June 2017.
arebyteLASER is located within arebyte2, our newest studio complex spreading over 1000 square feet in the
heart of Clerkenwell. arebyteLASER has been made possible with the generous support and encouragement
from Outset: Studiomakers, General Projects and Arbeit Project Ltd.
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