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A tale of love, sorrow and squids at Home

The Art Newspaper
20 May 2015
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For tales of love and regret, head to the new Home arts complex in Manchester which launches its inaugural show, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, tomorrow (22 May-26 July). The exhibition, which features 11 artists in total, focuses on affairs of the heart and how people experience love (and lust), presenting a series of new commissions by six artists including Gemma Parker of Manchester and Jeremy Bailey from Toronto. Parker is showing a new work, The Tattooed Lady (2015), a 1900s-style penny arcade machine which dispenses tattoo transfers. "Each transfer design is inspired by true tales of tattoos done for love but now regretted,” Parker says. The back story to a striking squid tattoo, from an anonymous lovelorn individual, is worth perusing: "The One that I thought was The One, but was not The One, and I took a trip to Scarborough. Upon arrival, we immediately decided to get matching tattoos of a > shape on our hands from a dodgy seaside inker. When you put them together it made a ><, which was cute until we realised it made our fingers look like the tentacles of a dead squid. Our relationship is as dead as said squid, and now everyone thinks I've got some weird heart etched on me" (moral: never ink squid on your digits). 

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