Wailing Moon
Lewis Davidson, Hazel Brill and Kara Chin
5 Oct 23 – 22 Oct 23
Staffordshire St presents a group exhibition by Lewis Davidson, Hazel Brill and Kara Chin. They are brought together by a shared drive to work with the mundane and nostalgic icons of material culture, both from the everyday and from the fictional worlds of disaster and horror films. Likening their processes to den-building, the artists playfully hobble together and break apart well-known subjects to create their own spaces of solace, to hold tight against the wailing moon and its sea of mass-produced objects.
OPENING EVENT: 5 October 2023 | 6 – 9pm
TICKETS: FREE
VISIT: 5 - 22 October 2023 | 5-8pm Thurs, Fri | 12-6pm Sat, Sun
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The exhibition takes the form of an immersive environment in a dark space. Walking into the room, the viewer is met with a sprawling landscape of self-contained multi-media sculptures. Miniature tents, cinema interiors and fictional machines glow and light up the space as a micro cosmos.
EVENTS:
Pin The Tail on a Frankenstein | workshop
A fun, hands on children's workshop creating fantastic and unfamiliar creatures. This is a playful and practical workshop that looks at how children can use and combine their imaginations to collaboratively create something unfamiliar and new, with fresh associations.
22 OCTOBER 2023 | 10AM – 12PM | FREE
Film Night | screening
Join Kara, Lewis and Hazel for a film club at Staffordshire St. They will be showing a curated compilation of ‘the making of’ videos that offer behind-the-scenes insights into how certain horror films are made. Reflecting on the materials and atmospheres in their own sculptures and miniature worlds, the compilation will focus on model making, lighting techniques and material special effects. There will be time for open casual discussion throughout the evening.
22 OCTOBER 2023 | 6 – 8PM | FREE. PWYC
