Gathering and Workplace are delighted to present At Home, Everywhere and Nowhere, an ambitious solo exhibition of large-scale sculpture, installation, and wall-based work by Simeon Barclay, collaboratively shown across both galleries. Each gallery will feature paintings from the same wall-based acrylic series, drawing an explicit continuity between the overlapping exhibitions.
At Gathering, Barclay is presenting a larger-than-life inflatable sculpture of the artist wearing a Donald Duck outfit, referencing a 1980 Elton John performance in New York City. Evolving from a previous sculpture exhibited at South London Gallery, the newly created work takes on an overwhelming presence within the gallery, adopting a pompous scale akin to the 1995 Michael Jackson HIStory album statue, witnessed by Barclay floating down the River Thames.
Drawing upon a deep vein of cultural sources, Barclay creates a sophisticated and complex interplay of scultpure, sound and collage in each gallery. Collectively, the artworks further Barclay’s idiosyncratic engagement with art history, fashion, identity and histories of image making.
At Gathering, Barclay is presenting a larger-than-life inflatable sculpture of the artist wearing a Donald Duck outfit, referencing a 1980 Elton John performance in New York City. Evolving from a previous sculpture exhibited at South London Gallery, the newly created work takes on an overwhelming presence within the gallery, adopting a pompous scale akin to the 1995 Michael Jackson HIStory album statue, witnessed by Barclay floating down the River Thames.
Drawing upon a deep vein of cultural sources, Barclay creates a sophisticated and complex interplay of scultpure, sound and collage in each gallery. Collectively, the artworks further Barclay’s idiosyncratic engagement with art history, fashion, identity and histories of image making.
