From Packaging to Art
Upcycle is a new exhibition which reveals what happens when eight artists take ordinary packaging and elevate it. Using plenty of wit and a dash of deception, the artists demonstrate how something utterly mundane can be completely transformed through upcycling.
With implications for recycling, consumerism, sustainability and other existential matters, this playful show is hosted by Soho Housing Association’s Great Pulteney Street Gallery and curated by Paul Carey-Kent.
It will include Morandi-style cartons and jars, crushed Coca Cola cans, and work that seems to be what it should have been wrapped in. And several works ask the question, are we seeing packaging repurposed, or something else pretending to be packaging?
Launched in summer 2024, GPS Gallery is owned by Soho Housing Association who believe it is important for hospitality and creative workers to live near their place of work, to maintain the character of Soho and its origins as a living, working village.
Like many buildings in Soho, 36 Great Pulteney Street was formerly home to a diverse range of makers, who typically both lived and worked in their premises. It remains a mixed-use building, with four affordable homes above the ground and lower ground exhibition spaces which make up the gallery.
Gavin Turk | Leo Fitzmaurice | Marisa Culatto | Russell Herron | Sam Hodge
Sarah Pettitt | Shane Bradford | Susan Collis.
GPS Gallery, 36 Great Pulteney Street, London, W1F 9NS from 19 February – 1 March.
Open Monday – Saturday | 12-6pm | gpsgallery.co.uk | @gpsgallerysoho
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Admission free
