Stardust Boogie Woogie - 2010

Stardust Boogie Woogie
Monika Bobinska Gallery, London, 2010

Louise Ashcroft, curator of Departure Gallery, invited the collective Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann to create a framework structure onto which other artists built upon from day to day in order to create a final collaborative sculpture. The show was based on the concepts of collaboration explored in Surrealist games such as 'Exquisite Corpse' and parallel collage. The artists were nominated by the curator and by five experimental spaces - James Taylor Gallery, The Royal Standard, Schwartz Gallery, Supplement and The Woodmill. Ashcroft described the process as 'collaboration as an anarchic struggle between imposing, perhaps contradictory, visions. This method of co-authorship parallels the ways that cultures and histories develop'.

Mark Selby was nominated by Schwartz Gallery. Other participating artists included Matt Ager, Thorbjorn Andersen, Patricia Lennox-Boyd, Blue Curry and The Royal Standard Collective.

Monika Bobinska Gallery
Departure Gallery
Schwartz Gallery