Gary Rogers, Suzi Gutierrez, Graham Pullen and Ant Viney were exhibing for two weeks and their take on how to use this space was novel. They had cleaned the bottle glass windows to increase the light, placed Gary's cheerful coloured pots, made of something he mixes up, on the ledges, which I have not seen used before, left some paintings leaning on the walls from the floor, and mixed the hang which I like rather than splitting the show into individual territories.
After a while I could recognise the work of each of them. Ant Viney's were abstract with some poetic additions, airy, light and expansive.
Suzi Gutierrez had a mixture of subjects both narrative and abstract and use of titles that added interest.
She shares a liking for animal ears with the wild and unruly performance video artist Fred McVittie, also in Cornwall.
Graham Pullen used screen printing and pattern in a lively and subtle way.
Gary Rogers 3D mosaic inlaid whimsical animals and colourful groups of vessels animated the whole enjoyably.
Most unconventionally each day someone was given a piece of art, something that questions the whole art world commerce which generally rules and absorbs every creative act into our capitalist conventions, even though looking is free. In this edge of Brexit from the European Union anxiety ridden climate people are fairly careful about buying anything. I see Robert Peston is writing about a post capitalist vision so maybe be the free circulation of some art could develop further in future.
Meanwhile prices ranged from £30 to a around £1500.
The title for the show indicates an aspiration to rouse excitement and be unconventional which is hard to live up to but the exhibition is lively and the suspects unusual in St.Ives.
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