Obsolescence and Renewal exhibited in 'Recent Work 2', m2 ASC Gallery, London

m2 ASC Gallery, Recent Work 2 is the second of two consecutive exhibitions featuring the recent work of over 50 artists. A joyous gathering of diverse art forms each contained inside a metre square space. The artists have all previously shown work at the m2 Gallery Peckham and have been brought together here to celebrate the life of Ken Taylor.

Obsolescence and Renewal, Neil Brownsword
The recovery and analysis of past material culture through a reengagement with archives, museum collections and redundant technologies has preoccupied much of my artistic practice in recent decades. Early examples of moulded white salt glaze stoneware c.1750's, were digitised and transformed through scale using a 'low status' materialities. These were juxtaposed against a silicone cast of the internal workings of a 20th century redundant mould. This appropriation of proto and post-industrial technologies does not mourn a lost past, but rather mines the unrealised potentials these bygone eras were felt to contain, and repositions clay's history as a skeuomorphic entity.