Drew Barrymore’s Island Hotel from Hell

Jane Topping, ‘Bedroom Floor Misty’, C-type photographic print, oil paint, pencil, photograph and vintage comic, Hand painted black frame, 84 x 59 cm

Jane Topping, ‘Scream for Me Glasgow’, C-type photographic print and cat hair, Hand painted black frame, 59 x 84cm

Drew Barrymore’s Island Hotel from Hell
Jane Topping
03/11 – 16/12/23
Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm

Denim pillars frame the scene across adjoining rooms, a joyful bridge which is testament to youth and wisdom. Collage, audio and film works are intersected by luscious drapes enticing you along a long corridor. A mohair sculpture occupies its own room, creating an island retreat on which to ponder the power, intellect and drive of your unique hormone cycle.

Jane Topping’s interdisciplinary practice meddles with science fiction and horror, the archive and the screen, hysteria, nostalgia and cats, sometimes wading through the murky depths of autofiction. Recent outings for her practice and research includeFiction Machines IV, Bath School of Art, Film & Media (2023); Feminist Histories of the Future, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2023); Murky Waters, Art Walk Porty Festival, Edinburgh (2022); The Immaterial Salon, Art-O-Rama, Marseille (2022), Gothic Nature Journal III: Haunted Shores and The Influencing Machine, nGbK, Berlin (2018).

In 2022 curator Francesca Zappia wrote The Hypnotised Machine as a response to Topping’s online work www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com. Topping’s video Peter won Best PKD Short at The Fifth Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York, 2017. Topping was a recipient of the summer residency at Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2017) and was on the jury of the No Budget Competition at the 32nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival (2016).

Jane Topping is an artist and Lecturer on the MLitt Fine Art Practice programme at Glasgow School of Art.

Photo credit: Fábio Rebelo Paiva

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