SOME PEOPLE CARRY BREAD IN THEIR POCKETS (exhibition 7.6.-9.6.25)
🚫 DO NOT FEED THE PIGEONS. 🚫 Or you just might start to like them.
Berlin-born artist and reportage illustrator Zoë Matt-Williams (Tageszeitung, Polyester) draws the urban rituals that shape our daily lives. The work explores how we share space with other animals in the city, and what that reveals about our relationship to each other.
SOME PEOPLE CARRY BREAD IN THEIR POCKETS presents 40 drawings from London, Glasgow, and Berlin, centred around a reportage on Scottish pigeon-fancying.
WHERE: Slash Arts Gallery boat, Regent's Canal near Islington Tunnel, N1 9QU. Exact address TBA; register to receive it straight to your inbox.
WHEN: June 7th-9th, 11AM-6PM every day, with a live set by Eve Herzberg at 4PM every day.
The artist: Zoë Matt-Williams (franticsoup.co.uk / @franticsoup ) is an illustrator from Berlin who’s interested in how relationships between animals and humans shape urban space. Her work centers around what these relationships reveal about social isolation, how we treat each other and the world around us, and where we allow softness to creep in.
Zoë illustrates and writes for publications such as Polyester and the newspaper Die Tageszeitung (TAZ), and has collaborated with British Book Award winner Philippe Sands and Turner Prize winner Oscar Murillo on the publication The Mays. She is currently completing an MDes in Illustration at the Glasgow School of Art.
The musician: Eve Herzberg (@eviesgardenparty) is a French-Tunisian singer and writer born in London. She has been performing for the last 6 years, playing mostly Italian and French bossa/jazz in Milan and the UK. Her writing consists of music and literary reviews across publications like The New Age Magazine and a personal newsletter. Eve started out as a Neuroscience student before moving to Italy to study film & music business. She is currently working at Universal Music, playing the Sims, and baking lots of challah.