Concrete Playground

Travel to the empty part of the map marked, "There be monsters here" and you might find some of the “strange and wonderful life and adventures” artist Alli Sebastian Wolf has injected.

Obsessed with C-grade sci-fis, cartoons and scrapheap theatre, Alli’s approach is definitely on the side of cultural renegade, citing, “Drunk teenagers stealing the expensive booze from their folks’ liquor cabinet” as her inspirational modus operandi, as well as, somewhat startlingly, likening herself to a butcher who can hack up a cow and make good use of the bits.

What she has certainly made use of is lots of tin-foil, cardboard and objects with a leaning for telepathy, “A lampshade absolutely insisting it’s a time warp or the packing box that has to be a castle.” This is a world of pure play but Alli is careful to make clear that, “Poetry and critique of the world can sneak under the radar like that.”

Groucho Marx’s nipples are in evidence, alongside references to Quixote and the Bayeux Tapestry in a 15m frieze that visually represents all the landscapes in Alli’s head – a love song to fantasy.