Wee presents a series of public artworks conceived and delivered by Nicola Atkinson [NADFLY], Stevie Jackson [Belle & Sebastian] and Lee Ivett [Baxendale]
This exhibition explores themes of sustainability inspired by images, text and objects specific to Scotland and then presented through a variety of media created, found, borrowed and purchased within the context of Los Angeles.
The word “Wee” is our starting point to explore what it means to work in a small way and what it means to work as part of a collective, as “we.”
Of particular importance is the idea of the “given” and the “extra” – at what point does “given” become “extra.” Objects and ideas can all exist at a basic level that ensure sustenance, but at what point does the possibility arise to go beyond that which is a giv and create something that will be desired by, have meaning and have a value relevant to a wider audience.
All the pieces within this exhibition communicate the possibility of the extra through the manipulation of an object that is considered by the artists to be a given. Within this perceived impossibility there is a relationship of scale with a longing of past functional use.
Urban:Sanctuary Gallery 2026 E. 1st, Boyle Heights
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