How Green Was My Valley

ACRYLICIZE x WORKING CLASS CREATIES DATABASE: ARTIST RESIDENCY

AN EXHIBITION BY MIYA KOSOWICK AND PHILLIP RHYS OLNEY

Private view - 11.07.24

Exhibition continues to 18.07.24 - Monday - Fridays 9:30am - 5:00pm (closed weekends)

Miya Kosowick and Phillip Rhys Olney’s duo exhibition examines qualities of desire and faith in familiar locales reconsidered. 

In the form of casts and sculptural paintings as artefacts, or stainless steel led religious rites, these artists catechize ideas of relic and authenticity through narrativised ephemera. Ultimately, 'How Green Was My Valley' presents works by two artists who seek to question these traces' authority.

Kosowick’s sculptures, paintings, and mixed media works suggest speculative settings ambiguously suspended in time (past or future). Her sculptures reimagine a pre-existing folly in Sydenham Hill woods, constructed during the Victorian era as a bespoke decorative Roman ruin. Through 3D scanning, printing, and reproducing fragments of the folly in Jesmonite, Kosowick subverts its original intention and expands upon its legacy. 

Olney’s works see labour as a vital component of meaningful art practice, and are drawn from the stainless steel and detritus of the commercial kitchens in which he has worked. In their reproduction and consolidation, these remnants interrogate the cultural role of sites of both traditional and contemporary working industries. Olney's latent attention toward sites of labour casts artistic practice within the workplace as political action, using materials produced 'surplus to need' through employment as indicators of the oft-overlooked yet generative practices within it.

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Acrylicize presents ‘How Green Was My Valley’, a duo exhibition by artists Miya Kosowick & Phillip Rhys Olney following their nine-week residency at The Art House. This exhibition springs from our collaboration with WCCD, where we welcome ten artists to utilise our studio for their respective creative practices throughout 2024.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Acrylicize, 30-36 Pritchard's Road, London, United Kingdom