Nobodies & Somebodies

The brain is hit with a storm of florescent punk pink and leather black textures when viewing Jo Brocklehurt’s visual thrilling, exciting and risky illustrations. Drawing live in fetish clubs, punk squats and on the performance scene of 1970-90s London, Berlin and New York, Brocklehurst's artwork is a unique record of subculture. Her rigid figurative portraits lure the viewer into a world of sex, drugs and androgyny highlighting raw emotions. The exhibition features her drawings of Berlin’s 1990s performing arts scene for the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, alongside clubland-inspired interpretations of Alice Through the Looking Glass; as well as her best-known portraits from the 1980s highlighting a beautiful perspective on female punk. A notable aspect of Brocklehurst's body of work is the freshness that bounces of them, although created nearly twenty to thirty years ago, the igniting illustrations appear to have just been painted yesterday.