How to Make a Head, 2024

The title of this exhibition is taken from Luke Hannam’s drawing How to Make a Head, 2024 , a head seemingly constructed from rectangular blocks. Not intended as a portrait of an existing person in the traditional sense, the work assembles life from scratch to create a humanoid form.

In this spirit of alchemy, all the artists in the exhibition have been handed the force of Prometheus, to blow life-giving fire into inanimate materials. The figures, bodies and body-parts seem to be in the process of coming alive through the imaginative use of materials and collage. Although they are made-up characters, the inhabitants of this exhibition feel strangely present.

Featured Artists
Dominic Beattie
Paul Cole
Jody DeSchutter
Tim Ellis
Lucy Evetts
Luke Hannam
James Alec Hardy
Harry Jones
Alec Kronacker
Tom Shedden
Robert Welch
Poppy Whatmore
Anisa Zahedi
Neil Zakiewicz

This exhibition is curated by Dominic Beattie.