Edward Chell : Common Ground

16 Nov-14 Dec 2019

Overview

For Edward Chell’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist presents a selection of wall and floor works exploring a conflation of the precious or revered with the overlooked or discarded, questioning how our ideas about taste are inherited. The works explore themes of consumption and waste, through the aesthetic elevation of ordinary objects and industrial landscapes such as weeds, transportation pallets and spoil tips. Amid increasing awareness of how our consumption impacts on the environment, Common Ground reminds us that C18th mass consumption, the collecting and fetishising of goods for display, sowed the seeds of our current ecologies. The combined impact of these diverse works is both a celebration of covetable materials and a critique of rampant acquisitiveness.