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The Golden Age Of Shoreditch

Fri 22 Nov - Sun 15 Dec 2002

Fri-Sun 2-6

The indefatigable popularity of that favoured ditty ' Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow!', would have amazed Music Hall performer/song-writer Joseph Tabrar (1857-1931), who received 'a vast fortune' of eight pounds and a few shillings for it's sale. This same Tabrar is the great-great uncle of Hoxton Distillery favourite Richard Couzins.

...Hoxton Distillery presents 'The Golden Age Of Shoreditch' - an exhibition of such vivid and tenuous associations...

During the genesis of Hoxton Distillery there was a rumour that the laconic proprietor of The Macbeth had appeared in a fashion shoot for The Face... on a North Sea oil-rig... in an Alexander McQueen dress. WE NOW HAVE THE PROOF.

The oldest yew tree in Europe - in Fortingall, Perthshire, Scotland - under which it is rumoured Pontious Pilate was born, has been photographed by the father of one of Hoxton Distillery's originators.

Further aspersions will be cast on the nature of generated associations. Along with various artefacts, new work will be presented by the following artists:

Richard Couzins - "Couzins' videos not only explore the audio-visual possibilities of their selected material, they also push the medium to its limits, calling into question its proclaimed virtues and pleasures."

Chris Jones - Through processes of removing, re-placing, recreating or reanimating still images, Jones aim to examine our experience of time and the way in which we regard visual information.

Chris Jones - Late Bloom 2002, Chicken bone and chips 2002

Andy Powell - Powell's large-scale photographs depict elaborately staged, yet minor acts of cruelty or defiance.

Andy Powell - Domestic Control of Domestic Fantasies ( detail of photograph) 2002

Edward Underwood - Underwood's ideogrammatic sculptures subtly disrupt the mundane, charging them with magic.

Ed Underwood - Tangle 2002

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