LASSCO: Brunswick House,
30 Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall,
London SW8 2LG

“Taborn’s work employs an almost bewildering range of different substances, raw-materials, techniques and processes and it is this aspect of his work that first captures our attention. These are works which come to the eye quickly but live on in the imagination for a long time afterwards.” Jon Thompson

For the first ever solo art exhibition to be held at LASSCO, contemporary artist DAVID TABORN has created a show of over seventy 3-dimensional wall-panels and watercolours, which will colonise every room of the labyrinthine emporium of architectural salvage, historical ornaments and curiosities. A musical typewriter set in a mirror - snooker balls pouring through a 2-dimensional harp - melting Wagner records - a swatch of Freud!s sofa, and other objects and materials “that have had a former life” are some of the ingredients of Taborn's wallpanels and watercolours. “Like an early Science Fiction surgeon, I aim to generate new life in the world of the discarded, dispossessed or disenfranchised,” he says. One of Taborn!s panels, "Joey the Musical Boy", contains a work on paper signed by iconic conceptual artist Joseph Beuys, dated 1955. Taborn says, “Having bought the work myself at auction some time ago I decided to include it in one of my own works. I like the way - like Beuys himself – it hovers uncomfortably between the personal and political.” DAVID TABORN is a NESTA Fellow and former Fellow of Nottingham University. He has exhibited in the UK, New York, Brazil, Belgium and Germany, and his work is in collections including the Courtauld Institute, Djanogly Art Gallery, Government Art Collection and NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts). LASSCO - London Architectural Salvage & Supply Co: LASSCO is regarded as England's prime resourceof architectural antiques, salvage and curiosities. Brunswick House is a listed Georgian mansion once home to the Duke of Brunswick. David Taborn and Ferrous Auger, Director of LASSCO Brunswick House, are both available for interview.

Further information:
Joanne Auger, e: marketing@lassco.co.uk
t: 020 7394 2100, m: 07739 409987