Sutton Gallery is pleased to announce Jackson Slattery’s inaugural solo exhibition, Props. This series is comprised of meticulously executed watercolours and 3-dimensional works that investigate the fantastic, peculiar and often missed gestures of everyday life.

Slattery’s previous work has explored varied subject matter from the spectacularised personas of celebrities to the poetry of quotidian moments. Sourcing pictures from his own collection, Flickr and Google, this series explores notions of artifice and reality by referencing the fabricated materiality of film props.

One work in the show is a beautifully rendered depiction of a hand pressing a book against a black balloon. The book’s title “Marble and Clay” hints at themes of imitation, authenticity and the malleability of form, each alluded to in this body of work. A diptych depicts a pair of mosaic-tiled figures that could either be street performers or garden statues, their life-like rendering suspends them half-way between animate and inanimate objects. These watercolours exemplify Slattery’s process of creating remarkably haunting and dramatic images from fleeting moments, while revealing the fastidious nature of his labor intensive mark-making technique.