Dougie Wallace: Shoreditch Wild Life

Hot on the heels of Stags, Hens and Bunnies, Dougie Wallace has produced a new collection entitled Shoreditch Wild Life.  I was lucky enough to attend the launch party exhibition a couple of days ago and secure a signed copy of the book. 

And if you thought Stags, Hens and Bunnies was outrageous, this takes it to a whole new level.  An amazing collection of day and night scenes from Shoreditch showing as the title suggest a very wild side....from daytime garish colours and cheap glamour to night time seediness.  Stunning, "in your face", messy images, many slightly wonky (assume deliberate) - giving the feeling of chaos, rawness, putting the viewer directly in the moment.  The way the work is put together also is interesting; the pictures gradually get more and more outrageous - almost forming a narrative.  Towards the end of the book, there is a picture of people asleep in a pub - the party is now over.

Amazing.  I would love to put together a body of work like this.

One question though - why such a small book - these would have been much better presented in an A4 size format.  They are too good to be kept small.

Websites:

• Dougie Wallace available from http://www.dougiewallace.com/ [accessed 31 October 2014]

References:

• Wallace, D. (2014) Stags, Hens and Bunnies. Stockport: Dewi Lewis Media
• Wallace, D. (2014) Shoreditch Wild Life. UK: Hoxton Mini Press