Only Shallow celebrates surface. Each artist selected engages with the potential of materiality—exploring how the surface of the artwork creates both a tactile and tangible relationship with the world. Surface is the final layer of construction and, equally, the first point of contact for the viewer. Whether this top layer serves as a form of concealment or as an entry point to a more complex mechanism, each surface overlays a vast and intricate network of information. The mechanisms that underpin each artwork rely entirely on their relationship to the surface—its application, operation, and association.

Lee Scully were guest curators within the TWO-PLUS-TWO project space — an initiative set up by two Acme Glassyard studio holders - painter Lee Johnson and sculptor Poppy Whatmore.