Sculpture Shock 2014; Subterranean, Patrick Lowry

The Royal British Society of Sculptors is delighted to present Sculpture Shock 2014. Now in its second year, this ground-breaking award encourages surprising site-specific spatial interventions in non-traditional spaces, outside the confines of the white cube. The work of the winning artists appears in one of three environments: subterranean (the unseen world underneath our city), ambulatory (without physical confines in movement through space and time) and historic (an illustrious building in London). For his installation in The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, Lowry explored the murky associations of the subterranean with the underworld, the black market and the execution of forgeries, fakes and counterfeits. Lowry immediately looked beyond the equine associations of The Horse Hospital and became fascinated by its former use as a busy commercial printers. He is creating an installation that will comment on the power structures surrounding the rise of complex and deeply 'subterranean' global financial systems, of which London is a major centre and driving force. The work addresses the powerlessness of the individual to effect change in the face of economic crashes and crises and the increasing dematerialisation of money and the effect of its obsolescence on our physical and aesthetic experience of the world. The Horse Hospital Colonnade, Bloomsbury London WC1N 1JD PV: 14th May 2014, 6:30 - 9:00pm Exhibition runs 15 - 19th May, 12 - 6pm daily For further information, images or to arrange an interview with the artist please contact Helen Bayer, Communications Officer at [email protected] or on 020 7373 8615.