- SPEAKING BETWEEN SOMEHOW THE SPACES
Solo commission
Slate Projects,
Averard Hotel,
London 2018
- SPEAKING BETWEEN SOMEHOW THE SPACES
- SPACER
- ‘Speaking Between Somehow the Spaces’ brings together sculptural and performative work that explore support structures and tensions surrounding us above and below the earth’s surface. All works in the show exist in states of equilibrium, in which opposing forces are balanced or rely on each other. The title is taken from the notes of poet W.S. Graham, and speaks to the artists' underlying interest in the re-construction of form, tectonic, architectonic and anthropological tension and release. A 300 million year old pigment that is a product of colliding tectonic plate activity and the grinding and shearing action of the earth was used to coat the surfaces of the structures for the performances.read more here
- INHALE, EXHALE
- Swatch Art Peace Hotel, The Bund, Shanghai, China
Trace for the Swatch collection
2019
Exhale is constructed from an empty, discarded and scarred advertisement frame, containing images of a creased parted mouth and cracked alabaster stone. The pink stone slab was found inside a drive-thru stone supermarket in the Fujian province, an area famous for its importation and exportation of stone in China. The opposing image is a double exposed film still, from a re-staging of an advertisement on East Nanjing Road, Shanghai. The frame and images are bound together by a double holding structure, reminiscent of stone packing crates and display units.
Inhale
The Chinese character for mouth 口 is split in two across the prints on the wall behind, taken in the recently opened InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland. The 18 story luxury resort, also known as Tiana Pit hotel, is built deep inside an ex quarry on the outskirts of Shanghai. The face of the quarry is reflected in the architecture of the hotel. “The quarry becomes part of the hotel and the hotel becomes part of the quarry.” -Chief architect ISHW- HORST (LONDON)
- Charred CLS timber, steel, perforated polyvinyl, slaked lime, Ctype print.
Averard Hotel, with Slate Projects
London
2018
- Horst (London) is a sculptural installation incorporating barricade structures and collage works. For this edition the installation is paired with a sculpture in the foyer; The fabricated, mild steel fire extinguisher is wrapped in betel nut pigment and reprinted images from the front covers of newspapers on perforated polyvinyl. The structures were deconstructed in a live event during the closing of the exhibition *see 'Live' page
- BINLANG
- Mild steel, betel nut pigment on polyvinyl, polyvinyl perforated print
25 x 70cm
Gallery333, Exeter Phoenix
May-July 2018
- ‘Binlang’ is a fire extinguisher replica made from by-products from Betel nuts and mild steel. Amy and Oliver Thomas-Irvine are interested in how the reconfigured extinguisher and its relatable red appearance can alter the architecture of this intimate gallery space.
- Mild steel, betel nut pigment on polyvinyl, polyvinyl perforated print
- HORST (TAIWAN)
- HORST, TAV, Taipei
2018 - MILIEU & FIVE VAULT
- Group show curated by Alex Meurice and Bianca Baroni
- Milieu: Mild steel, celotex, digital print
Five volt: mild steel
Averard Hotel with Slate Projects
London
24 June - 24 July 2016
- "‘Maybe your lens is scratched?’ hinges on a relationship between space and image disrupted by economic and political changes (rising inequality, international capital, privatization of space, shell corporations). Architectural space, as it is experienced and circulated, is flattened into images.more
- Milieu: Mild steel, celotex, digital print
- LIMEN LOCALE
- Solo commission by G39, Cardiff
16th April - 25th June 2016
- Limen Locale is based on an ex military weapon store that sits on the edge of an ex chemical weapon production site in Nancekuke, Cornwall.
The mirrored design of the structure has been reconfigured, layering minimalist sculptural aesthetics reminiscent of gallery architecture.
- Solo commission by G39, Cardiff
- DERAILER DERAILER
- Solo presentation at The Still House Group
New York
December 11th, 2015 - January 8th, 2016
- Derailer Derailer consists of a series of duplicated forms, fragments and objects previously used in physical training events at the gallery and then reconfigured.
These weight training platforms and obstacle courses were built and painted with natural pigment. The pigment is a product of colliding tectonic plate activity, heavy deformation and the grinding, compressing and a shearing and sliding action of the earth. The platforms, objects and materials used in the exercises were then re-built into sculptural and wall based works. The works initially appear stark but on closer inspection their forms have been disrupted and bare the scars, scuffs and breakages from the energetic and forceful exercises.
The central structure consists of two individual designs that have been interlocked to create a self-supporting construction, whereby the separate individual elements are evident, yet depend on and support one another.
- COERCE COURSE & BLACK DIAMOND
- Commission with the Burton Museum and Flow associates
- COERCE COURSE & BLACK DIAMOND
Commission with the Burton Museum and Flow associates
BLACK DIAMOND
fabricated diamond made from Bideford black in high pressure high temperature machine
Sponsored by Heart in Diamond
COERCE COURSE
Floor from MMA fight. Plasterboard, Bideford Black
The Burton Museum, Devon, 2015
- A year long commission responding to Bideford Black and by the intense geological process that created it. The raw pigment was placed in a high pressure high temperature machine for three weeks, which created a synthetic diamond. The diamond was exhibited alongside a framed floor, which was coated in the pigment and used as the base of a structure which housed an MMA fight. The floor holding the scuffs and scars from the high energy collision from the two fighters.
