The Three Day Week - Tom Godfrey
Godfrey’s work manifests itself in a range of media including sculpture, photography, video and installation. Taking as a starting point a found image, object or experience, works are often developed through the administration of a physical adjustment, a combination with a process or an amalgamation with other objects and materials. Resultant works are often reductive in nature, maintaining a commitment to the initial subject with often only the most minimal intervention being made to make the viewer question its status as an artwork.
Previous examples of work include the self explanatory Photograms of Sunglasses 2008; the documentation photograph turned artwork in itself Bad Painted Ceiling 2009; Hypotenuse 2009 which constitutes of a straightened crowbar leaning against a wall and Architecture of Resistance 2009, an ongoing series of shutters built from birch ply and brass hinges that are custom built around gallery lighting systems.
The exhibition title is taken from the Conservative strategy of 1974 to conserve energy usage by restricting industries to only operating for three days a week. The intention is to draw parallels between this tactic and the three day week opening hours of Castle & Elephant. Wider implications of this title relate to the context of the gallery in a shop unit, surrounded by empty and redundant commercial lettings.
A specially commissioned interview held between Godfrey and London based artist Richard Paul will be available from the gallery.
Born 1981 and lives and works in Nottingham. Received BA (hons) Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Recent exhibitions include Publish and Be Damned, London (with Marbled Reams); Lemonade Radio, De Montford Hall Leicester; Distance, APT Gallery, London; The Parallax View, Airspace, Stoke on Trent. Forthcoming exhibitions include Indoor Life, Walden Affairs, The Hague, Holland. Curated projects include Marbled Reams , Keep Floors and Passages Clear ,and Moot (co-director), Nottingham - www.keepfloorsandpassagesclear.com - www.marbledreams.com - www.mootgallery.org
Gallery open Thursday - Saturday 12pm - 6pm
October 23rd - November 22nd
Preview Friday 23rd October 6-9pm
Castle & Elephant, Unit 11, City Arcade, Coventry, CV1 3HX
