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 and George Jasper Stone| Mark Aerial Waller | Vivien Zhang Curated by Jack Smurthwaite Download the press release here To cite a body is […]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 ›
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 ›
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
This piece of interpretation was created for Kingston Museum as a new way of exploring the heritage of a town with, historically, one of the densest populations of pubs in the country. The event was removed from within the walls of the museum in order to more directly engage with publics who wouldn’t ordinarily come […]Read Post ›
Three Screenings: Jim Goldberg’s Raised by Wolves | Institute of Contemporary Arts | 4th November 2015 Twenty years since it’s publication, this unique screening revisits Raised by Wolves – Goldberg’s seminal photo book project – in order to evaluate its timeless themes in relation to the latest exhibition at the ICA’s Fox Reading Room, Smiler: […]Read Post ›
I invited Leah Capaldi to the ICA to respond to Isa Genzken’s Basic Research Paintings, displayed in the Upper Galleries of the ICA. Originally marketed as a tour, Leah and I spoke for long periods of time over how exactly this should be approached; it shouldn’t be a traditional or didactic tour, it should complicate […]Read Post ›
To coincide with Advertising Exhibition’s Rubbish Gallery with Alice Bradshaw, we organised a screening of award-winning documentary WASTE LAND and we invited Russell Hill, 2011 Catlin Art Prize winner, along to discuss found objects and his views on ‘rubbish’ in art. I approached Alice to ask if she wanted to collaborate on a project which extended the open-for-all […]Read Post ›
LINES | Strand Gallery | 12th-15th June 2013 Inaugural Advertising Exhibitions show at the Strand Gallery bringing together 35 emerging artists. So..this was the first exhibition Advertising Exhibitions organised. It worked on an open call system; we received over 1000 applications and we created a shortlist of 100 based on the theme ‘practice and process’. […]Read Post ›
Wrestling with Bacon | Institute of Contemporary Arts | 14th May 2015 Wrestling with Bacon was a curated evening of screenings and talks which explored the links between popular culture in 1950s Britain and the more controversial subject matter of Francis Bacon’s early canvases. Programmed to coincide with FB55, the event highlighted the juxtaposition between the […]Read Post ›
