6 August – 5 September 2010
Intervention
London
W10

The title has been taken from the GK Chesterton poem ‘The Rolling English Road’ which concludes:
‘My friends, we will not go again or ape an ancient rage,
Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age,
But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth,
And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death;
For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.’ (IG)

The thing about gods and monsters is they’re so often interchangeable. We make our gods from the stuff around us, stuff whose ubiquity and more or less constant historical sameness – reptiles and receptacles, twigs and tables – generates a strange spiritual intensity. Things that don’t change now might never. And whether they’re benevolent or not depends on how, and who, you ask.(IG)

In the muted light of a ruined chapel: I am set on a hunt for the works within, some are placed with such subtlety, to be almost hidden or hung with reverence, high up amid the shadows. In contrast, as many sculptures confront me as there are objects and paintings to be happened upon and pondered over.

While the subject of many works could be overlooked during the everyday, here they are offered up as etherial entities and just like the ‘wonky avatar’ (IG) I am encouraged to look upon these subjects as if for the first time with a quizzical gaze, free from my perception of their real life significance.

Artists: Eleanor Morgan, Brian Sayers, Karl England, Edwina Ashton, Rose Wylie, Gabriel Hartley

Head over to Intervention on Flickr and Face Book for photographic documentation: The meeting of Intervention gallery and the Anglican Chapel at Kensal Green.

Rose Wylie on Articulated Artists