Press Release – Ralph Dorey; Function Room, Cafe Space at Jerwood Space
PRESS RELEASE
RALPH DOREY
Function Room
19 September – 23 October 2006
Cafe Space, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN
Open Mon-Fri 8 – 4pm
Function Room is a sculptural installation by British artist Ralph
Dorey. There is an ephemeral blue organ in the roof of the Jerwood
Cafe Space. You could cook it. You could hold a plate under it
expectantly or use its internal mail system. Perhaps it will suck you up
and dump you out onto the street outside.
Ralph Dorey is a keen enthusiast of physical things but equally keen on
the hypothetical. His work is vivaciously visceral, anthropomorphically
awkward, contextually voracious and frequently large. He is influenced
by artists such as; Jon Bock, Phyllida Barlow, Jessica Stockholder, Matt
Calderwood, Tony Cragg, Louise Bourgious, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt,
Elsworth Kelly, Dan Flavin, Frank Stella, Ugo Rondinone, and Richard
Wentworth.
Ralph Dorey lives and works in London. He studied BA (Hons) in Fine Art
at the University of East London (2003-2006). Recent solo exhibitions
include: Arnold Circus Old Nichols, Scaffold Isle of Portland. Recent
group exhibitions include: Future First, The Residence Gallery, London
(2006), Way Out East, The Tram Depot, London (2006), You Are Here,
Queens Wood, Highgate (2006), The Hackney Artists: Tab Centre 2,
Shoreditch (2006), 555 Trinity Buoy Wharf, London (2006), Immediately
With The Masterful, The Ada Street Project, London (2006).
Images can be found at: http://www.happy-times.com/ralph
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