Iain Cheesman: Visionary Moments
21 April, 2015 - 7 June, 2015
Little Gallery
Iain Cheesman, I like it and it likes me (detail) (2015), Concrete, polystyrene, glue and leather
Visionary Moments is a new series of works by installation artist Iain Cheesman.
The slinky calfskins are like prehistoric billboards for art movements, they drape on the wall but could easily be worn as artist’s capes that identify the group that the artist would wish to belong to.
Each art movement (or original) has been broken up into a ‘quasi phonetic string’ of smaller words. This string offers differing meanings to the original; it becomes a small sentence or possible narrative. It also plays on the sound that a word expects when it is spoken. These permutations of the original are not unlike cockney slang and other manipulations of ‘pure’ language.
To stand in front of them and look, the words are seemingly unintelligible, only a series of holes punched through the hide itself, except words do appear. The words are like a strange dyslectic encounter with a clumsy Haiku.
Accompanying the skins is a human sized entity, a kind of organic shaman in the process of change, standing before the skins and learning to be something else. There is a faint aura of Animism, where this entity could possibly lead us down other some path; to somewhere else.
-Iain Cheesman (March 2015)
Join artist Iain Cheesman on Saturday 23 May for a discussion of his exhibition Visionary Moments.
This exhibition talk will begin at 12.30pm.