Best before end

06.09.19 - 05.10.19

Solo show by May Hands

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Opening Friday 6th September from 6.30 - 8pm

May Hands responds to her immediate environment and raises environmental issues with a poetic sensibility. Her practice consists of collecting organic materials and discarded synthetic objects, both gathered from her daily life. Her work juxtaposes the natural and man-made to investigate these different but related worlds. At the core of Hands’ practice is an engagement with the trends and rituals of consumer society along with the cycles of nature and the environment, such as the change of seasons. Her approach is structured around thinking through contrasting and complementing ideas such as the arranged and ordered, bare and barren, rich and lavish or skeletal and elegant to draw out the tensions that can be found within the pairings of the natural with the man-made. There is an economy to her work that is deeply informed by seeking to minimise consumption and waste, through reusing and recycling wherever possible.

May Hands’ exhibition will reflect upon the September equinox as we transition from late Summer into early Autumn. From the last of the Summer sun with the days getting shorter and the sun sinking lower in the sky, to the crisp leaves turning red and amber as they dry and wither. These natural phenomena and cycles remind us to prepare for winter, to withdraw and turn inward just as nature at this time of the year rests and waits so that it may begin the cycle of seasons again anew.

The exhibition’s aim is to engage the spectator and incite feelings of longing and nostalgia, and to offer a chance for reflection and renewal. Playing with the concept of a crypt as a unique site of transformation in nature’s cycle of life and death. May Hands’ exhibition focuses on the ideas of ecological awareness and mindfulness, inciting recognition of our touch on the planet and our role within the world.

May Hands (b.1990, Brighton, UK) lives and works in London and Brighton. Currently at Goldsmith studying her MFA Fine Art (2018-2020). Graduated from her BA Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art UAL 2013. Solo shows include ‘May Hands: Artist-in-Residence’, Bosse & Baum, London (2018); ‘I’ve Loved You For a Long Time’, Supplement, London (2018); ‘Horizons’, Coachwerks Gallery, Brighton (2017); ‘I Have an Addiction’ BACO, Bergamo (2015); ‘Freschissimi’, T293, Rome (2015); ‘Bleach’, Roman Road, London (2015). Group shows include ‘The romance of flowers’, Kingsgate Project Space, London (2018); ‘Every Thing’, Assembly Point, London (2018); ‘Fully Awake’, blip blip blip, East Street Arts, Leeds (2017); ‘Not Every Thread Ties Down/ Your Split Ends Are Showing?’, DKUK, London (2016); ‘Artificial Arcadia’, Bosse & Baum, London (2016); ‘ Maybe Your Lens is Scratched?’, Slate Projects, London (2016),‘Women’s Art Society II’, MOSTYN, Wales (2015).

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