Many of Agora Gallery’s talented artists use found objects in their work – things that they come across, are struck by, keep and set by. They might be manmade, intended for a particular purpose or job, or they might be part of the natural world. These objects may wait some time – in a shoebox, on a shelf – until the artist is ready to use them, or until the right combination of objects come together to provide the necessary inspiration. Then they appear as part of a work of art; in collages, like those of Hidekazu Ishikawa, or to complement the main work in the way that Apolo Anton Arauz uses objects found on the sites he photographs to bring an extra level of meaning to the photographs themselves. Samantha Churchill, who presented some of her most recent work in Agora Gallery’s latest exhibition, started recycling wire [...]