Exhibition Opening / Guest Room
From: 28th October 2017 11:00 am
To: 28th October 2017 2:00 pm
Modern Painters, New Decorators
Modern Painters, New Decorators, Carillon Court Shopping Centre, LoughboroughJoin us for the opening of 'Guest Room', an exhibition featuring work by George Chinnery, Sumiko Eadon, Ian Jackson and Demi Levy hosted at Modern Painters, New Decorators, Carillon Court, Loughborough.
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The event is free to enter, open to all ages and with hot drinks and brunch snacks also available. The exhibition will run for two weeks, ending on Saturday 11 November. Children are welcome to join in with our family activity guide, aimed at 5yrs+, materials included.
//About the Exhibition//
Perhaps today more than ever we are aware that we are simply visitors in our own homes.
Our houses surround us, and our towns continue to sprawl across the landscape. Yet what seems so certain can disappear into rubble, whether through national disaster or council town planning. We live in a century that began with the collapse of the World Trade Centre and continues with the displacement of migrant communities. Closer to home we remember the images of the Grenfell Tower alight whilst government begins work on fourteen new ‘Garden Villages’. English writer J.G. Ballard claimed that residential tower blocks, car parks and shopping centres will be our future ruins.
‘Guest Room’ presents a series of works by four artists that look at the conflicting connection and disconnection we can have with our domestic surroundings and the temporary nature of architecture. The artists in the show present architecture in fragments; taken apart, rebuilt, layered, cracked and covered, a stratum of human activity. Nevertheless, the artworks on display don’t simply depict a dystopian worldview; life continues on. In amongst the debris we see the same human dramas reoccurring, overlapping and overlaid.
//About Modern Painters, New Decorators//
Modern Painters, New Decorators is a not-for-profit art organisation running projects and building community in Loughborough, East Midlands. We run a programme of art related activities including exhibitions, talks, events, markets and workshops with the aim of bringing colour to Loughborough and supporting and developing opportunities for regional artists. We are currently funded through donations from the general public and through working in partnership with The Exaireo Trust and Carillon Court.
You can find us at Modern Painters, New Decorators, Unit 33, Carillon Court Shopping Centre, Loughborough, LE11 3XA. You can also search for us on Facebook and Instagram @mpndprojects.
Please email mpndprojects@gmail.com for more information or if you would like to donate to the project.
