Latest Burnt Offering

Yes folks the burning continues. This latest piece is called, ‘Toxic Spice Girls.’ It is based on the old nursery rhyme,’ Sugar and Spice and everything nice. That’s what little Girls are made of.’ Constructed using nasty party frocks for little girls(only £2.00 each on Deptford High Street) + foam rubber lettering on a 5ft by 3ft plywood sheet.

before the burning

The Burning Continues

The Burnt Offering

I burn Frocks. That’s what I do.
The Remains of Myth is a series of works which attempt to deconstruct gender constructs based on Jungian type Archetypes epitomised by found articles of clothing. These items of clothing are then literally decontructed by becoming contructs on plywood altered by burning. Burning can be seen as the ultimate force for change as in the Phoenix which rises anew from the ashes of it’s father.
I burn frocks. That’s what I do.

The Skin I’m In @ The Crypt Gallery (11th – 30th/08, 2010)

 

 

The Skin I’m In is Charlie Pi’s new exhibition since last year’s successful  summer show @ St Pancras Church. Charlie Pi returns this year to The Crypt Gallery with a series of large works on paper which take  the form of children’s nursery rhyme illustration, plans, sketches, storyboards, illustrations, comics and text made large. As Charlie says, ‘Not precursors but finished works in their own right”. Indeed, using paper as a free space to examine both theme and the process of illustration has taken Charlie’s signature baroque paintings to another dimension where iconographies of beautiful young black men have become a mixture of mixed gendered subjects set in multi-image  polyptich.

The Skin I’m In, The Crypt Gallery @ St Pancras Church

11th – 30th August 2010, 12.00 – 18.00 (Tuesday to Sunday)

Opening Night – Wednesday 11th August, 18.30 – 20.30

FFI – www.cryptgallery.org.uk

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