Group show at Departure Foundation

I went to see a group show at Departure Foundation on Friday. Departure Foundation is a London-based charity supports and promotes contemporary art in the UK. The show is called Boeing Way to Gas Street: Artists from Opposite Ends of The Grand Union Canal. It showcased artists from their Southall Studio and artists around Birmingham. As The Grand Union Canal runs alongside the Southall studios at Boeing Way in London and continues all the way to Gas Street Basin beside the exhibition space in Birmingham, it tends to bring up the linkage between artists from Birmingham and London. As far as I saw in the exhibition, I couldn't feel much connection between the artworks, the space and the title. There was no clear theme and common ground that I can refer to, just as if a degree show which only put different together artworks by different artists. But using an empty office space to exhibit is interesting.