PLASTIC PROPAGANDA PRESENTS: “BOTH ENDS OF MADNESS”
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| She walks slowly into the Leith without a boatman to guide her swiftly across |
My work is featured in this exhibition in the Sassoon Gallery Folkestone, coming soon. the exhibition deals with mental health, this piece is concerned with the process of disintigrating memory in dementia.
From Monday 4 July to Friday 22 July, Plastic Propaganda will be presenting their latest art exhibition at the Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone Library, Folkestone Kent
Throughout the History of Art, madness and an associated range of pathologies, creative and otherwise, have informed and often accompanied the execution of artistic practice. Since antiquity, thinkers have associated creativity with psychopathology—the classic idea of the “mad genius” with stereotypes taken from both mass culture and fine art traditions. Examples include, for example, the manic pursuit and creation of the perfect artefact or object to the recognition of creative practice per se as a displacement from trauma, addiction and illness or indeed as a therapeutic and reflexive response to such.
The exhibition will include work by a range of contemporary artists including Richard Brooks, John Butterworth, Emily Jane Campbell, Anjula Crocker, Deborah Crofts , Dom Elsner, Jez Giddings, Lucy Gresley, William Henry, Mark Howland, Sarah Needham, Angus Pryor, Clare Smith , Kamilla Sztyber ,Sally Ward and Heidi Yssennagger.
In addition to the main exhibition, from 6pm until 8pm on Thursday 21 July there will be a public symposium which will explore and discuss some of the issues and themes suggested by the exhibition, including the iconography and content of specific works on display. There will be an open Q&A session with involvement warmly invited from the audience and members of the general public. The symposium panel contributors will include, Angus Pryor, Dr Grant Pooke, and John Butterworth.
For more information, please visit www.plasticpropaganda.co.uk or email wminto@btinternet.com 07775 916737
Plastic Propaganda:
Plastic Propaganda (PP) was established in 2009 by William Henry, a UK-based installation artist and sculptor and by Angus Pryor, Reader & Head of the School of Art & Design, University of Gloucestershire. It has a track record of delivering successful exhibitions of underrepresented, contemporary artists across a spectrum of media within innovative spaces. Dr Grant Pooke, an art historian at the University of Kent, came on board in 2010.
Its members are involved in the plastic and theoretical process of making and conceptualising art, regardless of medium. The collective has exhibited and showcased work at a range of locations in the UK and internationally, including London (venues have included the Baltic Exchange, Canary Wharf, Covent Garden and Tower Bridge); New Delhi, Taiwan and most recently Amsterdam. In 2015 Angus Pryor of Plastic Propaganda was involved in a major collaboration with Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, now the Wilson, which involved the exhibition of British Biblical Art, including commissioned paintings, alongside modernist work from the Ahmanson collection.
Plastic Propaganda was established in order to provide a supportive and visible platform for both new and established artists, irrespective of medium. A strongly collaborative and inclusive ethos has underpinned its formation and development and has informed a range of national and international partnerships with galleries, curators and educators.
List of participating artists:
Richard Brooks
John Butterworth
Emily Jane Campbell
Anjula Crocker
Deborah Crofts
Dom Elsner
Jez Giddings
Lucy Gresley
Mark Howland
William Henry
Sarah Needham
Angus Pryor
Clare Smith
Kamilla Sztyber
Sally Ward
Heidi Yssennagger
The exhibiting artists represent a range of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photographic and audiovisual practice. Their individual CV’s can be viewed on our website www.plasticpropaganda.co.uk
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