JOY IN MESS
Note each Joy is different so colours and patterns will differ.
This item is framed
Show Pony’s workbenches become so beautiful over time, and periodically they need new ones.
For this series of bench-off-cuts stencils were laid over freshly painted sheets of wood, and then used as a desk for many months. The benches were cut up and the stencils peeled back to reveal the lettering, and make these one-off signs.
- Each an original, one-off piece
- 20 x 36cm
- 18mm ply
- Mirror-plate fixings attached to the back for wall mounting
- Indoor only
Inspired by a long-term fascination with words, fonts, fairgrounds (and a touch of kitsch), Show Pony creates illuminated artworks & fairground-inspired signs, often embellished with gold and fitted with light bulbs. Alongside these are typographic prints, and painted cut-outs featuring icons of popular-culture.
Self-identifying as a ‘word clown’, Tait graduated with a First Class BA Hons in Fine Art whilst suspended from the ceiling in a horse costume, under the title ‘Well Hung’. This playful use of words has carried through into her practice as Show Pony.