Description PRIEST is a London based Contemporary pop artist from New Zealand, working across painting and installation. His satirical style contrasts playful and innocent imagery with dark, subversive subject matters. His compositions are bright and colourful, combining nostalgic cartoons, video games and street art in a tongue-in- cheek critique of capitalism and corporate culture. PAPER CUT turns the gallery into a giant children’s art table, scattered with crayons, glue sticks, and bright, fragile creations. Among the mess are an abandoned popsicle-stick house, a life size diorama, macaroni paintings, and pipe-cleaner figures caught mid-gesture. Created by PRIEST, the installation reimagines childhood play as social archaeology, exposing the city’s hidden layers of class, chaos, and imitation. Beneath the colour lies London itself: the housing crisis, youth violence, influencer culture, and the weary humour of modern life. PAPER CUT questions what’s left of art once it grows up, when spontaneity hardens into strategy, and honesty becomes a pose, wondering if the child who first picked up the crayon might have understood it better right from the start.
