One + One Daniel Eatock Stanley Picker Gallery 8 February – 31 March 2012 Launch Day: Wed 8 Feb
12-1pm Lunchtime gathering with Daniel, collaborators and visitors, 1-6pm On-site preparation of initial One + One works, 
6-8.30pm Drinks Reception Closing Event: Sat 31 March 12-4pm All Welcome
Celebrate all 8 weeks of One + One activity with Daniel, collaborators and visitors 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, Eatock 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.

One + One presents this extensive new series of staged object-scenarios; Eatock intermittently overseeing the on-site production and documentation of the individual works for the entire 8-week duration of the exhibition. The Stanley Picker Gallery will, at once, play host to an organised archive of original sourced objects as primary material; a specially built ‘infinity-cove’ platform for the staging of the individual works as they are prepared and recorded; and a projected display of the resulting documented outcomes. 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.

Ultimately surviving in their chosen documented form, the playful combinations of the objects employed, their various juxtapositions, and the differing durational nature of their new-found pairings (from static to split-second and perpetual motion) generate an immediate yet complex set interrelationships of form, weight, colour, material, scale, structure, texture, function… by which Eatock attempts to both comprehend and complicate the world around us.

The new One + One works are accompanied by a slideshow of snapshots of found-scenarios taken by Daniel and received from contributors to his website over the past ten years. The exhibition was co-curated by Daniel Eatock with Gallery Director David Falkner, and informed by a programme of open-meetings with students and staff at the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture. Thank you to all contributors and participants.

Daniel Eatock will be working in the Gallery every Wednesday throughout the exhibition.

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 www.indexhibit.org Stanley Picker Gallery Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture Kingston University, Knights Park Kingston upon Thames KT1 2QJ t: 020 8417 4074/ 07974625586 e: n.kay@kingston.ac.uk www.stanleypickergallery.org Based on information supplied by Natalie Kay.