Looking forward to taking part in this year’s Art Car Boot Fair, on Sunday 16th September in Granary Square, Kings Cross, from 12noon - 6pm.
I’ll be sharing a stand with Rut Blees Luxemburg. If you can’t make it down to Kings Cross in person on the 16th, Rut’s edition is available - for the day of the fair only - here.
Grizzled Skippers, 2013 : The Death of a Beautiful Subject, 2018 (2) (2) - framed
Grizzled Skippers, 2013 : The Death of a Beautiful Subject, 2018 (2) (2)
Introducing an addition to The Death of a Beautiful Subject; a new print edition entitled Grizzled Skippers, 2013 : The Death of a Beautiful Subject, 2018 (2) (2) .
For more information visit Field Editions
Print by Genesis Imaging, Frame by Wade Frames
Art Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
9th Sept – 18th Nov, 2018
URSULA BIEMANN – DORA BUDOR – ROMAN BUXBAUM – JULIAN CHARRIÈRE – DANIEL GUSTAV CRAMER – MARTIN CREED – PETER DREHER – ELMGREEN & DRAGSET – CÉCILE B. EVANS – FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES – RODNEY GRAHAM – DAVID HORVITZ – TEHCHING HSIEH – SOPHIE JUNG – ON KAWARA – KAPWANI KIWANGA – RAGNAR KJARTANSSON – KRIS MARTIN – AGNIESZKA POLSKA – POPE.L – BARBARA PROBST – LAURE PROUVOST – PILAR QUINTEROS – RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE – SOPHY RICKETT – MIKKO RIKALA – DIETER ROTH – STÉPHANIE SAADÉ – MICHAEL SAILSTORFER – TARYN SIMON – SLAVS AND TATARS – SMUDGE STUDIO – GERNOT WIELAND – PEDRO WIRZ
Zeitspuren – The Power of Now considers the aesthetic, material and cultural significance of time within contemporary visual histories. Bringing together the work of approximately 35 international artists, this four-part exhibition explores how artists have challenged hegemonic temporalities of labor, leisure, statecraft, memory and technology through exploration of the phenomenological dimensions of time.
As a starting point for the exhibition Time and its Discontents introduces the intersections of labor and time. The works in this section build critical and playful narratives around the ‘discontents’ of standardizing durations of living, work and leisure. Capture: (Documenting and) Staging Lives explores how daily temporalizations intersect with artistic genealogies using quotidian and more fantastical methods, while Sculpting Time explores the material processes of historiography, focusing on artistic methodologies of ‘mining’ and excavation. The final section, (Speculative and) Planetary Temporalities, moves through the accelerated temporality of digital connectivity, considering the stakes of ‘liquidity’ for temporal, spatial and geographic collapse.
Curated by SAMUEL LEUENBERGER and FELICITY LUNN
In the glow of the night, the vibrancy of London meets a quiet stillness.
This collection of historic and contemporary images features work from over 60 photographers who reveal the city after hours: unnerving, beautiful, eerie, energised – sometimes all at once. Step into the night and discover a darker, richer side to the capital.
The book contains essays by Museum of London’s Curator of Photographs, Anna Sparham, poetry by award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams, and over 100 images from the exhibition that span the genres of architectural, documentary and portrait photography. Includes work by Bill Brandt, Bob Collins, Brian Griffin, Tish Murtha, Tim Peake, Rut Blees Luxemburg, William Eckersley, Dougie Wallace, Nick Turpin and many more.
Available from Hoxton Mini Press - click here
'London Nights' is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, running 11 May - 11 November 2018 at Museum of London, 150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN. Click here for more details.
208pp hardback, navy cloth spine, yellow foil, 228 x 173mm.
Anna Sparham graduated with a photography degree and after working with the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum’s photographs collection, she joined the Museum of London in 2004, becoming a curator there in 2006. Working closely with photographers, Sparham develops the museum’s collections and realises temporary exhibitions.
11 May – 11 November 2018
Explore London after dark in this major new exhibition at the Museum of London.
Fusing portraiture, documentary, conceptual photography and film, London Nights will reveal the city at night through photographs ranging from the late 19th century to the present day. Drawing from the Museum's extensive collection and loaned works, displaying over 200 works by 50 artists, including: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Bill Brandt, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Tish Murtha and Nick Turpin.
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Commissioned and curated by Sophy Rickett and Judy Aitken
LAUNCH EVENT - Thursday 22nd March, 2018 - 6-8.30 at LCC, Elephant and Castle, SE1
Featuring work by: Pamela Abad Vega, Marcus Boyle, Sarah Butler and Eva Sajovic, Beverley Carruthers, Adam Dant, Lalu Delbracio, Alan Kane, Liam Magee, Steve Martin, Jessie McLaughlin, Harold Offeh, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Janetka Platun, Sophy Rickett, Paul Tebbs, Xana
London College of Communication (LCC) and Southwark Council are pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Elephant Atlas. Taking place in the main gallery spaces at LCC’s Elephant and Castle site, the exhibition features works inspired by one of London’s most eclectic historic collections, the Cuming Museum Collection.
