Today, A-Cold-Wall* opens Echo Forward, a new exhibition featuring rising artists Lucas Dupuy, Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones and Scarlet Griffiths. Rooted in the exploration of material form and physical process – ideas central to the brand’s language – the show is shaped around “acts of noticing.” Through a multi-media approach, the exhibition is flanked by a night of live performances by Silv-O and Temz, as well as a speaker-making workshop, in which guests are taught by designer and DJ David Chen how to craft a custom mono speaker. Marking the exhibition opening, below, each of the three artists featured takes us through their work on show.

Scarlet Griffiths

“My works on show dissect the photographic image, treating the picture itself as material matter for play and dissection. Tiny cropped fragments, viewed through hole-punched paper layered over scratched glossy prints, create shifting moments of exposure that reflect the photographic process, shimmers of light.

The work considers what happens when you look beyond the surface of the material image. Engaging with photographic surfaces, the work examines how images shape-shift depending on the surfaces they inhabit. As our eyes are conditioned to skim-read, the hours of scratching, punching, and sitting encourage a sense of pause when viewing a photograph – a respect for the photograph.”

Lucas Dupuy

“These works start as a series of airbrushed autonomous drawings; Each preliminary sketch is photographed before a thorough digital examination, a prolonged process of zooming, cropping, zooming and cropping that mirrors the patterned pathways of a slowly shrinking fractal.

Dappled sunlight dispersed through the gaps of leafy tree canopy. Dust or smoke suspended in the air, illuminated by a stray sunbeam. Seeking to capture these ethereal, ephemeral moments on the canvas, hanging in the balance of light, shade, hue, tint, tone and texture.”

Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones

“Fellow exists to contain and hold the objects which have come to represent the deceased. A snapshot of a moment in a domestic environment, the charms stand in as an active and intentional representation of a person/s. Fellow outwardly introduces the represented people/s to the viewer – allowing for them to sit with each other.”

Methods of Final Disposition is an ever-growing collage series, instigated by a desire for Post-Life Autonomy, which looks to the ways in which one can dispose of their own body – influenced by research into the rise in cremation as a means of disposition.”

Echo Forward runs until 31st May at 19 D’Arblay Street, W1F 8ED.