EVERYTHING MUST GO
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An exhibition of work created at Neo: Bolton, for the solo exhibition EVERYTHING MUST GO exploring the historic textile heritage of the area and its lasting legacy on the landscape today.
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Knocker Upper Sticks
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Cast porcelain and found objects.
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A knocker-upper was a profession in the UK that started during and lasted well into the Industrial Revolution. At a time when alarm clocks weren't readily available or reliable, it was the job of a knocker-upper to wake people for work by tapping on their windows with a long stick. The sticks were hand-made, using common, cheap household materials, each a unique assemblage.
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No such sticks could be found archives across the north west.
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This series was created in response to five people's personal recollections of them.
Exhibited in the solo exhibition 'Everything must go' Neo: Gallery, Bolton 2016
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With thanks to them, Neo: Gallery and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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Dark Steps
A Clog dance interpreting the financial trading data of BREXITThe Seven Stars and Sword Step DancersWigan 2016.​
In June 2016, after the UK Referendum result to leave the EU was announced, Freya Gabie worked with a UK forex trader, Simon Wood, to convert the first three minutes of trading data after the result, into cadent rhythm.
Using this soundtrack, Freya collaborated with The Seven Stars and Sword Step Dancers to create a unique clog dance in response.​​
With huge thanks to the incredible Seven Stars and Swords Step Dancers and Simon Wood ​With thanks to the National Lottery Heritage fund and Neo: Bolton
Permanent Fade
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Drawing of comets sighted from the 18th and 19th centuries; before later technological advances made it possible to see them through a telescope, they were thought to be harbingers of doom.
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Photo-etchings continuously etched to black.
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Exhibited at the solo exhibition 'Everything must go' at Neo: Gallery, Bolton, 2016
With thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Denis Whiteread at Neo: Prntmakers.
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Held in a private collection
Never Bet More Than You Can Afford To Lose
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Post industrial waste (carpets gathered from unused office spaces around Bolton, reconstituted into textile pulp and sold as plastic) formed into a structure built to performatively collapse throughout a six week exhibition.
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Created for the solo exhibition 'EVERYTHING MUST GO' at Neo: Gallery, Bolton 2016
Photography by Rado Daskalov 2016
EVERYTHING MUST GO
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Temporary billboard installed in Bolton, November and December 2016, as an off-site part of the exhibition 'Everything Must Go'
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With thanks to Neo: Gallery and the National Lottery Heritage Fund
