We Also Deserve To Live

Minho Kwon has been the recipient of many awards including the JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE - STUDENT PRIZE and the V&A ILLUSTRATION AWARDS - STUDENT PROZE. Kwon is a storyteller and an image-maker. His densely multifaceted drawings command your attention his specialness as an artist is his ability to fuse industrialised South Korea and its political economic history through the expressive power of drawing. The result is potent, brooding and dreamlike; dark blueprints for a dystopic past.

Kwon's colossal drawings at first seem incomplete; architectonic lines have been drawn and rendered with an obsessive attentiveness to detail, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of his materials layers of pencil, graphite and charcoal. "We Also Deserve To Live" has transformed The Foundry Gallery into a test-bed for Kwon's vast creations. Views that cannot be found in one drawing can be found in another alowing us the space to construct our own story.

The Foundry Gallery showcases work found and forged between art and architecture and its distinct relationship with Le Lay Architects who reside downstairs. The Foundry Gallery is the brainchild of Jonathan Goode and Jason Slocombe of Le Lay Architects and run by Gallery Director Elizabeth Goode.

The Foundry Gallery was begun as a venue to investigate and communicate the linkages between art and architecture. Le Lay Architects supports the gallery by funding a program of exhibitions showcasing selected artists. The work looks at architecture through the eyes of the artist and allows for a depth of exploration that is not normally available in built projects. The gallery forms the foundation of the practices own research into how architectural ideas are conceived and how people engage with buildings and structures.