Art will eat itself

The final exhibition to take place at the Arts Gallery, before the building is demolished for Crossrail

10 December 2009 – the demolition of the Arts Gallery 2010

At: 65 Davies Street, W1K 5DA.

Open: Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 11am – 4pm.

Nearest Tube: Bond Street.

Admission: free.

The final exhibition to take place at the Arts Gallery, before the building is demolished for Crossrail, is set to be fittingly epic. We are proud to present the largest and most ambitious work yet by acclaimed artist Mike Ballard; from 10 December the Arts Gallery will become The All of Everything, a specially commissioned work which will turn the entire gallery space into an all-encompassing installation covering floors, walls and ceilings featuring the artist’s flamboyant vision of art history.

Transporting the viewer on a supersonic journey through a galaxy of hypermodern and prehistoric art, The All of Everything races back and projects forward through art history, fusing, referencing and sampling at blistering speed. Merging painted floors and walls and a baroque collage ceiling into one gargantuan installation, the gallery will ultimately become one immersive artwork into which the viewer is absorbed. Negotiating the space, the observer becomes a participant in the installation’s embodiment of the eternal loop of life and regeneration; ciphers of the human endeavour to gain and preserve in a continuous trajectory of creation and accumulation.

Photo: Mike Ballard's The All of Everything show in the Arts Gallery. Photo by Alex Simmons

Limited edition prints and video works are available to purchase exclusively from the Arts Gallery. Please contact  m.cohan@arts.ac.uk for more information and download the price list (PDF - 701 KB).

Together with the Arts Gallery, the Artist would like to thank Maxine Leslau, Leigh Message and Richard Greer for their gracious support and encouragement and all the volunteers who helped bring the show to life

Ballard graduated from Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art in 2007. He has recently exhibited at Maddox Arts and the Louise Blouin Institute. Ballard’s work appears in collections including the Richard Greer Collection, LesMes, Espace Uhoda, Belgium and University of the Arts London Art Collection.

Read more - Download the press release (PDF - 48 KB)