Studio's Last Exhibition Captures the Area’s Transformation
'The Time is Now' looks at Brentford's shifting skyline
An image from the demolition of the Heidelberg offices by Mr Mr Pearce. Picture: Instagram
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May 9, 2025
The final open studio at Lôft on Catherine Wheel Road includes cyanotypes, photographs and paintings that aim to capture a neighbourhood on the brink of transformation.
‘The Time is Now’ is a group exhibition at that brings together three artists whose work all deals with the shifting skyline of Brentford. Opening Friday 23 May from 6-9pm and continuing on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5pm, the free show seeks to capture a moment of change in one of London’s most rapidly redeveloping areas.
Mr Mr Pearce combines iPhone snapshots with 19th century cyanotype chemistry, producing ‘blueprints’ that catches the destruction that takes place before construction can happen.
Pat Meagher began photographing Brentford during lockdown walks, documenting the hoardings, canal life, classic car workshops and the tight knit community that pulses beneath the cranes.
Vicki Cooke approaches the shifting vista with a painter’s eye, in a bid to grant permanence to views that exist so fleetingly that they will never stay in the folk memory of a place.
Together, these paintings, photographs and cyanotypes invite viewers to consider what is lost, what endures and how art can anchor the memory of a changing town.
The exhibition space itself is part of this change – after many years as artist studios, it now succumbs to the same development documented in these art works and this will be its final artistic statement.
The Lôft is at Catherine Wheel Road, Brentford (TW8 8BD).
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