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GATHERING DUST EXHIBITION AT PLASTER HQ

10th July- 9th August

20 Great Chapel Street

This summer, Plaster invited artist and set designer Gary Card to take over its Soho gallery for an immersive installation and retail intervention - part sculptural playground, part chaotic junk shop. ‘Gathering Dust’ marks the first in a new series of artist-led transformations at the Plaster Store, where the line between artwork, retail and experience is deliberately blurred.

The space will be completely rebuilt in Card’s visual language – tactile, immersive, and a little bit unhinged. Downstairs becomes a fantastical version of his studio: part artist’s workshop, part old-world curiosity shop. Layered with archival and new works, plus vintage objects sourced from Card’s network and personal collection including the likes of Unified Goods, 4FSB and more, the installation plays with tactility, chaos and deliberate ambiguity. Nothing is quite what it seems. Upstairs, a series of twelve caricature-style busts continues the fiction – exploring Card’s fascination with figurative forms and lowbrow culture. Though they appear ceramic from afar, each is constructed using his signature “masking tape” method, a technique that has recurred across his fine art and commercial work.

Alongside the installation, visitors can shop a limited run of reworked vintage T-shirts, hand-printed cardigans, cast pendants, and one-off trinkets from London’s second-hand circuit. Think charity shop energy meets high-concept print studio – nothing pristine, everything intentional.

Selected Works