Only Shallow
Acme Glassyard Studios, London, UK, 2025
Curated by Lee Scully in collaboration with TWO-PLUS-TWO
Only Shallow celebrates surface. Each artist selected engages with the potential of materiality—exploring how the surface of the artwork creates both a tactile and tangible relationship with the world. Surface is the final layer of construction and, equally, the first point of contact for the viewer. Whether this top layer serves as a form of concealment or as an entry point to a more complex mechanism, each surface overlays a vast and intricate network of information. The mechanisms that underpin each artwork rely entirely on their relationship to the surface—its application, operation, and association.
TWO-PLUS-TWO is an initiative set up by TWO Acme Glassyard studio holders—painter Lee Johnson and sculptor Poppy Whatmore. Lee Scully is a curatorial project set up by Tabby Li and Toby Rainbird.
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Found object, dust, silicone, silicone pigments, deadner, flocking, epoxy, aluminium wire, polystyrene balls and oil paint
27 x 37 x 6 cm
Photography © Reliant Imaging
