Small Mischiefs is a group show of artists with a propensity to misbehave and disrupt the established order of things, whether this is through playful, light-hearted questioning or more darkly intended subversions. One floor of the gallery will be dedicated to hosting an anarchic programme of newly commissioned interactive and performance based works. Edwina Ashton will make videos and drawings, in which performers dressed as human-sized grubs and mice deal with the minutiae of life. In an environment filled with plant pots, awkward furniture and daintily graffitied wallpaper, they grapple with everyday expectations and inanimate objects. Bedwyr Williams is a man with problems. His piece ‘Table Tennis Table’ invites us to consider his hectic ping-ponging back and forth from London to Wales. Poor boy! Over the course of a week Bob and Roberta Smith will construct a vegetable and cardboard internet café. Added to by gallery visitors, this work, with its potato mice and hand written email messages, will quite literally grow. The exhibition closes on a far darker note, with an unnerving installation by Gail Pickering. A sinister figure, in a formless straw costume, is illuminated by a frenetically flashing 'De Sadisco' sign. Radiating a palpable sense of menace, this entity stands in a room with a small rabbit.
Kindly supported by Arts Council England. In-Kind support from Film & Video Umbrella and University of the Arts.
