Peculiar Encounters

Curated by Sarah Dwyer and Laura Green in association with ecArtspace

Thomas Bangsted • Sam Basu • Owen Bullet • Varda Caivano • Stella Capes • Raymond Taudin Chabot • Jo Chate • Gordon Cheung • James Connelly • Liz Dawson • Keiron Dennis • Sarah Douglas • Sarah Dwyer • Laura Green • Lizzie Hughes • Kate MccGwire • Mark Mangion • Katy Moran • Yukako Shibata • David Spero • Kamini Vellodi • Richard Walker • Douglas White

Peculiar Encounters showcases the work of 23 artists within the unique space of an old abattoir. All of the artists have shown both nationally and internationally, the work includes Painting, Sculpture, Installation and Video. The principal thematic running through the show is the transformation and reframing of the real and the everyday, and the potential for a realisation of the fantastical and the other-worldly through such transformations.

Included among these various practises are references to science-fiction, romanticised landscape, the body and states of hybridity. The dark sense of ‘otherworldiness’ that runs through many of the works on display is enhanced by their setting in this curious, almost sinister underground space, with its series of interlocking chambers and vaults.

Peculiar Encounters
187-211 St John St EC1

Tube: Farringdon / Barbican

Ends 2 Dec 2005
Mon-Sun 12-6pm or by appt

For all media enquires contact:
Laura Green or Sarah Dwyer: 07958 917 450 or 07985076666
peculiarencounters@gmail.com
www.peculiarencounters.co.uk

Sponsored by Targetti, AngloIrish Bank, Majestic and ADI Audiovisual

Technophobia
Financial Times, Pastels, Acrylic Spray and Gel, Ink, Gloss on canvas
3 canvases each 9 x 5ft / 274 x 152cm (total: 9 x 15ft / 274 x 456cm) / 2005