Around The World in 80 Years

The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents a dazzling Andrew Logan showcase, celebrating the 80th birthday of one of Britain’s most original and enduring artistic forces. A creator of the spectacular Alternative Miss World pageant (launched in 1972), Logan has been a vital presence in British art and counterculture for over five decades. To mark this milestone, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is staging a six week celebration of his extraordinary creative vision and multifaceted career, bringing together key works that chart his ever-evolving artistic universe.

 

A collaborator and creative inspiration to icons such as Derek Jarman, Thea Porter, Leigh Bowery, Zandra Rhodes, Grayson Perry, and Malcolm McLaren — whose Sex Pistols played their first-ever gig in Logan’s studio — his work continues to captivate with its singular fusion of sculpture, performance, fashion, and joy.

 

Andrew Logan has been described as ‘an incomparable cultural figure’, ‘one of the unique school of English eccentrics’, and ‘a British national treasure’. His work has been exhibited internationally, with a forty-five-foot mural welcoming passengers at Mumbai International Airport. Pieces are held in major public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and — most distinctively — his own creation, the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture, in Berriew, Mid-Wales.

 

Drawing on over fifty years of work across various media, the exhibition will bring together historic installation pieces, mirrored portraits, and newly-created ‘wearable sculptures.’ Celebrating Andrew’s joyful spirit as well as his trailblazing artistic practice, the show will incorporate performance, ritual, transformation and adventure.

 

‘I see my work very much as magical,’ Logan says. ‘We are on this world for a very short time, and I wanted to celebrate the fact. So, that’s what my work is about: it’s about bringing joy to the world.’