four four
LIAM JOLLY
3 - 17 DEC 2022
GRAYS WHARF GALLERY
LIVE GIG:
FRI 16 DEC / DOORS 6:30PM, 7PM START
To coincide with the exhibition here, there was a live gig featuring Jolly’s band Disco Rococo at the Fish Factory, Penryn on Friday 16 December. Also performing will be Phantom Buzzard live and Solo Collective DJ’s including the Mongolian Disco Show and more.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Liam Jolly presents a new installation inspired by the popular time signature, four/four. Used as a metaphor and departure point, Four Four explores archetypes, seriality and personal biography whilst considering how artworks perform; where does something become and stop being art, and who decides?
Accumulating and layering source materials from personal memories, pop culture, art history, recycled work and fragments from the everyday, rocks borrowed from Carn Brea (the large hill and former neolithic site that towers over his hometown of Redruth) are situated next to text message alerts, bin bags and a drawing of Amy Winehouse. Reflecting on identity, subjectivity, legacy and desire, these accumulated fragments point towards individual and collective notions of time and place. Some moments have passed, some linger, and others are yet to come, but together they underpin the here and now.
Adjacent to this practice, Jolly works in many public-facing fields informed by his interest in gathering and community. Within this dissonance of shifting positions between public and private – on and off stage, internal and external – his work explores all that makes and connects us; from the micro to the macro as well as the bits that are missing.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Liam Jolly is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Redruth, Cornwall. He graduated from University College Falmouth with a MA in Fine Art Contemporary Practice in 2012 and has since exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2012 he co-founded CMR, an artist run project space in Redruth, and in 2018 launched Auction House, an exhibition and project space also in the town.
Auction House hosts a regular programme of public exhibitions and events, recently including Mark Leckey’s Music & Video Lab, a project that offered people aged 18-24 the opportunity to learn video editing and music production which Jolly co-led with the Turner Prize Winning Artist, in association with CAST in Helston.
He is also a musician and music promoter and has staged a multitude of shows within the South West bringing artists from all over the world to the region, and has curated stages at several major music festivals. Jolly currently plays drums in the band Disco Rococo.
www.liamjolly.com
@liam.jolly
www.auctionhouseart.co.uk
@auctionhouseart
images:
‘Angel Voices, 2020’
’Four Four’ Exhibition tour, 2022
’Share & Share a Like, 2020’
(all images and films courtesy of the artist)
This exhibition is part of a new programme supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
