The Venue:
Toms Bar is going to be the venue for my next exhibition…
It's an amazing space and perfect for me to put into practice a growing interest in Jungian theories on archetypes and the unconscious mind, specifically the rebirth process.
In many mythological tales, and in many dreams also, we have experienced a decent into the depths of the unconscious in order to reach the goal of a higher (more integrated) consciousness. This process can be seen as a rebirth, or on an energetic level, as an equalisation.
In Toms Bar I am going to use the murky, disjointed nightclub space downstairs as a platform to express the unpredictable, ancient behaviours of the unconscious mind. The spatial dynamics are already unusual and I hope to use this to my advantage. The journeying downstairs and then back up again will work as a metaphor for my exploration of the rebirth concept. In viewing the downstairs space people will return to the ground floor to see the more formally presented individual paintings in (hopefully) a new light.
