Lateral thinking, a term made popular by the philosopher/inventor Edward de Bono, is one Other-Art Network (OA.N) chose to invoke for 'Lateral Futures' a group exhibition at OTHER SPACE, Goodnestone Park Gardens, Kent. Solving problems through an indirect, creative and sometimes seemingly random approach, the installation of work is on the basis of a provocation first in order to make sense of it afterwards. My contribution was a site responsive wall work, that connected with the anomalies of the site, a converted stable building, with the divisions of stalls, the placement of water troughs, the striations of floor, providing a compositional context for a series of phi cut painted and printed shapes.
Artists in the exhibition: Grace Adam, Amelia Bowles, Owain Caruana-Davies, Craig Fisher, Benjamin Jones, Antoine Langenieux-Villard, Marco Milovanovic, Tom Plumptre, Fearghus Rafterty, Matthew Turner.
