Victoria Langdon, Yellow Golden Pheasant, £350 fr
Last week Victoria Langdon's new exhibition "Home to Roost" opened to a packed upstairs gallery.This new show of bold and colourful screenprints are some of the most good humored work we have shown in a long while.
Home to Roost is showing at Curwen Gallery until 30th September 2011
Last week Victoria Langdon's new exhibition "Home to Roost" opened to a packed upstairs gallery.This new show of bold and colourful screenprints are some of the most good humored work we have shown in a long while.
The subject of the work is the 'country gent' of the bird world; the pheasant.In contrast to the urban pigeons, the subject of her last show, pheasants have associations with rural gentry. Her prints capture the comical quirkiness of the bird, many of them playfully adopting human expressions
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As can be seen above; Regal Ridiculous bears an uncanny resemblance to Hugh Laurie's Prince Regent from Blackadder the Third.Victoria Langdon, Regal Ridiculous, £350 fr
Home to Roost is showing at Curwen Gallery until 30th September 2011
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