Daniel Eatock adds one and one together

What does a horse have in common with a sheep? What unites a radiator and a fan? And who knew a watermelon could look so chic in a swimming cap?

Watermelon
Watermelon

Visitors to Daniel Eatock’s upcoming exhibition One + One will face all these questions and more, with the show exploring unexpected connections between seemingly random objects – one and one making two.

Friends
Friends

Fittingly the show itself takes two different strands and juxtaposes them (seamlessly).

Goldfish bowl
Goldfish bowl

So the first element is a series of photographs shot by Eatock, of two objects uniting or clashing. A horse and a sheep are pictured together in Friends while a radiator and a cooling fan lie next to each other in Winter & Summer. All these scenarios, Eatock says, are natural and unposed.

Colour co-ordinated go faster stripe
Colour co-ordinated go faster stripe

For the show’s second strand, Eatock has created a series of installations, where two objects are brought together – the watermelon in the swimming cap, a basketball in a goldfish bowl, a lipstick balancing on a Pritt stick.

Pritt lipstick
Pritt lipstick

Eatock says, ‘I wanted to create scenarios that relied on the viewer to make their own interpretation.’

Winter and summer
Winter and summer

The show will launch with 12 of these works, and new combinations will develop as gallery visitors are encouraged to rearrange a series of found objects to make new combinations.

Rolling pin
Rolling pin

Intriguingly, Eatock says the idea for the One + One project came about two years when he was working a rebrand pitch for BBC2 alongside Devilfish.

Track lighting
Track lighting

Eatock says, ‘We wanted to explore the idea of two in a non-literal way, avoiding the use of logos and numbers.’

Glass umbrella
Glass umbrella

The BBC obviously liked the idea as, having won the pitch, Eatock is now working on research projects for the channel. Watch this space…

Stand
Stand

One + One is at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames KT1 2QJ, from 8 February-31 March.

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  • Paper Acrobat November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Eatocks work is always intellectual and thought provoking. This exhibition looks like it carries on this mantra. I worked with Daniel many years ago and always thought he would inspire.

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