7 November – 1 December 2025
APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Harold Wharf,
Deptford, LondonArtists:
Cash Aspeek, Leila Galloway, Deborah Gardner,
Asaki Kan, Chris Marshall, Laura White.
In the thick of Things was part of the biennial APT SHOTS Programme
APT SHOTS is an initiative of the Gallery and Programming Subcommittee that aims to make
new and innovative use of the Gallery space.
‘Art Povera’ was a pivotal art movement in challenging the previous pre-conceptions of what
sculpture is and how it is made. It could be said its importance laid the foundations much of the
art we see now, and that nothing has equalled its radical and revolutionary ideas and artworks
since. This exhibition takes much inspiration from this radical art movement.
This exhibition will bring together experimental sculpture and installations. Six artists will
produce new, site-specific work, for the gallery at APT. Artworks with the focus on materials
and stuff that challenges and surprises in its physicality and poetic existence. The artists share
a desire for stripping back revealing the feral, the source, the nudge into existence. They work
with materials that are difficult to control, materials that are often awkward to stabilise and
resist being fixed.
