Good Grief! and other Calamities

Someone is moving house; Chewing gum sticks to the bottom of a shoe; A fight breaks out; "Excuse me waiter, there's an eye in my soup!"; on the 9th tee, dead drunk, he made a 'hole in one'; as the smoke from her cigarette becomes a cloud drifting out over her window sill garden.

Chris Dolman’s solo exhibition Good Grief! and other Calamities, sees the artist continue on his tragicomedy search for self with a new series of paintings and ceramic objects. Taking on elements from the comic grotesque, and using slapstick and self-deprecating humour, Dolman creates absurd yet poetic narrative moments within the mundane situations of daily life. Blurring memories of real events with invented scenarios, the exhibition takes a light-hearted look at grief, anxiety and the accidents just waiting to happen to us all...Be careful not to trip on your way out. 

Image: Chris Dolman, Floating Around, 2016, oil on paper mounted on aluminium panel, timber stretcher, 150 x 112 cm

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