Olivia Locher’s Pincushion: danger lurks in the simplest pleasures Another Day on Earth (Pincushion) 2012 © Olivia Locher
Hooked: When want becomes need at London Science Gallery, until 6 January 2019
IN THE spacious atrium of the new London Science Gallery, Lawrence Epps is tweaking the workings of a repurposed coin-pushing arcade game. It is part of the gallery’s first show, Hooked. He hands me one of 10,000 handmade terracotta tokens. Will I be lucky enough to win a gold-leafed token, or maybe one of the ceramic ones stamped with images of an exotic sunset? No.
Reluctantly (I’m hooked…
Article amended on 1 October 2018
We corrected the name of the data artist with whom Redler-Hawes worked
