FOLD’ is sculpted from a Mercedes Benz donated by co-founder DJ Voicedrone and is installed permanently on the iconic exterior of the Canning Town music and arts institution. Plasma-cut and welded from approximately 1,500kg of metal, Seymour worked over eight months to forge this mass of steel into artwork that stands as a symbol of the sweat and resistance enacted on the dancefloor each week.

Seymour’s ‘FOLD’ creates an apocalyptic ‘metalscape’ of rusted and distorted material that recalls the club's logo and honours the fading automotive and scrap metal processing industry in Canning Town. Seymour's work engages in the inextricable dialogue between non-traditional art and alternative party culture. By salvaging the industrial paraphernalia of consumerist society, Seymour repurposes the car to populate a site of cultural, hedonistic, and creative decay and rebirth. 

Seymour cites his core influence artist collectives such as Spiral Tribe and Mutoid Waste, of which he is a ‘Mutoid’. The Mutoid Waste Company’s work is rooted in the medium of repurposed scrap vehicles. The Mutoids were a seminal pioneer of amalgamating music and art in the squat and free party culture of the 1980s, situating themselves in a range of locations from the fallout zone of the Berlin Wall to festivals such as Glastonbury.

FOLD has established itself in this essence of community, activist spirit, and underground music. The work is a testament to Fold’s commitment to supporting creatives across all mediums and was previously exhibited at Fold’s audio-visual arts night Futur. Shock that supports experiential artists' engagement with the audio-visual medium.