Exploding Bagpipes Hit HIVE Gallery

Starting from Saturday August 2nd HIVE Gallery, Creative Barnsley's new contemporary art space at Elsecar Heritage Centre, will host Vincent James' exciting exhibition 'Jet Set Trash'. The show includes a brand new work by the artist 'Battlepipes' which will be unveiled at the preview night on Friday August 1st 7pm. Please come along and enjoy a drink and preview of the show.

Vincent James makes sculptures, collages and animations based on objects appropriated from cartoons. In these works props from different cartoon worlds collide creating absurd and surreal interactions.

Objects originally only glimpsed in a few frames of a cartoon, become frozen in time, locked in three-dimensional space or trapped in endless loops of animation. James’ work is populated by forms that previously existed as background items or props in the narrative and are now free to star in new plots and scenarios.

In the Bad Kids catalogue, curator Dave Hancock writes, 'The Wyle E Vincent James plunders the stores of the Acme Company as he enlivens a series of cunning contraptions. Dislocating these objects from their original context, he constructs an almost surrealist world that explodes into new scenarios, leaving us to ponder a pluming vapour trail.' In this exhibition Vincent James will be showing Battlepipes a new large-scale sculpture in which a flying set of bagpipes spit out smoke and flames.

Jet Set Trash, 2008 (digital print, dimensions variable)