Exhibition
Versus
5 May 2016 – 8 May 2016
Event times
Thursday 6 -9, Friday 4 - 8, Sat 12 - 8, Sun 12 - 7
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 65-67 Ridley Road
- Dalston
- London
- E8 2NP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus 38, 56, 149, 277
- Dalston Kingsland, Dalston Junction rail
Olly Burn’s new exhibition Versus is a celebration of collaboration and the individual image-maker’s inspiration.
About
Photographs were given to creatives with deliberately different visual styles: Owen Gildersleeve, Toby Triumph, Jean Jullien, Lucas Levitan, Mark Ward, Barnaby Purdy, Ciara Phelan, Nick White, Mystery Meat, Robyn Gallow and StudioThomson.
The eclectic results create a new dialogue with Olly’s work and give us viewers an insight into a different kind of creative collaboration.
“I guess the promo, in essence, is a commercial venture to get in front of new clients and win commissions, so to take it entirely away from that and make a show that is just for fun is a really exciting concept for me,” Olly says.
“I had no reservations handing my work over to them. My perceptions of the images are built around the memories of making them. I think the beauty of these interpretations is that the artists don’t know the back stories, so their remixes are based on aesthetics alone.”
Versus is on show at the Doomed gallery in Dalston, from May 5th to May 8th
Olly Burn’s new exhibition Versus is a celebration of collaboration and the individual image-maker’s inspiration.
Finding he had some promotional material left over in his studio, Olly decided to hand them over to artists, designers and illustrators and invite them to deface, remix and rethink the originals.
Photographs were given to creatives with deliberately different visual styles: Owen Gildersleeve, Toby Triumph, Jean Jullien, Lucas Levitan, Mark Ward, Barnaby Purdy, Ciara Phelan, Nick White, Mystery Meat, Robyn Gallow and StudioThomson.
The eclectic results create a new dialogue with Olly’s work and give us viewers an insight into a different kind of creative collaboration.
“I guess the promo, in essence, is a commercial venture to get in front of new clients and win commissions, so to take it entirely away from that and make a show that is just for fun is a really exciting concept for me,” Olly says.
“I had no reservations handing my work over to them. My perceptions of the images are built around the memories of making them. I think the beauty of these interpretations is that the artists don’t know the back stories, so their remixes are based on aesthetics alone.”