(2008-03-18)

"The soft golden halo of blonde hair indicates an innocence, which has a limited life in a new century already ravaged by senseless global wars, hunger and catastrophic health crisis. Beyond that small window of early childhood, innocence exists only in memory and in fairy tales – as indeed does the real platinum blonde beyond the age of twelve. Blonde is western society’s iconographic object of desire; both real and imagined it reveals the modern-day acceptable face of contemporary fetish. It conjures up unimaginable visions of transient beauty, love, sexual availability, fun, fascination and envy. "


Blonde Collection brings together a range of work and the result of continuing research and into this bizarre and timeless phenomenon. The works exhibited include Blonde -the Interactive Website -commissioned by InIVA in 1998 (configured to run on a modern Mac), Fairest, produced for the 2000 Havana Biennale, Bottled Blonde – an object based on photographic methodology and ‘Barbara in Pink’ –the latest incarnation of Blonde.


10th March -18th April 2008
Monday – Friday 10am – 6.00pm or by appointment.
Contact: Eve Waring - 020 7514 8436


Research Gallery,
12th Floor Tower Block
London College Communication UAL,
Elephant & Castle,
London SE1 6BS