A show of beautifully hand crafted stencil works that discover the beauty amongst our trash. Photo real renditions of humble bin bags & high class labels painted on a decade’s worth of bin and skip raiding. Up-cycled objects, grannies cushions, nothing avoids the Dotmasters' magpie eye. Mixed media assemblages pop off the wall in a faux 3D skid row tableaux. The frames are off, and work spills from the walls like the piles of trash they depict.
The irony of stencilling piles of rubbish is not lost on us. Rubbish, we all do it... leave it out on the street, either once a week or at random times when consumption out strips our storage. For many it's their only contribution to the public space. We all contribute to this shifting sea of street sculpture with the rhythms of the weekly bin round. It’s an ordered chaos, of suddenly unowned & worthless things.
You can tell a lot about an area from its rubbish, the people that live there, what they eat, what they wear. High Class Trash takes its inspiration from the gallery’s location, that particular mix of trash and glamour that make Notting hill so famous.
The first 13 visitors to the show on the 13th of September will be rewarded with a limited hand finished six colour silk screen print, a release of only 13. Sometimes 13 can be a lucky number.
Thursday 13th September 2012, 6pm
Graffik Gallery - 284 Portobello Road - London - W10 5TE
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