ABSINTHE §1
23.02.2019–11.05.2019
Location
Spit & Sawdust, London
Co-organized by
Billy Fraser, Charlie Mills & James Capper
List of Artists
Shadi Al-Atallah, Nancy Allen, Charlie Billingham, Luca Bosani, James Capper, Ollie Dook, Levi Draper, Billy Fraser, Alia Hamaoui, Byzantia Harlow, Andrew Pierre Hart, Serena Huang, Louis Judkins, Millie Layton, Ralph Hunter-Menzies, Finnian Mckenna, Rebecca Molloy, Polly Morgan, Jesse Pollock, Tom Ribot, George Rouy, Rhiannon Salisbury, Luke Samuel, Victor Seaward, Sanne Maloe Slecht, Mitch Vowles, Jim Woodall.
Alia Hamaoui, Do Touch, 2019
Alia Hamaoui, Luke Samuel, Rebecca Molloy & Sanne Maloe Slecht
Alia Hamaoui, Tidal Crest, 2019
Andrew Pierre Hart, repurposing the purpose of purpose, 2019
Billy Fraser, Devonzan IV, 2018
Billy Fraser, White Rabbit, 2019
Byzantia Harlow (L) & Billy Fraser (R)
Byzantia Harlow (L) & Billy Fraser (R)
Byzantia Harlow, Your memory, like a dease, lingering one (Detail), 2019
Byzantia Harlow, Your memory, like a dease, lingering one, 2019
Jesse Pollock, Sheppy Scorpion Hunting, 2019 (L) & Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury, Two by Two, 2019 (R)
Victor Seaward, Rizla, 2019
Shadi Al-Atallah, Punched my head so hard I couldn't hear, 2019
Jesse Pollock, Holding Pincers, 2019
Polly Morgan, A Hundred Hints, 2018
Ollie Dook, Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury & Polly Morgan
George Rouy, How Many Pricks Does It Take?, 2019
Charlie Billingham, Court, 2018
George Rouy, Let It Be Me, 2019
Luca Bosani & Tom Ribot, UNKOWN, 2019
Luca Bosani & Tom Ribot, UNKOWN, 2019
Mitch Vowles, Daydreamer, 2019
Luca Bosani & Tom Ribot, UNKOWN, 2019
Luca Bosani & Tom Ribot, UNKOWN, 2019
Luca Bosani & Tom Ribot, UNKOWN, 2019
Luca Bosani & Tom Ribot, UNKOWN, 2019
Luca Bosani & Tom Ribot, UNKOWN, 2019 (2)
Luca Bosani & Tom Ribot, UNKOWN, 2019
Ollie Dook, Go Binge with Open Happiness, 2019
Victor Seaward, Martin, 2019
Jim Woodall, Stand Still and Rot, 2019
James Capper, PUSH AWAY TOOTH I, 2015
Ralph Hunter Menzies, Charlie Billingham & Nancy Allen
Louis Judkins, Artist Smoking and Talking About Art, 2019
Ralph Hunter-Menzies, Tamished Gluttony, 2019
Nancy Allen, Suspended Cape, 2019
Mitch Vowles, Daydreamer, 2019
ABSINTHE §1
Absinthe. Curious love of the sordid and the extravagant. Muse of the weird, twisted and eerie. Throughout its short history, absinthe has passed from antiseptic to vermicide, honorary salute to morphological being. It is ghostly and mutinous. It is no surprise that absinthe has long persisted in the underground, from Joyce to Baudelaire, Rimbaud to van Gogh. It was prolific amongst artists and writers of the boulevards of modern Paris: mystic visions of the Moulin Rouge, images that bled from their canvas with an emerald sorcery: hypnotic, aberrant and erotic.
Comprising 3 major exhibitions of emerging artists over the course of 9 months, ABSINTHE is a hybrid, eclectic, and at points inexplicable presentation of the weirder side of London’s emerging art scene. Located at the Spit & Sawdust pub, Bermondsey, each exhibition will present a mandala of artists that cut and splice between mediums and styles; a kaleidoscopic trip into the city’s current alternative art practices.
Events
ABSINTHE Poetry Night, curated by Finnian Mckenna (06.04.2019)
ABSINTHE Film Night: Binge Watch, curated by Ollie Dook (17.04.2019)
Press
‘ABSINTHE’, feature show on ‘The Monthly Howl’ on Soho Radio (14.03.2019)
‘ABSINTHE’ — Review by Lara Monroe’ in Coeval Magazine
Residency
Absent-Minded Residency Programme, organised by Collective Ending (03.06.2019-10.06.2019)
Publication
ABSINTHE §1 (download)
Published in collaboration by Kronos x Elam Publishing
Edition of 300 copies printed by Side Quest
Edited by Charlie Mills
Graphic design by Stephen Dalley
Interviews & Essay by Hector Campbell
Poetry by Finnian Mckenna and Harry Dickinson
Studio Photography by Brynley Davies and Hugo Lami
Event Photography by Kit Harwood and Leo Taylor
Installation photography by Billy Fraser
Copyright ABSINTHE and Kronos x Elam Publishing 2019
Text copyright the authors 2019
Images courtesy of ABSINTHE