Artful Alice puts best foot forward
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By Barry Egan
Sunday May 24 2009
THE well-heeled glitterati of London (and yours truly, not too meanly shod either) turned out in Shoreditch for artist Alice Instone's latest exhibition -- Interview with a Shoe.
Yes, a shoe, or to be precise, shoes. Instone has played footsie (artistically speaking) with the likes of Nicole Farhi, Bianca Jagger, Elle Macpherson and Annie Lennox.
She has interviewed the shoes of Cherie Blair, Baroness Neuberger, Laura Bailey and Alice Temperley. Even the trashed tennis shoes of Pat Cash are there.
Which all goes to prove that my granny was right when she said: "You have to wear a good pair of shoes; they tell everything about you." She also advocated clean underwear in case of a fatal car accident. Work it out. I can't.
Anyway, she would have understood Alice Instone's foot fetishism. Or shoe paintings.
The paintings capture the memories of wearing the shoes. The Little Church of the West Las Vegas portrays a pair of gold platform sandals worn by Annie Lennox to the Las Vegas wedding of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates.
Election Trail depicts the high-heeled pink stilettos of Cherie Blair, worn during the election campaign of 2005.
Wouldn't you just love to let her loose on Brian Cowen's footsies? But I can already hear his response. "Shoe? Fly, don't bother me."
The exhibition continues at Beach Blanket Babylon's Shoreditch gallery in London from until June 3 (Monday to Saturday, 12pm-6pm). The show will also help to raise funds for the charity Dress for Success London, which provides disadvantaged women with professional attire, a network of support and career development.
- Barry Egan
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