Relay presents 7 newly commissioned installations and text works by artists Giles Drayton, Clare Gasson and Bernard G. Mills, writers Yve Lomax, Kate Briggs, Mo White and Angus Carlyle and the UK premiere of 'Swing Set' by Ed Osborn.

This two-part exhibition extends the curatorial frame with simultaneous online broadcasts via http://outlet.finetuned.org and networked screenings to the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight and Farnham Maltings, Surrey.

These new works manifest particular engagements with sound. Each work points towards a singular, subjective preoccupation and its movement into the world. At the same time, something passes between the works – a relay that occurs when they are brought into proximity.

In the first show, Bernard G. Mills’s Title Roll is a cinematic installation that surveys a record collection spanning forty years: a procedure of selection that defies the conventions of indexing. Clare Gasson’s film The Ballad of Albatross Way traverses multiple narratives as it approaches a blind spot: a point at which the end can only be seen after turning the corner.

In the second show, Ed Osborn’s installation Swing Set generates a haunted air, as if the actions of the children who once used them continue to stay in place long after they have departed. Giles Drayton’s sculpture Index explores the division of our lives by tintinnabulant indicators through the construction of a full-scale church bell composed of over 100 sheets of wood.

Curators: Gavin Peacock and Julian Weaver.