London, Pangolin London & Kings Place Gallery, Sculptors’ Drawings & Works On Paper, 31 August – 12 October 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, Is there still life in Still Life? 15 July – 1 October 2017;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, Metropolis, 23 April 2019 – 26 October 2020;
Woking, The Lightbox, Emma Prempeh: Raise Your Glass, 5 December 2020 – 3 January 2021
A quote from Damien Hirst, one of Plackman’s students at Goldsmiths College: “An insight into the man [Plackman] doesn’t necessarily shed light on the work of an artist. In fact if anything it made the work more enigmatic, more mysterious. But what it did give me was a belief in the work, a belief that there was a sound logic reverberating around the mini-universes he created, a logic that could be trusted, a logic where seemingly a playful god reigned supreme unencumbered by trivialities and rules such as clear narrative, reason and gravity, rules that are mostly helpful but, as we often forget, can sometimes hold us down too firmly.”
