Turntable Gallery - 2021

Artist Darren Neave. Video & photography by Stuart Shackleton.

Lilliputmeltz (7) - Final research project work made as part of my MRes at the Royal College of Art. An orange rubbery square, synonymous with vapidity and poor taste represents our human impact in more ways than one. The cheese is made to melt, as temperatures rise, perfectly consistent with planetary demise. The Lilliput Lane model houses, which represented affection are now forgotten and unloved. This body of work adds insult to injury. A blanket of cheese on an uncherished heirloom.

Lilliputmirrorballz (2) / (Disco), Lilliputmirrorballz (15), Backstothewallboys / (Disco), Platemirrorball, Platezmirrorballz (2), Platezmirrorballz (10) - These pieces were inspired by the George Michael video - Outside (2006), where the space flips from a male public convenience into a nightclub. My version plays on the mirrorball tiles being hidden from plain sight. Only when they are flipped or tipped do they reveal their secret side. Add in music and lights and the pieces become more fabulous. I inherited large collections of objects from my parents, which were mass-produced, worthless and unloved, they have now been transformed.