STUCK-UP by MA Fine Art student William Burroughs looks to a familiar graphic form - the fruit sticker. Across his varied practice, which involves experimental music, performance, zine-making and more, Burroughs is drawn conceptually to the mundane and the overlooked, to medium- and format-specificity, and to the democratising potential of accessible forms of artmaking. In STUCK-UP these interests come together in Burroughs' appropriation of the humble fruit sticker: "a temporary nuisance, peeled, cast away, forgotten about..."
STUCK-UP displays hundreds of mass-produced and newly commissioned fruit sticker designs, in the first iteration of an evolving exhibition and archive project. Contributors are invited to respond to the fruit sticker format however they saw fit. Burroughs intends for future iterations of the project to build on and extend its scope and ambition. Conceived as an experiment in what Burroughs terms "post-utility", Stuck Up blurs the lines between form, format, medium and function.