CONCLAVE PRESENTS: Disorientation & [f]LOSS

CONCLAVE PRESENTS: Disorientation & [f]LOSS

Our final exhibition in the basement events space at Conclave Brighton’s Queens Road site.

DISORIENTATION & [f]LOSS:
A site-specific installation by Sukey Booth

This new immersive, site-specific (and time-specific) art installation contemplates issues of cultural identity and belonging in relation to location, migration, shared histories and circumstance.

Recognising the complex world where many of us (whether subconsciously, or otherwise) self-edit much of our messy social histories of heritage and identity, this work will seek to illustrate the intricacies of individuality that are collected together to make up our communities and networks.

Personal identity was never just one thing; a web of inter-locking stories, genetics, histories and influences come together in every human narrative. These tangled webs are made up of many strands: some with obvious beginning and end points, and some that unravel themselves into infinity…

In Disorientation & [f]loss, the artist invites us into a confusing world where we attempt to follow those different strands, where the start and end of linear narrative is unclear. Caught up in a mile of gold and red threads, the remnants and evidence of genetics, travel, experiences and memories reveal themselves to the viewer as they explore the space. We are invited to consider the different ways we transform, evolve and develop: be that physically – travelling over continents – or in time, circumstance and social identity.

The historical and nostalgic is grounded against the current day and current location through integral references to the space: sited in a Victorian building in central Brighton, this work tells multiple stories of circumstances and coincidence: “In the particular is contained the universal.” (James Joyce)

Comprising installation, sculptures, print, “reliquaries”, text and projection, the multi-channel nature of personal identity and experience is reflected in the physicality of this work, and as a farewell to this particular gallery space before its permanent closure on 16th September.

CONCLAVE PRESENTS: Disorientation & [f]LOSS

EXHIBITION OPEN:
Fri 01 Sept: 6-9pm (PV)
Sat 02 Sept: 10am-6pm
Sun 03 Sept: 10am-6pm

Tue 05 Sept: 12-6pm
Wed 06 Sept: 12-6pm
Thu 07 Sept: 10am-6pm
Fri 08 Sept: 10am-6pm
Sat 09 Sept: 10am-6pm
Sun 10 Sept: 10am-6pm

Tue 12 Sept: 12-6pm
Wed 13 Sept: 12-6pm
Thu 14 Sept: 10am-6pm
Fri 15 Sept: 10am-6pm
Sat 16 Sept: 10am-6pm

FREE ENTRY

CONCLAVE PRESENTS: Disorientation & [f]LOSS

Disorientation & [f]LOSS – Private View

Disorientation & [f]LOSS - Private View

Join us for the Private View launch party of our final exhibition in the basements events space at Conclave Brighton’s Queens Road site.

DISORIENTATION & [f]LOSS:
A site-specific installation by Sukey Booth

This new immersive, site-specific (and time-specific) art installation contemplates issues of cultural identity and belonging in relation to location, migration, shared histories and circumstance.

Recognising the complex world where many of us (whether subconsciously, or otherwise) self-edit much of our messy social histories of heritage and identity, this work will seek to illustrate the intricacies of individuality that are collected together to make up our communities and networks.

Personal identity was never just one thing; a web of inter-locking stories, genetics, histories and influences come together in every human narrative. These tangled webs are made up of many strands: some with obvious beginning and end points, and some that unravel themselves into infinity…

Disorientation & [f]LOSS - Private View
Clocktower & Queens Road, Brighton, 1900 / Clocktower & Queens Road, Hong Kong, 1875

In Disorientation & [f]loss, the artist invites us into a confusing world where we attempt to follow those different strands, where the start and end of linear narrative is unclear. Caught up in a mile of gold and red threads, the remnants and evidence of genetics, travel, experiences and memories reveal themselves to the viewer as they explore the space. We are invited to consider the different ways we transform, evolve and develop: be that physically – travelling over continents – or in time, circumstance and social identity.

The historical and nostalgic is grounded against the current day and current location through integral references to the space: sited in a Victorian building in central Brighton, this work tells multiple stories of circumstances and coincidence: “In the particular is contained the universal.” (James Joyce)

Comprising installation, sculptures, print, “reliquaries”, text and projection, the multi-channel nature of personal identity and experience is reflected in the physicality of this work, and as a farewell to this particular gallery space before its permanent closure on 16th September.

Disorientation & [f]LOSS - Private ViewFREE ENTRY

Licenced bar
(all under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times)

PRIVATE VIEW TIMES:
Friday 1st September 6-9pm
FREE ENTRY, TICKETS ADVISED – (to secure a space, please book a ticket via Eventbrite here)

MAIN EXHIBITION OPEN:
2nd – 16th Sept (more info on opening times and days here)

Disorientation & [f]LOSS - Private View

Conclave Presents: PERSUASION (Billy Chainsaw & Girl Shit)

Conclave Presents: PERSUASION (Billy Chainsaw & Girl Shit)

PERSUASION brings together the work of BILLY CHAINSAW and GIRL SHIT: two artists who share a love of 20th Century subcultures and their visual iconography.

PERSUASION is often the currency of creatives and those who seek the “other” in a bid to suggest what lies between the gaps in the world. It is also something that free thinking often works against in the seeking of truths.

In their separate – but complementary – ways, these artists examine the contradictions and hypocrisy within mainstream society that these subcultures have brought to light, and the pervasive impact that dangerous unchallenged authority can have on us all as individuals.

Girl Shit is a fine artist exploring propaganda, subculture and female narrative magick.

Her work moves fluidly through painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, and artist merch; asking questions and exploring alternate possibilities.

