Exhibitions based on the late, disgraced car-maker John DeLorean don’t come around often, but the Irish artist Sean Lynch is making waves with DeLorean Progress Report (until 27 June), his show at Ronchini Gallery in London. DeLorean, who designed the car that doubled as a time machine in Back to the Future, hit the headlines after being arrested for alleged drug trafficking in 1982 (the incident spelled the end for his sports-car factory outside Belfast, which employed 2,600 people). Lynch focused on how production at the plant wound down and discovered the fate of the equipment used to make car panels. “It was rumoured that some sections [of tooling] were bought by fishermen to be reused as anchors,” says a spokeswoman for the gallery. “Sean found them in 2009 at the bottom of Galway Bay, where crabs and lobsters now live in the coral around the shapes that once pressed out stainless-steel panels for the cars.”
