Mount Pleasant Exhibition

An exhibition of original posters, record covers, prints and illustrations by Lucy Jones and David Bailey

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Come party at the opening night on Friday 30th April 2010 with actual live band Dinner Party (www.myspace.com/dinnerpartyband) playing covers and Beat Unhappening superstar DJs (comfortableonatightrope.blogspot.com) playing grooves with hooves on the ones and twos. Plus drinks and ART, absolutely fabulous! It all kicks off from 8pm, come one come all. The exhibition then runs til the 4th May. May the Fourth be with you? This is mine and Lucy's first exhibition proper since 2005.

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MOUNT PLEASANT (1982 - Present)

LUCY JONES and DAVID BAILEY have been MOUNT PLEASANT for as long as

anyone can remember, at least since the dawn of the internet, at

least.

They really are a MIRACULOUS duo; grown from the hotbed of creativity

that is MMU's Illustration Department, they have, over the last decade

or so, gone about forgetting everything they were ever taught (apart

from that pearl of wisdom about sending all your clients a bottle of

wine with your latest masterpiece as a label every Christmas) and are

re-writing the rule book (however loose it may be) of ART.

DAVID BAILEY has the uncommon ability to make the mundane, routine and

everyday seem hilarious, striking and truly original. A pioneer in

the world of GIBBERISH art, David's more recent works rely as much on

words of STAGGERING hilarity as they do on the ever-present EXQUISITE

pen and pencil work. Something noteworthy about David's work is the

LIBRAIC collection of font-types he can hold within his brain;

staggering too is the ability to know exactly which set of HEAVEN SENT

letters fits the purpose, time and place.

David's work transcends categorisation or galleries or time or place

or person; he works on his own time, in his own gallery and for own

self.

LUCY JONES has many uncommon abilities too, there isn't that many

people who could pack a whole novel's worth of complexities, twists

and turns into a single shape or line.

Lucy refuses to stand still within her work, constantly looking for

new mediums to work within, often the trial and error nature of these

explorations leads to even more EXCITING and STRIKING results. The

commitment and VERVE Lucy applies to her work are rarely seen in real

life and in real time, they belong more in a book archiving an

artist's whole career or a film charting the progression of a whole

movement, but here she is in real life and in real time.

LONG LIVE MOUNT PLEASANT.

www.itsmountpleasant.com