A bench offers a place of temporary privacy in the public sphere – on a street, in a park, at a railway or bus station, in an art gallery or museum. Sitting on a bench is a transient stop; on the way somewhere, in between here and there, a place to pause. A bench also presents social possibilities – an inherently shared or shareable space – an encounter waiting to happen.
Bench Assemble, Helen Barff, Adam Clarke, Anna Lucas, Michael Simpson, Richard Wentworth, Joby Williamson, Madalina Zaharia.
21 January – 13 February 2016
Joby Williamson
Temperance, 2016
Cast iron bench ends ht 73 x w 56 x d 47
Richard Wentworth
Sward 2016, 2016
Straw encased in plastic, ht 51 x wdth 42 x lgth 30cm
Assemble
Bench, 2016
Painted mild steel Lgth 2m22cm x w 44 x ht 46
Helen Barff
Burgess Park Bench Studies, 2015
Jesmonite, Grey: 15 x 19 x 19.5 cm Pale yellow: 18.5 x 18 x 13.5 cm Pale blue: 9 x 24 x 22.5 cm
Madalina Zaharia
LADY ON HER DAYBED A study after Esmeralda’s daybed as seen by Robert Wilson, 2016
Laminated ply and coloured MDF 180 x 116 cm
Helen Barff
Burgess Park Bench 1, 2015/16
Jesmonite and steel (diptych) 44 x 47.5 x 9.5 cm & 49 x 47 x 11 cm
Anna Lucas
Banc de Montage, 2016
Giclee print and wood 2m x 60 cm
Michael Simpson
Bench for Bruno Resurrected, 2007
Paint on paper 51 x 98.5 cm
Michael Simpson
Bench with Flying Drains, 2009
Carbon pencil and oil paint on paper 33 x 48 cm
Adam Clarke
Boosebeck Industries - Installation view, 2015
Print, ply