BIDEFORD BLACK is a unique, naturally occurring carbon based mineral, running alongside seams of high quality anthracite (coal) across North Devon. The deposits were formed over 300 million years ago when naked tree ferns trapped in log jams were compacted and buried down to about 8km beneath the earth’s surface by mountains built during plate tectonic collision. It was during this plate collision that the grinding and compressing of the matter formed the greasy clay deposits we find today as Bideford Black. Under compression, the organic mater has developed flat hexagonal platelets. This platy structure may have been exaggerated by the shearing and sliding action of the earth as it was compressed deep within colliding tectonic plates.
- COERCE COURSE & BLACK DIAMOND
- ACCOST NASCENT
- Solo exhibition at KARST + Live event with MMA professionals
Plymouth, UK
2014
- A site specific sculptural installation at KARST in Plymouth that housed a live MMA fight, open to the public. The event was advertised as a live fight to the MMA community and as a live performance to the galleries audience. An octagonal structure was built central to the space, with two warming up platforms connected by pigment that was laid down on the floor, forming the pathways for two professional MMA fighters. These raw materials were introduced to create a duality within the situation and to visibly record the impact of the fight through unpredictable scuffs, marks and deposits. Stimulus for the work came from an interest in the disruption of form through heightened energy, force and collision. ....more
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- RROYA
- A solo exhibition at Castor Projects
London
30th April - 21st May 2016
- RROYA brings together a series of works made in response to the ruination and remains of space, architecture and object. The exhibition includes a series of light box images created using a failing printer with works in bronze and wood. The images depict architectural elements from an abandoned mining town in Peñarroya - Pueblonuevo, Southern Spain.
- A solo exhibition at Castor Projects
- TESTING TROPES
- Group show with ATOI, Kira Freije, Lauren Keeley, Ruaidhri Ryan, Ben Sanderson
Kestle Barton
Cornwall
2015
Works in show:
ATTEST
Mild steel, original stretcher componants
2015
DISLOCATE
Marble fragment from vandalised sculpture on steel
2015
- Testing Tropes brings together six young artists working in London and Cornwall. Starting from the idea of a ‘trope’, a commonly recurring structure or motif used in art practices such as the figure, the minimal or the classical, the exhibition explores the relationship between these formal structures of the past and how they might be re-considered in the present.
Working across a variety of media including sculpture, painting, print, photography and film, these six artists all display an ability to stretch, question and reinvent our histories and heritage. The resulting work is both familiar and unknown, mapping out patterns between times, places and disciplines.
- MONOCHROME:
SILENCIO, NASCENT & ATTEST - Foremost works, left to right -
NASCENT
Carved granite
SILENCIO
Archival print
ATTEST
Mild steel with original stretcher componants
- From MONOCHROME: A group exhibition with work by (ATOI) Amy and Oliver Thomas-Irvine Simon Belleau and Alain Urrutia.
Beers Contemporary
London
2015
- From MONOCHROME: A group exhibition with work by (ATOI) Amy and Oliver Thomas-Irvine Simon Belleau and Alain Urrutia.
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- IN THE FACE OF COLLAPSE
- ALTARROYA
Burnt trunk from abandoned coal mining town, rope, marble, steel
2014
ACCOST & NASCENT
Carved granite
2014
- Two man show with Jacobo Castellano
COMBO & CO
Cordoba, Spain
2014
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- Two man show with Jacobo Castellano
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- ALTARROYA
- THE FEELING OF NOTHINGNESS
- Water, discarded canvass's from the late Joe Burke, faux leather, timber
ATOI & CULL, Enclave
London
2013 - END OF THE VALLEY
Reclaimed wood, plaster, found bull horns, stone and a guard dog.
La Fragua, Spain
2012
- END OF THE VALLEY
- FOIST
- Solo presentation
Aid & Abet
Cambridge
2012 - CONTENT IN COLLISION
- Solo commission
ANARCH
London
2012
- For its inaugural exhibition Anarch commissioned ATOI to have their first solo show in London, Content in Collision.
The newly opened gallery was transformed into a controlled situation/environment. The core of the sculpture housed a series of live cage fights, physically deconstructing it from the inside out. Life models entered the space after the fighters left. The structure was altered for each performance with varying degrees of visibility.
- Solo commission
- ANTI-MATTER
- Bitumen, plaster casts, alabaster carving, fluorescent lighting,
plywood, faux leather, foam, Models.
Florence Trust
London
2012
- A large tower like structure with broken classical casts suspended at it's core. The padded base of the sculpture contained two sunken seats, in which two women lay within.
- Bitumen, plaster casts, alabaster carving, fluorescent lighting,
Cull Gallery - The Florence Trust
London
2012
MMA Professionals: Patrick Vickers
- Cull Gallery was a fictional art fair booth, which was an evolving, live, sculptural installation whereby the work being shown was under constant alteration, highlighting the raw process of making itself. MMA professionals were invited into the space for the first iteration, as a performative medium to challenge its very structure and to create a fusion of human energy and force to brake down the structure from within.
- The Florence Trust
- PLAYING IN STORMS
- Solo show
CEAC
Xiamen, China
2009
Supported by the Arts Council England
- A solo show culminating from 'The Cloud Seeding project'. A 12 month project exploring world wide forms of weather modification, most notably cloud seeding. The works in the exhibition speak on ideas of communication, broken cycles, control, fate and possibility.
We are inspired by the metaphorical and literal implications of weather modification, in global, social and economic ideals.
Attempting to control the weather is a concept that has the potential for catastrophic or revolutionary outcomes, in which the next generation are witness.
The installation comprises photographs of local children's eyes, wood and granite sculpture, live performance, remnants from performance, a wall pice drawn by a local child responding to the show and a sound recording of planes.
- Solo show