Space Studios present Neighbourhood Watch: See it. Say it. Distort it. A duo show of work by artists Blake Hart-Wilson and Thomas Davidson.

“Seek and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” — Matthew 7:7

One for the suspicion seekers, the curtain twitchers, the show-off-offenders, voyeuristic vigilantes and exhibitionist seditionists.

Blake Hart-Wilson & Thomas Davidson present. Neighbourhood Watch: See it. Say it. Distort it. A duo show of painting, installation, sculpture, moving image and photography centred around the battleground of suspicion.

A forensic investigation into what happens on our watch; how the act of seeking out and bearing witness to the seemingly unseemly gives rise to tribalistic perception.

For the watchers are a cult like any other, and like any other they are susceptible to group-think, prone to group-see. As they open their curtains, do they close their minds?

The schema of the show is to hood-wink the hood-watch; warping what abounds in our surrounds. Opening the door to the other.

By twisting and inverting the standard sight-lines a different type of scrutiny occurs.

The usual becomes the unusual.

Exhibition
Thursday 15th – Sunday 18th October at SPACE Pop-Up. Open daily 12:00-20:00.

Private View
Thur 15th Oct 18:00 – 22:00

Neighbourhood Watch Group Meeting
Sat 17th Oct 14:00 – 15:30

Address
SPACE Pop-Up, 129-131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH

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Blake Hart-Wilson – Biography
blakehartwilson.com

What’s going on, why, and what are we going to do about it‽

Blake Hart-Wilson deploys derision, naivety and absurdity in search of answers.

Consequence and inconsequence combine.

He makes videos, sculptures, installations, performances, painting and prints.

Born in 1981 in Lancaster, England, he had an itinerant upbringing taking in Northamptonshire, West Yorkshire and the Clyde Estuary in Scotland.

He went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London between 2021 and 2023. His studio is in Bow, East London.

Enquiries
blake@blakehartwilson.com