Eyesore Sundae,
Ayling & Conroy

Dated happy hardcore music plays aloud in a room filled with 20,000 ball-pool balls, a room of doors, playing the Doors, a sweet shop, an a cowboy toilet, what can Ayling & Conroy‚s artwork at Spectacle Gallery mean, if anything? Ayling & Conroy present, 'Eyesore Sundae', at the Spectacle Gallery. Playfully advertised as the greatest art show ever, the exhibition makes a spectacle of itself to maintain the audiences attention, it strives to overwhelm the senses with a maze of themed rooms, sounds, smells, colourful lighting and visual delights, all of which are just a little too lurid to endure. Eyesore Sundae demonstrates Ayling & Conroy's preoccupation with entertaining, and showing the audience a good time. The success of the exhibition is primarily in the audiences ability to recognise and enjoy re-occurring themes, objects, and the adaptation of the language of entertainment. Immersed within a fanciful landscape of borrowed imagery, the pair present a cut 'n' paste style re-modelling previous artworks and present new sculptural artworks that draw upon the aesthetics of the theme park. The 'theme park' gives the pair legitimacy to make almost what ever they want, similar perhaps, to the surrealists' dream. Ayling & Conroy's Previous exhibitions include: 'Fight for Sore Eyes', Sideshow, Nottingham, 2006, 'Here Come the Serious Quirks', Stand Assembly Studios, Nottingham, 2006, 'History', New Walk Museum, Leicester, 2006 www.aylingandconroy.net