Liam Fallon, Wound Up, 2024

We are pleased to announce LIAM FALLON’S edition release in support of CHOOSE LOVE

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Liam Fallon (b. 1995, Stoke On Trent) lives and works in London. He graduated from Manchester School Of Art in 2017 and has gone on to exhibit nationally and internationally with exhibitions in Glasgow, New York, Los Angeles, London and Berlin. In 2018 he was awarded the prestigious Lim Ai Fang Award for sculpture at the Woon Foundation Prize and in both 2018 and 2020 he was shortlisted for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Prize. In 2020 he then went onto receive a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award. In 2021 he exhibited at König Galerie, Berlin, Carl Kostyál Gallery, Stockholm and Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles. In 2022 he opened solo shows with Castor Gallery, London and Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles and in 2023 exhibited at Enter Art Fair with Valencia-based gallery, Tuesday To Friday with a solo presentation which followed in January 2024.

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In his practice Fallon explores the diverse landscape of queer culture through the use and manipulation of objects and materials. The binary of private versus public marks a particular point of interest; examining the ways in which spaces are utilised and fetishized in order to explore the sentimental values of love, desire and loss, occurrences that are at once unfolding in the public realm, whilst at the same time remaining an enigmatically private affair.

At a first glance, the sculptural works seem reminiscent of things and places encountered before, but there is a false façade at play and quickly, the reality of each work begins to unfold and theatrically perform. It is these theatrical and performative elements, inspired heavily by Jean Genets literature and film, which change the work from something static to something with movement, weight and dependency. Broken walls being laced up; others are unzipping to reveal a little more than they bargained for. Pencils and lipstick begin to lose their rigidity, slowly morphing into a new form and sculptures grow socks, slowly crawling for the exit. Here, the mundane and regularly used have been revalued and exalted and their previous function as markers of space and function which define our boundaries, are all something of the distant past and instead look towards the future for a new use.

Fallon’s aim here is to litter an envisioned landscape with coded and sculptural objects, monuments of queerness which typically act and communicate under the guise of secrecy. In this new landscape, they would no longer be hindered by discretion but instead, bombastically exist to scream loud of the presence, intention, and purpose.

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Choose Love does whatever it takes to provide refugees and displaced people with everything from lifesaving search and rescue boats to food and legal advice. They elevate the voices and visibility of refugees and galvanise public support for agile community organisations providing vital support to refugees along migration routes globally.

Choose Love has provided vital emergency aid and longer-term support to more than 5 million people across the world.

Choose Love is a registered UK Charity. No 1099682 and registered in the USA as a A 501(C)(3) charitable non profit. 

200 Euro provide:

13 hot meals The reality for lots of people living in refugee camps is spending hours in a queue for low-quality food rations or going hungry. With this they are providing a nutritious meal, or fresh produce to cook and share with their loved ones. £15 will typically provide food for a family for 3 days.

6 'Keep A Child safe' kits - Thousands of refugee children arrive, without their parents, in new countries every day. Our partners distribute these parcels containing things like a warm hoodie, writing materials, a toy like a football and a basic mobile phone to make sure that unaccompanied children have what they need, from shelter, clothes and food to education and mental health support.

2 Bundles Of Warmth Contents: blanket and sleeping bag: to stay warm at night. Hot Food: nutritious meals to nourish families and individuals. Heating fuel: to keep people warm in freezing temperatures. Waterproof tent and emergency housing: a place to sleep.

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Support CHOOSE LOVE by getting yourself a beautiful edition by LIAM FALLON.

Available from:

November 25

6pm GMT

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