Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

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.
Liv Fontaine, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
Playful and surreal line drawings of figures with blocks of colour cover a wall and a fabric hanging in an industrial space
Paul Kindersley, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
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'
Liv Fontaine, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey
Playful and surreal line drawings of figures with blocks of colour cover a wall, column and fabric hanging in an industrial space
Paul Kindersley, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
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.
Huhtamaki Wab, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
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.
Huhtamaki Wab, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
detail of clay mask hanging on a white blockwork wall, pink hair falls from the mouth.
Huhtamaki Wab, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
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.
Huhtamaki Wab, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
Playful and surreal line drawings of figures with blocks of colour cover a wall, column and fabric hanging in an industrial space
Paul Kindersley, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
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.
Huhtamaki Wab, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
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.
Paul Kindersley, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
Playful and surreal line drawings of figures with blocks of colour cover a wall, column and fabric hanging in an industrial space
Paul Kindersley, Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down, 2021
Installation view, Skypark, Glasgow. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eoin Carey
two painted faces with heads through a graphic cloth
Liv Fontaine, Paul Kindersley, Huhtamaki Wab, Don't let the bastards grind you down 2021
GI online, Glasgow International 2021

Projects

  • 2021
    Huhtamaki Wab
    Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down
    Skypark
    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.
  • 2021
    Huhtamaki Wab
    Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down
    GI Online
    two painted faces with heads through a graphic cloth