Nathan Witt: notes. theft. sharing.

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Nathan Witt: notes. theft. sharing. Private View: Thursday 8th April 2010 18.00 - 21.00 Exhibition open to the public: Friday 9th April - Saturday 1st May 2010 Goth on Bus is pleased to present notes. theft. sharing., a solo exhibition by the Brockley-based artist, Nathan Witt. The exhibition is the culmination of the research undertaken by Witt over the last three years into philosophical ethics and space travel, and consists of drawing, painting, research sketches and assemblage. Witt describes his decision to make this body of work as arising from a desire to actively learn and represent information in a concrete manner, rather than creating artworks laden with metaphor, ideas of the self or what he terms as 'the generally lightweight and un-gratifying aspects of art making.' He states that the work exists 'out of a desire to escape numerous aspects of human behaviour and activity', and is laden with the history of man's inability to escape himself, his past ethical irresponsibility an ever-present spectre or chimera. In this sense, the work is presented as an example of failure: the failures of mankind, and the failures of the art-making process. Newly refurbished for the beginning of it's second year, the gallery has been dramatically transformed into a vast black-walled box, mimicking the depths of space. Nathan Witt is a graduate of Winchester College and the Royal College of Art. Goth on Bus is a non-profit experimental arts space in Greenwich, London. Goth on Bus, 139 Greenwich South Street, London Se10 8nx Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 12 - 6. www.gothonbus.org.uk