The Persistence of Things
Richie Culver
6 November – 19 December 2026
The Persistence of Things brings together sculpture and photographic works concerned with the ways memory settles into objects and surfaces. Footwear collected by Culver since the 1990s, many exchanged with friends during days and nights out across the North of England, are preserved in resin, carrying the intimacy and intensity of formative years, when finding one another also meant finding a place in the world. Alongside them, personal photographs are stapled to supports before being torn away, leaving fragments, punctures and metal. This process of reductionism approaches abstract painting, allowing attachment and removal to become forms of mark-making. Together, the works consider how experiences remain with us, even as their details fade.
Richie Culver (b. 1979, Withernsea, Yorkshire, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves across painting, sculpture, performance, and sound. Born in Hull and based in London, he studied Painting at the Royal College of Art, graduating with an MA. His practice engages with the poetics of language, materiality, and lived experience, bringing together text, image, gesture, and spatial intervention to explore the ways meaning is accumulated, carried, and transformed. Alongside his visual art practice, he operates as Quiet Husband, a project spanning experimental sound and performance. Recent collaborations have involved artists and musicians including Genesis P-Orridge, Billy Woods, Moor Mother, Blackhaine, and Mark Leckey. Lives and works in London.
Richie Culver (b. 1979, Withernsea, Yorkshire, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves across painting, sculpture, performance, and sound. Born in Hull and based in London, he studied Painting at the Royal College of Art, graduating with an MA. His practice engages with the poetics of language, materiality, and lived experience, bringing together text, image, gesture, and spatial intervention to explore the ways meaning is accumulated, carried, and transformed. Alongside his visual art practice, he operates as Quiet Husband, a project spanning experimental sound and performance. Recent collaborations have involved artists and musicians including Genesis P-Orridge, Billy Woods, Moor Mother, Blackhaine, and Mark Leckey. Lives and works in London.