The exhibition both speaks to and simultaneously subverts the homeliness of the Slash Arts Gallery Houseboat. The title of the exhibition alludes to the accumulated clutter ofeveryday life, highlighting the domestic nature of this gallery-cum-living space. It almost goes without saying that We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat also mischievously references that famous quote in the 1975 film Jaws, as we near its 50 year anniversary, revelling in the buoyant nature of the exhibition space.

Knight, McLean and Bradwell invite you to truly rummage through this show, where work is hidden in plain sight: blurring the line between the detritus of daily life and fine art. Through the anthropomorphism of household objects a liminal space will be created existing in the middle of the solidity of everyday stuff and the unexpected. What is that lurking amid the kilner jars? Who is that woman on the ironing board? Why is that cushion looking at me? Recent graduates of the Slade School of Art’s MFA programme, each artist is concerned with the transformative potential of objects. Knight zooms in on the strangeness of the everyday exposing off-kilter realities from dizzying perspectives.

Whereas McLean uses symbolically rich objects as filters for the viewers’ gaze. Bradwell, meanwhile, assimilates the domestic into the generously grotesque worlds she creates. Animating the boat on opening night and closing afternoon will be musician Ego Beckmann playing on the roof to the backdrop of glut of art objects physically bursting out of the exhibition space.

Sophie Knight is a multidisciplinary artist from California, USA. She studied at the California College of the Arts (2014) and the Slade School of Fine Art (2022). Her work has recently been shown in solo exhibitions at Zevitas Marcus in Los Angeles, CA, Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, MA, as well as group exhibitions at the The Split Gallery London, Royal Academy in London, ASC Gallery in London, the San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, Southern Exposure, CA, the Golden Foundation, NY and Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, CA. She is a co-curator of the RELAY Exhibition Series in Oakland, CA, and a 2019 & 2020 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation awardee.

@sophielourdersknight

Lindsey Jean McLean is an artist currently living and working in London. A recent MFA graduate in Painting from The Slade School of Fine Art. She studied her BA in painting at Glasgow School of Art and the Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing school. McLean’s painting questions the historical representation of femininity and women in painting. McLean uses reoccurring motifs such as feather boas, fans and veils - transformative objects that obscure the gaze within the works. She subverts the historically patriarchal medium of oil paint to dismantle and create a new space to view femininity.

@lindseyjeanmclean

Flora Bradwell is a London based artist whose generously grotesque work encompasses painting, sculpure, video and performance. Flora completed her MFA in Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021, receiving the The Felix Slade Award, The Jeanne Szego Prize and Sarabande Emerging Artist Bursary. Flora's work has been exhibited, screened and performed internationally including at the Saatchi Gallery, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts and the ICA in London, at SIM Gallery in Reykjavik, Future DMND, LA and at the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck. Flora also curates art events and is currently Co-Director of Bad Art. @florabradwellart

Flip Beckmann serves DIY post punk soul and a cheap chic aesthetic. 50% talent and 100% delusion.

Opening drinks: Spritz (4%) and Premium Soda provided by Something & Nothing. They use the highest quality natural juices, extracts and botanicals to make their delicious drinks, and add quality French Wine for their Spritz.

Private View: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat