Curated Selection

Saturday Night at Morrisons, 2025 by Helen Hamilton

Mild steel, doughnuts

Commodity Fetish, 2018 by Eddy Dreadnought

One of a series of 8 'pin-ups', using plastic j-hooks pinned to a painted plywood board with map pins.

Objects for Trespass, 2025 by Denise Hickey

Performative objects made using immediate materials of place to think about trespass into boundaried institutional spaces

Roadkill, 2013 by Mark Tamer

Bare-fisted A single glove on its own appears a little forlorn. A twin that has become accidentally separated. I feel a little sad each time I see one and hope that it may soon become reunited with its sibling. I love bananas, I just can't eat them. It's surprising how many bananas you see lying on the pavement. On their own, they seem like a carefully placed trap for the unsuspecting pedestrian, the punchline to a crude visual joke. However, once they have been collected in this way, they appear as hieroglyphics, mysterious roadside signs waiting to be discovered and translated. These found objects are presented in 64 squares - the same as a chessboard or a snakes-and-ladders board. So, if you want to play along, then start at the top left and work your way down, but watch out for those pesky banana skins.

The Remains Of The Day, 2023 by Simon Woolham

I have been developing a new body of work that utilises and unites collage as a way of exploring pictorial and physical/textured shapes and motifs. This new series of work explores the physicality and ephemera of my studio through collecting graphite rubbings taken from my studio surfaces and textures of history and shapes from books collected from charity shops in Gorton, Manchester, within walking distance of my studio. By combining and synthesising the two processes, new worlds are created that explore the shapes, rhythms, harmonies, and textures of collaged ephemera.

60 x 84cm

Bracknell Boys Club, 2022 by Carla Wright

‘Bracknell Boys Club’ is an installation work created from a found photo of a painted mural at a youth club in the early 80s in my hometown, Bracknell New Town. It was a space for youths to hang out, play sports and organise music events. It was also where I went to nursery as a child. The image is a celebration of community and youth centres, as this one is still there and provides space and activities for underprivileged youths today. The ‘ceramic drawings’ displayed as part of the image are a way for me to play, test and experiment with materials. I use clay as a connecting material - connecting to people, to my past & to the ground, giving me a deeper knowledge of my community and of the land. The individual works evolve through ongoing research of materials; locally found clay, granite, quartz, ironstone and plants are incorporated into the glazes & clay body.