Hopelessy Devoted, Louise Benton and Kathy Bailey

Greatorex Street, 27th-29th January

The second collaboration of artists Kathy Bailey and Louise Benton sees a meeting of the earthy and heavenly realms in which people find the comfort and faith of devotion. Bailey’s shrines, made up of the small precious items which together transform a home into a sanctuary, lean into the fandoms and communities that bring people together spiritually, be it Catholicism or Star Trek. Benton’s prints are imaginings of a divine that speaks to and accepts the contemporary woman, liberating cherubs and heavenly iconography from their censored and repressed history, and placing them in a world where pleasure and freedom is valued more than chastity and control. Bailey and Benton’s work and processes embody the contrasts of austerity and indulgence, the human and the divine, and come together in Hopelessly Devoted to create a space of play and relief for the 21st Century believer.