The Mobile Studio is pleased to present Ways of World Making, the first exhibition collaborating work with artist Paul Richards. Timed to coincide with London Architecture week, the exhibition consists of paper structures by The Mobile Studio, and a new sitcom film by Paul Richards and both works link with the social history of Hampstead whilst dealing with notions of ideal living.

The Mobile Studio looks to the work of Sir Basil Spence, architect of the Swiss Cottage Library (1968). The Mobile Studio recreates a selection of objects from Spence’s unrealised projects and presents them as a fictional sales showroom of obsolete apartments, which play with models of ideal living. The layout of the showrooms are taken from the floor plans of Spence’s, now demolished, Queen Elizabeth Towers from the notorious Gorbals area of Glasgow.

Paul Richards recreates an episode of the iconic BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975), in a montage of live action and animated footage. The work highlights narrative structures that exist in daily life by blurring fictional contexts with real locations. The Good Life was based on Hampstead born, John Seymour’s contemporary ideals of Self Sufficiency that encouraged the forsaking of modern methods for a life of subsistence living.

The Mobile Studio (www.TheMobileStudio.co.uk) consists of Matthew Butcher, Max Dewdney and Chee Kit Lai, all graduates from Bartlett School of Architecture. Recent exhibitions include Itchy Park, 2007, BriefCity 2051, Hoxton Gallery, 2006 and The New Jerwood Museum, The Jerwood Space, 2005. Paul Richards graduated from Slade School of Fine art in 2003. Recent exhibitions include The Mothership Collective, South London Gallery, 2006, 2015, Modern Art Oxford, 2005, The Oxford Show, Modern Art Oxford, 2004.

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