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31 January - 1 April 2001 Matt Mitchell Since graduating from Central St. Martin’s School of Art in1993 Mitchell has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. He has had a solo exhibition at 30 Underwood Street, London, 24 Hours, and a Space Studios Commission, Sub, as part of Canal Culture on the Lee Navigation in Hackney and Tower Hamlets. Supported by Goldsmith's College, University of London Mike Marshall In the foyer of The Economist exhibition building Mike Marshall will present Planisphere, a collection of videos and long-exposure photographs which explore an incessantly changing and dynamic world that appears productively at odds with the contemplative and stable eye of the camera. Elements such as the sea, light and people drift and seem provisionally fixed in these images. Through this work the artist tells of the pleasures and difficulties of being in a world where involvement is only ever partial. Marshall is currently studying on the PhD. Fine Art course at Goldsmith’s College. He has exhibited internationally in Dubai and at the 1998 Sydney Biennale. He has also shown extensively in London, notably in Somewhere Someone is Doing Something, at VTO in 2000. He is currently participating in this year's Ikon Gallery touring video programme, Turn On. With thanks to Dukes of Stratosphere Metalwork, Andy Park & Sean Ellis |
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the North wall of The Economist Plaza will be a new sculpture by Matt
Mitchell, Trailer. This is a three dimensional ‘glowing’
tubular steel structure representing the outline of a trailer-caravan.
The metal frame finished with light sensitive paint allows the work to
be illuminated at night by powerful UV lighting. Other works created
in this way by Mitchell include Health and Efficiency (1996),
which depicted a swimming pool and diving board, and 24 Hours (2000),
which recreates the outline of a petrol station. Mitchell's works look
like neon signs of the objects they represent. This allows the viewer
to experience familiar yet dislocated forms that act as both
sculptural objects and as ghostly skeletal drawings. 
planisphere – a projection or representation of
all or part of a sphere on a plane surface, such as a polar
projection of the Celestial Sphere on a chart [c14: from Medieval
Latin planisphaerium - from Latin planus; flat,
plain].