Wales based artists ‘Rhod’ exhibit at The Brewhouse
(pictured – Dave Shepherd’s ‘Ron’s Boat’)
‘Sam Aldridge, Kathryn Campbell Dodd, good cop bad cop, Jason Pinder, Anthony Shapland and Dave Shepherd, a mix of established and emerging talent, use a diverse mixture of media from performance, film to sculpture. They have in common ‘Rhôd’, an annual exhibition in rural west Wales that aims to site contemporary art in a rural landscape creating a dialogue between urban artists and artists who work in rural settings.’ –http://www.thebrewhouse.net/exhibitions/1380/take-the-m4-east-then-the-m5-south
On until August 11th!
I didn’t go to the PV but I did check out this exhibition the following day during my lunch break. The chair piece seen here, definitely reminded me of Fischli and Weiss as well as Simon Lee Dicker’s School Room desks that were in his exhibition, ‘Show and Tell’ which is an observation and not a criticism because I like this style of work and its clever balancing acts. Its playful. The whole of the exhibition, ‘Take the M4 East Then the M5 South’ is playful and intriguing. Sam Aldrige’s cardboard sculptures of traffic cones and construction site helmets are fantastic trompe l’oeil replicas of their originals and remind me fondly of Claes Oldenburg’s ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ sculptures of toilets, lipsticks and everyday things. Similarly, Dave Shepherd’s work (one pictured above) is both playful and inventive. As ever, with Brewhouse shows, it is not a mass of things to see (as its a modestly sized gallery space) but the work is interesting if you’re interested in something that will make you think and smile at the same time then its well worth a look.
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