Currently studying MA Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, Gavin Toye was the former Co-director of Crimes Town gallery in Stoke Newington. Toye?s practice draws from a wide range of subject matter taken from history and mythology, popular culture and politics, the media and Art history. Producing work against the background of a highly visual culture, for Toye painting is an act of translation from one thing into another, a recording of a process, which is engaged in understanding the relationship between subject and language. Reconstructing the peripheral elements of discarded activity, Toye?s paintings oscillate between conscious and unconscious thought, and reference past works existing beyond the limits of the canvas. Gavin Toye will graduate next year from the Royal College of Art.