HAMPSHIRE, UK.-ArtSway will present Goodpasture’s: an exhibition of new artwork from the winner of the Open06 exhibition, Joel Papps. Papps has developed intricate sculptural cutouts from industrial woodboard and a series of paintings on the same medium, which reference medical diagrams, microscopic organisms, anatomy books and medical data readings. It will be on view 28 July - 16 September 2007.

Papps entitled his exhibition Goodpasture’s after Goodpasture’s Syndrome, the illness that caused the artist to spend nearly two months in intensive care in 2000. Since then Papps has explored the medical mapping of the human body and aesthetics of illness, such as microscopic imagery of viruses and diseased tissue. Abstracting these images, Papps works with pared down materials, creating sculptural works that are reminiscent of theatrical stage-sets, casting a delicate play of light and shadows. These intriguing images create a tension caught between the appeal of the objects themselves and the frightening diseases that they portray. Joel Papps graduated from Winchester School of Art in 2005 and is currently based in Hampshire.

The ArtSway annual Open attracts hundreds of entries every year. The winner is given a solo exhibition at ArtSway, as well as professional development advice and marketing from ArtSway staff. The competition gives emerging artists support at a crucial stage in their career. Joel Papps was the winner of ArtSway Open06 for his entry, ‘Dukes C’, a wooden sculptural drawing that referenced a colon in the final stages of bowel cancer.