If I told you this years Bad Behaviour show is the best ever, would you believe me ?
Curator Araba Ocran says there were over 700 visitors to Brixton East in total over the 4 days - the opening night certainly was a popular event. Araba's own entry was a large print of "lived in" faces contemplating a burnt breakfast of sausages, bacon and mushrooms, all served on a man, I thought it would win the vote for best work. But the £250 prize donated by sponsors Elemental went to Linda Hubbard with her small, unshowy work "Alice in Poundland" . She will also get a solo show with Bad Behaviour in 2017.
This increasingly popular show has expanded to both levels of this fabulous venue. The trip upstairs was rewarded
with a quality mock Elizabethan portrait of a woman with a collar of cabbages and tongues, with the footprints of a cockrel walking along the gold embossed borders and golden leaves cut from photos surrounding her. There is a lot of trompe l'oeil type imagery going on, you need to study it. German artist Sabina Pieper pulled off the trick of creating a work which was eye-catching from afar and intriguing close-up.
Best in show IMHO were Alison Berry's works - clever and successful. Two fantastic models worked amazingly well when you peered in to a polystyrene box through a peep hole, and saw them reflected into another level. You see a luxury shopping space, with brands like Apple and Chanel evident. I felt I was witness to the space stations of the future. When you dock from the shuttle to the ISS, is this the gateway you will float through, with Chanel's latest spacesuit in the window?
David Jane's dyptych of a brain scan was the result of a disease he picked up in Brazil. This is a high quality piece which has a black centre and from
which tendrils of colour escape. Also props to Zelda Rhiando and DMK whose film in a box was both fun and popular. The portrait of Nigel Farrage as a grotesque ever gaping mouth was another piece that clearly went down well.
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