WORKS70

Finissage | Friday 12 December 12-4pm
Join us as we celebrate the final week of our inaugural exhibition, WORKS70, at Far Far Gallery.

Curator Benjamin Parsons will lead a guided tour of the exhibition, followed by an in-conversation session with artist Simon Allison.
Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.

“      Material. Fire. Passion. This is the zeitgeist. Late from the heat of summer in London galleries, we have seen Anselm Keifer mediate Van Gogh’s wheatfields with painted vortices of straw, resin, clay and gold; we have seen Jenny Saville deconstruct painted flesh with rippling lines and lurid scourges of paint that would make Cy Twombly blush. These artists have messaged our time with this: 

Use your materials—your paint, your canvas, your timber, lead and bronze—use it with passion. Use it in new ways. Take it beyond what has been known before. 

Simon Allison lives for this challenge. By his hand a gallery structure has literally risen from the chaff of the Van Gogh field. The Far Far Gallery is a placeholder of material passion. In this new gallery, the artist presents WORKS70 in an outpouring of his sculptural and painting practice. We are met with massive totems of turned trunks of oak, first gathered in timber stands, then transfigured into bronze and Carrara marble. His Lockbund Foundry serves well as a hotbed of alchemy. Through fire, he pours rivulets of bronze and lead into trenches cut in found materials. His spartan furniture pieces are earmarked beyond their cultural history; his headstone pieces wrestle meaning from engraved texts. Welcome to the Far Far Gallery. Welcome to an original vision of material, fire and passion.. - Peter James Smith, 2025

View individual works.

Read ‘The Braided River’ catalogue essay by Peter James Smith.