Joshua Phillips

Lattice is an exhibition by artists Ramona Güntert and Joshua Phillips, bringing together a selection of works that embody a “patterned materiality” - a visual language shaped by form and force, time and matter. The title suggests an interplay between structure and ornament—the weaving of elements to create something that can be looked through and grown around, existing somewhere between the aesthetic and the functional.

As a verb, the term lattice may be thought of as a visual practice - gathering elements and bringing them together in order to form a cohesive pattern. Both artists reveal objects and artifacts of this nature, from analogue and digital photography, to assemblage of both found and made materials.

Phillips presents a series of works centred on a single motif: the crumbling structure of an English farmhouse. He uses this image of ruin as a metaphor to unpack broader concerns around national myths and the cultural sentiment contained in aesthetic principles like those of the Picturesque. An untidy sprawl of objects, reminiscent of a dilapidated building, through their visual treatment, become something nascent - material taking form, building becoming architecture.