“LOVE, SEX, OBSESSION, DEATH & ALL THE DIRT AND POETRY BETWEEN.”
THE DnA FACTORY MRSS ARE DALLAS & ANGEL [B. 1967] Artistic & life collaborators since 1990 in a vast range of disciplines including sculpture, painting, collage, photomontage, textiles, design, illustration, photography, poetry.
OUR WORK involves an exploration of the world we all live in; we’re political beasts and react and respond as many artistically inclined people will do by creating, in which ever form is appropriate; we work together on every aspect. There are many recurring themes explored in our work, from looking at the politics of the body, of genders and sexuality to the wider social and political implications and implementations that shape our world.
For a number of years we have been creating works dealing with consumerism and the capitalist model, feeding our use of reclaimed or recycled objects and materials; we have a love of transmuting a discarded item into something ‘other’, unexpected or unrecognisable in terms of its previous incarnation. We have a passion for material experimentation, discovering limits and moving beyond those limitations.
OUR STYLE IS BEST DESCRIBED AS POST-PUNK-BAROQUE MIXED WITH A LARGE DOLLOP OF SURREALISM, A TOUCH OF POP AND A SCOOP OF EXPRESSIONISM, VISCERAL FOR SURE AND VERY UNAPOLOGETIC.
ACTIVE MEMBERS of Chelsea Arts Club and since 2015 have been part of the extremely hard working and ultra-talented Ball Design Committee, responsible for creating and upholding the grand tradition of The Arts Club Balls from their time held at The Royal Albert Hall to their equally [in]famous, ‘though slightly smaller, events held in Old Church Street. The BDC design, theme, build, prop-make, paint, project and light each of these twice yearly spectaculars, including the painting of the famous 143 facade.
THE DnA FACTORY MRSS are exhibited & collected In Europe [Spain, Greece, France, Germany] USA, Brazil, China, UK.
AUCTIONED IN SUPPORT OF: Aids Ark, Article 25, Artlink, Artists’ General Benevolent Institution, Chelsea Arts Club Trust, ChildLine, Ein Herz Fur Kinder, The Green Party, The Grenfell Tower Community, Stonewall, Terrance Higgins Trust. ChildLine Auctions at both Sotheby’s Olympia [London Cow Parade] & The National Portrait Gallery [BT ArtBox]; 10X10 Drawing London auctions at RIBA & The Shard; AGBI & CHELSEA ARTS CLUB TRUST auctions at Chelsea Arts Club.
EXHIBITED/GALLERIES: The Apartment, The Barge House, Bettie Morton Gallery, Blacks, Booze Co-Operativa, Britannia House, Brixton Town Hall, Chelsea Arts Club, Coningsby Gallery, Contrasts Gallery, Cotswold Sculpture Park, County Hall [London], Gallery 40, David Gill Galleries, Good Children Gallery, Harvey Nichols, Hoxton Arches Gallery, Islington Arts Factory, St. Johns Gallery, Lights Of Soho, Link Gallery, London Newcastle Space, The Mall Galleries, The Mayor’s Parlour Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery, Pearl Lam Galleries, The Roupell Gallery, The Royal Exchange, Riba, The Royal Society Of Sculptors, The Shard, Somerset House, Sotheby’s Olympia, Spitalfields, The Stash Gallery, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Strychnin Gallery, Tanner Warehouse, The Underdog Gallery, Waterloo Square Gallery, West Bank Gallery, Vauxhall St. Peter’s Church.
CLIENTS & PROJECTS [INCLUDING COMMERCIAL, RETAIL & THEATRE]: Adidas, Almeida, Aldwych, Amouage, Bar 38, Box London, BSC, BT, Bankside Open Spaces Trust, Blacks, Bloom, Burberry, Cambridge Theatre, Cannes Film Festival, Carrefour, Cartier, Chelsea Arts Club, Coliseum, Coningsby Gallery, Converse, Cow Parade [London], David Gill Galleries, Debut Art, Disneyland Paris, Disney/Pixar, Donmar Warehouse, Dot To Dot, Everyman (Liverpool), Frantic Assembly, Garrick, The Globe, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Holland Park Opera, Levis, London Festival Of Architecture, M&S, The National Theatre, Neon Specialists, The New English, New London, Next, The Old Vic, Pearl Lam Galleries, Playstation, Rain Forest Café, Royal Opera House, RSC, Savoy, Soho Theatre, Starburst, Strychnin Gallery, Twitter, The Underdog, Underground, West Bank Gallery.
MEMBERSHIP: THE DnA FACTORY MRSS IS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS, CHELSEA ARTS CLUB [BALL DESIGN COMMITTEE], DACS, FOUNDER MEMBER OF VOUT-O-REENEES, ALUMNI OF GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE.
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