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This year the SCI-FI-LONDON festival is branching out into the world of futuristic art. Graphic design studio Transmission have commissioned no less than twenty-two contemporary artists from around the world to create artwork that depicts what life will be like in 2050. Quite fittingly the exhibition is called Life in 2050.

Taking place at the small but perfectly formed Proud Central Gallery the exhibition is sandwiched conveniently between the National Gallery and the independent galleries of the Southbank.

Split across two floors the artwork varies between sci-fi film homage, robo-tech mania, Japanese futurism, shadowy dystopia and the downright weird.

Highlights include Dan McPharlin’s Year One, a sun drenched homage to a scorched post apocalyptic Earth; Lee Baker’s mish-mash of traditional and pop culture from Japan, Toku Chan And Super Bomb; Alex Trochut’s Dream on Dreamer, a collection of caterpillar’s that change colour depending on your viewpoint, a piece that will no doubt steal the show for many; and my particular favourite, Tom Gallant’s doubleplusungood, a monstrous urban tower block sitting on a brown sea of sludge, truly a horrific premonition of the monotonous dystopia that may await us, a world that is not so dissimilar from our own.

The prints vary from one offs to limited edition series’ of fifty prints, and prices range from fifty quid up to six hundred accordingly.

You can catch the exhibition anytime between now and 4th May at the Proud Central Gallery, 32 St Adam Street. Free entry.

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