27, Gallery Without Walls project three launched at the LCB Depot in Leicester. Featuring the work of Dr Sean Clark, 27 took the GWW brief one step further by distributing one artwork across multiple locations.

Project 03: "27" by award-winning Leicester digital artist, Dr Sean Clark, was premiered at the LCB Depot in Leicester.

The exhibition itself is the completion of a work cycle that started with two works that were part of the Resonance exhibition with Esther Rolinson in Leicester the previous December, then became part of the East Meets West exhibition in Guangzhou, China in April and is now a stand-alone exhibition in its own right.

27 is based around self-organising visual systems. The main building blocks of the piece are groups of three connected grids that grow together by exchanging colours and sorting them according to pre-defined rules. After the grids have been running for a while, Sean captured an image and then combined the images to form larger images. These larger images were then arranged according to additional rules.

The result is a system of patterns-within-patterns where the "parts" make "wholes" that then become parts in larger wholes and so on. In the case of this exhibition, nine locations around Leicester each had three images, which were each composed of three connected grids, which were each composed of 25 colours.

DYNAMIC PATTERNS

Sean’s work is concerned with dynamic patterns or systems of organisation and is inspired by natural processes such as flow and connectedness. His images are generated by computer programs and can run "live" on screens, or exhibited as prints. His first exhibition was in 2000 and since then he has shown work around the world - including in the USA, China, UK & Europe and Australia.

ONE ARTWORK / MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

27 is a single artwork distributed across multiple locations. There are three framed images at each location, each image is composed of a three by three grid of patterns and each pattern is generated by a computer program.

THE LAUNCH

The GWW hub is the LCB Depot, Leicester, and was a great place for the opening night of Project 3. The event was packed with people, amazing street food was served and in the words of Graffio’s new designer, the place was ‘…full of creative souls.’ Perfect.

VENUES

The artwork was distributed across six locations within the City: LCB Depot, The Adult Education Centre, Phoenix, Manhattan 34, Peter’s Pizzeria and The Exchange.