Blue Sky Thinking

About

It is an exhibition of IKO core artists:

Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Oliver Durcan

Steven Gee

Eleanor Pearch

Csper Welch

IKO partners with registered charity, SET to contribute a large scale exhibition of individual and collaborative work in exchange for subsidized studio spaces at SET CAPSTAN HOUSE. Located in East India, in the shadow

of Canary Wharf, SET CAPSTAN HOUSE is a seventh floor office re-purposed as studios and project space. The exhibition will be a rumination on and a commodification of office culture. Heavily site specific, works will respond to the location in which they are shown.

‘BLUE SKY THINKING’ is office jargon meaning thinking that is not grounded or in touch with the realities of the present. Cloudless, unpolluted, uninformed. Blue. Blank. ‘Original ideas’. Isn’t that what we’re searching for? Except we’re doing the opposite.The works

in the show are using the office context as

a starting point. The failed office holds useful metaphors. Aspiration, routine, boredom, repetition, claustrophobia. We need the clouds in order to manipulate them or make fun

of them. Floating on the seventh floor,

BLUE SKY THINKING depicts an office dream scape. Rules are bent, routines get stuck and

ghosts drift.

SET is a non-profit artist-run organisation through which studio holders are able to contribute to a public programme in return for subsidised studio rent. This exhibition marks

the first collaboration between IKO and SET.

During 2017, IKO will continue an exhibition program with SET in their Alscot Road and Capstan House spaces.

This project marks the first actualisation of IKO’s manifesto to generate opportunities for early-career artists to show work in London.

Our next projects will invite artists from outside of London and involve collaborating with non-London project spaces.

The aim of IKO is to create an accessible web

of artists, curators, writers and gallerists. Shared brains, shared skills and opportunity generated by each other for each other are the props of the community we are building.

It’s kind of hard to explain. But trust us.

It’s going to be good.