SPEAKING BETWEEN SOMEHOW THE SPACES |
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Solo commission
Slate Projects Averard London 2018 |
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‘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
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INHALE, EXHALE
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, The Bund, Shanghai, China
Trace for Swatch collection
2019
Trace for 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
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BINLANG
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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.
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HORST (TAIWAN)
HORST, TAV, Taipei
2018
2018
MILIEU & FIVE VAULT
Group show curated by Alex Meurice and Bianca Baroni
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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
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LIMEN LOCALE
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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. |
DERAILER DERAILERSolo 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 remade into minimalist form.
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 and minimalist 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
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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 raw bideford black pigment and used as the base of a structure which housed an MMA fight. The floor bears the scuffs and scars from the high energy collision of 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. |
ACCOST NASCENTSolo 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. Thomas-Irvine built an octagonal structure 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
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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.
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TESTING TROPESGroup 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:
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IN THE FACE OF COLLAPSE
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ALTARROYA
Burnt trunk from abandoned coal mining town, rope, marble, steel 2014 ACCOST & NASCENT Carved granite 2014 |
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THE FEELING OF NOTHINGNESS
Water, discarded canvass's from the late Joe Burke, faux leather, timber
ATOI & CULL, Enclave
London
2013
ATOI & CULL, Enclave
London
2013
FOIST
Solo presentation
Aid & Abet
Cambridge
2012
Aid & Abet
Cambridge
2012
CONTENT IN COLLISION
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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. |
ANTI-MATTER (MUTUAL ANNIHILATION)
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Bitumen, plaster casts, alabaster carving, fluorescent lighting,
plywood, faux leather, foam, Models. Florence Trust London 2012 |
Anti-Matter is a large tower like structure with broken classical casts suspended at it's core, which models sit by and gaze at on the base of the structure.
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CULL GALLERY
The Florence Trust
London
2012
London
2012
PLAYING IN STORMS
Solo show
CEAC
Xiamen, China
2009
CEAC
Xiamen, China
2009