Brian Catling, CUDDY

MATT'S GALLERY, 92 Webster Road, Bermondsey, London SE16 4DF

15-21 April 2019, Daily 12-6pm

Private view, Sunday 14 April, 2-6pm

https://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/catling/exhibition-7.php

 

CUDDY, like all my work is a moment between dream and storage.
But this one is intimate, clandestine and odd.
CUDDY was made for showing here:
Objects in conversation.
Boxed smears of memory flavoured by homage;
being the third pilgrimage to Colmar
and the accidental coincident of Easter.
CUDDY is not unlike a handmade Chinese whisper of the Pittancer

CUDDY is made of oak, ash, yew, pine, olive wood, steel, brass, perspex, tufnol, clay and lies.

 

The Pittancer

Sparrows dry hearts
fluttered in Joseph's tree
as the city approaches day by day
on cracked and creaking souls.
Even the wind lost,
amid the hill's rise
& fall
dawn
leatherish
disgust.
He carried
the gummy stick
and blood to the snow line
between wolves and haunted fellows
whose simple reverence weeped all
the way 
home &
dusk
magnified
holiest ground.

Brian Catling 2019