The exhibition title - Wheat, Mud, Machine – refers, on one hand, quite literally to the material properties of objects represented in the exhibition, and on the other, more obliquely to the digital and analogue technologies employed in the artworks making.  “I dont want to be a machine like Warhol, but I like the idea of using one”, is a quote by artist Peter Phillips employed by Poster Club in an exhibition at Eastside Projects in Birmingham (2011).  Revisiting previous artworks, utterances and installations has been an important element of developing this exhibition which is itself a humorous re-appraisal of Poster Clubs own work in a self-styled Institutional Self-Critique.  The idea of not wanting to be a machine, but liking the idea of using one still resonates for Poster Club who explore painting, photography, drawing, sculpture and lettering design through the processes of screen-printing, block-printing and digital print.

A very simple printing station will also form part of Wheat, Mud, Machine.  Poster Club invite the audience to make their own posters by using large stamps of Poster Club fonts to make new images or slogans.

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27 June 2015

Hubs and Fictions: On Current Art and Imported Nearness

Shanghai Forum Series #1 

Speakers: Simon Groom, Terry Smith, Wang Nanming and What, How & for Whom/WHW

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