Event overview
Simon Bedwell spent the early part of his career as part of London art group BANK (1991-2003), of which he was a founding member. BANK made sprawling, overtly theatrical installations involving from 2 to 130 other artists, in spaces variously named BANKSPACE, DOG and Galerie Poo Poo, and satirized the 90s artworld through a tabloid paper and an unsolicited press release correction service. Since that time, Bedwell has continued to made installations, paintings and sculpture from materials found, altered and made, variously concerned with the power of advertising, the gender relations and models for living depicted therein, and the politics of lifestyle and art.
‘Bedwell often collides conflicting aesthetics and visual languages, which variously include soft-porn imagery, the popular gothic (often in the form of horror movie posters), institutional and bureaucratic architecture(s), advertising, modernist painting, and sardonic sloganeering. Seen together, Bedwell’s interventions establish a complex narrative that both engages with and confuses contemporary political and social mores. With a deft humor his work both conflates and disrupts issues of class, race, sexual politics and art.' (Matthew Higgs, 2007).
Simon Bedwell has had solo shows at MOTinternational (The Receivers, 2007 & The Painter of the Hole, 2009), Studio Voltaire (Asphalt World, 2009), White Columns, New York (the Furnishers, 2007), Platform (Gents: A Melodrama With 2 Acts, 2006), and Byam Shaw gallery (The Researchers, 2006), and featured in group shows at Saatchi Gallery, Orchard New York, Krinsinger Vienna and Project, Dublin, and currently at Baltic Projects Newcastle. BANK’s work has featured in solo shows at Treize, Paris, Elaine, Basel and MOTinternational (all 2013), and a show of their video work opens at Trade, Nottingham, in March 2014.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 5 Feb 2014 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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