Curated by Kim Thornton
Alex Stone / Angus Stewart
The Work in progress series is a collaboration between Photographer Angus Stewart and Artist Alex Stone. The result of which documents a sequence of interventions within the showrooms of a lifestyle shop. During each intervention an everyday ritual was performed raising questions of belonging, temporality and the farcical nature of life.
Kim Thornton
Kim Thornton uses humour and rebellion to explore the politics of being female and stereotypical roles and their value. As part of her investigation into the overlooked patterns on toilet paper she transformed herself into a life-size version of the 1970’s toilet roll doll. Her dress is embroidered with golden puppies inspired by the successful TV advertising campaign and her wig crafted from toilet paper.
Lito Apostolakou
DEBRIS installation with photographic fragments
"Debris" frames overlooked domestic spaces in a fragmented, dreamlike assembly. Layered with shadows and temporal disconnection, it archives the beauty of the incidental.
Lito Apostolakou is a London-based artist, researcher and curator working across drawing, installation and moving image. Her work is research-based and site-responsive, engaging with the architecture of remembered space and the multi-layered narratives of memory and place.
Cash Aspeek
Cash Aspeek is a London based artist focusing on the overlooked & often discarded materials from worn sheets to seed-heads. She picks apart & forensically analyses, re-doing & re-purposing everyday objects. Her practice involves ephemeral sculptures, interventions, performance & photography.
Laura Moreton-Griffiths
A surreal image depicts identical women marching in eerie masks, evoking themes of conformity, control, and totalitarian aesthetics. It questions individuality, the role of chance in perception, and how overlooked actions can reveal deeper, hidden significance.
Rosie Barnes
“Despite having been a passionate non-consumer of plastic bags for decades, I do enjoy seeing a pair of ‘Witches’ Knickers’ and wonder if there’ll ever be a time when they no longer exist in our landscape.”
Rosie’s work is rather playful and often deals with our relationship with the natural/non-human world in a tragi-comedic way, seen in her series ‘A Peculiar Convenience’ and ‘To the Dogs’. She’s had work exhibited in galleries and festivals across Europe including the National Portrait Gallery and the Centre for British Photography. She has published two books Understanding Stanley – looking through autism and this year ‘No You’re Not, Yes I Am – a portrait of autistic women’.
‘Witches’ Knickers’ (a term used in Ireland for discarded plastic bags) appeared in the Ecologist Magazine and was used by Richmond Council in a campaign to be the first London Borough to ban the giving of free plastic bags.
Wendy Aldiss
When Wendy Aldiss photographed all the possessions that her father had owned she found everyday objects as interesting as the more valuable. “The traces of life, of the use of things, were powerful”.