scott king

Scott King: De-Regeneration

Event Date: 
04/10/2014 - 10:00am to 22/11/2014 - 3:30pm
Venue: 
Spacex Gallery, Preston Street, Exeter

In this solo exhibition at Spacex, Scott King presents a body of recent work that deals almost exclusively with notions of public art and its role within urban regeneration.

Presented as a series of prints, Anish and Antony Take Afghanistan, 2014, employs humour to explore the astonishing power of public art that has long been recognised by both western governments and ‘big business’ alike. With increasingly large public sculptures being commissioned to ‘regenerate’ ailing post-industrial areas, King asks, ‘what if this strategy were employed in an attempt to turn around the...