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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Kingston University
British Art Show 7 - In The Days of The Comet
23 October 2010 – 4 December 2011
Number of pieces in exhibition: 20
Cullinan Richards were invited by curators Tom Morton and Lisa Le Feuvre to participate in The British Art Show 7 and to produce four different manifestations of their work for the four venues between September 2010 and December 2011.
The resulting 20 works evolved through research visits at each site with each installation conceived alongside the given/chosen architectural spaces. For Nottingham Castle Museum [23/10/2010-9/2/2011], Cullinan Richards concentrated on the monumental and historic first stairwell to set the parameters of their research into painting strategies and modes of display. Stairwell walls were hung with 6 large paintings on plastic; a 13 lamp hanging piece; 3 framed prints of newspaper on glassine (86 x 56cms); 2 large paintings on plywood (150x120cms); a floor-based ‘Large Chandelier ’ (2m x2m x4m), and two contingent pieces positioned nearby made up of rolls of tapes. At the Hayward, [16/2/2011-17/4/2011], the first gallery stairway was used. The sculptural, brutalist architecture offered a different set of parameters and display/disruption challenges. In a dada-like act the ‘Large Chandelier’ was deconstructed and shown as a pile of materials on the floor. ‘Gogo Dancer’ (2012), still wrapped in protective glassine paper and plastic, alluded to an unfixed temporary state as the site of exhibition. New configurations of works, developed also in dialogue with other artists' exhibited work, were shown at Tramway Glasgow [27/5/2011-21/8/2011)] and at the Royal William Yard, Plymouth [17/9/2011-4/12/2011]. Cullinan Richards' used the four site exhibition to expand their conceptual approach to exhibition as material and to foreground an unfinished aesthetic that embraces change and constantly risks collapse.
Funded by Arts Council England, the exhibition was widely reviewed with an estimated number of over 400, 000 visitors. Catalogue British Art Show 7, ‘In the Days of the Comet’, ISBN: 978-1-85332-286-0.
