North West Northumberland Street Lane Aug 18-19, 25-26, or by
appointment
4 stars
In a residential dribe-in, a portable TV sits on a rug on the floor, a
bouquet of flowers laid down before it. On-screen, a collage of scenes
from a 1980s TV compendium of schlocky horror play out in Rebecca Key
with Melodien's 'Sevant! Sevant! Vol 1: Hammer House of Mystery and
Suspense.'. On the walls around it and in two other lock-ups either
side, pages of text-book guides to motherhood are pinned up and
subverted by Ailie Rutherford's overlaid drawings of suckling pigs and
jets of milk shooting from nipples, or else cotton reels criss-cross
each other as they run from a clump of coloured straws plugged into the
wall by Jo Arksey.
With a dozen or so artists' works crammed into the three spaces
alongside some back garden and front cellar installations, GARAGE is an
ingeniously busy temporary occupation of places used for private
hoarding or else plain old car parking. It's also a wonderfully
off-piste example of a thriving grass-roots scene that exists on our
own doorstep to potter about in.
The List, August 2012
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