21 February - 29 March 2008
69 South Audley Street, London W1
Angus Fairhurst presents new sculptures and large-scale paintings. The paintings are spatial schematics through which Fairhurst affirms the potential of space while acknowledging its contested nature. Incorporated into the works are advertising posters of the type found in bus shelters with much of the information stripped away.
The new sculptures are also concerned with the creation of and projection into space by means of gaps. A resin reproduction of a ‘To Let’ sign has the middle literally smashed out of it. As in earlier work, Fairhurst incorporates found imagery from multiple sources, and the handmade mark is as discernible as the mechanical. These works play on iconographic congruities between advertising and art history within a complex composition of interior and exterior worlds.