For Dave Muller’s third solo show at The Approach, the gallery will be filled with large-scale watercolour representations of spines of vinyl albums that have changed the artists’ life. The thirty- three large works (and one a third of the size) echo the number of revolutions per minute of a vinyl LP.

Painted in meticulous detail, each record spine is an individual snapshot from a certain time and place. Every spine has its own particular worn characteristics. Their increased size gives them a human scale proportion that equates with their autobiographical reference. The works, which Muller refers to as ‘Zips’, are placed chronologically round the gallery. The order is determined not by their date of production but by when they entered Muller’s life, following a personalised time line of evolving musical influence.

Muller’s practice revolves around the cultural value of artefacts and also their social reciprocity. These are his records and his memories but the audience will have parallel associations and entry points to their own chronology. Muller is interested in music as a network of relations and exchanges – aesthetic, social and personal.