TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO. TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN AND YOU DO NOTHING.
‘Her work is variously funny-sad, sexy-sad, comforting-sad, politically furious and excellently freaky.’
‘An important affirmation on the power of creativity in the face of austerity, desperation and inadequate systematic support.’
Penny World is an exhibition spanning the last 30 years of work by London artist and poet Penny Goring. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a public institution and includes a selection of art works from her expansive practice. Presented here are vividly coloured paintings and sculptures, self-portraits and drawings, and darkly humorous digital collages and videos. Relentlessly direct, the artist’s poetry is entangled throughout – appearing in titles and stitched onto her fabric sculptures.
These works stem from the artist’s personal processing of trauma and experiences of violence, conveying emotions associated with states of grief, fear, loss, panic and powerlessness. Making art compulsively and working freely across mediums, Goring’s repeated images and words detail the artist’s invented mythologies. These drawings and paintings interweave personal experiences with images from history and contemporary culture.
Goring works from her home using modest materials – ballpoint pens, fabric, food dye – and free computer programmes such as Microsoft Paint. Her practice has been shaped by restrictive housing conditions, lack of funds and inadequate therapeutic support. Viewed in the context of the UK’s cost-of-living crisis, Penny World attests to the long-term effects of financial precarity and asserts the power of creativity in the face of austerity.
Penny Goring (b. 1962) lives and works in London. She graduated from Kingston School of Art in 1994 and has exhibited at Tate St Ives; the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; South London Gallery and Arcadia Missa, London. Goring has published many poems and books online and performed her poetry at the ICA in 2015.
Main image: I was a Visionary for Boudica, Penny Goring, 2015. Courtesy of the artist
Black heart: Click the black heart to view a gallery of gifs made by Penny Goring between 2013 – 16. Click the heart again to turn off the gifs.
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Open to the public from 12 – 9pm, Tuesday – Sunday
ICA Curator Rosalie Doubal leads a tour of the exhibition, offering insights into the exhibition and introducing the work of London artist and poet Penny Goring.
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