Joseph Cutts – Natalie Finnemore – Emily Musgrave – Peter Martin

19 Nov – 30 Jan 2016

S1 Artspace was pleased to present I Can Read With My Eyes Shut; an exhibition of new commissioned work by four artists based at S1 Artspace.

In 2009, S1 Artspace established its Bursary Programme to support new graduates in their first year of professional practice. The four artists presented in I Can Read With My Eyes Shut were among the first selected and have since continued to develop their practice within the fold of S1.

Working predominantly in sculpture and collage, Emily Musgrave researched methods of display and composition. She often utilised low-value or discarded materials in works that explore their own permanence, value and substance.

Joseph Cutts examined the physicality of video medium, creating moving image works that were abstract both in their aesthetic and narrative form.

• Natalie Finnemore* created sculptures that draw influence from the structural conventions of a space – line, colour and composition. The scale and volume of her works was suggestive of furniture or play-objects enticing the viewer to interact.

Working across sound and video, Peter Martin interlaced video sequences, found photographs and old TV adverts to highlight the subtleties that were integral to an overlying narrative and the constructs of our digital culture.