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Andrew Bracey: Mutualist Appropriation Art

25th Nov – 5th Dec 2025

Mutualist Appropriation Art presents nine bodies of work developed through Andrew Bracey’s practice-led PhD, proposing a shift in how appropriation art is understood.

Rather than ‘taking from’ existing artworks, Bracey engages in mutualist approaches that ‘give to’ and ‘work with’ them as active collaborators. Works such as Reflected Self-Portraits, Self-ish Portraits, and Art Treasures of the World embody this ethos through material engagement, speculative thinking, and embodied inquiry. Central to this is making-looking—a studio-born method where meaning is co-produced through tacit knowledge, peripheral attention, and critical enthusing. In Layers of Progress, Hogarth’s engravings are reimagined through layered painting and laser etching. A new wall drawing from Qui Vive deepens its devotional ethos by engaging Fra Angelico’s The Mocking of Christ through sustained, embodied looking. On opening night, Bracey and Annie Morrad present a live Aphantasia performance, inviting audiences into a sensory encounter with visual memory—its presence, distortion, and absence.

  • Date:
    25th Nov – 5th Dec 2025
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  • Location:
    Gallery
  • Running From: 25th November – 5th December 2025
    Opening Times: Monday – Friday 10am – 4pm
    Preview: Opening event Thursday 20th November 5-7pm