Woolff Gallery (Apr 2025)

CURRENT LOCATION: WOOLFF GALLERY, FITZROVIA — EXHIBITION MODE ENGAGED
April 2025

Good news for fans of dysfunctional storage and emotionally unstable art: a fresh run of my miniature Floppy Art-iFacts™ is currently on display at Woolff Gallery, tucked away in London’s charmingly glitchy Fitzrovia.

Each piece begins as a once-hopeful floppy disk, which I proceed to lovingly ruin. The label? Hand-painted, then tactically vandalised. The frame? Custom-built in Wales by a Dave and his small team of craftspeople who, I suspect, once moonlighted as swordsmiths. The end result? A compact sculpture of nostalgic sabotage, sealed under anti-reflective glass to keep your grubby fingerprints at bay.

This marks the debut of a new sculptural direction I’m exploring — still dripping with ‘90s residue, still whispering sweet nothings in MS-DOS, but now even smaller and harder to justify to your accountant.

A quick note on Woolff Gallery: established by Nick Woolff in 2001 (aka Y2K+1), the gallery has long specialised in artists with “unconventional approaches.” Which is a polite way of saying “people who probably talk to dead technology.” So yes, we get along famously.

If you’re near London, swing by and bask in the analog glow. If you’re elsewhere, squint wistfully at a floppy disk and pretend it’s making eye contact.

—Arlo
“Because some files deserve to be framed.”

Woolff Gallery
89 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 4PU, UK
T: +44 (0) 207 631 0551
http://www.woolffgallery.co.uk