- Venue
- Transition Gallery Offsite
- Starts
- Saturday, June 18, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, July 10, 2011
- Address
- 60 Ravenscourt Road London W6 0UG
- Location
- London
This summer Transition Gallery travels offsite to present Mock Tudor at a venue alongside Ravenscourt Park in West London. Mock Tudor takes the much-reviled Tudorbethan architectural style as a starting point for an examination into authenticity, influence and inspiration. Tracing the strands that a powerful historic story projects, the Mock Tudor artists evoke the passions of another era by transforming the banal, assimilating identities and creating alternative histories. The work in the show is not strictly faithful to any historic period or style. Instead, it promiscuously borrows and changes details to suit its makers’ purposes, just as history itself is altered and adapted to suit its teller. Used to high-brow effect by the likes of Edwin Lutyens and the Arts and Crafts movement, Tudorbethan style now tends to be seen as a tasteless suburban pastiche with uPVC wood effect stucco boards creating ‘instant atmosphere’. The Tudor period is also currently popular on film and TV with the notable recent examples of the TV series The Tudors and the films The Other Boleyn Girl and Elizabeth. Whilst Tudor revivals may ape the romantic style of a bygone age, however authentic, they ultimately reveal more about their own historic moment than the actual Tudor period.
