Andrew Lim is interested in the devising and following of rules for the creation of structures that respond to the architecture and history of a site. He prefers to use objects that have a history with the site in which they are situated, either in a past usage of the building or as discarded elements found within the building. Lim uses mass produced materials to make sculptural installations by devising a set of rules for their construction, and then following these rules to their natural conclusion.

Born in 1979 Andrew Lim studied art in London before graduating in Fine Art Sculpture from Manchester School of Art, the city in which he is now based. He is a member of the collective 100th Monkey, and has recently exhibited work at the Chinese Art Centre, Manchester, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, and Vrits, Basel, Switzerland.

www.100thmonkey.org.uk

Castlefield Gallery's Curatorial Approach: Trade City

Trade-Off: Andrew Bracey and Andrew Lim

Andrew Bracey and Andrew Lim’s works have been brought together through Castlefield Gallery’s project Trade-Off. Lim has used found objects within the site of the Chips building to compose an elaborate large scale structure that plays with the physics of engineering, while Bracey’s piece uses found objects on which he has painted a variety of birds that will be pinned in small flocks throughout the building. Both artists use trickery, illusion, and delusion as their visual and conceptual punch line. The editorial choices the artists make to enable an object to become less of one thing in order to become more of another thing play an important role within their practice. At what point can an object with a functional purpose be traded-off as an artwork within a gallery space and furthermore, to what extent can an object with an associative meaning migrate to another meaning and set of associations? Through precise manipulation of objects and through conduct of space the work presented will be cunning, playful and humorous.