Stifled

09.02.07- 23.02.07
Featuring: Claudia Lastra, Harry Lawson & Jo Hicks

Red Wire's first exhibition of 2007- Stifled featured three artists from JMU's Fine Art final year- Jo Hicks, Claudia Lastra and Harry Lawson. Described by the artists as being "informed by the boundaries of spaces, places and temporal order", this fits with Red Wires ethos of maximizing the space, in knowledge of its constraints, natural style and advantages.
  

Claudia Lastra's work features the much-discussed, often overseen resin Wotsit, the wooden lettered 'The interent has a trancendental presence' and a meticulously cardboard built pyramid.

The seemingly random surreal twists to Harry Lawson's work, as below with Sherbert dynamite strapped to a clock are echoed by his meticulous, time-consuming dedication to drawing, like the randomly shaded squares of graph paper.

One of the striking pieces was Jo Hick's attacking circular fenceposts piercing the space below, just enough above head-height to feel both safe and threatening enough. It formed a barrier round the light, almost both attacking and as a defense.

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