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Launch of Garageland 12: Fake at Transition Gallery offsite project Mock Tudor

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Time 15:00
Date 17/07/11
Price Free

Transition gallery launche the 12th issue of their arty magazine Garageland alongside a final chance to see their show 'Mock Tudor'

Transition gallery produce a number of brilliant magazine for the artworld, from Arty to Garageland which features essays, fiction, gallery profiles and previews, artist features, film club, interviews and comment.Back issues include themes like Baroque,Supernatural,and Nostalgia, whilst their latest issue examines the Fake- a look at Wigs, British Blues, Retromania, Jamie Shovlin, Photorealism, Rome, Mock Tudor, The Arbor, Sigrid Holmwood, Method Acting, Bedwyr Williams, Cocteau, 3D, Dallas Seitz, Archives, Pluto Houses, Aid and Abet, Jeff McMillan, Philip K Dick and much more.

The launch will take place at the gallery's offsite project, Mock Tudor on the final day of its installation, so a last chance to check it out. With work by Kirsty Buchanan, Rachael Haines, Sigrid Holmwood, Cathy Lomax, Jeff McMillan, Alli Sharma, Charlotte Squire, the show looks at the much-reviled Tudorbethan architectural style as a starting point for an examination into authenticity, influence and inspiration. Tracing the strands that a powerful historic story projects, the Mock Tudor artists evoke the passions of another era by transforming the banal, assimilating identities and creating alternative histories. The work in the show is not strictly faithful to any historic period or style. Instead, it promiscuously borrows and changes details to suit its makers’ purposes, just as history itself is altered and adapted to suit its teller.

Kirsty Buchanan's film O Death, Rock Asleep is an exploration into trivial moments and the macabre details in the tales of four different Tudor Queens, each of whom met a violent end.

Rachael Haines creates a gaffa-taped, 'magpie' Tudoresque interior.

Sigrid Holmwood's drawings play with the concept of ‘intern’ in the contemporary art world and ‘apprentice’ of Tudor times, contributing to her investigative painting practice that includes re-enactments with The Tudor Group.

Cathy Lomax's Holbein inspired head-shots mix characters from Tudor themed movies with renaissance portraits and contemporary fashion imagery.

Jeff McMillan moved from Texas to the UK in the late 1990s and attempted Tudor-style paintings in an effort to assimilate. This is the first showing of these works.

Alli Sharma's paintings, inspired by an initial B necklace worn by Anne Boleyn, focus on pieces of jewellery that like an mock tudor facade shout their identities to the world Charlotte Squire reconfigures domestic objects into illuminated sculptures.

The Tudor Cabinet of Curiosities is a collaborative project by Cathy Lomax and Alli Sharma and features a collection of Tudor inspired objects.

and a special guest appearance by Yoke and Zoom with their detourned caravan and trailer.

Takes place at:

TRANSITION GALLERY OFFSITE PROJECT 60 Ravenscourt Road, London W6 0UG

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