Dislocations: Rachel Mortlock & Harry Grundy - New Art Projects

Key Information

Location: 357 City Road, EC1V 1LR
Dates: 24 April 2026 - 6 June 2026
Regular Opening Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 11am-6pm. (By appointment info@newartprojects.com)
Artist/s: Rachel Mortlock, Harry Grundy

Harry Grundy’s work grows out of repeated acts of making, where traces of process remain visible in the finished object. Trained at Kingston School of Art (2016) as an artist, designer and clown, he often works with inherited materials and remnants of workshop life. In A Good Think (2026), tools and materials from maker Steve Wing form the basis for a reconstructed model of Stockport Viaduct and a wider body of work drawn from Wing’s archive. His Sandpaper works (2025–2026) extend this approach through machine processes and reclaimed materials, producing drawings shaped by friction, rhythm and repetition.

Rachel Mortlock’s practice considers how architecture and infrastructure hold memory. Working with cast elements, timber and fragments of built environments, she reconfigures familiar structures into something subtly unsettled. In Bölcske Towers, developed after a residency in rural Hungary, bird hides and watchtowers are reworked through industrial materials and local architectural references, bringing together observation, control and landscape. Across her work, materials are shifted and recombined, revealing how places quietly store and reshape lived experience over time.

Introduction

The exhibition brings together both artists in an exploration of how materials carry, distort, and accumulate meaning through use, memory, and process. Across sculpture and installation, they transform found objects, inherited histories, and industrial and architectural references into works that reveal hidden narratives embedded within an everyday systems, labor, and environments.