Archive:
Polly Hudson and Florence Peake More Stories from the flesh
performed
on Friday
21 July at Jubilee Pool, Penzance Promenade
Polly and Florence emerged from one of the changing rooms in the Jubilee
pool, like two red butterflies cavorting in a meadow, roaming across the
cold blue concrete surface of the art deco stairs and platforms. Their audience
saw them interacting with its architecture, at times flattening themselves
against its walls as if pinned up against them by the wind – buffeted
from one corner to another – spinning, turning, rolling and flexing
at the waist. They seemed to breath movement and life into the empty space
and the dusk as it fell.
Newlyn has been home to many fine abstract artists, including Terry Frost,
Paul Feiler and John Wells. Polly and Florence, who have a background as
dancers, created a contemporary piece of abstract art by their performance
that was given extra poignancy by the large scale of the space and the broad
horizon of Newlyn Bay – painted so many times yet seen afresh at least
during the duration of the performance. |
