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Wild Horses
Group Exhibition 20 Nov - 18 Dec 2021 FEATURING: BAR ALON, BEATRIZ GLEZSA, KATE GROOBEY, YANMEI JIANG, CHANTAL JOFFE, ANETA KAJZER, EMMA KOHLMANN, FLORENCE PEAKE, JURGA RAMONAITE, MAYAN TOLEDANO, AVIYA WYSE. CURATED BY BAR ALON AND SIM SMITH. Bodies existing together in a space is an experience that has recently become fraught and foreign. In a time when... Read more -
Fairy Painting
David Surman 9 Oct - 6 Nov 2021 Surman's is a practice of storytelling; one with many plots and subplots. There are heroes, heroines, villains, ghosts, and their presence ripple out in seemingly disparate directions. Unsurprisingly, with a background in film, the subjects that populate his paintings have an implicit narrative momentum, within his own life and within... Read more -
Agnès V. par Jenna G.
1 - 29 May 2021 New works by American painter Jenna Gribbon with imagery from the iconic French artist Agnès Varda. In 1958, Agnès Varda was walking around the somewhat insalubrious rue Mouffetard, in Paris' Latin Quarter. She was pregnant with her daughter and carrying a hefty camera. The streets were dirty and crowded. Varda... Read more -
High Folly
Jonathan McCree 4 Feb - 20 Mar 2021 The Art of Possibility 'You can proceed according to a set program or you pick individual possibilities according to your personal taste. After all, there's enough of them. Don't worry if you're never 'done,' because the re-combination could proceed in perpetuity without ever becoming boring.' — Charlotte Posenenske Without possibility... Read more -
because because because because because
Ian Gouldstone 7 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 Tuesday I spoke to Ian about his new installation. The first thing he talked about was a quote from Diane di Prima's poem 'Rant': THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION ALL OTHER WARS ARE SUBSUMED IN IT Thursday Notes on because because because because because:... Read more -
Start Again
Kate Groobey 10 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 'I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows of unheard songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst -- burst with forms much more beautiful than those which are put up in frames and sold for a... Read more -
New Raw Green
Group Exhibition 18 Jul - 15 Aug 2020 FEATURING: Carl Anderson, Matijia Bobičić, Jonathan DeDecker, Sigrid Holmwood, Emily Hunt, Gibson / Martelli, Anthony Miler, David Surman, Thom Trojanowski, Aviya Wyse. Curated by David Surman. There is a shared assumption for those in the business of selling pictures that green isn't good for trade. Speculations on the evils of... Read more -
Star-Studded Canopy
Daisy Parris 11 Jun - 11 Jul 2020 Pain does not frighten me as long as it is an enrichment but I am so afraid to use my strength for nothing... — Louis Bourgeois, diary entry, 1938. Generosity is one means by which we orient and navigate within our relationships and life. Present thinking points to the... Read more -
Abroad From Earth
Tim Garwood 6 Feb - 12 Mar 2020 The English language is rich in sea-words. I refer here to the signs passed from weary lips to fascinated ears across Britain’s long history of maritime labour. The world lived on water is a world unto itself, but when a place is so defined by its coasts, those words find... Read more -
A Snake Without A Head Is Just A Rope
Sebastian Hammwöhner, Vojtěch Kovařík, Dan Mandelbaum, Stefan Rinck 7 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 FEATURING: Sebastian Hammwöhner, Vojtěch Kovařík, Dan Mandelbaum, Stefan Rinck. In the early years of our 21st Century so much appears to have changed—technologically, sociologically, politically. Across cultures, inherent structures from the recent past of modernity, including of course the production of art are found inadequate, and often at times... Read more -
Sirens
David Surman 13 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 After the Age of Innocence 'Just as the painter touches his painting, so, it may be imagined, does the painting touch him. The fundamentally reciprocal dimension of touch encourages us to consider the painting itself as the agent of the process, and to imagine how this interactive object behaves rather... Read more -
Trophy
Sandra Lane, Bradley Wood 13 Jul - 10 Aug 2019 FEATURING: SANDRA LANE, BRADLEY WOOD Trophies have a dark past: in ancient warfare, all over the world, a trophy was anything plundered, severed or stolen from the defeated and deceased. A scalp, a skull, an arm or a leg would do nicely as a gruesome display of victory and macho... Read more -
They Catch Feelings, I Catch Bodies
Jenna Gribbon, Aneta Kajzer, Kemi Onabule, Anne Ryan 6 Jun - 6 Jul 2019 Featuing: JENNA GRIBBON, ANETA KAJZER, KEMI ONABULE, ANNE RYAN. They Catch Feelings, I Catch Bodies and You Watch Who are you? English language only knows one you. It's written in lower case and it's short form is the letter U. It can be you or the person that reads this... Read more -
What Kind of Spirit Is This?
Group Exhibition 2 May - 1 Jun 2019 Featuring: MATIJA BOBIČIĆ, TIM GARWOOD, KATE GROOBEY, ALY HELYER, DOPPEL KIM, SANDRA LANE, JONATHAN MCCREE, DAISY PARRIS, MAÏA RÉGIS “I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms.” Ovid, The Metamorphoses At thirteen minutes “Misty” is the longest track on the tenth studio album “50 Words For Snow” by... Read more
