Liv Fontaine, Paul Kindersley, Huhtamaki Wab

From a distance there are 9 highly detailed felt tip pen drawings pinned to a blue board with gold frame. It is hung on a red brick wall in an industrial space.

Playful and surreal line drawings of figures with blocks of colour cover a wall and a fabric hanging in an industrial space

Two colour pencil drawings hang on a white blockwork wall. On the left, in a pale blue frame the drawing shows a clown and black text that reads 'mummy was depressed'. On the right in a salmon pink frame there is a clown and black cursive text that reads 'daddy was a trickster'

Playful and surreal line drawings of figures with blocks of colour cover a wall, column and fabric hanging in an industrial space

There is a rectangular, landscape-oriented painting on paper, hanging on a red brick wall. There are surreal, psychedelic faces merging with and emerging out of a landscape. There is the edge of an inky lake below a mountain, a crying face whose tears lead a river into another face's mouth. Next to the painting a mask with half closed eyes and a wide mouth is adorned with a cape of blue fabric, dark brown hair falls from its mouth. In front of the painting another mask has a rope body.

Detail of an artwork. There is a section of a painting on paper, hanging on a red brick wall. There are surreal, psychedelic faces merging with and emerging out of a landscape. There is the edge of an inky lake below a mountain, a crying face whose tears lead a river into another face's mouth. Next to the painting a mask with half closed eyes and a wide mouth is adorned with a cape of blue fabric, dark brown hair falls from its mouth.

detail of clay mask hanging on a white blockwork wall, pink hair falls from the mouth.

A wide rectangular painting on paper hangs on a white blockwork wall. There is an inky hint of a landscape, heads floating in space with links of sausages joining their mouths, a mountain has a snide face, hints towards hands, ghost figures, guts, clouds. Three, clay, mask-like faces hang above the painting, adorned with colourful hair. Two strands of pink hair hang down in front of the painting.

Three black framed felt-tip pen drawings hang on a concrete block work wall. They show landscapes in crude blue, orange and pink. In one, the landscape is pink and sky is blue and the word 'smooth' floats in the sky in bubble writing above a pink cactus.

Playful and surreal line drawings of figures with blocks of colour cover a wall, column and fabric hanging in an industrial space. There are two performers, one appears to be extra tall and is wearing a tabard-like column of blue fabric with a disappointed looking cut out of an orange face, the performer's face is painted orange and they wear a red wig. The other performer has a turquoise painted face and electric blue wig, the line drawings of the wall cover their clothing.

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Don’t Let The Bastards Grind You Down was an exhibition of exhibitionists, starring Liv Fontaine, Paul Kindersley, and Huhtamaki Wab. Known for creating larger-than-life personae, these artists explore the surreal, the political, and the outrageous within their own lives and wider society. Their diverse practices also span painting, performance, film, and social media.

Fontaine, Kindersley, and Wab may be better known for their work in film or performance, but by bringing the three together, the project aims to draw attention to the paintings and drawings that underpin each artist’s practice. Expect whimsical scenes of joy, depravity and all the in-between messiness of lives lived in public and in private.

Curated by Cabbage

Supported by Glasgow International

Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down

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