Luke Cotter and Hollie Wilkins – Tailing Amok

Gallery open Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 5pm

Oriel ar agor Dydd Mercher – Dydd Sadwrn, 11yb – 5yp

Awarded the Elysium Sculpture Residency for 2025–26, artists Luke Cotter (b. 2004) and Hollie Wilkins (b. 2003) present Tailing Amok, an exhibition of new work made from locally sourced waste materials.

From marginal paths, the dismantling of artists’ spaces and the remnants of once-loved objects, the exhibition explores modes of utility, labour and repetition. Through elements of farce, the artists explore the produced as epistemologically habitual, layered and systematic.

Working within a post-industrial landscape shaped by information overload and a sense of decline, their practices reconstruct fragments of the real and desired constructs. From these remnants, they develop a hopeful vision of imperfect socio-ecological relationships and the conditions that shape them.

About the artists

Based in South Wales, Luke Cotter (b.2004) creates sculptures from discarded wood salvaged from Swansea’s streets. Through the reconstruction of familiar objects, his practice investigates the complex relationships between people and tools.

Working with waste as both medium and subject, he employs recognisable forms to navigate how value is assigned, exposing the tensions between what we need and what we desire.

Hollie Wilkins’ (b.2003) foundation of methodology is found within a material-based, intuitive, art practice. Finding conceptual influence in the writings of Haraway (1944-), Murdoch (1919-1999) and Wittgenstein (1889- 1951), she utilises the once loved and well worked to critically consider concepts of cosmic scale and the movement of living knowledge.

Breaking down and examining ontological conceptions of ex/interiority through minutiae, collage and tactility, her work explores the synaptic undertakings taking place across chiral planes. Often seeking to combine elements of the ecological with the social through farce, desire and sediment in order to consider the changing transparencies of value and power.

Social Media Links:

Luke: @celf__luke__cotter__art (instagram)

Hollie: @hyuk.rude (instagram)