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Image: Hazel Rebecca Clegg
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Image: Helen McGhie
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Image: Nick Sykes
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Exhibition
Hi-5
23 Jun 2017 – 26 Jun 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Queen Street
- Salford
Greater Manchester - M3 7NG
- United Kingdom
Hi-5 is a group exhibition reflecting ideas in J.G. Ballard’s novel High Rise, where residents in a tower block shift from civilisation to chaos. Work will convey how defined structures can be radically deconstructed through creativity and collaboration.
About
“the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways” ― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
Hi-5 is a group exhibition bringing together the work of five studio artists based on the upper floors at ArtWork Atelier, Salford. The exhibition reflects ideas in J.G. Ballard’s apocalyptic novel High Rise, where residents in a 40-storey tower block collapse from civilisation to chaos in a revolutionary mass psychosis. As Ballard’s novel portrays a reaction to modern society, each artist’s independent vision is connected into a collective fusion of the psychological effects of modernity including alienation, uncertainty and anxieties of self-identity. The work in Hi-5 will combine contemporary sculpture, painting, drawing and photography to observe the psychological tensions between inner and outer spaces, whilst conveying an idea of how defined structures can be radically deconstructed through creativity and collaboration.
Artists: Helen McGhie, Nick Sykes, Hazel Rebecca Clegg, Mark Toner & Sophie Tyrrell
