HOUSEWORK: 11 Artists’ Take on a Victorian Ruin

Exhibition of mixed media works at Safehouse 1

We’ve all lived in one, almost.

The Victorian Terrace

A setting for everyday life.

Featuring artists who in various ways

Respond and intervene in this

Stripped down skeleton of a space.

They cut and clean,

Sweep, scratch and sand and stretch,

Make noise, brush and write.

Artists:

Phillip Allen, painter

Leslie Blakelock, sculptor and painter

Paul Carter, sculptor

Jo Dennis, painter and installation artist

Simon Haddock, painter

Lizzie Lloyd, art writer and poet

Fiona Long, painter and installation artist

Jessie Makinson, painter and installation artist

Dorian McFarland, musician and multi disciplinary artist

Playpaint, painter

Isabel de Vasconcellos, novelist, art writer, curator

A show inspired by the beauty of mould creeping across a wall, where paint brushes and scrubbing brushes could be interchangeable, and letters with smudges.The everydayness of art practice up against the peeling paintwork of every Victorian house you have ever lived in.