exhibition

Fan Fair

Artists Cathy Lomax, Matt Rowe

14.Jun.08 - 13.Jul.08
Fri-Sun 12-6
£ free

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios 8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
020 7254 0045
transition@huntergather.com
www.transitiongallery.co.uk
Tube Bethnal Green; BR Cambridge Heath, Hackney / Bethnal Green

Fan Fair rolls out a group of artists whose work deals with the spectacle of seaside sensations. Based not at the seaside but in the heart of Hackney, Fan Fair is however more theatrical re-enactment than social documentary.

Fan Fare invites you to roll up to an imaginary enclave of cheap spills and thrills. A lolly stick big dipper jostles for space alongside impossibly delicate ceramic skittles, a freak show deep-sea diver and suggestively smutty souvenir hankies, while in the corner Madam Sosostris steps out from Eliot’s Wasteland to read your tarot cards.

This exhibition follows on from last summer’s O Dreamland, Transition’s off-site examination of that curious British allure of all things seasidey, Fan Fair returns the favour by bringing a whiff of the seaside to the city.

Artists: Dominic Allan, Doug Jones, Cathy Lomax, Matt Rowe, Tabitha Moses

Private View: Friday 13 June