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Fistful of Bananas

Shuby

Jealous North

25 Apr 2018 — 13 May 2018

This April, Jealous will be showcasing brand new screenprinted editions and originals by Shuby. Running from 25th April, ‘Fistful of Bananas’ is exclusive to Jealous North and introduces ‘Candy Barr’ to the family.

Created in the Jealous Print Studio, Shuby’s new works play on her instantly recognisable and subversively humorous banana motif. Presented in her pop-art style and originally given to cowboy Lone Ranger - the banana guns have been passed down to the new lady in town Candy Barr. In her new works, Shuby features Candy Barr, an American stripper, burlesque dancer, actress, and adult model from magazines of the 1950's and 60’s. Candy Barr’s signature character, a gun slinging cowgirl, has coupled up with the Lone Ranger in an outlaw mask and banana guns exploding in pop fluro colours, all on a series of hand painted unique canvas’.

Shuby

Shuby uses print, collage, paint and photography to create original reinterpretations that revel in absurdity, kitsch and irony. Her cheeky visions are almost dream-like in their Technicolor intensity. She works in a wide variety of mediums including paint, print making, ceramics and reworking found objects. Her influences include Josephine Baker, Busby Berkeley, Andy Warhol, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Joe Tilson, John Stezaker, Retro advertising, Car Boot Sales, Seaside charity shops and The Carnivalesque. Shuby has also made a large amount of street art that includes paste ups and spray painted shutters. One of her first posters in 2007 was of a lady holding a big banana inspired by the 1943 musical by Busby Berkeley, The Gang’s All Here in which rows of ladies wave comedy bananas in the air. Since then Shuby has used the banana motif throughout her studio work and on the street in many different guises as a naughty but innocent calling card instantly recognizable and subversively humorous.