John Lake

This highlighted the relationships between the works and the space, as well as tying in to the series theme of the windows and themselves. The work made reference to the gibed, painted and polyurethane walls, ceiling and floors of this space as the packing for the work which itself reflected this relationship. The work was helped also by the beauty and crisp formalism the artist applied to what were essentially waste products.

The artist’s clean, formal work encouraged the precise albeit less formal hanging of the work brought about concepts of buildings as packaging, art as product and viewer as packaged which could have otherwise been lost.