Lads Not On Tour is a collaborative exhibition from Harley Roberts, Sam Batley, Sean O’Connell, Sam Horton and Novymir. All artists born and bred in South Yorkshire, hailing from the area’s post-industrial streets and ex-mining communities. The artists work in a diverse range of media which includes painting, photography, film, collage, music and poetry.
The works are a depiction of experiences: important anguish of youth and the search for identity in millennial wastelands of a bygone era. Highlighting the uncomfortable truths of existence.
The exhibition is raw and confrontational, beautifully stitched with friendship, community, family, love and recovery. A form of expression, freeing from the tensional expectancy of masculinity
Exhibited at Barnsley Civic from 9th July - 3rd September 2022.
