EXHIBITION - IN BED WITH THE GIRLS
'Food guilt...it’s a girl thing! Nosh figures big with Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair, two ex-St Martins girls who launched this lavish, colourful show with a vicar blessing pastries on a naked woman. Those have since been scoffed but there’s a fantastic selection of works left, often sensual and twisty, like the mermaid in 'Friday' gorging on fish'n'chips. Blood and Sinclair once gave art therapy in mental asylums, and in self-portraits they become Myra Hindley & Barbara Cartland. They dress as nurses or baroque courtesans, they pose in big photos staged like Jeff Wall pieces, but sillier. Their Photostory about the Cinderella slipper is a laugh. Life-size straw dolls in bed explore female relationships. Get into their mental bed and indulge in a strange, funny, guilty visual feast.' HERBERT WRIGHT

Reproduced courtesy of Le Cool

Date: 11/09/08