For this show Girl Shit is showing a series of original collage works and an installation featuring a selection of works from the “ASTRAL TRAVEL LUGGAGE Co.”

Instagram: @girlshitgirl

Billy Chainsaw is an internationally collected, British, contemporary Dark Pop Artist, whose work uses a fertile mix of pulp and the arcane to engage with ideas of mortality, magick and sensuality.

1960s bogeyman, Charles Manson, is one of the most recognisable faces of the 20th century. Through his latest artworks in this show, Billy Chainsaw shines a transformative light on the quintessential antihero and presents him as a Pop Art Idol.

Chainsaw says: “my intention isn’t to glamorise violence, but to depict that it’s possible to discover beauty in the badness.

Website: koolkrakenincorporated.com / Instagram: @billychainsawhoulston

 

OPENING TIMES:
Saturday 15th July: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 16th July: 11am – 5pm
Saturday 22nd July: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 23rd July: 11am – 5pm
FREE ENTRY, NO TICKETS REQUIRED

PRIVATE VIEW LAUNCH PARTY: Friday 14th July, 6-9pm

Please Note: this exhibition contains nudity, and some subjects that may be not suitable for younger viewers. Recommended 18+. Please exercise discretion, and feel free to ask us if you have any questions – contact us by email with any queries.

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Chainsaw & The Girl: Hell-Raisers PRIVATE VIEW

Chainsaw & The Girl: Hell-Raisers PRIVATE VIEW

Conclave presents
CHAINSAW & THE GIRL

Hell-Raisers Private View
Friday 26th August, 5-8pm

Join us and the artists to celebrate the opening of this very special new exhibition in our basements events space. 

 

Chainsaw & THE GIRL is a unique collaboration between artists BILLY CHAINSAW & GIRL SH*T: one that explores their shared love of, and fascination with subcultures and the darker sides of the human and social experience.

BILLY CHAINSAW artist statement: “In my early teens I developed an obsession with American comic books, masks, the movies, magick, and author William S. Burroughs… elements that repeatedly feature in my mixed-media, cut up pop art.”

THE GIRL (aka GIRL SH*T) artist statement: “GIRL SH*T is informed by a love of subcultures, music, ’zines, gig posters, fashion, art, design and punk feminism.”

The HELL-RAISERS show will feature new solo creations by both artists, alongside new collaborative work.

The main exhibition runs in the Conclave Basement Space from Saturday 27th August – Sunday 4th September 2022. See the event listing here.

 

LICENCED BAR SERVICE WILL BE AVAILABLE
UNDER 18s MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT AT ALL TIMES

CONCLAVE PRESENTS: Chainsaw & The Girl: Hell-raisers

CONCLAVE PRESENTS: Chainsaw & The Girl: Hell-raisers

Conclave presents
CHAINSAW & THE GIRL

Hell-Raisers
27th August – 4th September 2022

Chainsaw & THE GIRL is an ongoing collaboration between artists BILLY CHAINSAW and GIRL SH*T, one that explores their shared love of MUSIC, SUBCULTURE and MAGICK. For their latest show HELL-RAISERS they deliver both solo and collaborative artworks that embrace the incendiary nature of limitless, boundary pushing individuals.

CONCLAVE PRESENTS: Chainsaw & The Girl: Hell-raisersCHAINSAW says:
“The original wave of punk rock changed my life, empowered and transformed me into a tenacious individual able to pursue my dreams and become all the things I’d ever dreamt of becoming (and more): personal assistant to Siouxsie and The Banshees from 1979-1996, journalist, film critic, adult-magazine editor, actor, experimental filmmaker, club MC, singer, and dark pop artist. Now felt the optimum time to delve into that inspirational aspect of my past. I was able to do so thanks to a friend from 1978, Ray Stevenson, the first photographer to document punk rock in the UK – particularly the hell-raising Sex Pistols. Ray generously allowed me access to his archives and granted me permission to create artworks using his photos.”
CONCLAVE PRESENTS: Chainsaw & The Girl: Hell-raisersGIRL SH*T says:
“My interest in the notion of ‘Hell Raisers’ is seeped in subculture and popular culture. What is a ‘Hell Raiser’? Here’s where it gets interesting. At the core it’s about complete freedom, to be without personal boundaries or censorship. Like the perception of the ‘Rock God’, the ‘Hell Raiser’ is generally a man. Envied for his freedom and celebrated for his virility dressed as bad behaviour. Women are usually punished for similar traits yet our history is crammed full of revolutionary women looking for the same freedoms. In this work I seek to celebrate these women… they are all of us…”

ARTIST STATEMENTS

BILLY CHAINSAW: “In my early teens I developed an obsession with American comic books, masks, the movies, magick, and author William S. Burroughs… elements that repeatedly feature in my mixed-media, cut up dark pop art.”

THE GIRL (aka GIRL SH*T): “Girl Sh*t is informed by a love of subcultures, music, ’zines, gig posters, fashion, art, design and punk feminism.”

 

OPENING TIMES:

  • Saturday 27th August:  10-6
  • Sunday 28th August:  11-5
  • Monday 29th August (bank holiday): 12-6
  • Tuesday 30th August:  12-6
  • Wednesday 31st August: 12-6
  • Thursday 1st September:  10-6
  • Friday 2nd September: 10-6
  • Saturday 3rd September:  10-6
  • Sunday 4th September:  11-5

FREE ENTRY

This exhibition contains sensitive material which may not be suitable for some viewers. Please use your discretion, and feel free to ask before entering if unsure.

Entrance is 18+ unless accompanied by a responsible adult.