Jakob Rowlinson Exhibition in Huxley-Parlour's London Project Space at 3-5 Swallow Street

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18.4 – 6.7 2024

Jakob Rowlinson:Thirteen Fools

3–5 Swallow Street

Jakob Rowlinson:Thirteen Fools

18.04 – 06.07.2024

Closed

Hours

Monday to Saturday

10:00 am – 5:30 pm

Gallery

3–5 Swallow Street
London
W1S 2PE

Huxley-Parlour are delighted to present Thirteen Fools, a new exhibition of works by Jakob Rowlinson at the gallery’s project space. The exhibition, the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery, incorporates sculptural and wall-based works that ruminate on themes of esotericism, queerness and the archive. Rowlinson has created a new suite of anthropomorphic masks that sit alongside heavily collaged assemblages that draw inspiration from Tarot, medieval iconography and decorative marginalia.

Responding intuitively to his materials, Rowlinson incorporates leather, metal, beads, studs, painted eyeballs and metallic charms into his work. The process is iterative, tacking or placing elements in a shifting understanding of composition before weaving and pasting together: a white rose emerges from a harlequin print background, buttons and charms embellish, leather surfaces are gilded with gold leaf. Incorporating an expansive range of media, Rowlinson allows the works to take on a hybridity. Blending the material and the symbolic, the works offer a renewed interrogation of semiology and the categorisation of meaning, presenting a queering of vocabularies and iconographies.

The Exhibition

4

The Works

13

1

Jakob Rowlinson

A Fool’s Hand

2024

Leather shoes, leather hides, gold leaf, laces, eyelets, cotton thread, rings, waxed cotton thread, gilt rivets, steel armature

2

Jakob Rowlinson

Enimagick

2024

Leather belt, leather hide, gold leaf, vintage chain belt, painted eyes, cotton thread, eyelets, waxed cotton thread, rings, steel armature

3

Jakob Rowlinson

Mask’o’phoria

2024

Leather shoes, leather hides, silver leaf, assorted charms and buttons, eyelets, cotton thread, rings, waxed cotton thread, gilt rivets, goats tooth, sweet gum balls, screws, steel armature

4

Jakob Rowlinson

A Supple Malediction

2024

Assorted buttons, sword charms, leather shoes, leather hides, kilt pin, eyelets, cotton thread, waxed cotton thread, rings, steel armature

5

Jakob Rowlinson

Mask XIII (The Lepidopterist’s Nightmare)

2024

Leather, shoes and mixed media

6

Jakob Rowlinson

Mask VII (post-metamorphosis)

2024

Leather, shoes, eyelets and pins

7

Jakob Rowlinson

The Apogee of Foolishness

2024

Steel rod, leather shoes, laces, roller skates, gold leaf, cotton thread, eyelets, vintage belt, freshwater pearls, rings, jean buttons, painted eyes, rivets and eyelets

8

Jakob Rowlinson

Suede Dreams

2024

Digital jacquard tapestry with leather, braid, cotton thread, and Mask (leather shoe, zip, vintage belt, painted eyes, gold lead, waxed cotton thread)

9

Jakob Rowlinson

Four of Swords

2024

Acrylic modelling paint on card

10

Jakob Rowlinson

The Fool

2024

Acrylic modelling paint on card

11

Jakob Rowlinson

Seven of Wands

2024

Acrylic modelling paint on card

12

Jakob Rowlinson

Three of Coins

2024

Acrylic modelling paint on card

13

Jakob Rowlinson

Five of Cups

2024

Acrylic modelling paint on card

Jakob Rowlinson

B. United Kingdom1990

Jakob Rowlinson

B. United Kingdom1990

Biography

Jakob Rowlinson intertwines the natural world with medieval symbolism, questioning the bounds of masculinity throughout time. Using collage and felt, Rowlinson intertwines decorative patterns from medieval designs and manuscript marginalia within a wider expanse of organic iconography. Lining his backgrounds with organic green moss, ferns, and foliage, Rowlinson then adds stylised symbols with a modern twist. His focus on hands reaches into an exploration of gender and sexuality, commenting on the expressive gestures and emotions that can be conveyed using one’s hands.

Rowlinson, born in 1990, studied Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art, before completing an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He completed a residency at Fores Project, London in 2022 and has had solo exhibitions at the Dowse Museum, New Zealand, OOF Gallery, London, Quench Gallery, Margate, Tandsticksmuseet, Sweden, and Clearview, London. Rowlinson lives and works in London. Rowlinson lives and works in London.

Image © Ally Rosenberg.

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