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Not Big Or Clever
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Not Big Or Clever

Alma Singer

31 Oct 2024 — 23 Nov 2024

Jealous is excited to announce Alma Singer’s latest exhibition ‘Not Big or Clever’ as it explores a distinctly British playground humour through a series of equally childishly conceived drawings.

In a purposely naive style she refers to as ‘a bit shit’, Alma pairs text with images in a way that taps into the child (and childish) in all of us. It’s the exhibition you would have wanted to see on a school trip to a boring art gallery when you were nine.
"For better or worse, as I’ve got older, I’ve started to appreciate how important laughter is, no matter how stupid the thing we’re laughing at. Adult life is challenging and in the periods of my life that have been most difficult I’ve found that laughter, alongside tears, has been an essential part of being able to cope. As the years pass, I’m increasingly nostalgic about my childhood - playing outside until out it got dark, drawing for hours without any pressure to create something ‘good’, and the joy of laughing at the most childish of things." - Alma Singer
"There’s something very special and kind of profound about children’s drawings, and their humour, and I guess I’ve been tapping into the seven-year-old I used to be for this show. Writing boobies on a calculator may not be big or clever, as my teacher once angrily informed me, but it is funny. Whoever named a bird a Tit, and a planet Uranus, must have been smiling when they did. In all honesty a part of me also takes a little pleasure thinking how much the stupidity of this show would piss off my serious over-earnest art tutors at university." - Alma Singer

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