It’s a big year for The Aram Gallery – the Covent Garden venue is celebrating its golden anniversary in 2014 (that’s 50 years, singletons), and in keeping with its mission to champion experimental and new design, Aram is ditching the traditional milestone retrospective and focusing firmly on the future with its latest event. The group show Future Stars? introduces seven new talents to watch out for in the coming years. Maria Jeglinska, Lola Lely, Cat Potter, James Shaw, Sophie Thomas, Thor ter Kulve and Kim Thome have been invited to participate specifically for their fresh approach to the making process.
Among the exhibits, Thor ter Kulve’s Parkbench Bubble functions as both a standard piece of furniture when deflated, but when needed a bubble inflates to cocoon a worker in a protected, powered working space. Lola Lely’s side tables were inspired by a collaboration with shoemaker John Lobb, and use shaped wood covered with vibrantly-coloured leather atop framed bases giving an effect reminiscent of leaded stained glass windows. The jewellery of Sophie Thomas takes us in another direction again, working with Corian to introduce human-generates flaws into a normally solid surface architectural material. The work of all seven contributors is well worth a look at the Drury Lane gallery; Future Stars? runs until 25 October.
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Future Stars? at The Aram Gallery, London
Kim Thome
Thor ter Kulve, Parkbench Bubble
James Shaw
Sophie Thomas
Lola Lely
Maria Jeglinska
