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Strange Days and Some Flowers at the newly refurbished Storey Gallery!
15 Jul 2009
11 July - 03 Oct 2009
Strange Days and Some Flowers re-launches the newly refurbished Storey Gallery in Lancaster and is an opportunity to explore strange and uneasy work by a number of contemporary artists.
Discontinued by Jock Mooney, sculpture and mixed media
Copyright the artist. Image Jock Mooney (detail featured on bulletin)
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Strange Days and Some Flowers provides a rare opportunity to revisit a world we knew as children. Many of us will have imagined walking around on the ceiling, exploring a world which was familiar, but strange. Where beasties lurked in place of our jumpers, where up was down and grass looked a little bit like our shoe-laces. We had an innate ability to disassociate ourselves from reality, we saw the world from impossible angles, disorientated and surreal, but also playful, exciting and constantly shifting.
There is no 'theme', no curatorial thread, and no sheet of A4 'interpretation' to help you navigate through the space in a linear, formal manner. Instead you are invited into Graham Hudson's partially occluding maze, catching a frustrating glimpse of John Stark's spooky bee-keepers, metres away but not quite reachable. Several slightly disorientating minutes later, you're sharing an intimate booth of steel with a couple of Don Brown's alluring Yoko's. One shrouded, one stood elegant and proud in her pants, vest and platform shoes. In the considerably sparser second gallery, Mika Rottenberg's Tropical Breeze plunges you into a unique world of sweat, transportation and the odd naked man in running shoes.
The exhibition is intended as a celebration of the diversity of contemporary art practice, and as an exemplar of ambition and beacon of things to come in the North West of England at the Storey Gallery.
Storey Gallery
The Storey Institute
Meeting House Lane
Lancaster LA1 1TH
11am - 5pm Tuesday to Saturday
11am - 9pm Thursdays
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