I WAS HUNGRY

I WAS HUNGRY

Group Show at Thomas A’ Beckett

21st-24th November 2011

Artists: Lara Kenworthy, Linda Navjeva, Alice Turner, Rupert Dorey,

Amy Rademaker, Tamsin Taylor-White, Roan Bunny, Paul Thiry,

Jefferson Van Dunen, Barnaby Smith, Bobby Black, Frank Richards,

Owen Lacey, Laura O’Neill, Jon Roscorla, Nawojaka Cracke,

I Was Hungry brings together sixteen London based artists, transforming the former British Boxing Mecca into a show in which those artists, currently emerging from chrysalis of education, use their almost desperate ‘hunger’ to prove themselves with practices they have been developing in the womb of University. Hungry for reaction to their flares as to their silences they try to make a voice for themselves in what is becoming an increasingly bleak artistic landscape. United not only as a group of artists that have been working together for the past two years, but physically unified as a collection of art work that does what is most important; to convey the urgency of interest. That which makes us want to see, to understand and to be part of.

The eclectic nature of the show presents works ranging from; ad-hoc experimental sculpture, figurative and abstract canvases, fragmented narrative films and theatrical performances. Digressing between intention and accident, these artists use visual language to perceive their own concepts as forms of art in a body or work, that on its own terms feels individual.

In the exhibition the artists hunger to prove themselves wrestle with an understanding of the reality of becoming a practicing artist. They test their own perimeters, demonstrating the importance of bending boundaries. Testing their footing while trying to make their footsteps heard. I Was Hungry cannot be summed up between two overlong adjectives, as to see it you realise it is every bit as confused, questioning, worried, cocky, funny and powerful as the artists that have made this work.