Smurfette (series, self-portrait)
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The Girls, Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair 2008 United Kingdom
© 2008 The Girls, Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair. Lambda print, edition of 6.
'In Bed With The Girls' by artist duo Zoe Sinclair and Andrea Blood. Photographic self-portraits from 1996 – 2008
Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London. Ladbroke Grove tube
Saturday 06 September 2008 to Saturday 01 November 2008
Opening Wednesday 03 September 2008 6pm-9pm
Artist duo 'The Girls' first solo show has opened at the UK’s only art space to exclusively champion contemporary British women artists, bubblegum pink gallery Beverley Knowles Fine Art, Notting Hill, West London. The show focuses on self-portraits from 1996 – 2008. The Girls are Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair, both 32, whose collaboration began 12 years ago while at Central Saint Martins.
The Girls work consists of staged portraiture photography, including self portraiture, and performance pieces. Themes explored in the show include Englishness, sibling relations, childhood, gender, women’s relationship with food, eroticism, and the art of drag. The Girls work has been compared to Gilbert & George, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall. The Girls have previously exhibited in group shows at the National Portrait Gallery, the ICA , The Photographers’ Gallery, and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. Diva Magazine featured them as ‘ones to watch’ earlier this year, describing their work as ‘Magical, nostalgic and amusing’. The duo have also been published in The Observer, The Guardian and Creative Review magazine.
Location
Beverley Knowles Fine Art
88 Bevington Road
London
W10 5TW
Telephone +44 (0)20 8969 0800
The gallery is just off Portobello Road, opposite the gastro pub The Fat Badger.
The nearest tube is Ladbroke Grove.
http://www.beverleyknowles.com
