Over the last month visitors to Duets II have been encouraged to add their abandoned and unfinished works to our shelves, as well as to make applications to adopt and complete any of the artworks on display. Now for these final two weeks of the show we unveil the completed versions of the works that had been adopted after the original Duets show, which took place at Ramp Gallery at the end of last year.

These finished duets feature some unlikely partnerships and harmonic coupling, including Lisa Benson’s 15 metre long photogram re-working of Andy Barber’s My Name is Mud text, a Fiona Amundsen essay piece inspired by Jo Langford’s miniature theatres and Richard Maloy’s completion of Nicholas Spratt’s Gordon Walters Money Box.

Lauren Winstone set up the Abandoned Sculpture Project after hearing stories from many colleagues about artworks that they had begun, yet for whatever reason, not followed through to completion – works that had dwelled in the corners of studio’s, spare rooms and garages. Works that had existed in a kind of limbo, lingering in the hope of being rediscovered, rejoiced and finally finished. The Duets exhibition has provided the opportunity to dust off these shelved ideas and artefacts. The project was initiated as an attempt to shed light on those enduring and ill-fated artworks, to allow these neglected works a chance for a second lease on life, and to give these wallflowers their second chance to shine. It was also devised as an economic way to use a readily available resource: abandoned artworks. These works were then made available for prospective adoptive parents to take home and complete.