Georgie Porgie

24.Mar.07 - 16.Apr.07
tues-sun

Private View, 23.Mar.07, 7-10pm

Wiebke Morgan
The Flea Pit Gallery,
49 Columbia Road
Shoreditch,
London
London E2 7RG
07961452703 / 07879852916
infinitybunce@hotmail.co.uk
Tube Old Street, Liverpool Street, Shoreditch / Hoxton

Presenting Daniel Baker- Infinity Bunce- Kim Noble – Craig Wilson- Calum K Farr.

The first show- Georgie Porgie, presents works that hinge around themes of masculinity, desire, and individual identity. The catalyst for the show was Kim Noble's awe-inspiring paintings. She is an artist with D.I.D (originally named multiple personality disorder), and has a number of 'alters', twelve of whom are artists. Many of her alters are unaware that they share a body with others, and each of these artists has a unique personality, and a different style and approach to painting. The curators have worked with Kim to select six of her alters to show in the exhibition. The work is powerful, and varied, challenging many cultural boundaries around concepts of selfhood, individuality, memory, and artistic expression. Kim is currently the subject of a year-long documentary, which will encompass the exhibition.
www.kimnoble.com

Alongside Kim Noble's work will be Craig Wilson's seductive, lustful images of working class men. Craig is a young Middlesbrough-based artist who has already achieved national and international acclaim. His sheer energy, dexterity, and enthusiasm for creativity pours out into a variety of works. He is equally comfortable and prolific working in animation, screenprinting, sculpture and painting. Much of his already substantial body of work centres on the themes of desire, class, and the 'chav': "My work aims to fuse mundane everyday life with fantasy and lust….I obsess over stereotypical forms of masculinity and heterosexuality."
www.myspace.com/craigwilson9

Daniel Baker will be showing large drawings in which multiple varieties of monster, demon and nightmarish creature are engaged in battles, struggles and murderous deeds as many tiny narratives are played out across these map-like surfaces. The works seem at first to be simply imagination running riot, but the figures and stories represented form a kind of personal universe for Baker, and even the simplest forms, or most grotesque creatures, carry emotional and biographical significance, as they multiply and re-emerge within his other works, and across mediums and genres.
www.danielbaker.org
www.donkeyhead.org

Infinity Bunce's 'Bling Boys' works will complete the exhibition. Like Craig Wilson, Infinity fuses the mundane and the exotic in her work. These images are of 'urban youth', and explore complexities of race, 'Britishness', masculinity and 'youth culture'. They evoke and describe the aspirations of marginalised groups, who are attempting to forge individual identities through methods of display and performance. Infinity's gaze is at once voyeuristic, desiring, and empathetic, and raises questions around cultural voyeurism itself and the middle-class romanticisation of particular demographic groups.
www.infinitybunce.com
www.myspace.com/infinitybunce

Calum F. Kerr has performed and exhibited extensively both internationally and in the UK. For further links to his work see www.myspace.com/calumfkerr . Kerr will be addressing this multi-identity crisis on the opening night with the performance ‘Frank E. Pank E. Pudding & Pie’ - A giant clown boy with pudding & pie eyes will regale the crowds with harmonica soaked sounds. Each breath will reveal the complex battle of wills between Good Frank E. and Bad Frank E.
Which side will you fall?