Globe Gallery @ Monument Mall
14 May 2010
My 'Discontinued' installation on show in Newcastle alongside Franko B's 'Love in times of pain: sequence two'.
Exhibition: Viewable from street from 7pm Saturday 15th May onwards
(visible 24 hours a day, lit in evenings)
PLEASE NOTE THIS EXHIBITION CAN ONLY BE VIEWED FROM BLACKETT STREET
Monument Mall
Old Boots Chemist
Ground Floor
10-12 Monument Mall
Newcastle upon Tyne
Globe @ Monument Mall sees the uncanny take to the high street in the form of Franko B's 'Love in times of pain: sequence two' and Jock Mooney's 'Discontinued'. The installations will fill the outside windows (facing Blackett Street) of the old Boots store at Monument Mall in Newcastle City Centre.
Franko B
Love in times of pain: sequence two
Franko B's installations are exclusively black. They evoke life, vanity, death, eroticism and pain.
The viewer encounters a taxidermist's menagerie where long-dead animals perch for eternity on an array of found objects. Thick black acrylic covers both animal and object, binding them together in a beautifully haunting harmony. They become monumental, gloriously facing the viewer, their old selves hidden in impenetrable black cloaks.
Jock Mooney
Discontinued
A multitude of uniquely original hand produced brightly coloured sculptures are thrust together en masse creating a subversive shrine of sorts; a contradictory vision that recalls votive offerings and video nasties, schoolboy humour and schoolboy error.
Evoking deeply dark feelings reminiscent of the carnivalesque, Mooney's "products" invite the viewer to seek out the familiar, to question the unfamiliar.