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All Lovely Stuff

In the manner of platforms such as Droog, All Lovely Stuff (ALS) challenges the convention of an exhibition deliberately sitting on the threshold between exhibition platform and online retail environment which has evolved since its inception in 2010. Clerkin’s work for ALS plays on the borders between functional artefact and the art object, exemplified by a pop-up-shop in Brick Lane (2011) which exhibited his functional domestic wares for sale beside art artefacts commenting on the functionality of these designed objects. This hybrid practice and outcome has responded to audience and critical commentary over four years and now includes a web site, exhibition and trade fair events.

Clerkin co-founded ALS in 2010 with Ed Ward (Design manager, Habitat and Established & Sons) for which he has designed 21 artefacts in total, using low tech sustainable production methods, where design thinking achieves the value added dimension. Interplay between user, object and function changes the relationship and use value of the object (e.g., ‘Christ it’s Hot’ trivet). The commercial aspect of ALS has reached Europe and North America while ALS artefacts retailed through Heals and Selfridges, featured in global trade exhibitions including the Wuxi International Design Fair, China (2009); 5 Maison et Objet trade fair exhibitions (Paris), The Drawing Machine Exhibition in ‘The Collection’ (Paris), Faire Del Mobile (Milan) and ‘Edit’ by Designjunction (London). In 2013 Clerkin exhibited a solo exhibition at Gallery SO.