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Articles> Exploring: Rotate
By Nicolas Ruston
For more information about Rotate, visit Outpost
Founded in 2004, Outpost is an artist-run contemporary gallery space based in Norwich. When I heard that Outpost members were exhibiting at the Contemporary Art Society in London, I thought it the perfect opportunity for my premier article for Green Pebble.
For Rotate, Outpost has selected six artists: Helene Appel, Rob Filby, Neil Baker, Jacques Rogers, Karen Cunningham and Steve Bishop. All have a strong relationship with Outpost and were chosen to represent the broad spectrum of Outpost's exhibition programme.
Upon entering the space, it strikes me that if I view the grouping of work in my eye-line, as a single body, it gives the impression of an elaborate kinetic sculpture. In the background, a large, lit angle- poise lamp draped in white cloth entitled A Few Too Many Nights Too Long by Steve Bishop, resembles a priest baptizing a boy or perhaps something more sinister in view of recent media events. I imagine the light bulbs heating under the cloth setting them alight; this in turn tips the lamps - they roll across the floor into Jacques Roger’s precariously placed trio of corporate looking sculptures, one tipping the other like dominoes, striking Karen Cunningham’s carved stone wheel, rotating it across the floor into the column-like card sculpture by the same artist. The chain of events continues into the boardroom…
I discontinue this fantasy and turn immediately into the glass-walled boardroom where I’m confronted by a row of gouache on board paintings by Neil Baker. Like portrait shots of a board of directors, their cheesy grins have disappeared. In fact, their whole faces have disappeared, replaced instead with distorted abstractions. ’.....
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(Please note this article appears in the August/September 2010 issue)
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