‘DETOUR‘
PAUL CARTER
CEDRIC CHRISTIE
BEN INGHAM
PASCAL ROUSSON

BEN INGHAM
Is a London-based artist whose practice is rooted in photography and expanded through a strong conceptual framework. His work explores abstraction as a means of understanding the marks, traces, and residual imprints left by both humanity and the natural world. Drawing on the histories of art and science, Ingham is interested in how systems of observation, shape the way we see and interpret our environment.
His work is held in private and public collections around the world and has appeared in numerous international magazines and he has also directed award winning documentary films.

CEDRIC CHRISTIE

Poem from Harlow
the name cedric christie has taken his place along those of his peers
this implies great deal
it means that his work is known and loved all continents
it means that he like a few changed the path he was suppose to follow

PASCAL ROUSSON
Over the years, much of his work has sought, often ironically, to challenge the ideologies and values embedded in Modernist art. By using popular culture, he revisits the legacies of modernism and art history, and lately he has been increasingly drawn to the themes of decay. This ongoing exploration has recently led him to combine imagery of cars, smoking, and modernism.

There has always been something deeply romantic in the idea of the car a symbol of extreme freedom and danger an ideal now fading in the face of climate collapse. This tension between desire and mortality which echoes for ex through the works of Picabia, in his L’Enfant Carburateur, and Duchamp, with his fascination for gasoline and mechanical imagery as reflections of human passion. Also surfacing in J. G. Ballard’s vision of death and desire intertwined in the violence of the car crash.
The notion of the vanitas or memento mori “remember you must die” resonates strongly here and is partially based on personal events and series of memories.

He see’s a poetic connection between the aesthetics of death and the seductive design of cars: the explosive power of engines, the eroticism of speed, and the allure of destruction.

Recent exhibitions
2026 Small things with big ideas – White conduit Gallery, London
2026 Nostalgia – Vestry street Gallery, London
2025 Depot 25 – Theycometheysittheygo project, Oxford
2025 100/50 – unit1 Gallery Workshop, London
2024 RA summer show – Curated by Cornelia Parker, London
2024 City Glitch – Theycometheysittheygo, London
2024 Drop it – BCMA Gallery, Berlin
2024 Strange Gaze – Cross Lane Project, Kendal
2024 Why paint like that – Coincidence gallery, London
2023 Meditations on crime – GALLERY46, Whitechapel, London
2023 Shot pint Riot – studio 1.1 gallery, London
2023 Paradise Lost – mph project space, Cologne
2019 Check Mate – BCMA Gallery, Berlin
2019 The Fight – Kunstgenerator-Geneva, London
2018 We could be heroes – MPHQ Project Space, Cologne
2018 Auto-destruct – Unit 1 Gallery, London
Founder and Co–curator @theycometheysittheygo Project space, London

PAUL CARTER
Carter’s ongoing interest in the unifying concept that every building is a kind of hotel; the artist’s studio, civic centres, government buildings, our homes, galleries, museums, institutional structures and shopping centres pubs and cafes. These are all constructed spaces for human exchange, employment and shelter, in which we simultaneously exist as both guest and worker.

Working with the notion that all architectures are transitory constructs, acting as anonymous, functional service providers within our daily lives, Carter’s work investigates the role and function of civic structures: the social club, town hall, courtroom, social services, galleries, public convenience, hotel, sauna, social housing and government architectures.

Questioning these physical civic structures, their internal workings and ideologies, Carter explores municipal architecture’s (dys)functionality, (in)convenience, limitations and social intimacy.

Carter has an MA in Sculpture from the Slade School of Art, London
His practice includes sculpture, installation and video.

He has exhibited internationally including major solo exhibitions at
Matts Gallery, London
Southwark Park Galleries, London
They come they sit they go, London; Finch Gallery, London
Lubomirov / Angus Hughes, London
ExeterPhoenix, Exeter
Shift Gallery, London
LOBE, Berlin
Standpoint Gallery, London

Group exhibitions include
Whitechapel Gallery, London|
Fieldgate Gallery, London
David Risley Gallery, London
Mains D’Oeuvres, Paris.

Paul won the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2008-2009 and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award in both 2008 and 2018.
He was shorlisted for the Arts Foundation Award in 2018.

Paul Carter lives and works in London.