- Venue
- The Crypt Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, April 14, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, April 22, 2012
- Address
- The Crypt Gallery St Pancras Parish Church Euston Road London NW1 2BA
- Location
- London
This show presents seven London-based artists whose experience in creating site-specific art has led to surprising interventions that resonate within the unique space of the Crypt Gallery. Installations incorporating found objects, multiples, constructions, kinetic form, sound, light and video explore the atmosphere and architecture of the Crypt. Chris Avis uses mannequins to explore, identify and reveal elements of human experience. Ali Darke’s improvised still life scenes delve into the hinterland of memory where fact and fiction play in the mind’s eye. Annette Freeman’s ‘Plane Song: Reverie’ is a text-based work relating the experience of the London plane trees around the church. Jan Goodkin’s new installation is inspired by a 20th century vocal score which gives voice and vision to an improvised idea about life and death. Heather Meyerratken uses found objects to tell poignant and sometimes subversive stories. David Pike responds to the architecture of the crypt through a contemporary take on the caryatids facing the Euston Road and encryption of various ‘writings on the wall’. Richard Sharples presents a video installation that is concerned with the process of aging and the clash between suffering, dignity, growth and decay.
