Thursday May 25, 2006
“Dollies & Divas”
Special Private Party
Georgie Tier and Nancy Farmer
La Viande Gallery, 17 May 2006
text and photos by Mistress Eli
Georgie Tier
I first saw Georgie’s work at Lost Vagueness festival last summer and was very impressed indeed. A friend of mine has recently described Georgie’s very unique style as “Beryl Cook meets Picasso” and this is, strangely, rather fitting.
She uses strong colours and fluid organic lines and shapes, her femme fatales are cartoon-like, voluptuous and often one–eyed (think Cyclops!), but strangely this does not detract from the beauty of each lady that she paints. Her subjects are sexy, sometimes dominant, often burlesque and always erotic.
It was when Georgie exhibited at “Coffee Cake & Kink” in Covent Garden that she was asked to consider providing some eye candy for the boys and thus her first homoerotic painting was produced.
She has recently won a competition to display two of her paintings at the “Art at Large” exhibition in Manhattan. In fact, she won two awards since each painting was a winner in itself. She is therefore the only artist exhibiting two paintings as a result of this competition, one of these being her new homoerotic painting.
Like most artists, Georgie is always delighted to receive commissions. Her vision of Empress Stah is a beautiful and unique work of art and incorporates a string of diamante jewels, to show off one of the Empress’ infamous party acts. This particular commission was first shown at the La Viande preview to the delight of the lady herself, who went on to give us a wonderful cabaret performance as the “golden lady”.
This was indeed a massive coup for an art exhibition and gave the evening a strong focal point. Fortunately, there were none of the inanely boring arty farty types here waffling on about the merits of art installations. In fact, this exhibition was so unique that it had even attracted Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf.
Georgie will also be exhibiting at the following venues/dates:15 June – 1 July 2006: Art at Large exhibition, 44th Street, Manhattan, New York, USA.
16 – 18 June 2006: Festival of Bliss, near Gatwick, Surrey.
24 June 2006: Transgender Art exhibition @ Sparkle Gallery, Canal Street, Manchester.
13 July – 11 August 2006: Porn in Art exhibition, Edi’s Weinstube, Zurich, Switzerland.
Check out her website: www.erotic-art-online.co.uk
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Nancy Farmer
Nancy has displayed two styles of work at this exhibition. The upstairs space is filled with photographs of Barbie dolls in dominatrix style, joined either by another “slave” Barbie or by a very submissive Ken. These photographs are imaginative, stylish and stylised. One can visualise the scene, taking a walk down the road and there, by the curb-side, you see a woman, bright pink & blue hair, arranging strangely dressed (or undressed) dolls in the muddy puddles, creating a weird scene of a Barbie mud fight.
Downstairs, Nancy has displayed some of her very original paintings. These beautiful works cross modern day fantasy with a little BDSM, creating some very surreal and unusual results. The paintings are imaginative, thought provoking, sometimes dark and generally amusing. Picture, if you will, woodland elves and fairies sporting body piercings and tattoos and a lot of attitude. One of my favourites were the 3 dark witches (very Macbeth) each sitting on a “man-stool”, obviously enjoying a chat and a glass of wine. This we ladies understand.
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Nancy will also be exhibiting at the following venues/dates:
9 – 24 September 2006: Somerset Art Week.
5 – 30 November 2006: The Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk
Check out her web site: www.nancyfarmer.net
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