Alex Allan has a broad studio practice which takes in myriad of different media and means of production. Several projects spanning multiple art forms run concurrently and help to push each other along. There is a constant processing of materials, many recovered from the streets; items that are often abandoned at the sides of the road, or snuggled amongst the undergrowth waiting to be taken back and included in his playful approach to making work. Using what’s to hand since 1986, Alex’s work acts as a type of real-time filter for our material culture, continually propped up by the basal urban surroundings of his upbringing.