AN INTRODUCTION TO OFF_CENTRE
AN INTRODUCTION TO OFF_CENTRE
AN INTRODUCTION TO OFF_CENTRE
The Vessel by Chris Thompson Exhibition Launch
Fri 05 Dec
|Stockport
Join us on Friday 5 December 2025, 6pm–late, for the launch of The Vessel. The evening begins on the second floor, where Chris Thompson reimagines The Vessel for PINK’s space, before we move downstairs to the ground floor for an afterparty — a chance to celebrate, unwind, and hang out together.


Time & Location
05 Dec 2025, 18:00 – 23:50
Stockport, PINK, 2nd Floor, Hilton House, Stockport SK1 3NA, UK
About the Event
Join us on Friday 5 December 2025, 6pm–late, for the launch of The Vessel. The evening begins on the second floor, where Chris Thompson reimagines The Vessel for PINK’s space, before we move downstairs to the ground floor for an afterparty — a chance to celebrate, unwind, and hang out together.
The Vessel is an experience in partiality. Visitors navigate a monumental, rough wooden structure — part haunted house, part sci-fi archive, part sarcophagus. Hidden drawers reveal objects, sound, and video, forming a fragmented narrative around value, preservation, taste, violence, and power.
The Vessel:
Reclaimed Pinewood Cupboard Doors; Stained 3x1 Timber; Mahogany Parquet, c.1960; Wooden Dollhouse; Recticel; TV, c.2000s; Butcher’s Block, fragments, c.1900; Ark of the Covenant (Miniature); Cast Bone (Numerous); Eagle Cane; Golden Eagle, Pair; Fractured Elephant Ceramic; Broken Shredder Parts; Cheap Old Wardrobes; Pinewood Furniture Board; Broken Glass, Keys, Receipts; Wrecked Laminate Flooring; Flight Pins (Battlestar Galactica); Bed…


