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Stuart Pearson Wright

Every now and then you pop in on an exhibition which just feels right, feels like it's in a genre of its own. That was the feeling I got on first seeing Stuart Pearson Wright's Together in Electric Dreams. At first glance there should be no obvious connection between his subjects and style. Hugely tattooed musclemen and gym chicks are painted heroically on wonky china cups. Beauty queen types in ornate frames sit next to scratchy line drawings of skulls. Suburban homes rub shoulders with tower blocks. But somehow it all hangs together, transforming the space at Riflemakers into a glorious peak into another, much much odder world. / Rob Valid

exhibition

Robert Montgomery

Robert Montgomery’s billboards grabbed my attention this morning from the side of the road. Situated where Old Street meets Shoreditch High St, they’re three simple yet poignant billboards that display Montgomery’s poetry and feelings in response to what he sees as a moral failure of capitalism. It Turned Out This Way Cos You Dreamed It This Way exists to capture your imagination when you least expect it. In the past he’s hijacked the sides of trucks in Istanbul, set fire to words in Paris and lit up the skies of Brooklyn. The Occupy movement gets a quick name check; fittingly so having just taken over the nearby Shoreditch Courthouse.  His work is heavily influenced by Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle” which argues many things, one of them being that this spectacular society we’ve inherited has affected how we perceive and hindered our critical thought. An interesting message in an important world time. / Firas Waez