Juvenile
Derrelle Elijah, Sam Hutchinson & Charlie Tallott
06.06.25 - 28.06.25
Juvenile isn’t just a stage of growth. It’s an attitude: cheeky, curious, reckless, and full of potential. It’s the phase where boundaries are tested, rules are bent, and risk becomes a kind of education. In biology, a juvenile is an immature organism, still forming and unfinished. In society, it’s a label reserved for young offenders, a word that forces complexity into condemnation and turns a mistake into a permanent mark. Once labelled juvenile, the chance to become something else begins to vanish.
For young men especially, that space of becoming is closing fast. They are expected to arrive already shaped, emotionally fluent, socially aware, fully formed. There is little room for uncertainty or softness. Mistakes aren’t part of the process, they’re treated as proof of failure. Vulnerability is misread as weakness. The awkward, volatile work of growing into a self is pushed out of sight, where it either hardens or disappears.
And yet, that middle ground—messy, unstable, unresolved—is where transformation actually happens. Not in arrival, but in flux. Not in certainty, but in friction. This exhibition holds space for what the world often rushes past. It doesn’t treat becoming as a deficiency, instead it is viewed as a charged, volatile force where identity is forged not in spite of uncertainty, but through it.
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Image 1:
Juvenile Exhibition View, 2025
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Juvenile Install View, 2025
Image 3:
Sam Hutchinson, RETAIL VIOLENCE, 2025, Stolen gps tracked acrylic security box, rotted cherry blossom petals, resin, vehicle robbery window glass, grit, 23 x 18 x 5.5 cm
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Sam Hutchinson, PROJECT PEGASUS ACID SCAR, 2025, Stolen gps tracked acrylic security box, brick from crime scene, thieves blood (unknown blood type), artist’s own blood (A-), resin, 23 x 18 x 5.5 cm
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Sam Hutchinson, COMPLEX CAUSES, 2025, Stolen gps tracked acrylic security box, stolen credit card, vehicle robbery window glass, grit, 23 x 18 x 5.5 cm
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Sam Hutchinson, Sussex Police Property Policy 1128/2017 i & ii, 2025, Stolen gps tracked acrylic security box, c-type print featuring official Sussex Police eBay auction images, police evidence bag, 23 x 17.5 x 13.5 cm
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Derrelle Elijah, Decide When To Smile, 2025, Acrylic ink on linen, 25.5 x 25.5 cm
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Derrelle Elijah, Danger, Danger. No Smile, 2025, Acrylic ink on linen, 25.5 x 25.5 cm
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Derrelle Elijah, Learn When To Smile, 2025, Acrylic ink on linen, 25.5 x 25.5 cm
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Charlie Tallott, Sometimes We Were Just Avoiding Being In The House, 2025, Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, aluminium, electroplated copper, ink, lacquer, glue, glass frame, 53 x 43 cm
Charlie Tallott, I’m So in Love With You, 2025, Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, aluminium, electroplated copper, ink, lacquer, glue, glass frame, 53 x 43 cm
Charlie Tallott, I Don’t Think I Can Remember Ever Feeling Like This Before, 2025, Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, aluminium, electroplated copper, ink, lacquer, glue, glass frame, 53 x 43 cm
Charlie Tallott, Cole 2, 2025, Hahnemuhle photo rag paper archival prints with glass frame, 53 x 43 cm
Charlie Tallott, Cole 1, 2025, Hahnemuhle photo rag paper archival prints with glass frame, 53 x 43 cm
Charlie Tallott, Cole 3, 2025, Hahnemuhle photo rag paper archival prints with glass frame, 53 x 43 cm
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