Please Interact, Do Not Touch is an exhibition showcasing a new series of work produced by London based artists Iola Lawton and Gabe Duarte in a premiering collaboration. The title of the show lends itself to a continuous observation of customary instructions and interactions, compiled and investigated over roughly a period of 3 months.The work branches from drawing and printmaking to photography and moving image, acting as an opportunity to challenge their individual approaches to methods and materials. Currently, both are enjoying merging personal intercultural experiences.

Through a constant push and pull of initiations and responses between the duo, they seek to turn No Format Gallery into a perceivably gestural space, with pieces inviting the audience to question their position in relation to the exhibition works, and the establishment of the everyday moments discovered in their joint practice.

For Please Interact, Do Not Touch, Lawton and Duarte have explored architectural and design forms, using the human figure to create works in response to sound and imagery that can exist independently and in direct correlation to the other.

Iola Lawton is studying Fine Art Drawing at Camberwell and has an intuitive and instinctive approach to her practice, working with various materials and processes. Currently predominantly focusing on photography and moving image, she is interested in the documentation of the world around her and makes work based on observations that occur from being present in a place and in relation to psychogeography. With a background in dance, Iola is increasingly incorporating elements of movement and physicality, exploring durational elements and creating a translation between these mediums and their relationships within a space.

Gabe Duarte is interested in objects that have been missed, lost, presumed dead, and the anonymous actions that have left them wherever and in whichever state they were encountered. Lately, their work has been preoccupied with what separates the monumental from the mundane, and how the material origins of both often get to intersect. Gabe has just graduated from the Fine Art Drawing course at Camberwell College of Arts.

Private View - 4th of July, 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Please Interact, Do Not Touch is open July 5th - July 9th, 11 am - 5:30 pm