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sorry but due to personal matters, I have to reschedule the salon on the 12 may. The new date will be posted here.

GLOBE GALLERY @ MONUMENT MALL


Franko B / Jock Mooney

Preview: Friday 7 May 2010, 5pm - 7pm at the venue
Exhibition: Saturday 8 May - 10 June 2010
(visible 24 hours a day)

Monument Mall
Old Boots Chemist
Ground Floor
10-12 Monument Mall
Newcastle upon Tyne

Globe at Monument Mall sees the uncanny take to the high street in the form of Franko B's 'Love in times of pain: sequence two' and Jock Mooney's 'Discontinued'. The installations will fill the outside windows (facing Blackett Street) of the old Boots store at Monument Mall in Newcastle City Centre.

Franko B
LOVE IN TIMES OF PAIN: sequence two

Franko B's installations are exclusively black. They evoke like, vanity, death, eroticism and pain.

The viewer encounters a taxidermist's menagerie where long-dead animals perch for eternity on an array of found objects. Thick black acrylic covers both animal and object, binding them together in a beautifully haunting harmony. They become monumental, glorious proudly facing the viewer, their old selves hidden in impenetrable black cloaks.

Jock Mooney
Discontinued

A multitude of uniquely original hand produced brightly coloured sculptures are thrust together en masse creating a subversive shrine of sorts; a contradictory vision that recalls votive offerings and video nasties, schoolboy humour and schoolboy error.

Evoking deeply dark feelings reminiscent of the carnivalesque, Mooney's "products" invite the viewer to seek out the familiar, to question the unfamiliar.

Globe Gallery offsite is a new programme of exhibitions, events and participatory projects that will breathe creativity into disused shops and empty spaces.