What do we think of when we hear the phrase ' Lost Girls '? There is a tradition of associating it with 'fallen women'. But fashions and customs change; new words are constantly being adopted while some accepted words or phrases have an ephemeral existence only. Some words or phrases, long used, drop out of favour while others are revived. Some words remain, but the significance is changed. So while lexicographers, philologists, grammarians and schoolmasters may try to introduce elements of stability, to fix meaning and to set up standards, to discourage hybrids or alien borrowings or slang, the strength of the English language has always been that its users felt free to borrow words which were felt could be put to profitable use in the everyday. Capricious or not, it is popular judgement that decides because it is the people who use language that have the last say. In this exhibition we have invited artists to re-visit the rather archaic term 'Lost Girls' through the medium of the found object. LOST GIRLS (found objects) 25th - 28 September
@ NO I.D. GALLERY 24-26 Calvert Avenue, London E2 7JP http://s590.photobucket.com/albums/ss341/AbelMagwitch/Lost%20Girls%20NOID%20GALLERY/?albumview=slideshow
@ NO I.D. GALLERY 24-26 Calvert Avenue, London E2 7JP http://s590.photobucket.com/albums/ss341/AbelMagwitch/Lost%20Girls%20NOID%20GALLERY/?albumview=slideshow