Pete Lloyd, Nathan Cleave, Barnaby Wills, Dan Washbrook
10 July - 9 August 2004
In their first show as a group this is a chance for the participants to engage in the ongoing dialogue which exists between them. Using various media, the ideas are linked by process and deconstruction of form and function. Throughout the work there is a tension that questions the way the artists interact with the space around them.
Pete Lloyd primarily works with drawing, painting and corporate branding as well as interactive performances on social interaction. The work is reliant on a distinctive drawing style that he uses on both brightly coloured canvases and the street.
Nathan Cleave is interested in the mechanics of the everyday. For Bump he intends to use the gallery space to explore spacial intervention and to question notions of sculptural interpretation and interaction.
Barnaby Wills questions the role of advertising and the part it plays within our cultural lifestyle. His small scale collages appropriated from popular magazines and newspapers reconstitute and deconstruct celebrities to create tension and slant meaning.
Dan Washbrook uses drawing and etching to depict the most enchanting apes from his mind. These creatures make us think about evolution and our race in a kind of Goya versus William Blake way. Like all the work on show it has a dominance of the hand over the eye.
