From the 26th of Feb Umbrella Art Collective will be hosting STATE
How are a piece's material qualities observed, understood and interpreted?
"In every case, there seem to be two sides to materiality. On one side is the raw physicality of the world’s ‘material character’; on the other side is the socially and historically situated agency of human beings who, in appropriating this physicality for their purposes, are alleged to project upon it both design and meaning in the conversion of naturally given raw material into the finished forms of artefacts.”