Jack T N Smurthwaite 
Sluice HQ. 171 Morning Lane, E9 6JY 12th January – 2nd February 2019 | Private View: 11th January 2019, 6 – 9pm Bob Bicknell-Knight | Yoshi Kametani | Keiken | Mark Aerial Waller | Vivien Zhang Curated by Jack Smurthwaite To cite a body is a group exhibition about materialising the digital: moulding […]Read Post ›
Excerpt: “We have moved from a philosophical exploration of space to, in the mid-twentieth century, an exploration of ‘outer’ space. Even in its titling, the space race apparently pushed our understanding of this particular ontology of space to its limits. Furthermore, we have managed to reconfigure what this word means in the digital, especially to […]Read Post ›
Out of Space AVD Gallery (mobile, online) 01.11.2018 _30.11.2018 Ololade Adeniyi Juan Covelli Ed Florance Text by Jack Smurthwaite: Seemingly Hallowed Screens, 2018 (PDF) *** They sat down and considered the cloud as the new outer space, challenging conceptions of what space is. Indistinct and constantly changing and perpetually out of reach; aching […]Read Post ›
In April, New York gallery Postmasters announced it had joined online funding site Patreon. Online patrons can opt to donate anywhere from $3 – $500 a month to support Postermasters’s work. Gallery founder and director Magda Sawon explains this latest ‘balancing act’. The interview was featured int eh Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Sluice Magazine, which […]Read Post ›
From space, the planet is blue. From space, the planet is the territory. Sluice Project Space 11 Bohemia Place, Hackney Central PV 9 February, 6-9pm 10 – 18 February 2018, Wed – Sun 12-5pm Caline Aoun Dmitri Galitzine Tamara Kametani Press release We are in the middle of contradictory age, when movement is simultaneously encouraged […]Read Post ›
Read the full review here: Art Monthly 412 page 26
Projected Histories FAB 3, Fringe Arts Bath 26 May – 11 June 2017 Clare Robertson | Edward Rowe | Neale Willis | Sarah Crew | Vishal Kumaraswamy | Samuel Morgan Co-curated with Patrick Creedon
Houses are really bodies: escape, defiance and friendship in the writing of Leonora Carrington Cubitt Gallery 28 April – 4 June 2017 Review by Jack Smurthwaite In the contemporary, the idea of ‘sanctuary’ is an interesting one. Helen Nisbet’s use of the word when describing ‘Houses are really bodies’, her debut installation as Cubitt’s […]Read Post ›
David Ferrando Giraut’s recent works weave a neon path through progressive economic theories and 17,000 years of image-making, arriving at the present day clad in Louboutin and dripping in gold. ‘The Accursed Stare’ exhibition is a display in two acts: 2013’s ‘CATOPTROPHILIA’ and a new 35-minute digital animation piece, the eponymous ‘The Accursed Stare’ (2017). […]Read Post ›
Paintings by Biggs and Collings are never quite as straightforward as they seem. Their body of work references such diverse topics as pre-modern color organization, chance footprints in sand, industrialized cityscapes, and religious iconography. Now, with “They Shall be Male and Female,” at Vigo Gallery in London, the husband and wife strike upon the prismatic properties […]Read Post ›
