THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to participate in the 2025 edition of Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK), featuring a body of sculptures and paintings by British artists Steve Harrison and Joseph Jones.

The duo exhibition Steve Harrison and Joseph Jones constructs a poetic dialogue on existence and disappearance. Through three-dimensional forms and two-dimensional paintings respectively, the two artists explore the subtle tensions between nature and artifice, transience and eternity.

Harrison's sunflower series, crafted in ceramic and bronze, unfolds its philosophy through the duality of materials. Bronze points toward the aspiration for eternity, while ceramic faithfully carries the ephemeral nature of flowers. The artist's inquiry into whether a withered sunflower is any less beautiful becomes a profound reflection on our contemporary relationship with nature. His shell case piece pushes this opposition further—a metal container bearing the memory of death now sustains the brief life of a wildflower, becoming a vessel of paradox where violence and tenderness coexist.

Jones' paintings, using cats and flowers as narratives, weave a duet of memory and archetype. Though originating from thousands of photographic archives, his works shed specific biography during the process of repainting, becoming composite constructions that drift between reality and dream. The artist's observations of the coexistence of nature and the urban—flowers spilling from balconies, cats flickering past street corners—infuse his works with a dialectic of fragility and resilience, stillness and movement.

The most touching synergy in the exhibition lies in the artists' philosophical treatment of "surface." Harrison preserves the material's primal memory through glaze and patina, while Jones allows the linen weave to reemerge on the canvas through repeated sanding - this reverence for materiality transforms their creations into vessels of time.

THE SHOPHOUSE 欣然參展2025年Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK)，呈獻英國藝術家史蒂夫·哈里森（Steve Harrison）及約瑟夫·瓊斯（Joseph Jones）的雕塑及繪畫作品。

史蒂夫·哈里森與約瑟夫·瓊斯的雙人展，構築了一場關於存在與消逝的詩意對話。兩位藝術家分別透過立體造形與平面繪畫，探討自然與人造、短暫與永恆之間的微妙張力。

哈里森的向日葵系列以陶瓷與青銅為載體，在材質的雙重性中展開哲思。青銅指向永恆的意象，陶瓷卻忠實承載著花朵易逝的本質。藝術家對「枯敗向日葵是否依然美麗」的詰問，恰是對當代自然關係的深刻反思。其彈殼作品更將這種對立推至極致——承載死亡記憶的金屬容器，此刻卻維繫著野花的短暫生命，成為暴力與溫柔並存的悖論載體。

瓊斯的繪畫則以貓與花卉為主題，編織記憶與原型的雙重奏。其創作源自數千張攝影檔案，卻在重繪過程中褪去具體傳記，成為遊走於現實與夢境之間的複合構築。藝術家觀察到自然與都市共生的景象——從陽台傾瀉而出的花朵、在街角倏忽閃現的貓影——這些體驗使其作品蘊含著脆弱與韌性、靜止與流動的辯證。

展覽中最動人的默契，在於兩位藝術家對「表面」的哲學性處理。哈里森在釉色與銅綠間保留材質的原始記憶，瓊斯則通過反復打磨讓亞麻紋理在畫布上重新浮現。這種對物質性的尊重，使他們的創作成為時間的載體。