Pratfall
Venue: Newark Works • BA2 3DZ
Opening night: 6pm until late • Fri 24 May 2024
Open 11am - 6pm daily • 25 May to 8 June 2024
Fully accessible, for full details see map : fringeartsbath.co.uk/map
What do you get when a sad chihuahua meets an impaled horse mask? ‘Pratfall’ gathers 17 artists together to explore cartoonish humour, mishaps and embarrassment. Through painting, textiles, print and film, ‘Pratfall’ is rooted in the concept of Schadenfreude (translating from German as ‘harm joy’), which describes the delight one feels when witnessing another’s unfortunate affliction.
Expect a sorry cast of entertainers, bodily mishaps, awkward romances, an unforgiving crocodile and Billy Ray Cyrus - ‘Pratfall’ has it all.
Exhibiting Artists: Ben Coleman, Charlotte Southall, Chloe Dootson-Graube, Ella Roberts, Ellie Thompson, Giovanni Quaglia, Izzy Kori, James Frew, Jessica Akerman, Lily Foster-Eardley, Lily Horner, Livia Weidl, Lydia Durnall, Maisie Goodfellow, Matt Farr, Rodrigo Costa, Thomas Conway
Curated by Ellie Thompson
Ellie Thompson is an artist currently practicing in the South-West. Since graduating from The Ruskin School of Art in 2022, Ellie has exhibited a host of hapless characters across Oxford, London, Bristol, Rugby and Bath.
Ellie's interest in schadenfreude, anatomy and a cartoonish sense of humour informs each of her soft sculptures. Her puppet-like characters are at once extinct and alive, forever stuck in a sticky situation.