An increasingly manic diatribe in godspeak by a fundamentally unhinged priest who fulminates against the sins of the flesh.
A middle-aged Catholic priest fulminates in an increasingly grotesque manner on the thesis that “the inhumane imposition of law is obscene”.
Sourced from various law books and even Baden Powell’s instructions to Boy Scouts, the piece is equally reminiscent of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. As the priest spits and sweats, …
In the home is a domestic melodrama of absurd intensity in which newlyweds in their ideal home undergo a severe emotional trauma on their wedding night.
Members Newsletter from ‘Kettle’s Yard’ including Ian Breakwell’s exhibition invitation.pdf here.
Description card for Ian Breakwell’s works including ‘The News’, ‘In The Home’ and ‘The Sermon’.pdf here.
Press clipping describing Ian Breakwell’s works ‘In The Home’ and ‘The News.’ …
A television newsreader recounts the minutiae of small-town life with due solemnity, but reveals a disturbing element of anarchic behaviour amongst the town’s old-age pensioners. Breakwell’s parodic take on television news is given gravitas by his use of the ‘real’ Border Television Newscaster, Eric Wallace.
ICA Gallery cinema events programme April 1982.pdf here.
Members Newsletter from ‘Kettle’s Yard’ including Ian Breakwell exhibition invitation. pdf here.
Description card for Ian Breakwell’s works including ‘The News’, …
Private view card for the exhbition ‘Tamara Krikorian, The heart of the illusion’, LVA at AIR 12-18 June 1981.pdf here
‘Tamara Krikorian Video Artists on Tour’, leaflet detailing Krikorian’s recent works and practice. Includes information on ‘The heart of the illusion’.pdf here
Leaflet advertising ‘The heart of the illusion: Landscape, still life and self-portrait. Tamara Krikorian Installation for three video monitors and mirrors’. IKON gallery, …
‘Tamara Krikorian Video Artists on Tour’, leaflet detailing Krikorian’s recent works and practice. Includes information on ‘Time revealing truth’.pdf here
Leaflet detailing information on the artist and recent works, including ‘Time revealing truth’.pdf here
Brochure/programme for the Video Installation Show 1983 Air Gallery, includes information on ‘Time Revealing Truth’.pdf here
Stills from the installation ‘Time Revealing Truth’.pdf here …
Leaflet detailing information on the artist and recent works, including ‘The Question Is’.pdf here …
Continue reading “The Question is… Is this art? Is this entertainment?”
‘This is a table-top tableau of personal items, toys, drinks, cigarettes, actions and non-verbal visual viewpoints.
Though each is innocuous enough on its own, there is a sense of malice-aforethought in the collection of things in time and space against an un-specific black background. This is a sketchbook on video. A noting of starting or end points. Certain and uncertain. This was the last video-art piece I made for several years and is exploratory of expressing my own position as a person at that time, …
“This piece began as a snatched phrase rattling around my head.
‘Footprints on the sands of time…’, had lodged itself in my mind until I had to find out where it came from, eventually discovering it in Longfellow’s ‘A Psalm of Life’. Mechanical time and mechanised time shifts had been a thread throughout my work since first moving away from painting and sculpture, but this phrase seemed to raise a poetic element to which I felt a need to respond. …
