Paul Kindersley is an emerging artist who focuses on making provocative installation pieces. After living and studying in Berlin and Cambridge Kindersley moved to London to do a BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, where he received a First.
Kindersley curated the current exhibition at the Centre for Recent Drawing where he is also launching a Zine on the 19th May.
> How would you describe your work?
Exploring and blurring the boundaries between fantasy and reality, the personal and the public, suggesting a fluid involvement with mythologized film experience. In play with the idea of an amateur interacting with constructed glamour, celebrity, icon and stereotype and create an uneasy reversing of the fan/artist positions, so it is no longer clear or important where lines are drawn. The aim is to create a place of borderline existence, anchored in a shared pop culture.
I create rooms, installations, sets, and constellations of found objects and images, arranged and filtered through convoluted amalgams of histories and personal experiences. Places that confuse the roles of voyeur, madman, co-conspirator and obsessive fan, familiar yet uneasy backdrops into which the viewer is implicated. These installations often draw on camp, nostalgia and the extremes of exploitation movies of the 60’s and 70’s.
Through obsessive re-making and re-creating, using photocopies and available objects I aim to present clues, props and objects with which to interact. This enables a slowing down of the film time and a breaking up of the film screen, allowing the viewer to have a sense of ownership of the romanticised glamour that we associate with film and its stars. In this way I play with cultural fictions and present a melancholic hankering for the never real.
> Who or what are your main influences/ inspirations?
My biggest influences are as diverse as performance artist Jack Smith, artists Karen Kilimnik and Tom Burr and directors John Waters and Harry Kummel.
> What are you working on at the moment?
I’m curating the show ‘HAND JOY’ with over 40 pieces from 23 artists, including a piece by me from a series of imagined sexual encounters with closeted homosexual film stars of the 60’s 70′ and 80’s. HAND JOY runs until 28 May, we will be launching a tie in zine on the 19th May with a drinks reception from 6-8pm.
> Any big plans for the future?
Hopefully moving into a new studio, and working on some larger installations, and
continuing my curatorial collaboration with the Centre For Recent Drawing.
http://www.c4rd.org.uk/C4RD/Centre_for_Recent_Drawing.html
The Centre for Recent Drawing: 2-4 Highbury Station Rd N1 1SB, London. Opening times are Wednesday to Friday 12pm – 6pm.
