The Communication Group plc is pleased to announce its appointment by emerging contemporary artist Ollie White to handle the public relations campaign around his upcoming inaugural solo exhibition, Something Borrowed, showing at Shoreditch’s Haricot Gallery from Friday 05 to Saturday 27 September.
The exhibition will feature works which explore the quiet, psychological space between object and meaning through the visual motif of shoes in boxes. Featuring 10 carefully curated works including The Party, The After Party, Soirée, and Mirage, the exhibition seeks to convey a layered investigation into themes of containment, memory, intimacy, and identity, all of which are explored through the seemingly simple and domestic motif of the shoe.
Through Ollie’s work, he encourages the viewer to see the boxed shoes as more than just artefacts, inspiring them to explore the ways in which an object can begin to act like a body, and how the shoes can act as characters, people, or gestures in a scene. Through the portrayal of the shoes in a box, Ollie creates anthropomorphic tension, showing the box as not just a container for an inanimate object, but as a room or a frame for a living, breathing scene.
Ollie White is a British painter who has exhibited in London, Milan, and Shanghai, with his Red Shoes in Box having been selected for the prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2024. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and graduated from the Master of Arts, Painting course in 2024, following time spent studying for his BA Fine Art degree at Goldsmiths, University of London.
The Communication Group plc is handling all media relations around the upcoming exhibition, as well as engaging with a curated list of galleries, curators, and collectors to introduce them to Ollie’s work with a view to securing future exhibition opportunities.
