- Venue
- The Rythm factory
- Location
There are plenty of perfectly good artists working away, building up a profile, exhibition by exhibition, showing work whether they are supported by a gallery or funding or not. Self representing working artists are often where it’s at in art, working at the coal face of culture.
If an exhibition venue is a bar, it has to compete with people, music, talk, tables, alcohol, and so on – not the ideal white cube. You either have to (visually) shout very loud, and try to shock, or you keep your nerve and allow your quirky images to draw the viewer in and make an impression by sheer charm.
Annika Reed and Kate Innes make prints with humour and gently whimsical ideas, where stubbornly fantastic drawings, musings and scribblings extend into artistic practice. Inventive ideas transform creatures into morphed objects, and play with juxtaposed images – Fish Tea is a good example of their unresolvable paradox.
Dreamlike insights and folk references create illustrations to stories you can’t quite imagine.
