Friday 2 December 2011

Sickboy at the Dray Walk Gallery, Bricklane.

This Exhibition in a word was 'Banging'

The Exhibition titled 'Heaven and Earth' is a series of Illustrations by the artist 'Sickboy' usually known as a graffiti artist this was only his second solo show ever. As well as the artists illustrations there is also a big made confession box, which is full of little rectangular blocks covered by different artists, who collaborated on the piece with sickboy, some of the collaborators include, Ben Eiene, Lister, Richt, and others. On the opening night of the show they even had an actual vicar giving confession at the show.

The pieces themselves were mixed media generally paint, pen, and spray paint. The paintings were painted on a variety of different materials, from found or gathered pieces of wood and metal, as well as canvas and also spray paint straight on a van inside the gallery. The work is generally abstract figures, but there are so many small details within the work that it's impossible to categorise exactly what each piece actually, IS.

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