Scape - Enviroments amde strange.
A psycho-geographical exploration through painting, sculpture and installation.

In the second in a series of summer shows at The Prenelle Gallery five contemporary artists present an estranged vision of the familiar. The works are widely divergent in formal and thematic terms. Yet the common thread running through the exhibition is the anthropological de-familiarisation of what would other wise be taken for granted. This, in turn, rebounds onto the work, setting up an interrogation of the nature and function of representation. If the immediate sense of distorted representation deflects attention from the work and onwards into the supposed subject, then at the same time distorted disjuncture returns the work itself to the foreground.

Chew Lee received her BA in sculpture from the Slade School of Art this year, her work, ‘Plantation’, presents a gigantic & fantastical forest on the upper deck of the gallery.

Mark Thompson currently in residence at The Florence Trust shows large semi-abstracted canvases of depopulated Scandinavian wastes.

Sarah Jones recently received her MA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art and creates 2D images and video installations related to the dynamism and rhythm of crowd formations.

Adam Thompson who graduated from Goldsmiths this year, presents work showing a relationship between the finite landscape and the infinite void.

Natasha Suverkrup from the Chelsea School of Art presents an interactive sculpture & video installation concerning entrapment, voyeurism and social power relations.

Oliver MacDonald’s 3D image "all systems are go, go, go…" reflects the frenetic pace and forced order of the modern city, an artificially efficient system unravelling into dysfunctional chaos.

The exhibition encourages the visitor to reflect on their position within a world commonly perceived as a seamless spectacle. Things are not what they seem. But then they never were.