It’s none other than Ronald ‘Rolf’ Wright, our prospective true love thanking the old lady who’d baked him a carrot cake AND a Victoria sponge. We scowled at the elderly woman enticing him away like a ginger-bread witch. We edged closer to our potential prince to get a better look and as he turned to face us, we were awestruck.
Our Rolf lookalike was better than the real thing: Dressed in scuffed black shoes and a painfully boring beige suit, his ill-fitting jacket positively drowned him, and those trousers far too short for his already stumpy legs. He gazed right at us, his bespectacled eyes meeting ours from across the room. As he strolled toward us, we could hear the faint sound of didgeridoos in the background. It was at that moment we embraced the feelings we had been fighting all afternoon. We were finally ready to declare the truth: We had fallen in love with a Rolf Harris doppelganger and his homo-erotic animal healing art...and we didn’t care who knew.
FLESH: THE GREAT ILLUSION - An exhibition celebrating the life and work of Ronald Wright
Exhibition dates: 3rd June – 27th June 2010
Opening times: Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm
First Thursdays late opening – 3rd June 6-9pm
Artist-in-conversation: 2pm, Saturday 12th June
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Words: Navneet Gill
Images courtesy of The Schwartz Gallery