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INNER CITY OOZ, Jack & Archy Marshall

Visited: 24.09.14 
'The brain is an industrial soundscape'-Archy Marshall

 I visited this gallery last September, it was displaying from the 5-27th and one of the COOLEST and most interesting exhibitions that I have seen.

 Jack and Archy Marshall aka Mistr Gone and King Krule displayed their exhibition here at the Display Gallery, the first of music, visual art and performances marking their arrival as a new, original and real voice in the world of contempo, topical and uber modern art.

 Mistr Gone is an artist from South East London who works with painting, illustration, drawing and photography. Within his work he tries to recapture and achieve the magic and fascination of a daily normal routine. His art is a continuous study of everyday life. He has created all the cover art for King Krule's albums who is a singer, producer and songwriter from South East London.
Archy Marshall, SS/In the shower girl, spray paint on wood
This exhibition was all about intersections of moments and memories of experiences throughout life and the vivid themes of time, memory and the part played by the artist in an ever changing cityscape. This exhibition was presented in a varied and incredibly diverse way of working using poetry, music, illustration, painting, spray painting silk-screen and linocut. 

 These large scale series of soundscape installations create an area where the viewer can become completely absorbed and involved within each piece of art and find peace and calamity from the outside world. 

 All the work was completely abstract, layered and text based and used a fantastic range of really visually exciting colours- really bright, bold and vivid which were full of energy and life. The trails of images and text were like a story on each board that would lead you around the exhibition pulling you like little invisible strings.
I found it a bit like a comic strip finding myself completely absorbed following the story of these huge painted board scapes.


Archy Marshall, 'Somali Carly/ When I
smoke', Spray paint on wood




Jack Marshall, 'Cotn', Acrylic on canvas

Archy Marshall, 'Cool/Arise dear brother', Spray paint on wood

Jack Marshall, 'Staf', Acrylic on canvas




Really wicked exhibition which I wish was still running so I could go back and just chill there, such good vibes! But really awesome and stimulating to immerse yourself within, absolutely amazing colours and techniques.. I'm obsessed with spray paint and graffiti work anyway so was completely immersed within the beauty of the marks, colours and stories behind each piece of work.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvZJI8rerWA





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