Ghostbox founder to exhibit at Stirling's Changing Room gallery
The New Spirit Happening, the first visual art exhibition by Julian House – best known for his work for bands including Primal Scream and Oasis – opens in Stirling next month.
This runs parallel with the first part of How Children Learn, a new collaborative project by Stirling-based artists and designers Rue Five and David Gallety that will transform the entire gallery space over the course of two months into an idiosyncratic environment where local folklore merges with urban sprawl.
The New Spirit Happening, which runs from 1 May – 6 June, is an exhibition of collected ephemera, screenprints and moving image produced by Julian House that hints at the supernatural phenomena and events taking place at the new spirit hall in Belbury, the fictional provincial English town created by C.S. Lewis in the novel That Hideous Strength.
London-based designer and musician Julian House’s work is largely collage-based, and draws on record design and comic book art, with an acknowledgement of pulp influences.
The artist’s visual work and music are united by a shared obsession with ‘a very British kind of weird’ – library music, folklore, programmes for schools and collages, British horror movies, lost soundtracks, haunted landscapes, defunct educational establishments and supernatural stories by the likes of Algernon Blackwood.
For The New Spirit Happening these influences spill over into The Changing Room’s 18th century gallery space.
How Children Learn is a two-part collaborative project by Stirling-based artists and designers, Rue Five and David Galletly.
Part one, Killycode, runs from 1 May to 6 June. Part two, Naughts and Crosses runs from 9 to 27 June.
Working cumulatively Rue Five and Gallety will transform the gallery into an idiosyncratic environment, folding one body of work into the next until - by the time part two of the exhibition opens, the entire gallery space is taken over by the project.
Galletly and Rue Five are influenced by Scottish folklore and culture, creating characters and environments that are reflections of both local customs and the urban sprawl.
Brought to life with their signature style of hand-crafted imagery, How Children Lean features new drawings, sculpture and installation that brings the diverse methods, styles and influences of the two artists’ work together in one tightly knit collaboration.
The New Spirit Happening is produced for this year’s Le Weekend festival and organised in collaboration with Analogue Books, Edinburgh.