Brutalust

Brutalust was the second exhibition at K6 Gallery. I curated the show and invited writer Owen Hatherley to select his favourite twenty modernist and brutalist buildings in Southampton. Three photographers Greg Moss, Daniel Cane, and James Newell were then asked to photograph the buildings for the exhibition.

A talk and publication were organised to complement the show. The talk sold out and all 120 copies of the publication, which I designed, also sold out.

Promotion for the exhibition included a collaboration with Badger Press to create experimental bespoke flyers, this involved using an inked roller to capture the texture of the concrete buildings in each individual flyer, the text was then overprinted using a risograph.

Press coverage was high, with articles on The Modern House and BBC. I was also invited to speak in the studio on BBC South Today.

ROAM Arts Trail

K6 Gallery’s first large scale project was ROAM, an ambitious off site project that included 10 temporary and 1 permanent commissions of public artworks.

As well as leading the curating team I also created digital and printed maps for the art trail to help audiences navigate and locate the works. These also included further information about each of the artworks.

Pictured below are artworks by Isabella Rose Martin, Kirsty Smith, Ashley David John and Billy Mather.

seabound - isabella martin-2 Kirsty Smith - Digital Prints titled Partition at Bitterne Park Triangle P1070926-2LUMPY LANE MURAL - billy mather-2