The Funderdome Comes to Town! 

Private View: Saturday 14th October 2-4pm

Exhibition continues: Thurs - Sat  between 19th and 11th Nov

Artists Kialy Tihngang and Stuart Robinson, bring their playful artworks to provoke, transform and re-imagine the chapel space. Kialy Tihngang (b.1994) is a British-born Cameroonian multidisciplinary Glasgow-based visual artist. Stuart Robinson is a sculpture and installation artist working from his studio in Penryn, Cornwall.

Kialy's 'Useless Machines' are a response to the political and economic consequences of a mass media throw away culture and its impact on less affluent countries. Stuart's seaside arcades of idealised objects juxtapose Kialy's artworks as they relish in the aesthetics of entertainment, leisure and popular Western culture.

Their artworks come together to both celebrate and question a throw away society, a low kitsch vision of a world which is filling up with useless machines and budget paraphernalia, its bright lights and colours distracting us from the deeper questions and values.

In the words of artist David Hockney, ‘play’ is a serious business. These playful works are a fertile ground, capable of opening up a reimagining of ourselves and the world we inhabit, and this exhibition shakes these thoughts to the surface. What do we value, how might we remake, reinvent, re-love our useless machines and how can we nurture our world to create a better environment for us all?

Seen something you'd like to buy? prices of the artwork in the show are as follows:

If you would like to purchase any pieces in the show please contact info@chapelartsstudios.co.uk

All pieces by Kialy Tihngang come under the name 'Untitled (Useless Machines)', 2021 and are all priced at £1500.

Stuart Robinson - 6 pieces, collectively named "Namesakes" 2022, a full price list of stuart's work in the show can be found here