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Fractured Familiar
50MV, 50 Mersey View, L22 6QB
Opening 31st May 5-8pm
1st-10th June
Curated by Jeffrey Knopf, Fractured Familiar brings together sculpture and paintings by four artists based in the North West. Roxy Topia & Paddy Gould, Jeffrey Knopf, Jamie Kirk and Luke Skiffington.
At an intersection between states, their work evolves from different sources, including 1970’s cgi, medical models, signage, their own photographs and 3D scans. Familiar images converge with glitches and distortions resulting from hand-made or machine aided processes. In their work, truth and fiction become blurred, forgotten and then reimagined.
Fanatic
g39, Oxford St, Cardiff, CF24 3DT
Launch 17 April 2025
18:00-21:00
19 April - 14 June 2025
Open: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am-5pm
Farah Allibhai, Emii Alrai, Alice Banfield, Abi Birkinshaw, Mohamed Hassan, Dead Paisley, Tina Rogers, Luke Roberts and Roxy Topia & Paddy Gould
What is your personal specialist subject? We all have particular things that we are alert to, things we are fans of, the collections, repetitions, accumulations of experiences or objects that run parallel with our everyday lives. Sometimes there’s a very fine line between the largely-positive word fan and the slightly-too-far fanatic. Sometimes these things are excitedly public, other times they are private, lone pursuits. Sometimes we might not fully understand what drives us toward them. We’ve brought nine artists together to respond to this prompt, with new works and existing collections.