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Six of One

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Half a Dozen of the Other

Jefford Horrigan

7th February - 7th March

Thursday – Friday 11 – 5 Saturday 11 – 4 - and by appointment

If you stand on the pavement outside Ken artspace you can see the Houses of Parliament, St Anselm’s Church and Lambeth County Court. If you look up you see the stars and if you are very lucky, William Blake’s angels on the rooftops of London. A constellation of fates.

Jefford Horrigan’s geo-poetic observation reminds us that we walk an unsteady path between the competing laws that govern our passage through life. It is a balance disturbed by political and religious intervention to which we must continually adjust and respond; ducking and diving, counter-punching, standing our ground. In Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other, we are confronted by the juxtaposition of six constructed full bottom wigs and six angels. Paint, salvaged wood and paint-soaked fabric are Jefford Horrigan’s materials of choice in his construction of the twelve works, their ordinariness puncturing the emblematic authority of these symbols of power.

Artist Bio

Jefford Horrigan lives and works in London. In 2025 his exhibitions, performances, screenings and readings include – The Ribbon (performance) for Campfire (group exhibition) The Good Rice. – Readymades (group exhibition) Tension Fine Art. – The Levitation (Reading) for The Cock Tavern Sunday Salon, Hackney Central. – Wardrobe (sculpture) and The Pattern Cutter (performance) for Pattern Cutters (group exhibition) Ragged School Museum – Skin Graft (performance) for Glitter In My Wounds, Lethaby Gallery. – Sodium Streetlights (sound work) for Boot Poets/ Carpool, Sainsbury’s Car Park, Newcross Gate. Umbrella (performance) for Nose, Blind and Humming at San Mei Gallery.

Other selected projects in recent years include at Tension Fine Art. Ken Artspace. 303 Projects CIC, Lowestoft. Great Ormond Street Hospital. Ragged School Museum. Whitechapel Gallery. Estorick Collection. Focal Point Gallery, Southend. ROM 8. Bergen. Centrum, Berlin. MaGNUM, Brooklyn NY. Beaconsfield. Tate Britain. Modern Art Oxford. Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre. Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. Clockwork Gallery, Berlin. South London Gallery. ICA London. The Barbican, Orto Botanico Giardino, Padova, Italy

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