@garthgratrix.bsky.social
Contemporary Visual Artist. Independent Curator. Founder Director of #AbingdonStudios #Clore18 Visual Arts Fellow. #AHRC Researcher. LGBTQIA+ 🔻🔺
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FLAMBOYANT FLAMINGOS
GARTH GRATRIX
feat. Derek Jarman & Felix Gonzalez-Torres
2024
Grundy Art Gallery, Queen Street, Blackpool, FY1 1PU (UK)
Supported by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
📸 Benjamin Nuttall
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In life you can feel like your going backwards. That’s because you are until you arrive at Bradford Interchange 🚂 . Then your world suddenly flips and your facing exactly where you need to be heading 😂👍
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My attempts to be time efficient by working on the train does not align with the number of tunnels between Blackpool North and York.
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Wheel of Doom
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#itcanwait
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So many open-calls, job opps, commission opps go live over Xmas. Too all salaried cultural workers unloading your to-do lists before out of office. Promote jobs and appoint before holiday season. It’s an anxious enough time without adding submissions, waiting, rejection into other peoples New Year.
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Home to #blackpool after todays talk 4 MASS Sculpture, Thameside Studios & Gallery #london.
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Grateful to cultural leadership that uphold fair pay for talks. 👌👍
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📸 of me mid-flow
📸 artwork = “Mummys Boy”- neon and Morse code. Commissioned by @queeramusements.bsky.social exhibited Grundy Art Gallery
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This week we held an in convo event between myself and artist Kris Canavan. Exhibited at Abingdon Studios, Blackpool. Supported by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
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Wonderful to engage the public with topics Inc. Queer art, LGBTQIA+ communities, safe arts spaces, paying artists, archives +more
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An A5 book in a coral pink and amber yellow stripe cover also showing three bronze spinning plates on metal poles. Image taken by Benjamin Nuttall. The book is titled Flamboyant Flamingos visible in the middle of the cover in white text. To the top left also in white text is the artists name Garth Gratrix and to the bottom left in white text are two other featured artists names, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Derek Jarman. The book is A5 with 80 pages and self published by Garth Gratrix with an ISBN number. The image depicts the book held in the palm of a hand (Caucasian female hand).
The image shows a collection of works installed in an Art Fair booth. The booth is white and floor is black. In the foreground and centred in the image is a curved chaise like form on the floor. A sculpture by Garth Gratrix. To the left are two other artists work. A painting by Abi Hampsey showing Forest of Bowland landscape, two female face with eyes open and looking to the right at a Grouse in the landscape. The colours are bold and rich with a beam of painted light across the canvas from right to left. The painting next to that is by Tom Ireland and shows a number of wooden slats assembled together in a larger rectangle on the wall, each with different layers of the plywood surface sanded down to reveal various colours and textures (predominantly raw wood and red in tones). The the right of the central floor sculpture is then a small postcard size photograph by Kris Canavan depicting a torsos with the Word BumBoy scarred into the skin. Then next to this are three black frames containing photographs by Stuart Linden Rhodes. Each depict scenes archiving 90’s Queer nightlife in Manchester and Blackpool.
Two Caucasian men stood next to each other hugging. On the left is photographer Stuart Linden Rhodes wearing a light blue jumper and check shirt with white hair and thin black glasses. On the right is artist Garth Gratrix wearing a black plisse shirt with black leather bumbag across their chest, they also are wearing thin glasses but in vivid red and a neon pink beanie hat. They are giving a thumbs up to the camera.
Image depicts a large TV monitor installed in a bit conference scale space. The screen shows a picture of Stuart Linden Rhodes three framed photographs depicting 90’s Queer nightlife. Alongside text that reads Abingdon Studios STAND 228 Title: Manchester Havienda (1993) Blackpool Lucy’s Bar (1991) and Colin at FLESH in Manchester (1993). Promoting to an audience that these artworks have been collected by Manchester Art Gallery
All in a weekend 🥳🙏❤️
1. My new book ‘Flamboyant Flamingos’ ft. Felix Gonzalez-Torres & Derek Jarman. Grundy Art Gallery. UK.
2. My sculpture ‘Gobstopper, Comfy Jeans’ at Manchester Contemporary with Abingdon Studios
3&4: Securing Stuart Linden Rhodes 1st gallery acquisition, Manchester Art Gallery.
