Exhibitions

Venue: Spike Island, Bristol

Dates: 14th July–16th September 2007

Preview: 13th July 2007

Notes: with Richard Forster, Sara McKillop, Jonathan Owen, Andy Wake, Haroon Mirza, and Milo Brennan

WORKING THINGS OUT Group show with new works by Richard Forster, Sophie Macpherson, Jonathan Owen, Sara MacKillop, Andy Wake, Haroon Mirza & Milo Brennan

Working Things Out is the first group show to take place at Spike Island since the re-launch or the galleries in February 2007.

The exhibition brings together seven British artists working in the field of contemporary sculpture. They are not linked by a particular style but rather by their attitude: a common commitment to reworking the everyday. They produce objects that can be read as prototypes; prototypes that suggest ways of imaging the world otherwise rather than blueprints for living. Working Things Out is therefore not a show about artists assuming the role of designers or vice versa, but rather the productive space in between these categories. All of the artists will present new works or a series of works that has yet to be shown in it entirety; some will also respond directly to the imposing architecture of the gallery, a newly created structure within a former tea packing factory, a space within a space.