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Date(s) - 20/05/2013 - 02/09/2013
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Oriel Sycharth
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Oriel Sycharth Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by British sculptor Edward Allington, as well as the outdoor siting of From The Sex of Metals II (1989) at Glyndwr University’s Wrexham campus.
The private view will be held on the 20th of May 5p.m. – 7p.m.
The exhibition runs from 20 May until 2 September. The official Gallery opening hours are 9am – 4.30pm.
Born in Cumbria in 1951, Allington is usually identified with the British Object Sculptors of the 1980s. His practice is centred on drawing and the assimilation of the abhorrent through the use of contemporary artificial objects and classical imagery. Although based upon, and making formal references to, Minimalism and Classicism, Allington’s work also usually alludes to popular culture.
The title of the exhibition is taken from a song by cult Japanese girl band the 5.6.7.8s, who are best known for their track Woo Hoo, which featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, and which Allington considers to be, perhaps, the best libretto of all time.
I was a Teenage Cave Girl, and other works will present several drawings, including the title work, and sculptures, from the 1990s to the present day. One of the works, From The Sex of Metals II in galvanized steel (1989), will be located outdoors on permanent display at Glyndwr University’s Wrexham campus.
The ancient cultures of Greece and Rome have held a long-standing interest for Allington. References to architectural detail, collectors’ artefacts and methods of their display, placement and social context, play their part in his work. His early sculptures were realised in a variety of materials and found objects, but copper and bronze, sometimes combined with other elements such as photographs, have found their way into his repertoire, which hints at the discovery of another world. “Gazing at dislocated fragments in museums,” he observed early in his career, “we can catch a glimpse of another way of living which was orgiastic and physical, even bestial. What we need now is a new understanding of what was lost then.”
Edward Allington (b.1951) lives and works in London.
Recent solo exhibitions include: We Are Time, Past and Future Sculpture, Canary Wharf, London (2012); Edward Allington and Vaughan Grylls, The Piper Gallery, London (2012); Trees, Small Fires and Japanese Joints, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London (2012); The Suitcase Works, West Dean College, West Sussex (2010); New Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, London (2006)
Group exhibitions include: Terra Galaxia: Aerotropolis, Home and Away, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2012); British Sculpture: Landscape in Sculpture as Object, Connaught Brown, London (2011); An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet, New York (2010); Drawing 2009, The Drawing Room, London (2009); A Process of Living, The City Gallery, Leicester (2008); Drawing Breath, National Art School Galleries, Sydney (2007); Pleasure Gardens (Metamorphoses and Mutations), Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (2006).
Allington’s work is represented in major national and international collections such as the Tate Gallery, the V&A Museum, the British Museum, Fondation Cartier, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Aichi Prefectural Museum in Nagoya, Japan, as well as numerous private collections worldwide.
