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Interior artworks have become a way to support emerg-
ing artists and non-profit art institutions – and a great
way to start collecting. South London exhibition space
Studio Voltaire has a fundraising shop, which has created
limited edition throws, candleholders and cushions by
the likes of artists Helen Marten, Mai-Thu Perret and
Turner Prize nominee Enrico David. Pablo Bronstein,
who had a double show at Nottingham Contemporary
and Chatsworth House this summer, created a ‘Prison
Tray’ depicting a prison in the artist’s signature fantasy
Georgian drawing style. ‘Food in prison is served on a
tray, and this is an ironic juxtaposition of negative image
and luxury object,’ Pablo says. ‘It is nice to think that the
object can be used casually, and sometimes be thought of
as art – but can sometimes be ignored, and just used.’
Art object label Studio Leigh launched online this sum-
mer with a focus on objects that sit between art and design.
Emerging artists including Nicolas Deshayes, Rhys Coren,
Harry Burden and Cécile B Evans are among a roster
making limited-edition pieces from chandeliers to doors
and radiators. Founder Tayah Leigh Barrs enthuses about
the objects’ living nature: ‘Each of the pieces emerge from
a thread of the artist’s practice and ideas, and with that
they provide both narrative and concept to static objects.’
One of Tayah’s artists described the project to her as a
‘bleeding in of their ideas into our commonplace’. Which
is the crux of the whole attraction. There is nothing
quotidian about artists’ interior objects. These pieces
provide a completely refreshing way of experiencing art
– and transforming your home in the process

ANTICLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT ‘Untitled Side Table 1’ PHOTOGRAPHS: ANDREW JUDD; GRAHAM PEARSON, ALL COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS AND STUDIO VOLTAIRE
and ‘Untitled Side Table 3’ by Nicolas Deshayes, aluminium,
2014. Slipcast, glazed earthenware ‘Prison Tray’ by Pablo
Bronstein. Enrico David’s lambswool blanket. Hand-painted
‘Table Brush’ by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan. Helen
Marten’s lambswool blanket. All from House of Voltaire

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