Ivan Smith

The Wireworks Project

The Wireworks Project launch exhibition ‘Place’ explores the location of the new studio, which divides, like a fault line, two opposing environments. On one side you have the historical Johnson & Nephew wireworks established in 1870 and on the other, you have one of Britain’s most beautiful ancient woods. New sculptures and installations have been developed specifically for the exhibition, which respond to the place they find themselves, maybe brokering a new conversation between these two opposing environments.