Talk
Talk, Screening & Book Launch with Conrad Armstrong
26 May 2016
Unit G Gallery
London, United Kingdom
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Tate Modern - Conrad Armstrong
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Waterloo - Conrad Armstrong
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Conrad Armstrong
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Quetzalcoalt Dawn - Conrad Armstrong
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Quetzalcoalt Dawn - Conrad Armstrong
Exhibition
Shadow Progress
6 May 2016 – 28 May 2016
Event times
Thurday to Saturday 12:30 - 17:30 and by appointment
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 12A Collent Street
- London
- E9 6SG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The 30, 26, 277 and 488 all stop close by
- Overground: Hackney Central, Homerton
- London Fields train station
Event map
Hackney Wick based artist Conrad Armstrong is showing hie explorations into oil paints as a medium, and will also includes new steel, marble and concrete sculptural, video, sound, written and observational works.
About
After his hugely successful 2015 London solo exhibition INTO THE FOREST, Conrad begun a contemplative journey back towards the transient city of his birth, London, to face the shadows within himself, society and his environment.
Armstrong asks the question to himself and his audience:
“What is ‘Progress? What does progress means to you?”
Conrad’s research for SHADOW PROGRESS is becoming a body of work which focuses on London and considers property development, gentrification and transience.
As a developing visual artist, Conrad is compelled to consider his own progress, alongside his own experiences of evolution in London. And all of this becomes incidental to starting to tackle the larger world of ‘progress’ as a universal concept.
“Why do we, as people, seem to have such a polarized vision of progress, has the cult of capitalism entered its final metamorphosis, is London’s creative community in exodus, whose at the controls of spaceship Earth, how has the dramatic rate of change and ‘development’ within London
physically and culturally affected the outlook of the city and its citizens – how much of This is real progress?”
