(Re)Collect brings together new work by Chowwai Cheung, Claire Willberg and Nathalie Kingdon, three printmakers who each begin by collecting: images, objects, memories and places. Across printmaking, collage and assemblage, the exhibition explores collecting as both method and metaphor.
Chowwai Cheung's printmaking draws attention through striking pinks, blues, greens and bold black and white geometric imagery. Perspective pulls us into landscapes of mountain ranges, roads and rivers, to places we feel we have known before but cannot quite locate. Claire Willberg picks up what London throws away. Discarded objects including cable ties, fragments of plastic, the small forgotten debris of the city. These are collected from the street and translated through print into something worth looking at again - freed from their original purpose and rendered in bold graphic form on paper. Nathalie Kingdon looks further back still, into the visual archive of 1970s celebrity female figures shaped by mass media, glamour and the era's particular idea of femininity. Reworked through vivid screen print, these collected images are transformed with saturated colour and bold shifts of proportion with a playful sense of form.
Together, the works suggest memory not as a fixed record but as a process. (Re)Collect invites us to consider how we are shaped by what we choose to hold onto, and what we cannot help but carry with us.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Private View on Friday 3rd July 6pm-8pm.
