Visual Arts & Exhibitions

It’s a grave taboo within circus circles to copy the design of another clown’s face. To claim their face as their intellectual property, clowns have historically had their personal pattern of make-up and hairstyle painted in miniature onto an egg. These were painstakingly archived in an informal clown-copyright library by the secretary of the International Circus Clowns Club. These eggs are just one striking revelation of life behind the big top from the five exhibitions, united by the theme of circus, which make up the Grundy Gallery’s summer programme. The eggs themselves, completed with tufts of hair and tiny cardboard…