Gallery No.32

Liam Scully


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Liam Scully, 'Sh*t Heads'. Liam centres his artistic practice around the political, the personal and lowbrow trash culture; exploring how the three are inextricably linked. For WINTER SCULPTURE PARK he has created a series of political heads out of an organic material he has developed himself; ‘Crossness Cob’. The material uses incorporates a sewage byproduct from Crossness pumping station called ‘cake’ which is essentially the collective poo of all of South London, from Richmond to Thamesmead and is fitting to represent the political class. "They are shit heads made by our collective sh*t. We worship and despise them at the same time. These are effigies/idols literally made from our own ruin."

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Gallery No.32By Meg Stuart, Kieran Idle