The Woolff Gallery has specialised in 3-dimensional artworks for a number of years, we are consistently drawn to artworks created using unusual mediums or techniques. Last year we held our inaugural ‘Ffound’ exhibition where we presented a selection of incredible works of art made from found objects and re-purposed materials. Due to the success and positive reactions towards ‘Ffound’ 2013, we have made the decision to present this exhibition again this year… Welcome to ‘Ffound’ 2014.

Since ‘Ffound’ 2013 the world has witnessed a number of both technological and mechanical advances, thus rendering many objects and tools that we previously found satisfactory and useful, now redundant. The fall-out from these developments means that the planet struggles to process more and more waste, pollution and debris in order to sustain demand, development and disposal.

“Technology and objects change so fast in this world, for example initially everyone had 8-track tapes, then everyone had cassette tapes, then CD’s, then it goes to digital & what do we do with all of those things?” Zac Freeman

Whilst we are in no way anti-progress, we do find it exciting & encouraging when we discover artists and designers who are able to incorporate or re-process the things many people see as ‘rubbish’ into amazing works of art. We are also fully aware that whilst the effect that this exhibition has on a global scale is a drop in the ocean, there is an element of satisfaction to know that the consumption of the worlds natural resources, and waste production have been ever-so slightly suspended through the production of these (mostly) re-purposed object and re-cycled material artworks.

In almost all cases the artworks chosen for this exhibition have taken months or even years to create, and the act of collecting and finding the materials has become a lifelong obsession for the artists. When speaking to many of the artists selected for the ‘Ffound’ exhibition one realises the focus and devotion that they each hold towards their work, the act of finding, processing and selecting the materials and objects that they use is often as satisfying and exciting to them as completing the work itself.