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FERGAL STAPLETON


Pink System 2006, painted chipboard, electric light fixings with red bulbs and glass lampshade. 123 x 48 x 38 cm

Artists/Organisatons

Data Wall:
AESD: Agency for Economy and Space Development:
Maziar Afrassiabi, Shahin Afrassiabi,
Sam Basu, John Colenbrander,
with thanks to Julian Meinold and
Piers O'Hanlon

NIS: New International School: Matthew Stock
Treignac Projet: Sam Basu,
Elizabeth Murray.

The Real:
Phyllida Barlow, Tom Burr,
Anne Damer
, Karin Ruggaber,
Audrey Reynolds, Fergal Stapleton,
Brian Wall, Martin Westwood.

Oysters Ain't:
Karen Ay, Vanya Balogh,
Fiona Banner, Richard Bartle,
David Batchelor, Rob Beckett,
Simon Bill, Hartmut Bohm,
Jake & Dinos Chapman,
Cedric Christie, Steve Claydon,
Clem Crosby, Cullinan+Richards,
Penelope Curtis, Arnaud Desjardin,
Valerie Driscoll, Richard Ducker,
Garth Evans, Urs Fischer,
FREEE ( Dave Beech, Andy Hewitt &
Mel Jordan)
, John Gibbons,
Tom Gidley, Paul Gildea,
Katherine Gili, Andrea Giulivi,
Stewart Gough, Naum Gabo,
Robin Greenwood, Brian Griffiths,
Zoe Griffiths, Nicola Hicks,
Peter Hide, Flore Nove-Josserand,
Helene Kazan, Michael Kidner,
Philip King, Simon Liddiment,
Ed Lipski, Colin Lowe,
Sarah Lucas, Christina Mackie,
Rebecca Johnson Marshall,
Bruce McLean, Haroon Mirza,
Cathy de Monchaux, Henry Moore,
Zadoc Nava, Paul Neagu,
Lawson Oyekan, Eduardo Paolozzi
, Nicholas Pope, Richard Priestley,
Michael Sandle, Paul Sakoilsky,
Celia Scott, Dallas Seitz,
Meg Shirayama, Jane Simpson,
Anthony Smart, Bob & Roberta Smith,
Richard Smith
, Steve Smith,
Sarah Staton, Dan Stevens,
Simon Stringer, Michael Stubbs,
Gavin Turk, Jessica Voorsanger,
Gary Webb, Richard Wentworth,
Keith Wilson, Mark Woods,
Richard Woods, Lars Wolter,
Christian Wulffen.

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LOCATION:


Almond Building,
The Biscuit Factory,
Drummond Road,
Bermondsey,
London
SE16 4DG.
[Map]

 

NEAREST STATION:


Bermondsey

 

OPENING HOURS:


26 April - 31 May

Wed - Sun 12 - 6 pm

 

FREE ADMISSION

 

CONTACT

Adam Thomas

Tara Cranswick

 

 

Fergal Stapleton (born 1961, Ireland) lives and works in London. He studied at Middlesex Polytechnic and graduated from the MA Programme at Goldsmiths College, London in 1993.

Stuart Morgan on Stapleton’s 1993 show "His manner of entertaining us…the worst thing I have ever done." (Frieze, No.10, May 1993): ‘The logic of dandyism as a mode of conceptual art assumes a view of the dandy not as engaged in a foppish, decadent pursuit but as an attempt to get over class distinction by creating one’s own aristocracy, doing what aristocrats do but doing it better, secure in the knowledge that their order and the natural superiority it implies is on a false premise.’

JJ Charlesworth on Stapleton's 2007 show And a Door Opened at Carl Freedman Gallery, (TimeOut No. 1924): ‘Stapleton… produces a rare insight into the difference between images and objects, and how mere junk changes into art… They’re inches away, but seem to inhabit a distant, unattainably parallel universe. Stapleton is an often overlooked talent… often eclipsed by the raucous posturings of his YBA contemporaries. Compared with the tired bombast of Damien Hirst’s animal vitrines – pictures masquerading as objects – these extraordinary experiments in material transfiguration show how sculptural poetry is still alive and well… Stapleton’s great skill lies in showing how art works in the reordering of things known, producing new, unexpected value out of the slightest of means.’

Stapleton is represented by Carl Freedman Gallery (info@carlfreedmangallery.com)