- Venue
- Studio 1.1
- Location
A couple of weeks of ago I was in London’s Redchurch Street where I had gone in search of the gallery space: studio 1.1 and the work of Lucy Conochie.
Studio 1.1 had been recommended to me by a studio-mate, artist, Jo Wilton, as a place of unusual, contemporary work. And I wasn’t to be disappointed. The tiny-seeming venue with its seemingly sloping floors is bigger than it’s washed-out dented, steel exterior would suggest, and a great space for Lucy Conochie’s show ‘Simile’.
Where does Conochie’s work start and end, as the salient words and images spill across the uneven gallery walls, and unexplained objects appear self-contained in quiet corners.
I liked the work enormously, especially the strange but ominous exhibit entitled: Boy. Startling in its simplicity yet reeking of a whole unknowable, complicated narrative. Conochie’s work has an uneasy, out of reach quality about it, while at the same time evoking a feeling of nostalgia.
I left studio 1.1 enlivened, quenched, and looking forward to my next visit.
