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The
two shows at MK G will be the largest surveys of each artist's work
to date, giving an overview of their practice in the last 10 to
15 years and reflecting the scope and diversity of their careers
so far.
Sarah
Staton's show is called Green – or How We Missed Modernism.
Her
work explores materiality, cultural specifics, humour and language.
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by Sarah Staton made from gold plate on bronze, © the artist |
The
Long Gallery will be transformed into a contemporary interpretation
of an English sculpture garden, with work in a variety of media
including sculpture, installation and fabric hangings.
New
and old pieces are displayed together, says Staton “to make
an autobiographical story that reflects the cultural dilemmas and
issues that are the business of English cultural production at the
opening of the new century”.
Georgie
Hopton's show in the Cube and Middle Galleries is called Laughed
– I Could Have Cried.
Her
work presents sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs.
She
says of her work: “I sometimes begin with a Picasso painting.
I sometimes begin with a feeling. I often begin with a motif and
my idea for it.
"The
tragedy and comedy inherent in the attempt to describe any/all of
these is the point for me”.
Various
motifs recur in Hopton’s work – magic wands, artists’
palettes, Pierrots and Harlequins among them – as well as an
obsession with textured materials such as glitter, pom-poms and
crazy paving.
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more of the artists' work
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