Bottom Drawers

12 September – 25 October

Neil Austin, Kieron Baroutchi, Maisie Broadhead, Carl Clerkin, Emel Clerkin, Ben Coode-Adams, Max Frommeld, Gitta Gschwendtner, Martin Hampton, Alex Hellum, Gael Horsfall, Rosie Irvine, Simon Maidment, Michael Marriott, Freddie Robins, Edward Ward

PM Gallery & House and the designer Carl Clerkin present Bottom Drawers, an exhibition of new work and installations by sixteen artists and designers investigating the things with which we choose to live. The new work, on show in both the gallery and manor-house, is inspired by the many disparate objects with which we fill our homes. Each artist explores the capacity of household objects to provoke emotions, memories and feelings and to become imbued with qualities often well beyond any perceived financial value.

Among the work, Gael Horsfall will show Ty-Bihan 2007, a piece of furniture reflecting on her mother’s Breton heritage and taking a cross-section of an old Breton family kitchen; Gitta Gschwendtner will create an installation using hairdryers and a number of upholstered leather snakes, which appear to have swallowed fixtures and fittings in the House and Gallery; and artists Ben Coode-Adams and Freddie Robins will present a collection of objects from their home, which resembles an odd museum full of lovely surprises.

A humorous and poignant exhibition, Bottom Drawers will question the collections of objects, maybe hoarded, purchased or inherited, with which we share our lives.