CATSHOP Collective's first exhibition BIGCATSHOP, takes place from 15 - 20 December at Gallery on the Corner, Battersea. The show opens with PV from 7pm 15 December.

"…Tentatively titled “BIGCATSHOP” The exhibiting artists will allegedly be Tarnia Gracie, Edward Lawrenson, Nick Reading, Natalie Rose Hutton, Ben Carrick, Martin McNally and Sam Good. Amid the current scenes of financial elites running riot and panic on the streets of English cities, the show will interrogate and dissect the evolving position of felines within the western industrialized society by juxtaposing a harsh sense of gritty urban realism with lots of nice fluffy ears. The featured work will be a broad range of contemporary Painting and New Media installations, unified by liberal use of empty rhetoric and lazy semantics on the textbook leftish gripes (“I blame those bloody tories, boo to the arts cuts” etc etc), and of course, gratuitous big words (“vicissitudes”) to generally make you feel inadequate. Expect booze, fancy dress, the best cat themed playlist you could wish and an overall sense of disorganisation."

What we lack in money and land we make up for in taking advantage of digital platforms. Follow the development of the works in exhibition along with daily posts and discussions exploring art and culture through:

CATSHOP Collective's online studio space: http://bigcatshop.org/

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Hope to see you there!