“In his debut solo show Factory Reset, Poulton’s digital collages are shown as prints and videos, brought together in an intricate and busy installation, remodelling the gallery into a chaotic, IRL, computer desktop. The works are made digitally but fabricated physically. Layered and annotated, elements are stuck on with glue, airbrushed and scribbled over with familiar signs or shapes totally out of proportion further, all combining to complicate an easy read. Poulton effortlessly flickers between states, evoking moments when he was haunted by digital imagery and when he would misinterpret digital and physical spaces. Together, the exhibition speaks of the phone, or computer screen, the bedroom and our bodies, that are all so very susceptible and permeable. When you enter Factory Reset you become subsumed by Poulton’s archive, it filters into you and you into it.”

– Rosa Tyhurst