George Toth, Kevin Francis Gray, Mark Pearson, Richard Priestley

5 July - 4 August 2001

Is it a perverted male human instinct to display, for others to see, the level of luxury consumables we can afford ? Are we harkening after the pack pecking order, or attempting to attract a mate, in the way a male peacock displays his feathers ?

`Never mind the quality, feel the width` examines contemporary male feather fanning displays through their twisted modern manifestations as macho displays of materialistic consumption and regurgitation across class boundaries. These male artists rejoice and revel in `big up` tales of one armed bandit benders and stock car smash-ups with supermarket trolleys. Wound down windows with pumping garage from mega-base boxes hunting for trophies from diamante dirtbags. Trailer-trash meet the nouveau`s in a black marble, stainless steel kitchen.

These artists are addressing male behaviour in social evolution within a materialistic society and are poking our evolved instincts. Just what is civilisation doing to the human animal ?

Come and have a go if you think you`re hard enough.