You are invited to the launch of a new solo exhibition by Newcastle artist Marguerite Tierney at Leda Gallery on Saturday Evening the 22nd of January. This exhibition will showcase a mix of original paintings and works on paper described as 'the kind of weird that crosses between cute with a dash of unsettling surreal' ( Flether Anderson, Invurt)
From the artist:
'I grew up in the 1980s and and the film culture for children then was unexpectedly disturbing with a lot of gothic undertones. I was attracted to the mischievous untruthful creatures in the Labyrinth, I loved the noises the Skeksis made in the dark crystal and I was obsessed with this cartoon called 'The Last Unicorn' which isn't as cute as it sounds. It was just messed up.
I realised that whether you are considered a 'good' or a 'bad' person or what is 'beautiful', 'ugly', 'scary' or 'weak' - everything is vunrable. I didn't articulate that at 7 years of age obviously. It was a feeling. I was attracted to seeing the real struggle behind the beast. A moment you can connect with something you don't understand or that terrifies you. Remember when Sigourney Weaver looked at her gross monster alien son she birthed just before she executed him? You looked in to that blubbery sharped toothed monster and you saw the fear. You saw the hurt. You saw the devastation and incomprehension that his own mother could kill him. I bawled my eyes out for that thing. What a guy.
Anyway. This show is influenced by that. ' ( Marguerite Tierney, Nov 21
This show is on for two day only! You can also catch it the next day Sat 22 from 10am -3pm at LEDA
