Ebony Andrews & Ian C. Taylor

Ebony Andrews and Ian Taylor create works collaboratively -  INSTIGATE : EXCHANGE, they deliberately loosen the control artists usually have over their work. Rather than following a fixed plan, they create the conditions for something to emerge through process and chance.

One of the few rules established at the start of the project concerns completion: a work is only finished when both artists agree it is finished. Equally, works can be declared ‘failures’ by mutual agreement. INSTIGATE : EXCHANGE  raises questions about authorship, value and artistic intention. It also playfully challenges traditional ideas about artistic authority while inviting viewers to reconsider how objects gain significance.

Over the past decade Andrews and Taylor have produced a body of hybrid and experimental works in which their different aesthetic sensibilities sometimes align and sometimes compete. The resulting pieces draw on everything from totems and fetishes to kitsch souvenirs, thrift-store

curiosities and comedic gestures toward ‘high art’. This exhibition marks a Decennium of exchange - an ongoing conversation shaped by chance and the unexpected.