An Untidy Condition

An Untidy Condition explored the narrative space of the Taxi with the placement of two passengers whose fragmented and distressed forms suggested an uneasy passage between destinations. Exposed and vulnerable, neither arriving nor departing, they reminded the viewer of the crowded and transitory history of the Taxi and its multiple occupants.

Using casts from her own body and those of models, these passengers mark a significant departure for CJ. She says "Making work for Taxi Gallery has been an exciting challenge for me as I am more accustomed to the conventional white cube gallery space. This has been an opportunity to explore ideas and experiment with a new way of working. I have found myself freed and I am very excited about the potential of this different approach to working with the human form. It has been a sculpting roller coaster of clarity, confusion and terror. The sculptures are raw, immediate, fragile and some how unsettling, much like the process of making them."

CJ Mahony

CJ Mahony is a graduate from Wimbledon Scoool of Art and Artist's Coordinator at Wysing Arts, Cambs where her studio is based.

CJ's particular interest is in capturing the real form of the human body, not just in representing it. She views the body casts that she takes as a vocabulary for communication with the widest possible range of viewers. Even to observers unused to looking at sculpture, the body provides a means of communication that is both reassuringly familiar, and yet eloquently expressive. It is a form that everyone is used to looking at, and responding to, but from this springboard of familiarity its elements can be selected and arranged to give a new expression that goes far beyond bathroom familiarity.

CJ is actively involved in arts-in-education and has particular experience in working with people with special or mental health needs. Recent exhibitions include: Wingfield Arts, Suffolk, Kendrick Estates, Cambs and The Royal Opera House, London.