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](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/505_watermelon.jpg)
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](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/002.friends.jpg)
Fittingly the show itself takes two different strands and juxtaposes them (seamlessly).
![Goldfish bowl](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/512_goldfish-bowl-basketball.jpg)
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](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/057.colour_co-ordinated_go_faster_clamp_stripe.jpg)
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](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/504_prittlipstick.jpg)
Eatock says, ‘I wanted to create scenarios that relied on the viewer to make their own interpretation.’
![Winter and summer](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/WinterSummer.jpg)
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](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/510_rolling-pin.jpg)
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](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/085.track_.lighting.jpg)
Eatock says, ‘We wanted to explore the idea of two in a non-literal way, avoiding the use of logos and numbers.’
![Glass umbrella](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/519_glass-and-umbrella.jpg)
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](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/093.stand_.jpg)
One + One is at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames KT1 2QJ, from 8 February-31 March.
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.