Tuesday 20 May 2014

Howl.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, 
and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
- Rudyard Kipling

I've become an official member of the art collective, 'Pack of Wolves'.
And we're having an exhibition in East London in a couple weeks:





























Here's the buzz:

'New Folk Visionaries is an exhibition by the Pack of Wolves that will explore aspects relating to “contemporary folk and visionary talent on the outside edge”. This group show will feature the work of five emerging artists.

Experience storytelling, legend, tradition, the uncanny and obscure in the form of paintings, drawings, puppets, masks, stitch, sculpture, 3D objects and film from Marie-Louise Plum, Mark Scott Wood, Faye Scott-Farrington, Spike Dennis and Layla Holzer.

Traditionally outsiders, folk people and visionaries are self-taught, marginalised from mainstream society, on the fringes. Despite our modern times of social networking and self-promotion, the Pack of Wolves have never stopped celebrating what it is to be an outsider, and we carry on those themes in a contemporary way within our work and our investigations.

Something we all share is humour. We poke fun at the norm, with our ugly-beauty and tongue-in-cheek commentary on social mores and what is acceptable and what is not.

We learn craft. We talk to people. Make our puppets from driftwood, our witches eyes from plastic coated bagels. We celebrate the mundane and make it magical.

An exciting jamboree of painting, drawing, stitching, crafting, building, puppeteering, performing, witching, spelling, hoaxing and coaxing, using self-taught traditional skills will be on display, with the emphasis on the way of the outsider.'

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