The Functionality of Thought with PAPER at AAF Battersea in London opens today

@ Affordable Art Fair

Battersea Park, London

13-16 March 2014

PAPER have been invited to take part in the new PROJECTS section of the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. This new feature of the fair, housed by the main entrance will allow PAPER the opportunity to curate an exclusive exhibition for the event. Alongside a number of gallery artists who have created new work exclusively for this event, the exhibition will feature a number of new artists to PAPER including Rebecca Turner who was recently included in Paper at the Saatchi Gallery, Sharon Leahy-Clark who has previous exhibited at Tate, Shinbo Hiroshi, a Japanese outsider artist, Paraic Leahy, an emerging artist from Ireland who has won numerous award for his paintings and Allan Bech, a Danish artist who creates stunning surreal drawings.

In 1924 Andre Breton wrote the first Manifesto of Surrealism, in which he defines surrealism as: “Pure psychic automatism by means of which one intends to express, either verbally or in writing or in any other manner, the actual functionality of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, free of any aesthetic or moral concern.” For the exhibition The Functionality of Thought we have asked several contemporary artists for whom these ideas remain prevalent in their practice today to further explore ideas of surrealism.

Allan Bech (DK) / Jenny Core / Andrea Cotton / David Hancock / Shinbo Hiroshi (JP) / Paraic Leahy (IE) / Sharon Leahy-Clark / Hayley Lock / Richard Meaghan / Leanne Richardson/ Pär Strömberg (SE) / Rebecca Turner / Graham Watson / Simon Woolham / Hannah Wooll / Dawn Woolley / Rachel Wrigley / Wen Wu