Jack Greeley-Ward (b.1989) graduated from London College of Communication in 2013 and now lives and works in London. His practice blends drawing, collage and animation. By withdrawing or altering a subject's implicit context, he plays with audiences' expectations of an object, story, place or character's identity to infer new meanings. Interested in creation myths and darker themes, Jack Greeley-Ward's work introduces a new perspective for the audience to consider, to make the absurdity of our own reality all the more clear.

Andrew Ford (b.1990) is a British born artist working across the mediums of print, sculpture, electronic media and performance. His work reflects on cultural heritage and myth, often taking a critical view with the aim of challenging problematic value systems and power dynamics. Drawing from a background in engineering and design, Ford uses his work as a problem solving apparatus and a conversational framework in which cross cultural dialogues can be established.

Strange Attractor engulfed our Soho space on for an evening of performance art which will engulf our Soho space on Thursday 26th September 2019. ‘Strange Attractor’ by Andrew Ford and Jack Greeley-Ward is an immersive performance that dramatises the urgency of human intervention in climate change. This collaborative work frames the current climate emergency not as a set of bifurcations; civilisation and nature, the anthroposcene and the environment; in which our species is tasked to resolve, but as a singular, expansive “hyperobject”, a mesh in which humanity is an active vector and an agent of change. Through an ecomimetic séance, the gallery is transformed by means of light and sound into a transcendental darkroom. A rift is opened and spectators are invited to use their cellular devices to call forth a soundscape of shared memories and future ghosts. Centred in the gallery a medium resonates with the sonic torrent, filling a photographic plate with grains of sand, shifting them, creating openings and closing others off. Searching for clues within the noise, our past, present and future collide on the surface of the print bringing received ideas of agency and destiny into question. This is the artists’ second exhibition with the gallery.

Jack Greeley-Ward and Andrew Ford’s work The World Shadow was part of ‘Desire & Menace: Ritual in Contemporary Performance Art’ 14 July 2018. Their performance plays with the rules of these engagements and invites the hierarchy of dominance to become slippery. A live improvised musical performance is immersed amongst projections of animated abstract forms. Greeley-Ward’s playful and detailed approach to the moving image illuminates the space; bold brush strokes, fast paced frames and exuberant collaged imagery flicker across the gallery walls. The performers, guided by Ford’s conceptual framework, start out using the shapes and forms of the animation to inform their performance. As the performance develops the music takes on a life of it’s own and it becomes unclear whether the music is supporting the film or vice versa.

Photography by Chico Dall'Inha

installation views

strange attractor

the world Shadow