Review of Kate Marshall's 'Blue Stockings'

PRIVATE VIEW OF A BLUE STOCKINGS
BY KATE MARSHALL

HOSTED BY DegreeArt.com
THE EMPIRE GALLERY
30 VYNER STREET, E2
05^th JUNE 2008

Kate Marshall returned to DegreeArt.com's gallery almost a year to the day after her 2007 solo debut was singled out as a must-see by the Sunday Times. Her signature figures in acrylic and charcoal “flirt between painting and drawing” and feature alongside work that shows a new bent for printmaking.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
Bra-burning strip artists, suffragette jockeys and voyeuristic glances through the glass ceiling offer a “smutty, seaside postcard humour” take on feminism, femininity and the sexualized female image in popular culture. Her inspiration comes from images of women “culled from a glossy magazine, a fairy tale, historic art and literature, trash culture, ancient myth and coffee table erotica.

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ATTENDED GUESTS
Kate Marshall, Jack Coriggall, Elinor Olisa (DegreeArt.com), Isobel Beauchamp (DegreeArt.com), Patsy Lima, Gregory Smart, Lorna May Wadsworth, Nathan James, Marcus Jaye (ChicGeek), Jamie McLaren (Run Riot), The Grunbergs, Ruth Holoway,
DRINKS
Duvel Vedett
AFTER PARTY
The Hoxton Pony, Curtain Road
MUSIC
Alex Gromadzki

WHERE
The Empire Gallery, 30 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DQ
WHEN
Thursday 5 June 2008
Show runs until the 14th June 12-6pm
PHOTOGRAPHER

Joe Upton Copyright 2008
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