Oscar Hodgepodge

The Exhibition continues  The Shop at Blue Bird is pleased to exhibit artist Hormazd Geve Narielwalla’s latest photographic-collage artworks titled Oscar Hodgepodge from the 4th of May until the 6th of June. This is Narielwalla’s first London exhibit this year having had a successful showing at the Scope art fair in the Lincoln centre, NYC curated by fashion blogger Diane Pernet (A.K.A ashadedviewonfashion.com).   Sounds of well-heeled footsteps on cobblestone punctuated by the clicking point of a rolled umbrella evoke in Narielwalla a mist of tenuously attributed nostalgia. Collecting fragmented memories of old films, people and places, the mist condenses to find form in a particular gentleman, Mr. Oscar Hodgepodge, who totters awkwardly between memory and imagination in the mind of an artist born in Bombay now seeking his identity in London.   Oscar's shifting shape is haphazardly collaged from bespoke Savile Row patterns discarded after the death of a customer, utterly useless, abandoned until found by this itinerant artist whilst working for Savile Row military tailors Dege & Skinner. It was in the company of these highly skilled craftsmen at Dege where he developed an appreciation for the cutters' all-important brown paper blocks of individual customers. This fascination of the patterns prompted him to produce a limited edition book entitled Dead Man’s Patterns also presented at the store.