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Hanging Out In The Toilet
April 07, 2006

We went to Derek Mossop's Private View of his My Vanilla Life series of photographs last night. I've documented the photos in a previous post so I'll just mention the gallery in this one.

Gilbert & George signed tile

The exhibition is in Kingston's Toilet Gallery, which was originally a 1950's Ladies lavatory, hence the name! It was opened, rather appropriately, in October 2003 by Gilbert & George and is the brainchild of Paul Stafford. Paul is currently Director of Foundation Studies in Art & Design at Kingston University and obviously a pretty proficient self-publicist.

It's a reasonable sized gallery for a one man show although anybody working on a larger scale wouldn't be suited to the space. I suppose the gallery might add a slightly seedy, [even more] voyeuristic touch to Derek's photos but I quite like that. The gallery is absolutely freezing though and, bizarrely, doesn't have a toilet! So spare a thought for Derek, who will be holed up in there for the next three weeks. Rumours that George Michael is to pay him a visit are completely unfounded. Go and see... You'll be glad you came.

I like to watch!

Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street
Kingston

April 7th - 28th
Weds - Fri: 12:00 - 18:00
Sat - 10:00 - 18:00
Sun 12:00 - 17:00

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[left: I like to watch]

Categories: Art, London, Photography

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