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Conquests and
Techniques: a Synthesis
12th February to Sunday 27th February 2005
Private View, Friday 11th February, 6pm
Andrew Wake, Catherine Stafford, Craig Coulthard,
Dave Maclean, Ellen Munro, Grace Maran, Jenny Hogarth, Kate Owens, Kim
Coleman, Richard Battersby, Tommy Grace
“It's such a rangy, well-traveled, big-cocked name, and, to look
at, it’s none of these.”
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, they collect
butterflies and take photographs. They will never regret one single
thing they did together because what they had was very special…
Craig pointed out it was a about a quarter of our
lives over … kaput
... just like that … from now on it’s all downhill. The
others weren’t so sure, Battersby with his arrogantly assured manner
painting the target with disdainful wit, ingenious obscenity, astute
literariness, loathing, lust, anxiety and an all pervading hyper-self–consciousness.
Kate, both funny and in a bizarre way moving- her materials shaped, textured
and coloured kind of like small twigs, and tasting like burnt wood. Kim & Jenny …genius
I.Q.s and have been laid by at least six different guys. They told us
themselves. They put cotton into a tray and spritzed it lightly with
the water- lots of water made the colours blend even faster. Dave Maclean;
like Andy he was scurrilous, shameless and very funny and, you’d
notice, he overlapped edges and tilted images to create harmony and interest
in his work. Ellen Munro is a good friend of ours. Once she achieved
a rug, our rug, very dense and completely reversible. There would also
be others like Tommy Grace. His friends called him The Face, he would
secretly fold paper giving him a manual for a projective method of personality
diagnosis. When photoboother Grace suggested one last group portrait,
Cathy tried using a mixture of Humbrol matt white and a black leather
thong from her jewellery making supplies and we got to work.
This precociously intelligent and highly sexed bunch
fitted the bill perfectly, planning the seduction meticulously, setting
the scene with infinite care – but it doesn’t come off
quite as they expect…
Conquests and Techniques: A Synthesis is first part of an exchange between
The Embassy, Edinburgh and The Ship, London.
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