Recollections | Florian Höulker & Sophie L. Knight

About

Florian Höulker is a multidisciplinary artist who emits a strong working-class narrative through their art. They aim to use traditional skills to identify themselves with craft and identity; often recycling objects reclaimed from the landscape, to reconstruct narratives from the post-industrial environment. This includes themes of memory, nostalgia, fractures, decline, loss and abandonment. Whether it’s a personal, socially observed or lived experience, they seek to construct a visual language through the conversation of materials, through order, forms and repetition.
 

Sophie Lourdes Knight is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, sculpture and photography. Her practice revolves around the dualities and contradictions of all things, seeds of doubt and unknowing, absurdity and seriousness. Her work attempts to level the playing field, raising the mundane to the exemplary, the lavish down to the devalued, a commentary of the inherent biases and assumptions we give to objects and the values we place on them. They transcend their physical limitations and rise to become akin to religious idols or spiritual totems.

Private View Thursday 1st of August : 18:00 - 20:00

Open to the public 2nd - 17th of August,
13:00 - 17:00, Friday & Saturday

Upstairs at Paradise Works, E. Philip St, Salford, M3 7LE