Split
Jonathan Hughes

7 April – May 31 2025

The bowling alley is a great equaliser, a refuge for the outcast and awkward. Providing all the equipment for different ability levels, you just have to turn up and play. Weekends with dad provide the backdrop for a story of longing and of working class aspiration as American culture collides with British luxury.

The pins here are animated through their uniform, showing a family history of parents and grandparents’ jobs. This is a nod to the familiar graphics on bowling alley screens and creates an impossible scene of a broken family brought together for the first time.

I just really love the bowling alley.