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ice, worms & plate lunch: somewhere in western alabama
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Featuring artists & architects associated with 'the Rural Studio' outreach programme, Newbern Alabama:

Butch Anthony, Lucy Begg, Cynthia Connolly, Kerry Larkin and Robie Gay

Curated by Washington DC photographer, Cynthia Connolly

"Ice, Worms and Plate Lunch: somewhere in Western Alabama" speaks to the beauty, diversity and charm found throughout the small towns of Alabama. This magical world was discovered by Cynthia during her participation in Auburn University's award winning Rural Studio project. She presents this vision in a series of photo installations that document her time in Hale County. Complementing her work are the stark paintings of Alabama folk artist Butch Anthony, was well as drawings by London architect Lucy Begg, furniture by Alabama architect & artist Robie Gay, and an installation by Philadelphia architect Kerry Larkin.

Cynthia brings these diverse elements together in a new London gallery to try & express a place as far away from here as it is in many ways from most of America. (www.ruralstudio.com)

Please come to the opening Friday, February 20th from 7PM-10PM.

Show runs February 20 - April 1 2004

Location: 96 Gillespie, 96 Gillespie Road, (Arsenal Tube), London N5

Contact: Melanie Standage or Cynthia Connolly

Phone: 020 7503 3496

Email: info@96gillespie.com or cynthia@dischord.com

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Cynthia Connolly is a well known photographer and artist from Washington, DC who quit her job at Dischord Records when accepted to The Rural Studio. While there she designed and built* an Organic Vegetable Stand in Perry County, Alabama. The Stand incoporated the work of Seale, Alabama, Folk Artist, Butch Anthony.

Cynthia has been curating and organizing her own photoshows for the last ten years & has exhibited all over the world. Her last London showing was at the ICA in 1997, with '96 Gillespie' co-founder, Pat Graham.

(www.cynthiaconnolly.com, www.ruralstudio.com/vegstand.htm)

*awarded a grant from the Albama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts

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Butch Anthony started painting about ten years ago and began selling his paintings along the roadside near where he lived through his friend, "The Mayor". He is a self taught artist who has sold pieces all over the world. A native of the small town of Seale, eastern Alabama, near the state border with Georgia, he and his father run an auction house called "The Possum Trot". Here, on friday nights, he buys old things to incorporate into his paintings, and then heads to "The Petticoat Junction" for a drink and karaoke. If you ask him what he uses for his work he says, "Junk".

(www.cathead.biz/anthony.html, www.folkartisans.com/mayorsoffice)

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Lucy Begg is a London architect who designed and built 'Ola Mae's Porch', a porch on a trailor bed in Greensboro, Alabama; with the help of Robie Gay while at The Rural Studio. She started exhibiting her illustrations in Alabama at Beacon Street Studios in Greensboro. The project, "Ola Mae's Porch", was recently published in The Architect's Journal in an article showcasing innovative building projects built for less than £250,000.

(www.ruralstudio.com/olamaeporch.htm)

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Robie Gay is an Alabama artist and architect. He dropped by to visit his friend,a professor at the Rural Studio, and immediately got stuck in helping Lucy Begg design and build 'Ola Mae's Porch'. He also set to designing and building furniture out of found objects on the Rural Studio sites. For this show, he's exhibiting furniture made from found objects in London.·

(www.ruralstudio.com/olamaeporch.htm)

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Kerry Larkin, from western Pennsylvania, is an architect and was one of eight from The Rural Studio who built "The Lucy House" ('The Carpet House') a house made from carpet pieces. This building has been featured in Architecture, Architectural Record, Readymade, Architecture Review and Metropolis magazines.

She will be coming to London a week before the opening to help install the exhibition & spontaniously build her piece for the show on-site.

Kerry currently teaches at the CHAD public High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,the only high school sponsored by The American Institute of Architects.

(www.ruralstudio.com/lucyhouse.htm, www.chadphila.org)

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All three projects created by Kerry Larkin, Cynthia Connolly, Lucy Begg and Robie Gay as participants in the Rural Studio were exhibited at the Birmingham Museum of Art in a show dedicated to the founder of The Rural Studio, Sambo Mockbee.

This exhibition moves to the National Building Museum in Washington, DC in June 2004.

(www.artsbma.org)
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