Chris Clinton, Dead Media

Chris Clinton uses familiar objects and reclaimed materials to create artworks that refer obliquely to contemporary popular culture and our disregard for out-dated media. This exhibition will bring together the artist’s full series of paper-coil dartboards for the first time, alongside a new sculpture spectacularly realised using multiple reels of VHS magnetic tape.

Sourcing his rare, novelty dartboards from internet auction sites, Clinton painstakingly unwraps the coiled paper before reforming the dartboard to reveal colourful concentric circles and geometric patterns. The references to Hollywood films, comic books, cartoons or consumer brands visible in the original dartboard image are completely destroyed in the re-wrapping process, reminding us of the fleeting lifespan of novelty items.

Chris Clinton lives and works in Birmingham.

Image credit: Chris Clinton, Spiderman, 2013. Paper Coil (Dartboard).

Chris Clinton, Dead Media

Reflector

Carlos Bunga

Kirsty Mackay and participants
The Magic Money Tree

Sophia-Layla Afsar, Alex Billingham
…as we gathered on the shards of a fallen mirror ball

Walsall Society of Artists
70th Annual Exhibition

Andrew Lacon

17 January — 5 April 2014

Gallery

Chiharu Shiota, Stairway, 2012, steps, black wool. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany. Courtesy of the artist. © DACS 2013.

Chiharu Shiota, From where we come and what we are, 2011, C400 vintage suitcases, La maison rouge, Paris. Courtesy of the artist. © DACS 2013

Chiharu Shiota, From where we come and what we are, 2011, C400 vintage suitcases, La maison rouge, Paris. Courtesy of the artist. © DACS 2013

Our Floor 4 programme is primarily committed to the support of artists from our own region.

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17 January — 5 April 2014

Gallery

Chiharu Shiota, Stairway, 2012, steps, black wool. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany. Courtesy of the artist. © DACS 2013.

Chiharu Shiota, From where we come and what we are, 2011, C400 vintage suitcases, La maison rouge, Paris. Courtesy of the artist. © DACS 2013

Chiharu Shiota, From where we come and what we are, 2011, C400 vintage suitcases, La maison rouge, Paris. Courtesy of the artist. © DACS 2013

Our Floor 4 programme is primarily committed to the support of artists from our own region.