- Venue
- Edwardian Toilets
- Starts
- Friday, June 1, 2012
- Ends
- Saturday, June 16, 2012
- Address
- Corner of Woodland Road and Park Row, Bristol, BS1 5LJ
- Location
- South West England
Consisting of new and existing works, the artwork by Martyn Cross in Crumbling Into Dust uses the long forgotten ‘English Eccentrics’, a 1933 publication by the avant-garde poet Edith Sitwell, as catalyst. Subtitled ‘A gallery of weird and wonderful men and women’, Sitwell’s gloriously eccentric narrative examines precisely what it is to be an outsider. In the exhibition, Cross will visually reinterpret Sitwell’s text within his customary vandalised knitting patterns and other, newer hand crafted objects. Happy hermits reside with burnt-out fires and misfit maidens lounge with disembodied hands. Visions of perfection are rendered uncanny and ideal worlds are lost to darkly dumb modifications. Within the unconventional surroundings, toilet humour abounds. Obsessed by the darker fringes of existence, Cross, like Sitwell, in effect documents our eventual disappearance into dust.
