Hysteria, Hope and Revolution - Catherine Chinatree's junglist art

Artist Catherine Chinatree's 'Grow Room' exhibition at Quench gallery in Margate features paintings and treated video drawing on her memories of raving and reflections on its wider significance. As she puts it '“Leicester, 1998 I attended my first ever jungle rave - Urban Shakedown’s ‘Hysteria’.  A  found video online depicting this moment inspired me to capture this sense of hope & revolution, to create paintings using the film’s visuals, in conjunction with sound works and moving image, re-animating scenes from Hysteria.”

I really like that the flyer for the exhibition is based on the flyer for the rave in question.

'it highlights optimism and transformative moments that can alter society'

'The rave beckons and the moon shines... A portal brimming with promise. A labyrinth of sound. And in between each laser beam WE is found' (Alicia Charles)

Original cassette pack from Urban Shakedown with Randall, Bryan Gee etc.

Trackers and Breakbeats: Brain Records exhibition

'Trackers and Breakbeats: Celebrating Brain Records’ Underground Revolution' was an exhibition  at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich (October/November 2024) exploring 'the groundbreaking influence of Brain Records and its pioneering use of 8-bit technology in the 1990s', highlighting 'the often overlooked yet pivotal role of Brain Records and its founder Bizzy B in shaping the UK hardcore and jungle scenes'. The exhibition featured original studio equipment, flyers, zines, interviews and film.

The scene was centred around Leytonstone in East London where Bizzy B and Dlux ran 2Getherness record shop in the 1990s (238 Leytonstone High Road)

They put on parties at The Dungeons, 'a maze of tunnels' off Lea Bridge Road.

'Bizzy B - creator of the dark style' (article by Adrian H from Ravescene zine)

A letter to the record shop from Peckham junglist venue The Lazerdrome