Last night was the opening of a new exhibition at House of Vans. It was for a project undertaken by Jethro Haynes who has been a good friend of Slam for a long time. He painted a piece on the basement wall when we first took over Rough Trade and designed shirts like this one back in 2008. Jethro is a great illustrator, with this show he explored another one of his other favourite talents, model making…
He made some incredible pieces for this show, it was like space debris and planets had been plucked from the sky. These geological objects were placed on plinths and surrounded by cosmic photographs. The story behind what is displayed is that it was “Reproduced from data recovered and interpreted from a ‘machine’ of unknown origin trawled up from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean by a commercial fishing vessel in 1971, the data contained within has only now been accessible due to advancements in non-invasive scanning and data recovery technologies.
Based on data recovered from a galactic surveying ‘probe’ which would appear to photograph and 3D scan anomalous objects not dissimilar to our own planet and transmit the subsequent findings to be recreated and studied, the exhibition investigates a possible facet of future explorations into our universe and beyond”. Here is an example of one of the images on display…
Trips were literally made to the bottom of the ocean to gather the information used. This exhibition drew a crowd which could have been stood outside CIDE in 2003, plucked from an Ice Palace show or smiling back at you from a Streetbeers post. It was great to see everyone. We recommend you go to see this show at House Of Vans. This show is running until the 8th February. If you are planning to pass through there this weekend you can enjoy a model making course with Jethro! He will be teaching lucky students how to build their own planet on Saturday 17th from 1:00pm – 6:00pm. Materials are provided so you just have to turn up with your ideas. More information about that HERE.