Welterweight is the first duo show by the Max Radford Gallery.
Showing new bodies of works by Amelia Stevens & Matthew Verdon, Max’s intuitive pairing of the London-based exhibitors is underpinned by a shared explorative & experimental approach to design.

For Amelia Stevens this comes in the form of a novel low seating system, as well as new iterations of her ‘\\\\\\ Without Qualities’ collection. Through investigations into communal seating, its necessities & its alternatives, she pivots away from the dense forms of traditional seating towards essential but comfortable flexible systems.

For Matthew Verdon a new collection of light fittings presents a natural development of his practice. Through explorations of organic & constructed materials, he inspects a new materiality & its uses in the arena of object-making — removing natural substrates from their usual contexts, whilst remaining true to their inherent material character.

Inhabiting the space together, Amelia & Matthew’s works present an unlikely material marriage, yet one with a strong conceptual connection that renders the gallery space as a future laboratory for experiments in the art of human inhabitation.

Welterweight Is the 4th Show in Collaboration between Max Radford Gallery & Eat Work Art, with the gallery revisiting the new space of Hangar Two at Hackney Downs. Having mainly focussed on group exhibitions before Welterweight focuses on the practice of two Exhibitors that the gallery has worked closely with since 2020.

"Its been a pleasure to have worked with the two contributors, it has allowed us to give great time and attention to the development of works as they have been realised over the past 9 months” - Max Radford