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Current Exhibition:&&
Cheap Flights: Work by Nicky Carvell, Rob Eagle, James Howard and Rob Leech
FORT 34-38 Provost St, Shoreditch, London N1 7NG
Preview Night: Thursday 4th November 2010, 6pm - 9pm
Exhibition open: 05/11/10 - 23/12/10, 11am – 6pm
Whether from the world of entertainment or leisure, the internet, high street or market
stall, what the four artists exhibiting have in common is the sampling and referencing of
attention-seeking visuals and so-called simple pleasures from popular culture. This is done
with a mixture of humor, irony, nostalgia and celebration.
Nicky Carvell’s work celebrates commercial visuals which may be stylistically outdated, but
still retain a powerful presence through their innate dynamism. Working in a Post-Pop
climate, she extracts tropes from commercial graphics and encourages them towards formal
excess. The work behaves as signs without particular meaning, instead emanating an
unutterable sense of boldness and energy. Turning these “Naff Graphics” to face the world
in their new guise as artworks, in Carvell’s work the everyday becomes exotic and the
familiar fantastic. Nicky Carvell Graduated from the Royal Academyschools in 2009. She
lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include: Plastic Culture, Legacies of Pop,
The Harris Museum, Preston, UK; This is England (curated by Stuart Semple), Aubin & Wills
Gallery London; Terminator (curated by Juan Bolivar), Camberwell Space, London; Modern Love,
Simon Oldfield Gallery, London.
www.nickycarvell.com
Rob Eagle’s work takes an inquisitive look at the peculiarities of modern British culture,
offering an intuitive and often humorous perspective on the real physical world and the
people and objects of everyday life. Rob Eagle completed an MA in Fine Art at the Royal
College of Art in 2009. He lives and works in London. Recent shows include: Parade, Aspex
Gallery, Portsmouth; Riff-Raff (Curated by David Southard), Q, London; Of the Land (curated
by Rob Eagle), Vulpes Vulpes, London; Eagle & Eken, Transition Gallery, London.
www.robeagle.com
James Howard's work takes the images that pop up on our computer screens and brings them to
the forefront. These quasi-adverts lure the audience into a shady world of false products
and credit card fraud. According to Howard we are living in the Wild West of the new digital
age, with junk email preying on our insecurities and needs. James Howard Graduated from the
Royal Academy Schools in 2007. He lives and works in London. Recent Shows include: Black
Money, Peifen Fine Art - 21 Fleet Street, London; FRESSEN UND GEFRESSEN WERDEN, Peles Empire,
London; The Future Can Wait 2010 (Curated byZavier Ellis and Simon Rumley), Charlie Smith,
Shoreditch town hall, London; Newspeak: British Art Now (Part Two), Saatchi Gallery, London.
www.luckyluckydice.com
Rob Leech "When you go to an Indian Restaurant there is always a dish that comes out still
sizzling. I want that dish, and I don't want the sizzling to stop". Rob Leech Graduated
from the Royal Academy schools in 2009. He lives and works in London. Recent shows include:
Riff-Raff (Curated by David Southard), Q, London; Claire Price Rob Leech, Crimes Town
London; It's all over, Eleven Howland, London.
www.robleech.net
Accompanying text by Rachel Potts (Click here to view)
Curated by Rob Leech
