Country:
Categories:
Really Good news for Skip Gallery - David Shrigley confirmed as second artist
In the parking space opposite 19 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB, 13th June – 25th Jun
Skip Gallery has announced that the follow up to its inaugural show in Hoxton Square will be an installation by the artist David Shrigley. Shrigley is Turner Prize nominated and his work Really Good was chosen for the Fourth Plinth.
Skip Gallery will return to its inaugural space in the car parking space opposite 19 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB, but it’s intended that Skip Gallery will be a roving event for future installations. The Skip Gallery concept is created by co-founders and creative partners Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker, two London based artists and creatives whose idea was to take the mundane, the everyday and everyplace and to reimagine them.
The work will be launched in Hoxton Square on Tuesday 13th June.
Lee Baker commented "Because skips are so prevalent and familiar to the public, there is an intrinsic curiosity that comes from the transformation of such an iconic object. Preconceptions about skips and their uses feed into the unexpected and witty quality of the space, which sets up the audience to be more accepting of the artwork itself."
Catherine Borowski says “Skip Gallery, and our return to Hoxton Square, was initially as an artistic response to the fact that affordable space to work and show in London is increasingly unavailable. The irony that we now have the incredible David Shrigley “in” our gallery is not lost.”
Catherine Borowski is also an award winning placemaker and founder of PRODUCE UK a collaborative placemaking group that has been behind some of the most exciting urban developments in the UK. PRODUCE UK has worked with a range of clients including Lumiere Light Festival, London Festival of Architecture, Vanity Fair, Nike and Adidas
Location: In the parking space opposite 19 Hoxton Square, N1 6PB
Private View: Tuesday 13 June 6-8pm
Exhibition continues:
Wednesday 14 June 2pm-9pm
Thursday 15 June 2pm-9pm
Friday 16 June 2pm-9pm
Saturday 17 June 11am-7pm
Sunday 18 June 11am-5pm
Thursday 22 June 2pm-9pm
Friday 23 June 2pm-9pm
Saturday 24 June 11am-7pm
Sunday 25 June 11am-5pm
Catherine Borowski is an artist and urban placemaker. Her work since finishing her BA Hons. at Nottingham Trent University has taken inspiration from the notion of the non-place, such as a series of carpet arrows in the open plan offices of the Sunday Mirror and siting a tarmac bench in the carpark of an industrial estate on the outskirts of Nottingham. She is founder and director of award winning creative agency Produce UK.
Lee Baker is an artist and music producer. He has exhibited his paintings in London, New York, Dallas and San Francisco. Since 2002 his work has drawn on inspiration from travel and study of Japanese culture, exploring a deeper understanding of the theories, histories and ideologies behind Japanese creativity. His paintings reference the Japanese concept of mono no aware or ‘pathos of things’. Where the memento mori in Western art reminds us of our mortality, the symbol of a flower in Japanese art specifically highlights the sad beauty of the temporal nature of living things. Lee’s paintings, dislocate the dying flower from context, symbolically locating the moment where deterioration begins.
Hoxton Sqaure
