Ends this weekend: Shonky – The Aesthetics of Awkwardness at Bury Art Museum

Bury Art Museum’s latest exhibition explores the nature of awkwardness through the work of several artists and architects. Titled ‘Shonky’, Shonky is a slang term meaning unreliable or dishonest, but it’s used here to describe a visual aesthetic that’s handmade, deliberately lo-fi, and clumsy – i.e. against the slick production values of contemporary art. In a series of conceptual rooms, the exhibition explores this theme across a range of media including paintings, video, architecture, and performance. Works include Andrew Logan’s mirrored sculptures of pop culture icons such as Divine and Fenella Fielding. Exploring digital shonkiness is Jacolby Satterwhite’s ‘The Country Ball’, which is a computer-generated landscape combined with family video and a live performance. There’s also a rare chance to see major works by the American artist Louise Fishman, whose abstract works layer color and texture into large-scale paintings.

Sat 23 Jun – Sat 15 Sep, Bury Art Museum, Moss Street, Bury, BL9 0DR, Tel: 0161 253 5878, 10am – 5pm, FREE, www.buryartmuseum.co.uk