‘My guns are directed at the banality of Modern culture. It needs to be massively reinvented’ Joshua Compston
Paul Stolper Gallery is proud to announce the exhibition ‘Factual Nonsense – The Art and Death of Joshua Compston’ curated by Darren Coffield as well as the launch of Coffield’s book by the same name.For Joshua Compston (1970 – 1996), life was a special kind of nonsense; Factual Nonsense. Seen by some as the romantic martyr of his generation and by others, as a prankster, sending up the art establishment, Compston’s gallery ‘Factual Nonsense’ (FN) was quite unlike any other. Called a ‘crazy powerhouse of ideas’, Factual Nonsense was a cultural think-tank located in a then run-down area of the East End. Determined to change the world through art, he was a driving force that helped turn the East End of London into the cultural hub that it is today.