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The Comme Ca Art Gallery
‘200ml of Vanilla’ by: Suzy
Jones curated by Comme Ca Art & Suzy Jones @ The Comme
Ca Art Gallery.
24 Worsley Street, (Off Ellesmere Street), Castlefield, Manchester,
M15 4LD
From: 08.05.03 – 21.06.03
Opening Times: Sun & Mon: Closed, Tues – Fri: 11:30am
– 5:00pm, Sat: 12:00pm – 4:00pm, late night Thurs
until 7:30pm
All other times by appointment only. Tel: 0161 839 7187
Preview Event: Thurs 8th May 2003: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Please call Comme Ca Art if you would like to receive invitations:
0161 839 7187.
Even before graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University
in 2001 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Interactive Arts, Suzy
Jones was busy negotiating exhibitions in the UK and for a
recent graduate Suzy has already built an impressive CV of
solo and group exhibitions, commissions and residencies.
Having cut her teeth on the Comme Ca Art alternative exhibition
scene, Comme Ca director, Claire Turner, thinks the time is
right for this emerging star of the North to be given the
chance of a solo gallery exhibition so early in her career.
"Suzy’s commitment to her work is staggering and
the goal she has set herself for this exhibition shows her
dedication and ambition for her artistic medium. I am sure
this exhibition will help to raise the profile of this talented
young artist."
200ml of Vanilla is an audience-based exhibition of new work.
In her individual style, drawn from Japanese anime, the work
looks into the artists personal perception of "The Super
Flat" ideology of Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami.
With the use of humour and an underlying theme of personal
quirks, Suzy’s interactive paintings, sculpture and multi-media
works aim to leave the viewer feeling in some way touched
by something that they may not intirely understand.
Says Suzy; "The work is about things that I have current
obsessions for, small every-day things that seem to shape
the person that I am trying to market myself as. Things like
drinking milkshakes, smelling like Vanilla or my obsession
with Michael Jackson and earmuffs. I see myself as a New Tokyo
Pop artist, but that is also just a new obsession that I have
about my work right now."
There is a glimpse of the world that Suzy surrounds herself
with and you as the viewer are invited to join her by producing
a collaborative piece of work that will be on show alongside
200ml of Vanilla.
"I call the genre in which I work New Pop or Tokyo Pop.
It groups together my interest in Japanese product design,
popular culture and the almost inherent love of comics and
gaming that you find in Japan as opposed to anywhere else.
I find there is a different sort of vibrancy in Tokyo that
you can not find in any other city in the world, what is considered
to be 'geeky' in the UK is almost an expected part of youth
culture in Japan. Being different is encouraged and being
different is what makes for a more interesting popular culture."
Suzy Jones
For more information or images on 200ml of Vanilla by Suzy
Jones
call: Comme Ca Art on: 0161 839 7187 email: info@commecaart.com
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