Awesome Rules of Language, 2016 (on the upper half of the wall)

Textbook illustrations painted in acrylic on gallery walls, interventions by adolescents in graphite

A historical guidebook (Teaching the Language, 1960s) on social conduct is updated by the enactment of contemporary teenagers, opening up a conceptual schism between prescriptive codes and traces of lived experience.

Four Moon Phases, 2016 (straight ahead)
Found blackboards, ladle bowls

Four blackboards salvaged from Roman Ondak’s native Slovakia introduce a hint of autobiographical content into the show but equally symbolize the passing down of knowledge from one generation to the next. 

On the floor at the center of the space is the original marquetry floor panel designed for the South London Gallery by Walter Crane for the gallery’s official opening in 1891, and unveiled by Roman Ondak on the occasion of his SLG exhibition.

Photo © Andy Keate