Exhibition

Duncan Poulton: Factory Reset solo show

30 Jul 2022 – 7 Aug 2022

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Monday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

Free admission

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‘Factory Reset’ is the debut solo exhibition by artist Duncan Poulton, with new work spanning digital collage, moving image, digital painting and installation.

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In 'Factory Reset', Poulton attempts to distil the sensation of the overwhelming world of images and information that make up our chaotic physical-digital existence today. His large-scale digitally printed collages bear witness to the mental and physical toll taken on a generation that has grown up online – the anxiety, insomnia, apathy and confusion that our rapidly changing, tech-led culture causes.

The exhibition emerges from Poulton’s expanded collage practice in which he uses the internet as his palette and imagination. Like a digital archaeologist, he scours real and virtual spaces – from online archives like eBay, Wikimedia Commons and the 3D model website Turbosquid to taking iPhone photos of graffiti and street detritus and scanning charity shop books. Email alert icons and e-signatures, health & safety diagrams and medieval heraldry, buffering symbols and mouse cursors, cartoons and graffiti, medical and archaeological photography, children’s drawings and long-forgotten eBay purchases, dormant robots and crash test dummies coexist and collide in the ‘hyper-meatspace’ of Poulton’s exhibition. Made in aggressive, intuitive bursts, the visually rich and complex digital collages blur the digital-analogue binary, combining Photoshop and digital painting with physical collage, aerosol spray paint, stickers and papier-mâché. For the immersive installation at SET Lewisham, hundreds of photo stickers from Poulton’s hard drive archive of over 30,000 image files will sprawl and overlap across the walls of the gallery, in a network made flesh.

Limited edition prints will be available to buy and a newly commissioned text by curator and writer Rosa Tyhurst will accompany the exhibition.

Duncan Poulton (b. 1993, Birmingham, UK) is an artist based between London and Birmingham, UK. Poulton’s work has recently been exhibited and screened at Ars Electronica (Linz); MOSTYN (Llandudno), Coventry Biennial, Art Licks Weekend (London), QUAD (Derby), OUTPOST (Norwich), MIT Museum (Massachusetts), Eastside Projects (Birmingham), arebyte (London) and Transmediale (Berlin). He is a graduate of University of Brighton (2012-15) and The Syllabus (2019-21), a postgraduate alternative learning programme led by Wysing Arts Centre and arts venues across England.
http://duncanpoulton.com/
Instagram: @duncpoulton

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