I'M SHY (The Virgo Show)

28.08.04-19.09.04

An exhibition curated by no one special featuring new work from Olivia FitzGerald, Lee Maelzer, John Moseley, Harry Pye, Neil Reddy, Lucy Soutter, Jessica Voorsanger

I'm Shy (The Virgo Show) installation view
Jessica Voorsanger, Untilted 2004 (forground)

Olivia FitzGerald graduated in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in 1995 and then from the Royal College in 2001 with an MA in photography. She has exhibited in group shows including the Whitechapel Open, Assembly, Enough or Too Much? and I Love Your Work and had a solo show in May 2002 at James Coleman Gallery. Current work involves the meticulous application of thin layers of oil paint to black and white photographs to create a kind of backwards tromp l‚oeil. Olivia lives in South London and her birthday is on the 21st of September. Lee Maelzer went to Central St Martin‚s for her BA and did her MA at the RCA. She is going to do the Abbey Fellowship in Rome from October to December this year. The Virgo virgin is normally depicted as a lady holding wheat or foliage of some kind. As a response to this, Lee has made paintings depicting women or womanly men, in wheat.Lee lives in East London her birthday is on the 7th of September.John Moseley studied Fine Art in Liverpool before briefly taking up filmmaking in London, then dropped out of the artworld almost completely for two years to write an internet startup. It was while working there that he started to make videos composed of quick shots such as the one he is showing here. John lives in North London his birthday is on the 26th of August. Harry Pye has made a series of paintings in collaboration with artists including Sean O‚Connor and Rowland Smith. Harry began curating art shows 4 years ago and was the brains behind; 'It May Be Rubbish But It‚s British Rubbish', 'Viva Pablo' and '100 Mothers'. His own artwork has appeared in many shows including „The Bart Wells Gang, 'Funny',Wayne Rooney, ,Pub Crawl and Record Collection and his writing has featured in many magazines and fanzines including; „The Ups & Downs, Untitled and The Face. Harry lives in South London his birthday is on the 31st of August. Neil Reddy completed an MA in photographic studies at the University of Derby in 1995. His work has featured in numerous exhibitions including shows at The Wolsey Gallery in Ipswich, Glassbox in Paris and The Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. He has work in private and public collections most notably The Victoria & Albert Museum, London and The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas. Neil Reddy works directly with light. His work involves drawing pinholes of light in and out of focus during a long exposure, making a photograph which a record of an event that only the camera witnesses. Neil lives in Surburton his birthday is on the 5th of September.Billy Smart was a student at Royal Holloway University and recently he successfully completed an M (Phil) in Playwriting. Billy is the principal author of the first hyperdrama to have been performed in the United Kingdom (eighteen months before Alan Ayckbourn‚s House & Garden and performed in eight rooms simultaneously, rather than two). He has also been involved in low budget filmmaking and has compered and organised cabarets. His contribution to 'I'm Shy' is a list of everything he‚s spent money on in 2004. Billy lives in Moseley in Birmingham his birthday is on the 15th of September.Lucy Soutter hates it when people misspell her surname. She also hates it when people ask how she can be a long-term Londoner and still have an American accent. Don‚t mess with Lucy: she has a BA (Harvard), two MAs (CalArts, Yale), a PhD (Yale), and she did several years of improv comedy theatre. When she is not lecturing at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College or The Royal College of Art, she can be found making gorgeous oblique still life photographs, or embarrassingly revealing self-portraits. Lucy lives between Camberwell and Brixton with her dog, Claude. Her birthday is on the 25th of August. Jessica Voorsanger was born in New York, New York she has had many solo shows in America and the U.K. including 'Art Stars' at Anthony Wilkinson and 'Baby Show' at The Camden Arts Centre. Jessica lives in East London where she reads Bionic Man yearbooks and listens to records by The Partridge Family.

 

I'm Shy (The Virgo Show) was curated by Harry Pye