Parkway Picnic: Exhibition
Parkway Picnic is shaped by creative limits, whether working without a studio or teaching with simple tools and techniques. These conditions have led us to work with accessible, often overlooked materials: office stickers, cardboard, MDF, and shipping labels—common objects transformed into a visual vocabulary, at once purposeful and optimistic.
These materials are not built to last, and carry a visual tension that echoes the layered, constructed environments we navigate daily. Cardboard has a surprising range of textures, from smooth surfaces and torn edges to exposed corrugation. The stickers add bold colour, flatness, and graphic contrast.
Our work is approachable, affecting, and intentional: it feels good to make and is nice to look at. Through collage, layering, and arrangement, we highlight the value of ordinary objects and the joy of creation as vital themes within contemporary art, encouraging viewers to pay closer attention to everyday forms.
Jonathan Lloyd West (b. 1990, UK) is a multimedia artist working in painting, drawing, digital media, sound, and sculpture. He earned an MFA in Fine Art (Painting) from the Slade School of Fine Art (2022) and a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Arts (2012). His recent exhibitions include Middlesborough Art Weekend (2025) and Studio Response at the Saatchi Gallery in London (2022-23), and was a finalist for the Contemporary British Painting Prize (2018).
Mew Jirasirikul (b. 1996, Thailand) captures the playful nuances of ordinary objects through a tactile approach to paintings and collages. She obtained an MA in Fine Art (Painting) from the Slade School of Fine Art (2019) and a BA in History of Art from University College London (2017). Exhibitions include EASY PEELER at Sōko, Bangkok (2022), and STAY SAFE at Shivers Only, Chantemanche (2020).
Since 2020, West and Jirasirikul have collaborated on projects like Sticker Pack Pictures and participated in group shows such as BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) at Bangkok City City Gallery (2023) and S P I I I I I N N E L E S S at UCL Art Museum, London (2022). Their teaching experiences have deeply informed their approach to making, shaping focus on accessible materials, process, and play.