Candice Tripp, I Also Have a Gun.
Candice Tripp, This seat is taken, Courtesy the artist and Lazarides Gallery, © Dave Kinsey, 2008.
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Lazarides Gallery
77 Quayside
+44 191 2212560
Newcastle
upon Tyne
Candice Tripp
Home is
Where the Telly Is
14 November 2008-
31 January 2009
South African born Candice Tripp has created a new body of work that deals with the unsettling images of the unexpected, presented in carefully executed ink and paint. Small girls in candy coloured dresses encounter strange beasts, and yet not all is quite as it seems, as we are led into a world where dainty and dark collide.
Tripp’s new paintings are an enticing mélange of brutal but witty, with multi-layered meanings and sub-surface stories. Her work is beautiful and
illustrative, but simultaneously displays a depth that goes beyond the slew of the street art that decorates rather than demonstrates. The paintings are funny and quirky, thoughtful and inviting. Works such as Do You Think Your Mom Will Notice? describe the familiarity of home and cute, cuddly animals with a cheeky nod in the direction of bloody violence. The works resonate with an innocence that steers clear of societal commentary, choosing instead to youthfully represent grown-up scenarios, or childish scenarios with a grown-up twist, such as in Still Rocking.
Born in 1985, Candice Tripp left South Africa in 2004 to settle in the UK. In 2005 she moved to Newcastle where she now lives. She had her first solo show at Electrik Sheep in April 2007. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, London, Newcastle, Vienna and Berlin and lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Tripp is self-taught. |
