Holy Trinity (installation), Southampton Gallery (North + South) 2007 and Quad, Derby, 2005
North + South
Chris Lewis-Jones’s surreal works, which transform subjects as varied as a cricketer, the Red Cross Knight, toys, and tea trays into a wry palimpsest of English traditions, particularly as presented for tourist consumption, have a sympathetic ancestor in Burra’s apparently serene southern landscapes, which upon closer inspection reveal themselves to be full of sinister implications, insinuations and booby traps.
Davidson, Peter, North + South (Dividing England), Reg Vardy, Sunderland, 2007
ISBN 978 1 873757 56 7p.24
Chris Lewis-Jones’s surreal works, which transform subjects as varied as a cricketer, the Red Cross Knight, toys, and tea trays into a wry palimpsest of English traditions, particularly as presented for tourist consumption, have a sympathetic ancestor in Burra’s apparently serene southern landscapes, which upon closer inspection reveal themselves to be full of sinister implications, insinuations and booby traps.
Davidson, Peter, North + South (Dividing England), Reg Vardy, Sunderland, 2007
ISBN 978 1 873757 56 7p.24
North + South, Southamptom Gallery, 2007
Green and Pleasant Land, assemblage, North+South, Southampton Gallery
Red Cross, assemblage, North+South, Southampton Gallery, 2007
