Crush is an exhibition at the Rye Creative Centre in New Road until March 11 showcasing the work of local Sussex contemporary artists in a variety of media including painting, film, printing and sculpture.
The works reflect women in the 21st century through approaches ranging from humour and irony to the uncanny and the subversive, resulting in a compelling show, both intriguing and unsettling.
The exhibition features artists Hermione Allsopp, Alexandra Drawbridge and Anne Parfitt.
Hermione, based in St Leonards, makes sculptural works by collecting objects and furniture and recreating them into new forms or compositions. Through her choice of objects and the techniques she employs, she explores the boundaries between repulsion and attraction, ideas of taste, and notions of desire.
Alexandra from Bexhill takes fragments of images from reality TV to create large scale digital prints of children’s faces and these works can be difficult to comprehend.
Anne, also from Bexhill, combines incongruous elements in figurative sculptural collages – poking fun at the “kitsch” whilst parodying “serious” works and subjects accepted as part of the canon of “high” art.
Showing Monday – Friday 10am – 3pm until March 11 at the Rye Creative Centre in New Road. [Source: RCC]
Illustration from exhibition