Millennium and The House of Fairy Tales present an exhibition of over 100 artworks exploring folklore, mythology and metamorphoses with emerging, established and internationally acclaimed artists. The selection of work embraces excellence, innovation, elegance, charm, humour and a curiosity for the dark and sometimes disturbing. It is also the start of a season of collaborations between London and
Cornwall based artists including many Millennium artists.

The House of Fairy Tales was founded in 2007 when artist, Gavin Turk and writer, Deborah Curtis were invited, by the late Jago Eliot, to create a child centred space at Cornwall's Port Eliot Literary Festival. The fully fledged creative company returned to the festival in 2009 and now aim to build on this relationship between London and Cornwall with a series of art, live music, performance and poetry events planned
throughout 2010, involving the ICA, Port Eliot, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornish museums and educational organisations. Where better than the magical land of giants, monsters and mermaids for a feast of fables, folklore and storytelling?

The opening night of the exhibition on Saturday 6th March at Millennium will feature a live performance from Cornwall based American artist and musician William Fontaine and transformative photographic portraits from London based Italian artist Maria Teresa Gavazzi.

The exhibition will include one room dedicated to The House of Fairy Tales limited edition Print Portfolio, including works by Sir Peter Blake, Fiona Banner and Rachel Whiteread. There will also be a House of Fairy Tales 'cabinet of memorabilia' containing information, photographs and artefacts from previous events, including HoFT medals and passports.

To celebrate the beginning of British Summertime there will be poetry, performance, live music and an outdoor parade of paper and willow lantern during the exhibition’s closing weekend at Millennium.


List of Artists:

Frida Alvinzi, Fiona Banner, Harriet Bell, Simon Bill, Sir Peter Blake, Jim Bond, Virginia Bounds, Joy Wolfenden Brown, Ellen Cantor, Natasha Chambers, Paul Chaney, Spartacus Chetwynd, Cedric Christie, Toby Christian, Oliver Clegg, Angela Cockayne, Mat Collishaw, Dexter Dalwood, Adam Dant, Enrico David, Ian Dawson, Jeremy Deller, Jill Tegan Doherty, Rina Donnersmarck, Carol Eason, Phoebe Eason,
Rohan Daniel Eason, Annabel Elgar, Simon English, Gordon Faulds, William Fontaine, Nancy Fouts, Jen Franklin, Naomi Frears, Dmitri Galitzine, Maria Teresa Gavazzi, Bert Gilbert, Rob Goodwin, Mark Hammond, Marcelle Hanselaar, Lynn Hatzius, Paul Hazelton, Alice Herrick, Dan Hillier, Georgie Hopton, Jimp, Nicola Jones, Alan Kane, David Kemp, Karen Koltrane, Andrew Lanyon, LEO, Alastair Mackie, Jeff McMillan, Damien Meade, Angus Mill, Harland Miller, Anne Charlotte Morgenstein, Annie
Morris, Richard Niman, Orly Orbach, Cornelia Parker, Simon Periton, Hadrian Pigott, Raul Pina, Max Reeves, Paula Rego, Paul Sakoilsky, Elinor Seath, Lindsay Sekulowicz, Tim Shaw, Jane Simpson, Bob & Roberta Smith, Kiki Smith, David Spero, Ken Spooner, Tatiana de Stempel, Samantha Sweeting, Katherine Tulloh, Gavin Turk, Francis Upritchard, Raisa Veikkola, Julie Vermeille, Jessica Voorsanger, Daryl Waller, Jon Welsh, Rachel Whiteread, David Whittaker, Simon Willems, EC Woodard.

In 2010 The House of Fairy Tales ‘travelling art circus’ has been invited back to Glastonbury, Latitude and Port Eliot Festivals and will be appearing for the first time at Camp Bestival, Underage Festival, Thames Festival, Shoreditch 1234 Festival, Wentworth Castle, Newlyn Art Gallery and Salisbury Arts Centre.


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