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From: arts and crafts Category: Art Date: 20 December 2007 Time: 05:47 AM Review: http://www.spacestationsixtyfive.com/ Space station 65 is a good name for this gallery in SE22, especially if you're an eastender, it will feel like getting to the moon. Once you have made it, and having congratulated yourself rather too much about the journey (the thing about all journeys is that the other party thinks the same thing about you that you think about reaching them, thus all is futile moaning), you find yourself in an art gallery. Nelson's sculptures made of paper and chicken wire and painted on, could in the wrong context (neighbourhood) remind you of what small town galleries in the USA circa 1977 called Art. If you are looking at them in the right way you will be pleased by their visual rhymes and allusions, and be thinking happily of Franz West. What's good about them is they look like someone made something odd looking and which you have to think about it, with their hands and brain, and that is unusual in a sculpture show. Fly yourself to the moon.