Approved: 09.06.2022

John Cake

Artist

Approved: 09.06.2022

Neurowonky, Northern scum, abstract, absurdism.

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    Artist Statement

    Neurowonky, Northern scum, abstract, absurdism.

    I’m a child of 70s/80s North West England, where punk was a spirit, not a pose.
    Where Hip Hop, House and Techno resonated and thrived.
    Where life was and still is brutally irrational.
    (Scally, DIY, remix, laugh.)

    My works are a way of mapping and processing the symptoms of living my life artistically and autistically.
    I revel in the perverse pleasure that I find meaning in society’s debris, errors and redundancies.
    I flip between digital and analogue techniques to abstract, clip, collide and layer these elements.
    They coalesce into a wild-style-mind-map, a calligraphic vibrant web of visual fragments that resist and relinquish authority.

    A model cannon protrudes from a pile of rubble.
    Soviet Pooh dawdles beneath an Ultra’s burning scooter.
    Potato-snack-based omens lie ensnared as kit-designs are ruined by sponsors.

    I largely make this art for myself, to create an illogical nonsense, to refocus my intentions. But for you, I want my work to induce a state where your certainties are thrown off-kilter yet inspire optimism and joy.

    CV & Education

    Education

    BA Hons Fine Art, University of Leeds

     

    Selected Exhibitions

    2023 — Dead Cats and a Kinky Bus Pass — HOME, Manchester

    2022 — Bankley Open 2022 — Bankley Gallery, Manchester

    2022 — TBH Cats (late + current) — The Edge, Manchester

    2022 — round the corner, down the stairs — PaintingWriting, Manchester

    2020 — Mcr Open — Home, Manchester

    2019 — Paintings — Comme Ca, Manchester

    2018 — Winter Exhibition — Comme Ca, Manchester

    2015 — Les moissons de la cité — Space Collection, Liege

    2011 — We Were Young and Immortal — Good Friday, Brussels

    2011 — Space Collection — Atelierhaus, Aachen

    2009 — Auckland Festival — Seed Gallery, Auckland

    2009 — The English Lounge — Tang Contemporary, Beijing

    2009 — Palais de Tokyo — Paris

    2009 — Parcours St Germain — Paris

    2009 — KSB — Markus Winter, Berlin

    2008 — Two of you, among you, with you, TAG / My Life In Art, London

    2008 — Tatton Park Biennial, Cheshire

    2007 — Deptford X — London

    2007 — Jeux de Mains, jeux de vilains, Good Friday, Brussels

    2006 — Art Crazy Nation — Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan

    2006 — post_modellismus — Kunsthalle, Bergen

    2005 — post_modellismus — Krinzinger, Vienna

    2005 — Art Craziest Nation — Walker Gallery, Liverpool

    2004 — Lick Your Selves — Bloc, Sheffield

    2004 — Crazius Craftus Creativus — The Reliance Gallery, London

    2004 — Art Crazy Nation — Comme Ca, New York

    2003 — Art Crazy Nation — Catto Contemporary, London

    2001 — This Is Modern Art — Cornerhouse, Manchester

    1999 — Gavin Turk’s Rubbish — Decima, London

     

    Grants

    2021 — Arts Council England DYCP

     

    Collections

    Walker Gallery, Liverpool

    Space Collection, Liege

    Sandra Hegedüs Mulliez, Paris