current show:

  At play 3 @ South Hill Park , Bracknell: RG12 7PA      UK

         16/04/2011 – 19/06/2011

   featuring:

    For At play 3 Hackett has developed 5 new text and image works in relation to the

   exhibition theme:

   In the ‘attributes and games diagram’. The format of a group Q & A session is adapted

   to explore the correlation between particular sports and various given propensities of

   human behaviour.

   In ‘tales of the riverbank’ a fragmented narrative is formed from a mixture of found and

   artist generated dialogue exploring the parallel, tangential, imagined and extrapolated

   thoughts of fictitious characters, caught in a moment of temporal contextual adjacency.

   In ‘Chapter 3’ curious and sinister goings on at a naturist beach are explored via a 

   sequential narrative. With 8500 words printed onto one A0 image the work tests viewer 

   attention span and the function of an artwork to hold attention.

   In ‘Peter’s brother’ peer popularity, social exclusion and the need to belong are examined

   via the format of an absurd retro style party game.

   In ‘What kind of artist are you? ’ The formats of a career development workshop and the

   imagery of the football pitch are intermingled to playfully consider ambition and strategy

   in the quest for artistic position.

    At play 3 also presents the next stage in the epic odyssey of the silicone boys as they

    continue to bravely wend their way around the UK. From 20-21 visual arts centre-

    scunthorpe, SEAS international, RED Gallery Hull, to the University of Brighton Gallery

    and the Erewash Museum in  Ilkeston. They doggedly travel to the outer reaches of the

    M25 in the elusive search for cultural redemption.