Opening reception: First Friday – February 3, 2006 from 5 - 9 pm.

ALL FOR SHOW celebrates the incredible energy and strong diversity in current British video work. Organized by artist/curator Lee Campbell, the exhibition features the work of leading British artists such as Beagles & Ramsay and Douglas Fishbone alongside emerging talents such as Juneau Projects and Harold Offeh. In selecting the artists for ALL FOR SHOW, Campbell’s only criteria was that the work breathed out of the videoplayer and stopped the viewer in their tracks as they discover a joyous playful quality in the work. This exhibition presents the personal journeys and discoveries of over 25 artists’ interpretations of life as an all-changing force and constant toy to be played with.

ALL FOR SHOW is a British retrospective with certain works playing upon British humor and awkwardness. Included in the exhibition are Beagles & Ramsay a collaborative team who has shown at the Venice Biennale in 2003, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the PS1 MOMA Contemporary Art Center in New York. Their deadpan appropriation of Madonna lyrics in their representative video work expresses true British awkwardness. Alexander Costello’s passively quiet take on the stiff upper lip through to Angela Hicks’ observation of the British workplace continues to express the idea of the British character. This exhibition also destroys certain universal truths of “Britishness” with the sublime chaos in the work of Sarah Turner, Paul Masters and Marion Coutts. The range of visions in this exhibition underscores the notion that many things in the world may never be fully worked out on first glance, and that some things may entirely be all for show.

Curator Lee Campbell has both organized exhibitions, and exhibited his own work extensively throughout London and the world. He is also the brainchild behind London’s Soup Projects, where he brings together local artists and curates exhibitions of their work in non-traditional urban spaces.