14 Aug 2011

#4 Group Show at FORT Gallery, London

From telephones, pint glasses, coffee cups and football shirts to fly-posters, basic computer graphics and the language of product design, five London-based artists draw on the unassuming objects and materials of everyday modern living. Their shared interests go beyond injecting the over-familiar with something new or strange. Using simple gestures, action, sculpture and print, their works carry pathos and poetry.

Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom (b.1984, London) Graduated from the Roya'l Academy Schools in 2008. Previous Exhibitions Include: 'Restrike', Poppy Sebire Gallery, London, 2011; 'Peacock Trousers', Josh Lilly Gallery, London, 2011; Misguided Warrior', Squid & Tabernacle, London, 2010 (solo); 'This is England', Aubin Gallery, London, 2010; 'Like Love – Parts One & Two and Action', The Bluecoat, Liverpool, 2010; 'Backwash', Primo Alonso Gallery, London, 2009 (solo). www.boakye-yiadom.com

Loz Chalk (b. Born 1983, Folkestone, Kent) Graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2011. Recent Exhibitions Include: 'Premiums', Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010; 'PRIMER-UWE/Spike Fellows Show', Spike Island, Bristol, 2008; 'The Wrong Place', The Old Pro Cathedral, Bristol, 2007; 'Build Me A Monument', 37 Jamaica Street, Bristol, 2007; Art Vaults, Southampton, 2007. www.laurencechalk.co.uk/

Rhys Coren (b.1983, Plymouth) Graduated from the University of West England in 2005. Recent exhibitions include: 'The Second Most Popular', BAM BAM BAM, Wolstenholme, Liverpool, 2011 (solo); 'my friend speak HTML, NRMAL' FESTIVAL, Monterrey, Mexico, 2011; 'ICML PRSNT... Duck Hunt', Rhubaba, Edinburgh, 2011; 'Something is Coming', Godspeeeeed Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA, 2010; 'Techno-Thriller', The Newbridge Project, Newcastle, 2010; 'VIDEO PROGETTO', Grand Union, Birmingham UK and 26CC, Rome, Italy, 2010; 'Paintings From England & American', CRISP, London, 2010; 'After Newsround', Old Shoreditch Station, Jaguar Shoes, London, 2009 (solo). www.rhyscoren.co.uk

Jack Newling (b.1983, Nottingham) Graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2009. Recent exhibitions include: 'Then again', SPACE, London, 2011 (solo); 'With and without painting', Max Wigram galley. London, 2011; 'Friendships of the peoples', Simon Oldfield. London, 2011; 'Jerwood Contemporary Painters', Jerwood Space. London, 2010; 'Pleasure ground', Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands, 2010; 'TAG from 3TO36: New London Painting', Brown. London, 2010; 'Bloomberg new contemporaries', Cornerhouse, Manchester, Club row London, 2009. www.jacknewling.com

Laura Wilson (b. 1983) graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2006. Selected exhibitions include; 'Header Stretcher Soldier Sailor Shiner Rowlock', Vitrine Gallery, London, 2011; 'Horse of a different colour', Siobhan Davies Studios, London, 2010; 'Preludes and Nocturnes', Dalston New Library, London 2010; 'Field Broadcast as part of Wysing Contemporary', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 2010; 'Late at Tate', Tate Britain, 2009; 'Endgames', Truck, Canada 2007; 'Ename Actueel2007', Foundation, Belgium, 2007. www.laurawilson.me