Simon Preston Gallery is delighted to present Jessica Mein's second solo exhibition at the gallery, opening on Sunday 17 November and running until 22 December, 2013. Known for an expansive body of work including animation, video, collage and drawing, the artist continues a physical investigation of salvaged paper billboards from her hometown of São Paulo, Brazil.

The exhibition comprises of a series of wall-based works and two large-scale floor-based wooden constructions. Mein derives many of the collages from obsolete billboard material, methodically choosing areas containing mechanical printing errors, and at times folding or further cropping to reveal minute detail, before transferring the dismantled image onto canvas or hemp. In addition to employing physical processes of scanning, cutting, ripping and masking, Mein delicately and painstakingly unthreads the fabric structure of the surface to reveal the wooden architectural support, reducing the final work to a composition of abstract, geometric forms.