David Gill Galleries is exhibiting nine new works by ceramics artist Barnaby Barford, which have been made in correlation with his ambitious animated film, Damaged Goods.

DAMAGED GOODS, 19th February – 20th March 2010

DAVID GILL GALLERIES

3 Loughborough Street, London SE11 5RB (020 7793 1100)

Barford works with both mass-market and antique found porcelain figurines, cutting up and exchanging elements or adding to them and repainting them, to create sculptures that are often sinister and sardonic but invariably humorous. In Barford’s world, a kitsch figure of a 19th century peasant boy becomes a 20th century teenage thug in a hoodie; rustic maidens dance on a bed of roses brandishing guns; a charming scene of a Victorian family sharing a meal is undermined by copious buckets of KFC fried chicken which they’re laying into.

Damaged Goods was commissioned by Animate Projects, funded by the Arts Council England and Channel 4 where it was first broadcast last year. The film marks Barford’s first venture into animated film, creating a new world for his porcelain characters.

For the exhibition, Barford has created nine unique pieces featuring the actual figurines used to make the film. Watch the film here.