“Imagine What We Can Do Tomorrow is an exhibition about anxiety, from the emergency blanket-lined walls to the ways in which Poulton tries to sift through the visual ephemera of a generation promised so much at the turn of the Millennium in his film Y2K with Nick Smith. The show exposes our anxiety about the things we used to feel excited about (the future, being young, technology), the anxiety of what we’ve left behind in the wake of emerging technologies, and how we experience anxiety as a society through media and privately.” Poulton’s collages come as a result of a personal algorithm, a meticulous and eclectic process of collecting, a marriage of human and machinic methods. The artist’s oscillation between the deeply personal and the completely arbitrary, his compression of time and meaning, are the exercise of an individual who is attempting to live within a world constantly renewed by images amid the ‘photographic surplus’, as he calls it. […] It’s as if each of Poulton’s collages is a personal CAPTCHA, enabling him to learn about his psyche through what he consumes. They offer a way to gradually decode his reality among this visual noise, through an excavation and re-threading of the user-generated histories and long-forgotten uploads that litter cyberspace.”

– Natalie D Kane