A major solo exhibition by pioneering British artist Stephen Willats, presenting a new commission alongside a selection of related works from 2000 to the present day.
The exhibition will chart the development of Willat’s ideas around the perception of familiar daily realities. Willat’s creates what he calls ‘multi-channel data streams’ – and in a range of projects made in collaboration with individuals and communities explores subjectivity in perception and interactivity.
 
Central to the exhibition will be a new commission made in Oxford. Willats has been working with residents of Blackbird Leys and Kennington over a 2-year period, inviting them to record and respond to their local environment through photography, film and text. The resulting collaborative artwork becomes a symbolic world and social model, which can be measured against the participants own actual experiences. This project continues Willat’s previous projects with Modern Art Oxford, and involvement with communities in the City, such as Living within Contained Conditions (1978) and a project centred on Friar’s Wharf Estate in 1989.