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Architecture week 05 / Review - Metro

Funnel Vision - Footprintsinthe snow

There are no lawnmowers, spades or weedkiller housed in Rick Myers' shed. Currently residing at the foot of the escalators in the main entrance to The Mailbox, the shed, entitled Funnel Vision, is instead the venue for his first major exhibition, Footprintsinthesnow.
Myers is known predominantly for his graphic-design work, having amassed a portfolio of some 100 CD and record sleeves. His best-known work includes Doves' The Last Broadcast and covers for Badly Drawn Boy, composer John Cale and trip-hoppers Lamb.

With no obvious venue for his artworks springing to mind, he took the unique step of constructing his own gallery space: a compact portable wooden museum that houses more than 50 items, dispalyed in black boxes and alcoves within the space. There's even a small TV monitor airing a short documentary by film makeer Brian Madden on the artist and the construction of the shed.

It's cute and novel, sure, yet Funnel Vision is a veritable Aladdin's cave featuring scribbles and doodles on paper, smooth paintings of folded paper cut-out figures and complex sculptures in glass and paper. Myeers also revels in a good slogan or statement: 'These posters keep me awake at night' he declares in bold red, and in two screen-prints that seem to relate most closely to this particular collection. 'This machine tells a story' and ' A complex route to a simple view'.
Utterly charming.

David Vincent -  Metro