TORONTO, CANADA.- P|M Gallery presents Bubble & Squeak, on view December 2 to January 13, 2007. Bubble and Squeak is a mish-mash of contemporary British art. An international artist exchange curated by London-based curator Shai Ohayon showcasing artists who have exhibited at London 's MOT Gallery.

Louise Harris - Louise Harris’ series of monumental watercolour paintings are based upon found images of full-frontal portraits from ‘Vogue’. Through a process of transformation and translation, the models’ faces become glowing, evanescent fields of colour rather than merely records of desirable, youthful flesh and bone. Harris uses watercolour in the most seemingly perverse way; adapting a medium normally reserved for Sunday painters, she works on a scale ordinarily used to represent monarchs and dictators. (excerpt from Analysis of Beauty, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art)

Nicholas Symes - Stirling, 2006 is an 8’ x 4’ sheet of ‘plywood’ made by Symes from matchsticks. The title refers to the cheapest sterling board plywood used as shuttering around building sites and to the currency still used in parts of the United Kingdom , held onto as a signifier of national identity.

Nicholas Symes’ is a process-based work, dealing with the language of the arcane and banal, and frequently seems destined to fail: the process witnesses a suburban cul-de-sac whose fictitious destination does not appear worthy of the often heroic effort to get there or not.

Ami Clarke - Black acrylic pieces flawed I and flawed II use an Islamic geometry most commonly found in ceilings in the arrangement of muquanas, a ceiling detail. Clarke has re-arranged this very strict geometry and used a highly reflective surface to allow the viewer’s reflection to be seen within the surface. This plays with the idea of traditional Islamic non-representational art, while Clarke’s interpretation of the pattern introduces a human flaw.

Shezad Dawood - Shezad Dawood's work plays with the multiple possibilities engendered by the play between cultures, histories, and fictions. While starting from a point of cultural binary – the artist’s own somewhat blurred cultural heritage between India, Pakistan, and Britain - Dawood openly plays with various devices from avant-garde theatre, to the conventions of art-house and low-budget film-making, to notions of cultural inauthenticity and appropriation.

Simona Brinkmann - Simona Brinkmann’s work spans a diverse range of media including sound, installation, text, computer drawing, and sculpture, and hinges on an inherent, almost neurotic apprehension about value, meaning, and significance. How does one go about assessing worth? How do we decide what matters and what doesn’t? What we value and what we don‘t?

LIFE SIZED (2005) is a large, three-dimensional zero made out of mirror, which uses Brinkmann’s own body measurements as a starting point (at 163cm, it is exactly her height).

Paulmart - Paulmart, Martin Russell and Paul Teigh have worked collaboratively since 2002. At MOT Gallery, “…they combined an almost dated love of materials with a youthful insolence that conflict to produce installations of utilitarian design and ambiguous use.”