Ellwood, Ford, McLaren

Matt Ellwood, James R Ford and Cameron James McLaren will each present new work in an exhibition bringing together three artists whose works – although stylistically diverse – all questions and explores the act itself of making.

James R Ford’s new Finitude Drawings are a series of lines and marks created by an outdated, robotic vacuum cleaner. The robot has been hijacked, modified, and made to perform a task not fit for its intended purpose. The works are born from the idea of human finitude; our limits of time, space and ability. And how, throughout life, we metaphorically hit brick walls, back track, meander, and sometimes move in circles trying to figure things out. The naming convention of the series utilises gene symbols, and the genes referenced are all related to ageing, which in itself is a symbol for the natural finitude of human life.