 Roadkill Family Album (Mum, Fritton, 2000), 2004 Nigel Grimmer Places I call Home Nigel Grimmer's practice explores the relationship between public and personal imagery and its influence on the production of identity. An archive of ephemera from popular culture - comic books, action figures, snapshots and film stills - is drawn through his personal narratives and then returned to the public realm. Rendered both strange and familiar, Grimmer presents an alternative to mainstream culture, an acknowledgement of his experience by the conveyance of a unique sensibility, a subculture, formed by the selection and editing of this material. At Standpoint Nigel Grimmer is presenting three interrelated works that appropriate and undermine conventional structures and practices of "family album" photography. In, "Annihilation by Blandness", Grimmer reconstructs the Culture Industry's image of the nuclear family unit. Toys are playfully used to act out the artist's experience and fantasies in "Plastic Life". Finally, registers are inverted but not discarded in "Roadkill Family Album" where the identities of friends and family members are concealed behind plastic masks. Nigel Grimmer was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. He completed his Masters in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. Since graduating Grimmer has exhibited throughout the UK and has shown work in Germany, France and Switzerland. Grimmer is currently showing work in "Everything Must Go" at VTO and is part of the Fosterart Collection, he will exhibit in "Brownfield" at MAC in Birmingham later in the year. Arts Council England, The John Oppenheim Trust and The Elephant Trust currently support his work. Exhibition: 21 April - 20 May 2006 Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 12am - 6pm Standpoint Gallery 45 Coronet Street Hoxton UK-London N1 6HD Email standpointeducation@btconnect.com www.standpointlondon.co.uk |
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