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    Large snake shedding a skin of sequin fabric, tongue made of exercise band nailed to work with feathery grass.
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    Skin Shed, Rex Townrow, 2024, dirty salvaged gold sequin fabric, old man's print rags, lover's exercise band, neon green 8mm rod, plaster, neon green Stipa grass, fixings miscellaneous, dimensions 2240 x 800 x 650 mm approx

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    Soil star with coral like plaster stands holding gold plaster shells dressed with glittery soil, lit by beauty lamp.
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    Petri Dish for leather soil shot and slap, Rex Townrow, 2023, compost with black glitter, plaster shells painted in Bristol gold paint, brown wax, leather glove modelled on OJ Simpson, beauty lamp. Dimensions 1220 x 500 x 450 mm approx

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    Concrete urn draped like a greek nude with iridescent fabric.
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    Mayfair Camouflage for Crumbling concrete Urn, Rex Townrow, 2024, existing crumbling concrete urn, iridescent fabric salvaged from Mayfair club, cable ties, 2440 x 800 x 800mm approx

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    5 plate magenta etching on paper
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    Slag Heap in Mother magenta, Rex Townrow, 2024, etching on paper, 594 x 841 mm

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    Metal frame resembling Marilyn Monroe's skirt from the seven year itch hung from ceiling with club red rope and veiled in white fabric.
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    Cherry Red Frame for the Seven Year Itch, Rex Townrow, 2024, VIP red rope for roe and post, wedding voile repurposed as veil, 6 mm rod painted crimson, miscellaneous fixings

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Rex Townrow – MA/MFA

The root word of glamour is grimoire.

Grimoire roughly translates to book of spells, in this sense it is possible to cast a glamour.

Glamour functions in my practice as shield, magnifier, force to juxtapose against grime and gunk and umbrella to encompass themes micro and macro:
My birth place the Black Country with its mix of post industrial landscape and colourful multiculturalism, female identity in macho spaces, my walkout song if I was to go 12 rounds rounds with Prince Naseem, my time spent working as a fabricator of other artists' work, pop culture, the political scape of the world and the precipice we seem to be facing in terms of distribution of wealth and power.