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Alli Sharma
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Forthcoming exhibitions:
Bad Animals
Transition Gallery, London E8
18 July - 16 August 2009
Preview: Friday, 17 Jul, 6-9 pm
The Threadneedle Prize
Mall Galleries, London SW1
2-19 September 2009
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Bat 6, 20 x 15 cm
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Bat 3, 20 x 15 cm
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Donkey, oil on board, 40 x 30 cm
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BAD ANIMALS
Anton Goldenstein, Rachel Goodyear, Georgia Hayes, Sharon McPhee, Kim L Pace, Cathie Pilkington, Alli Sharma
18 July – 16 August 2009
Preview: Friday 17 July, 6-9 pm
Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
020 7254 4202 / 07941 208566
Gallery open Fri-Sun, 12-6 pm
Bad animals do unspeakable things. Refusing to be subjugated to our domesticated will and resisting cuteness, the animals on show here are more likely to bite the hand that feeds them. Flaunting their over-sexed bodies, they cause a frisson of unease as watching them we are made to acknowledge the frightful ancestry of our own primordial existence.
This group of artists examine the bad animals phenomenon in a variety of ways from Cathie Pilkington’s promiscuous pranksters, Rachel Goodyear’s faux cute drawings and Georgia Hayes’ significantly endowed horse to Alli Sharma’s harmlessly outlandish bats. These pets definitely won’t win prizes.
www.transitiongallery.co.uk
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Alli Sharma is drawn to vulgar domestic ornaments remembered from her own childhood. She paints these inconsequential objects with such emphasis on the materiality of the surface that they are transformed into substantial painterly icons. For Bad Animals she has turned her gaze to urban creatures who discreetly share our domestic space. Her series of bat paintings examine the cultural demonisation of a harmless animal that is often irrationally feared. Sharma has a BA Fine Art from Central St Martins School of Art (2007). Recent shows include Awopbopaloobop, Transition Gallery, London; Un-still Life, The Apartment Gallery, London and The Painting Room, Transition Gallery, London.
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Bat 1, 20 x 15 cm
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