News - Fantasy Island:Part 1


_ _ _	Hannah Havana Fantasy Island:Part 1 English holiday Landscapes Re-imagined For the next two weeks you can get a slice of English summer with Hannah Havana's 'Fantasy Island' exhibition at Westbourne Grove Church Artspace. The delightful exhibition celebrates the British landscape with holiday postcards, souvenirs and maps, and is the product of obsessive collecting and a love of objects, images and meanings. Vintage holiday postcards are hand-cut to make pop-up landscapes reminisicent of tiny theatre sets or model villages. These scenes are photographed and become large-scale prints of happy holidaymakers in a distorted yet charming world. The iconic shape of the British Isles is formed from a lifetime's collection of sentimental objects, like a cabinet of curiosities for the bucket-and-spade generation. Another play on objects appears in the 'A-Z Map of Souvenir Pottery', where geographically collected blue and white 'Devonmoor' souvenirs are arranged on shelves as a typographer's alphabet might be. Fantasy Island is playful and warm, inviting you to share in a love of objects and enjoy memories both real and imagined. Read the postcards and lose yourself in other people's holiday experiences. It's a small ray of sunshine as the winter begins to thaw.
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Hannah Havana
Fantasy Island:Part 1
English holiday Landscapes Re-imagined

For the next two weeks you can get a slice of English summer with Hannah Havana's 'Fantasy Island' exhibition at Westbourne Grove Church Artspace.

The delightful exhibition celebrates the British landscape with holiday postcards, souvenirs and maps, and is the product of obsessive collecting and a love of objects, images and meanings.

Vintage holiday postcards are hand-cut to make pop-up landscapes reminisicent of tiny theatre sets or model villages. These scenes are photographed and become large-scale prints of happy holidaymakers in a distorted yet charming world.

The iconic shape of the British Isles is formed from a lifetime's collection of sentimental objects, like a cabinet of curiosities for the bucket-and-spade generation. Another play on objects appears in the 'A-Z Map of Souvenir Pottery', where geographically collected blue and white 'Devonmoor' souvenirs are arranged on shelves as a typographer's alphabet might be.

Fantasy Island is playful and warm, inviting you to share in a love of objects and enjoy memories both real and imagined. Read the postcards and lose yourself in other people's holiday experiences. It's a small ray of sunshine as the winter begins to thaw.