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10th July - 9th August 2025

20 Great Chapel Street, W1F 8FW, London

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.

The space has been 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, vintage objects from Unified Goods, apparel by 4FSB and more, the installation plays with tactility, chaos and deliberate ambiguity. Upstairs, a series of fifteen caricature-style busts continues the fiction. Though they appear ceramic from afar, each is constructed using his signature “masking tape” method.

“They don’t really exist anymore, but when I moved to London in the ‘90s there were so many stores that just sold the most particular and niche objects, I’m thinking dodgy looking cassettes, imported comics, sex paraphernalia, strange junk… weirdo haunts attracting like minded souls. Stores that were stuffed floor to ceiling by the shopkeepers who loved being surrounded by their passions.

I wanted ‘Gathering Dust’ to hark back to that – a reflection of my own impulses, a parody of my own output over the past few years as well as showing where I’m heading. The title refers to accumulated projects and old works finally given an opportunity to be seen in the light of day. But also a space which feels “me” - something loose and uninhibited.

‘Gathering Dust’ is a tongue in cheek antithesis of summer show optimism. It’s nihilistic, claustrophobic, cluttered overload - a physical manifestation of my ADHD addled brain!” — Gary Card.

Gallery view