CL Gamble

CL Gamble is a queer, disabled artist whose work delves into politics, protest and collective action. “Above The Law” is an intermedia work set in a world they describe as “The Paris Commune meets No Deal Brexit in a Handmaid’s Tale-style speculative fiction future”.

Examining ideas around commodification, market forces and socioeconomic deprivation, the use of hobbycraft subverts the idea that refined skills create value in some objects and not others. Using a mix of installation, graphic design, performance and world-building, they centre the transactional nature not only of art itself, but our everyday survival needs.

The use of salvaged materials and locally foraged gemstones asks us to examine our consumption habits while describing a group of rebels consciously objecting to a society ravaged by austerity and psychogeographical borders. ‘Artistic Anarchy’ aims to destroy those borders, bringing approachable, affordable jewellery from a provocative conceptual world into the white cubes of DJCAD.

As we face a climate crisis, cost of living increases and the impact of more than a decade of funding cuts to vital services, you are invited to add your voice to the call of the many, not the few: Bread for all, but roses too.

Studio photography by Miss Lydia Photography