THE WAITING ROOM BY GABRIEL COLE

The waiting room is a new body of work by Gabriel Cole that combines sculpture, painting, sound and film to depict the emptiness of desolate objects in space. The project was initially inspired by the liminal circumstance of hard rubbish, or displaced furniture in the street.

These bare objects, positioned in a state of waiting, was the basis of the tone of the work. Finding inspiration in the accidental sculptural quality of chairs in communal space, Gabriel has created works that embody a sense of purpose but also a sense of being forgotten, lost or lacking their original function.

Through texture, the artworks embody a sense of placement and design synominous with the artist’s approach to visual communication of graphic and branded identity. The use of stars, typeface and considered layout flow through the works and suggest a graphic approach to making. These graphic entities are then broken, in order to explore a new contextualisation within the accidental qualities of forgotten objects.

The Waiting Room runs from 13th July to 17th August