Charlotte Shinerock, Alex Ratcliffe, Yuri Lee, Richard Gaspar, Thomas Needham

Funiculus Atrocities is a group show of emerging artists focusing particularly on sculpture and sculptural works. The selected artists include the Korean artist Yuri Lee, and British artists Charlotte Shinerock, Thomas Needham, Alexandra Ratcliffe and Richard Gasper. Orientated by the seduction of materials, Funiculus Atrocities is a show which extracts involuntary instinctual responses from its audience.

Funiculus Atrocities is an exhibition which embodies the term ‘Assemblage’. Visually, the artists in this show follow a specific approach to object making and
reintroducing human trace. Decision making is informed by an intuitive, semi autonomous involvement in relation to material and compositional format. Conceptually these works look at and indulge upon the desires felt towards certain materials. Materials such as clay, piped icing sugar, glass and paint are used for their immediate and reactionary properties. These works enjoy a very fluid process which can only encourage creativity and instant moments of expression. It is this process which enables them to explore how a sensibility can be seduced / captured into the surface of material.

Works in this show may pay homage to what might grow, protrude from the wall, sprout from the gallery floor and lie unnoticed on the ceiling, whilst others will be overtly attention seeking, purposely self degrading, ridiculous and daft. Works in this exhibition are unique for they refer to more than just the creative process and form. They are artworks which construct and explore fantasies, illusions, and abstract figurations to reveal various elements that are playful, absurd, sovereign, anti-sovereign, seductive yet peculiar.

Funiculus Atrocites is curated by Charlotte Shinerock

Born in Woking, 1982, Raticliffe studied at Winchester School of Art 2001 – 2004 at BA level, her most recent exhibition was Seditious Delicious: a Taste of Art, at the
Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews, Scotland, 2005. Born in Seoul, South Korea, 1973, Lee is a recent MFA graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art, 2005, (Lee lives and Works in London.) Gasper, born in London is currently completing his MA in Fine Art at the Royal college of Art. Some of his most recent exhibitions include the interim show at the RCA and Bulky Luggage, at Seven Seven, 2005. Needham, born 1982 in Southampton graduated from Middlessex University in 2004. Selected exhibitions include CCA Opens Studios, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2006 and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Barbican Centre, London. Shinerock, born 1982 in West Sussex, also graduated from Middlesex University in 2004. Recent exhibitions include the Hallow Salon 2006, London.