Daniel Eatock: One + One, Stanley Picker Gallery, 8 February – 31 March 2012
Daniel Eatock One + One
Launch Day Wednesday 8 February 2012
Exhibition opens at the Stanley Picker Gallery with a lunchtime gathering from midday with Daniel, collaborators and visitors, followed by on- site preparation of initial One + One works, and a drinks reception from 6-8.30pm. All are welcome to join in at any time during the day.
Daniel Eatock’s multiform career has been defined by a series of high-profile commercial design jobs, together with a vast body of self-instigated works that manifest themselves on multiple, often participatory, platforms including his own website www.eatock.com, printed material, exhibitions, and performative actions as part of his day-to-day existence.
Developed over the course of his Stanley Picker Fellowship, Daniel has been preparing an extensive series of proposals for new object-based works that each establishes a range of formal, practical or conceptual conceits connecting two otherwise independently existing objects. Whilst remaining firmly embedded in his wider hybrid practice, these sculptural object-scenarios have also been originated as part of initial developmental research for the re-branding of the national television network BBC2.
The Stanley Picker Gallery will, at once, play host to an organised archive of original sourced objects as primary material; a constructed platform for the staging of the individual works as they are prepared and recorded; and a public display of the resulting documented outcomes, whether in print, moving-image or web-based forms. Eatock will be regularly overseeing the on-site production and documentation of the individual works for the entire 8-week duration of the exhibition.
Gallery visitors will be invited to participate in aspects of the production process; the exhibition content evolving continually as the original objects are employed, and re-employed, in the development of the final works.
The exhibition will conclude with a celebration of all 8 weeks of One + One activity with Daniel, collaborators and visitors on Sat 31 March 12-4pm All Welcome.
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