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About

Vossmann’s artistic practice employs the roles of collector, archivist and researcher of everyday ephemera, who, for over 30 years, has been collating the objects that the rest of us thrown away. From matchbox’s, tickets, lighters, cigarette packets, bottle tops to sweet wrappers, their primary use over, these discarded items become in the hands of the artist re-imagined graphic components in the ever-expanding universe of his new visual lexicon.

Through the late 80’s and 90’s Vossmann walked the streets of dozens of global cities including London, Berlin, Moscow, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Beijing, scouring the pavements for new materials. To accompany him on one of his ‘City Walks ‘ was not only an education in the transience of civilization, but also to see the world through his ‘magpie’ eyes engendered a deep respect for the rarefied aesthetics of the gutter.