Paradise Shack
Dylan Shipton
Private view: Friday 16th November 6.30 - 9pm
17 November - 9 December 2007
Opening times: Saturdays and Sundays, 12.00 – 5.30, or by appointment
Dylan Shipton uses
materials that you would usually associate with areas of a building
hidden from view, or the materials used in the process of building that
are removed after the work is completed. Within this language of
temporariness and impermanence, he maintains an aspect of the working
process that is often lost by the time of completion.
Paradise Shack
sits within the classical symmetry of the belfry, and inhabits a space
that is neither corridor nor room. The ramshackle structure has
been built in direct response to this architecture and the limitations
and restrictions inherent in a Grade 1 listed building. The empty
space of the belfry serves as a catalyst for a new form to develop; an
inner realm that both resembles but revolts within its narrow
limitations.
Shipton has often used adhesive ‘hazard’ tape in his working process.
This naturally linear material allowing him to build up a picture plane
of line and hatching, covering areas within the typical white-walled
gallery, and incorporating architectural features found in this space.
The work has a sketch-like quality that implies that there are still
choices to be made, and hovers on the brink of becoming another state
altogether.
His installation at the belfry, in an old and worn John Soane designed
church, uses the rudimentary materials of low-grade building work,
plasterboard and crude timber, which speak of makeshift housing and the
type of impermanent living arrangements that itinerant and outsider
communities can be found inhabiting through necessity. Inherent
in these temporary arrangements, however, can be found a sanctuary of
sorts, for un-realised dreams and lost utopias.
Dylan Shipton has exhibited widely,
including Circuit Diagram, Cell Project space, London 2006, Slider,
Cell project space 2006, The Golden gilded egg box, Lot, Bristol 2005,
Homage to Buren, Central St Martins London 2005, In the beginning of
the world, Cell London 2004, From here to eternity (and back
again), Generator Dundee 2004, Something is already happening, Rosy
Wilde gallery London 2004, Ram Lounge, The Ship, Cable st London 2003,
Babak Ghazi curates a fridge, Magnifitat and sons Edinburgh 2003,
Spiders, foam and other mysteries, Cassella Gallery,Boston USA 2002,
Butter, Spike Island, Bristol, group show curated and exhibited,
2000.
Please press on the link here to forward to the on-line magazine
Transition Tradition to read a Visual Arts Diary: Paradise Shack at the
Belfry by Kristine MacMichael.
http://www.transitiontradition.com/magazine_article_pic.php?article_id=122#
