Satellite Portflio 2011
Selected by Aid and Abet
On sale at Aid and Abet from 30th September 2011 http://aidandabet.co.uk/
Participating members featured in the first Satellite Portfolio are Dominic Allen, Jo Chapman, Polly Cruse, Nicola Naismith, Kate Parrott, Dominique Rey.
Dominic Allan:
The Irresistable Lure of Fatty Gingo
A3 Laser Jet on Paper
My work is about coming from Britain’s crappest town, Luton, but wanting to come from somewhere else. The artwork over the last 12 years ranges from the performative to the hand stitched, from customising dodgem cars (touring archetypal British seaside resorts in costume) to market trader tourette style banners. Lighbox’s advertising the everyman and no-one. A ‘Wankers’ list. LU1 to E1 (Kenilworth Road to Whitechapel Road). Where Britishness is explored then thrown away, pissed on then thrown back up as art. But forever autobiographical. Forever ‘Dominic From Luton.’
2006 and to now. Nothing. No texts. Silence. Chris. Chris to me. Endearment. Grown-up love. Friendship. Unfriendship. Foe. Why? Over a bike. Valuation. ‘YOUR MATES STUPID”. Look at the website and give me a call. For her, not me. A girls bike. Stolen. Lost, left, unloved. Brown wrapping. A big fuck-off bow. Gathering dust. Too big for a one-bed. Too big for a fatty. For her. Not me. Try again. Voicemail. Place of work. Site of worship. Growth. Try again. Text. Try again. Through friends. Why? ‘I DON”T WANT HIM TO DO TO DOM WHAT HE”S DONE TO ALL HIS OTHER FRIENDS’. To her. Silence. Silence. Ignorance is bliss. Cockroaches. Stick insects. Boilers you shouldn’t use. Dirty sleeping-bags. A library to die for. Buddha hair-do’s and naughty pictures of Nicky. A beautiful man. Jasper, Friday nights and gorgeous Gary. Diamond life.
