Two Queens
A presentation of work by Jarvis Brookfield, KirkwoodBrothers and Jack McCombe, who all through their works present a juxtaposition of themes and subject matters that connect with their own personal battles and experiences.
This exhibition will present the personal experiences of mental health and disability, captured through humour, drawing, painting and miniature sculptures. Paintings of faceless figures manifest an ongoing interest into the mythological stories and artefacts of ancient societies, and industrial-like sculpture is combined with the sounds of a 200 year old composition performed by a whistling choir.
Curated by Saziso Phiri.
About the Artists
Jarvis Brookfield is a self-taught artist currently living and working in Leicester, who recently graduated from De Montfort University with a 1st class degree in Fine art. Reflecting on his past experiences with entheogens and lucid dreaming is what largely inspires him to create paintings from his imagination. He is currently engaged in creating works that aim to convey a sense of the places his mind has travelled to with otherworldly, colourful and surreal imagery. Brookfield also believes that being human is far deeper, beautiful and more mysterious than we could ever imagine.
The Kirkwood Brothers, Jonny and Jordon, are Glasgow-based artists whose work often revolves around neurodiversity and mental health in an effort to dispel related stereotypes. Working collaboratively as brothers, Jonny and Jordon create art through conversation, re-capturing the popular culture from
their childhood. Humour is a central vehicle to their practice, affording both brothers agency over their own experiences.
Malgorzata Lisiecka is a visual artist based in London. Her practice is located between sculpture, public art, installation, costume, and performance. She tests the boundaries of disciplines, shifting functions of both wearable objects and the body. Her works address surrounding space but also the spectators who are often becoming unaware participants of the artwork itself. She explores the social, political and psychological context of clothes, creating objects that balance on the edge of uncanny, absurd and unreal.
The Royal College of Art in London and Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts graduate. Shortlisted for the UK Young Artist of the Year Award in 2019.
Jack McCombe’s artistic practice often makes use of pre-existing systems of production. He borrows from these systems, imitates, adjusts and represents them in an exhibition setting in order to examine the conditions which define them. The projects McCombe carries out will, in turn, occupy various diverse languages with an approach to focussed skill based learning; whistling, short-hand notation, wrestling script construction and plastering, for example.