David Thorpe’s collages present a spiritual chic of urban romanticism: inner city buildings rendered desolate and magnificent, are contemplations of the individual vs. the universe. This ‘power-of-one’ conviction is replicated through David Thorpe’s intensive process: each element is painfully stencilled with a penknife, and assembled with mind-boggling accuracy. Through his process, David Thorpe exemplifies the ability to create beauty from sheer will; macrocosms snipped from craft paper, the bedazzling sight of council flats on a still night. In a car passing over the bridge, David Thorpe silhouettes a tiny group of partying teenagers: a tribute to dandyism and eternal youth.