Raging Planet

Angela Bulloch, Roger Hiorns, Oliver Marsden, Hwang Samyong, Bosco Sodi, Keith Tyson

Newport Street Gallery presents Raging Planet, a group exhibition curated by Connor Hirst. This exhibition features works by six artists. Spanning three galleries, the show explores different ways artists engage with the natural world through paintings, sculptures, and installations.

Raging Planet highlights the use of texture and materiality across various works. Roger Hiorns showcases sculptures and paintings encrusted with copper sulphate crystals. His work often uses unconventional materials like industrial objects and organic substances. Bosco Sodi’s large-scale paintings incorporate sawdust, pigment, and other natural materials, creating surfaces that resemble weathered landscapes. Keith Tyson’s works, in which paint and chemicals react on acid-primed aluminium panels, highlight the unpredictable forces of nature.

Hwang Samyong’s iridescent pebbles, made from inlaid mother-of-pearl, are also displayed, alongside Oliver Marsden’s abstract paintings that reflect natural resonances, creating hypnotic effects through patterns of sound and colour. Angela Bulloch’s multimedia works, including her ‘pixel boxes’ and interactive sound installations, investigate the relationship between science, technology, and nature.

The exhibition has been arranged in association with HENI, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Raging Planet is presented alongside The Power and the Glory, an exhibition that pairs historical archive photography from the atomic age with a collection of rare scholars’ rocks.