'Wild Life' Various Artists

About

The wild life of wildlife.
A flower growing through the crack in the pavement, the ivy scaling the fascia of a building, camouflaging, cloaking, pulling it to the ground, the tree growing around a concrete pillar, engulfing it slowly, morphing year on year. The birds nest in the rafters of a roof, made up of twigs and plastic ties, the nested young being fed the preservative pumped, calorie powered garbage bin rewards. These are glimpses of wildlife interacting, adjusting, adapting to the environment that we've created, over, around, on top of it, the once green meadow now a sea of steel work, glass and poured concrete, trees confined to their architect planned and perfectly aligned boxes.
But our wild life, this wildlife is playing a slow game, a slow deathly dance between the static, lifeless concrete structures we've built and the unstoppable force of nature. Adapt or be adapted, adjust or be adjusted, remember me? I was here before you, I've always been here, you need me, I am life.
Is mother nature reclaiming our temporary oasis or is it adapting to the obstacles that we've put in its way or are we now having to listen to the reminder that this place is not ours, we are simply borrowing it?

Confirmed Artists:

Josie Morley (painting)
Rose Anderson (painting)
Jennifer Murphy (collage)
Kelly Allen - (collage)
D*Face (mixed media)
Dan Witz (mixed media)
Jake Wood Evans (painting)
Roxanne Jackson (sculptural)
Kelly McCallum (sculptural)
Jessica Joslin (sculptural)
Kai & Sunny (mixed media)

Please Note:For the duration of this show we will be exhibiting in a different space to our usual permanent gallery. We will be exhibiting in 'Shop 14' which is on the corner of Hanbury Street and the Truman Brewery F Block.