Structures of Trade - Adeniyi Olagunju

First Thursdays Private View - August 5, 6-9pm

The exhibition is comprised of various wood-based installations, a genre that has always intrigued the artist and one, which he has explored since his college days at Ruskins School of Art, Oxford University in 2009. Using discarded wooden-pallets, the sometimes large-scale installations (Project 50, 2010) references global trade, and as a subtext, its effect on his continent of extraction – Africa.

Sometimes combining the wooden pallets with other objects like painted basketballs (and plaster cast of the same basketballs) in carefully staged compositions, the artist alludes to the endless narrative structures of these materials in their re-contextualized forms