Jo Brocklehurst: Nobodies and Somebodies – Book Review

A celebration of  subculture in 1970-90s London, Berlin and New York

Until 14 May 2017, 10:00am – 6:00pm

House of Illustration, 2 Granary Square, King’s Cross London N1C 4BH

AOI says: ‘Unapologetic attitude, feisty personalities and fluorescent colours – Brocklehurst’s drawings are big, sensuous and in-you-face. Fantastic!’

Drawing live in fetish clubs, punk squats and on the performance scene of 1970-90s London, Berlin and New York, Jo Brocklehurst’s artwork is a unique record of subculture.

Her figurative paintings from fetish clubs document experiments with sex, androgyny and couture that later inspired the mainstream fashion collections of Jean Paul Gaultier, while her best-known portraits from the 1980s offer a raw, beautiful and female perspective on punk.

Co-curated by her model and muse Isabelle Bricknall, the exhibition also 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.

All images estate of Jo Brocklehurst

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