Earlier today I headed out into the cold to visit the new alternative art show from Jane Webb and her collaborators, the Illumini Crypt-mas exhibition, which you'll find occupying the maze of passages under St Pancras Church on the Euston Road in London.
Crypt-mas features Jane's own work (including a rather borg-like robotic Santa) as well as 'Christmas Morning', a collection of beautiful, anemone-like pieces by Lionel Dean that subtly change colour, Judy Foote's delightful 'Crackers', Dorota Kuzniar's delicate arrangement, 'All The Trimmings!', and lots more besides.
If you like your art a bit edgy and subversive then this is the exhibition for you - the only way that I can describe it is to say that it comes across as simultaneously festive and sinister, probably due to the tombstones that are liberally scattered around the space and the influence of Vinay Hathi's 'Crypt-mas Fairy', which you'll find fluttering its macabre wings in a distant corner...
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| From Illumini Crypt-mas December 2010 |
I highly recommend a visit - the exhibition is free and runs from 11am to 7pm every day up to and including 22 December. I should just mention that Jane's projects don't receive any funding from the Arts Council or similar bodies, so can I encourage you to take along a few pounds to buy some of the festive merchandise, which will help further Illumini events to take place. The bar of Crypt-mas chocolate that's on sale would make for a very unusual stocking filler, for example...
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