LONDON.- Campbell Works presents Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson – Tanky Monk, on view November 23rd ­ December 9th 2007. Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson are collaborating contemporary artists best known for their large scale art installations mixing, modelmaking, carving, and adaptations of found images or objects, whose function or aesthetic value is tampered with and subverted.

'Tanky Monk' at Campbell Works, from 23rd November ­ 9th December 2007, is a large scale sculptural installation, made up of forty smaller pieces grouped together on a huge table. The table functions like an architect's model or a model railway layout, with a cut away section in the middle accessible by a hatch like the serving hatch in a bar. The layout of the sculptures on the table mimics the way theme park maps guide visitors to their various attractions. Part theme park map, part giant railway set, the viewer is shown a mental landscape of conflicting beliefs and ideas taking on the sculptural form of rides, parades, roller coasters and Christian iconography.

Many of the smaller sculptures constituting Tanky Monk have been born from their interest in the clash between creationists and evolutionists, the conflict between science and faith. It is this conflict of ideas which seems to have become more heated recently with the opening of creationist museums advocating intelligent design and educators fighting back refusing to teach these ideas as science.

Doyle and Mallinson commented: “This idea or conflict of interests we likened to the proximity of the park 'Monkey World' to its neighbour, the 'Tank Museum', in Dorset. We felt the two were up for a merger and it is in this imaginary theme park that the ideas can be explored.”