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UPCYCLE From Packaging to Art
19th February, 2025\u2013 1st March, 2025
Great Pulteney Street Gallery
36 Great Pulteney Street
London, W1F 9NS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gavin Turk | Leo Fitzmaurice | Marisa Culatto | Russell Herron | Sam Hodge | Sarah Pettitt | Shane Bradford | Susan Collis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Upcycle<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is a new exhibition which reveals what happens when eight artists take ordinary packaging<\/strong> and elevate it. Using plenty of wit and a dash of deception, the artists demonstrate how something utterly mundane can be completely transformed through upcycling. <\/p>\n

With implications for recycling, consumerism, sustainability and other existential matters, this playful show is hosted by Soho Housing Association\u2019s Great Pulteney Street Gallery and curated by Paul Carey-Kent. <\/p>\n

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Marisa Culatto Opallid Yellow Pink, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

It will include Morandi-style cartons and jars, crushed Coca Cola cans, and work that seems to be what it should have been wrapped in. And several works ask\u00a0the question, are we seeing packaging\u00a0repurposed, or something else pretending to be packaging?<\/p>\n

In \u2018Upcycle<\/strong>\u2019 eight artists look at packaging, demonstrating how something so mundane can become elevated \u2013 artistically upcycled, if you like. Cue implications for recycling, consumerism, sustainability and other existential matters, as well as plenty of wit.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Russell Herron, Girl with Green Eyes<\/em>, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

How does such a quotidian source relate to artistic epiphany? Gavin Turk<\/strong> presents cartons \u00e0 la Morandi and used lighters \u00e0 la Hirst; Leo Fitzmaurice maxes out the crushed Coca Cola can and proposes that we see supermarket bags as paintings; Sarah Pettitt\u2019s tenderly provisional constructions have an unassertive presence consistent with much of her material coming from left-overs; and Shane Bradford employs the surprisingly elaborate components of crates used for home deliveries to print paintings titled with the faintly absurd claims of supermarket taglines.<\/p>\n

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Leo Fitzmaurice, Feeling the Squeeze, crushed cans, shelving, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Another question to ask is: are we seeing packing repurposed, or something else pretending to be packaging? Thus, Marisa Culatto turns paper tape from packing aid to art material, while Susan Collis\u2019s work seems to be what it should have been wrapped in; and Sam Hodge prints directly from unfolded cardboard boxes to arrive at surprising suggestions, whereas Russell Herron makes cardboard portraits which, in a double-take contrast, involve no cardboard.<\/p>\n

UPCYCLE From Packaging to Art opens on the 19th of February, 2025 until the 1st of March, 2025 at Great Pulteney Street Gallery<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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