- 42 Hoxton Square
Scottish born Montgomery has just opened his first solo show at KK Outlet in Hoxton Square. As part of his show (which caught our beady eye, being East London residents an’ all) he has hijacked three advertising billboards around Old Street and adorned them with anti-capitalist poems – a running theme throughout his work as he tries to capture an audience’s attention in arresting and unexpected ways. He has in the past put words on the sides of trucks in Istanbul and on fire in the streets of Paris.
His poems have been described as “somewhere between Jenny Holzer (an American conceptual artist who projected words onto buildings) and T.S. Eliot” and are rather powerful – the type that make you stop and stare as they appear to shout at passers-by with their stark white lettering set against a black background – not very conducive to pavement traffic flow (we’d imagine).
Montgomery has also transformed the facade of the KK Outlet gallery – another visual feast for the eyes – with his ‘Recycled Sunlight Series’, a series of poems written in light, which are solar powered and respond to the weather.
Inside the gallery, Montgomery has exhibited a range of drawings and watercolours – a little tamer than the billboards on the surrounding streets, but striking nonetheless.
The exhibition also marks the London launch for his book THE FIRE OF EACH OTHER, which documents his interventions across the streets of London and Europe over the last two years.
‘It Turned Out This Way Cos You Dreamed It This Way’ is on until 23 February
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