The Dark Ages at Supplement / London

The Dark Ages
Josephine Callaghan, Angelique Heidler, Joseph Long, Kate Mackeson

Exhibition continues: 20th April – 20th May  2017

Supplement
80-88 Wallis Rd
London
E9 5LW 




Josephine Callaghan


 Angelique Heidler

Angelique Heidler

Angelique Heidler


Angelique Heidler


 Angelique Heidler


Josephine Callaghan

Joseph Long

Joseph Long

Joseph Long


Kate Mackeson


Kate Mackeson


Supplement are pleased to present a group exhibition, ‘The Dark Ages’, at the gallery’s temporary space in East London. 
The Dark Ages is the period between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages following the decline of the Roman Empire. It is generally thought of as marked by the deterioration of urban life and named for the dearth of information about that time. It was a confusing and often contradictory time in which society attempted to restructure itself.
Josephine Callaghan presents black clay ceramic busts named after volcanic islands. Callaghan takes a classical form and voiding it of familiar associations, the white busts become dark figurines, somehow solemn and ominous, peaceful and almost grotesque.

Angelique Heidler’s paintings play with forms, codes and conventions from popular culture, advertising and the Internet. Employing various techniques such as digital printing, screen-printing, sublimation printing, oil, acrylic, spray painting, collage and ceramics, her paintings are reflections upon her sources that are critical, cynical and at times ironic. Subject matter and aesthetics collide through compositions to form work that appropriates visual tropes to turn them onto themselves. 
Joseph Long’s botanical paintings evolve through an investigation into the history and documentation of flowering plants. Often working from drawings and photographs taken on walks or from online communities of botany enthusiasts, his paintings attempt to reconsider our relationship with the natural world and the evolving, constantly shifting cultural significance thereof.

Kate Mackeson's practice incorporates sculpture, installation and textile. At the gallery she has installed two works hanging from floor to ceiling using webbing. In one such installation a padded painted textile is intertwined in the webbing, in the second there are candles in the shape of toothbrushes, make-up pads and cotton buds. Her works allude to the contemporary body and its care, through the tension between familiar materials and the unspecific forms of knots, loops and padded fabric. 
The exhibition brings together various practices and investigations to make sense of our lives in the darkness and dense gloom of our time, to shed light upon our contemporary condition, so that we may continue to grow.