Tatty Devine
236 Brick Lane, E2
020.7739.9191
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Susanna Edwards and Luke Stephenson, Image from Jayne Amongst the Birds, Courtesy Tatty Devine
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27 June 2008 – 17 Aug 2008
Daily (11am–6pm)
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Tube: Old Street, Bethnal Green
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In September 1959, a strange thing happened in Hackney: iconic American blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield turned up to present the prizes at a competition held by the Budgerigar and Foreign Birds Society in Haggerston's All Saints' Hall. Nearly 50 years later, on 10 May, artist Susanna Edwards re-created the event at the same venue and asked local bird owners to enter their beloved pets in categories such as Best Dressed Bird. This exhibition is in part a photographic record of that event by Luke Stephenson, who snapped shots of the winning and losing birds, as well as the Mansfield-impersonating Edwards.