In spring 2013, the London Borough of Southwark’s Cuming Museum Collection was displaced by a fire which damaged the building in which it was housed. Since then, the collection, which includes art, sculpture, ethnography, natural history and objects reflecting the lives of ordinary residents of Southwark has been working to find new ways of engaging audiences in its work.
For the Elephant Atlas project, fifteen artists and writers were commissioned to produce a work draws inspiration from this unique context. Working across photography, illustration, installation, artist film, creative writing and participatory practice, they have explored many diverse ideas, including the legacy of colonialism in contemporary society, the notion of how an original trauma or loss might stimulate new forms of growth, the pathology of collecting and the rich diversity of oral histories.
At this moment in its continuing history, Elephant Atlas explores some of the questions that the Cuming Museum Collection presents to its local community. More broadly, it begins to consider how museums might find alternative innovative strategies for making their collections available to the public in the current political and economic climate, physically, as well as an online.
The Cuming Museum Collection is a repository for the histories of a community; a way to imagine and re-imagine the lives that were lived here before, their politics, preoccupations, beliefs, ways of life. Elephant Atlas celebrates and explores it, and its current condition in its delightful, yet challenging diversity.
Observation 111 (1991/ 2013) is featured in a new Phaidon Press publication, Universe
Universe is a groundbreaking survey that celebrates the popular subject of astronomy through 300 images created by those who have tried to understand - or who have been inspired by – the beauty and mystery of stars, planets, and beyond.
Carefully chosen by an international panel of experts and arranged to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, the selection includes paintings, photographs, sculpture, animation, prints, sketches, and digital renderings with iconic works by renowned photographers, artists, and astronomers alongside previously unpublished finds.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Format: Hardback
Size: 290 x 250 mm (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in)
Pages: 352 pp
Illustrations: 300 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714874616
Eight of my works have recently been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and one of them, Playing Fields, is featured in a new display called Into the Woods: Trees in Photography. On show until 22nd April 2018, the exhibition explores the diverse representation of trees in photography – as botanical subjects and poetic symbols, in the context of the natural and human worlds.
Final preparations underway for the fabulous Art Car Boot Fair happening on Sunday 9th July, 12-6. I will be sharing a stand with Liane Lang and her bronze moustaches, etchings and a giant bronze horse!
"Fill your pockets with cash, your hearts with joy and join us at the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair in Vauxhall. Art, frivolity and serious bargains guaranteed!!"
To The River (Archive) in Ledger Lines, Kestle Barton
To The River (Archive) in Ledger Lines, Kestle Barton, with Abigail Reynolds and Michelle Stuart
To The River (Archive) in Ledger Lines, Kestle Barton, with Abigail Reynolds and Michelle Stuart
To The River (Archive) in Ledger Lines, Kestle Barton, with Abigail Reynolds and Michelle Stuart
Kestle Barton, Helston, Cornwall
27 May - 9 July 2017
This exhibition has been curated in collaboration with Parafin Gallery, London. It brings together work by three artists who explore ideas relating to landscape, history and memory. The three distinct bodies of work included triangulate three West Country sites – Avebury and the Ridgeway, the River Severn and the Penwith Peninsula – which are rich with cultural and historical significance. The works use seemingly objective strategies such as documentary photography and the archive to explore these sites and their meanings, drawing inspiration from disciplines such as archaeology, geology and geography, but fusing them with the intimate and poetic. The works thus suggest both intensely personal readings of place and history – whether through the delicate earth rubbings of Michelle Start’s Avebury works or Sophy Rickett’s correspondence with a stranger she met on the banks of the Severn – but also contrast subjective and objective modes of understanding place. They reinforce a reading of ‘landscape’ as a construction that combines a physical place with human relationships.
For Reynolds, Rickett and Stuart, research is an important part of the making of the work. All three artists are interested in the idea of the archive and the creative possibilities in the act of selectively gathering information. In creating their archive-like works, they use the photograph and the book as indexical documents, but subvert their authority. In addition, all three are interested in making journeys and consequently their works explore the ways in which travelling through and being in a landscape affects our experience of it and our understanding of its histories. Finally, all three are interested in the ways in which time and the passage of time can be encoded within the work. Ultimately the works articulate a sense of both past as present and the power and significance of particular places. They elide the contemporary and the historic, the cultural and the geological. They demonstrate, as Myfanwy Evans wrote of the great English painter Paul Nash and his interest in Avebury, ‘No interest in the past as past, but in the accumulated intenseness of the past as present.’
Ben Tufnell, Director of Parafin
Installation of The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea 2017 photograph: Prim
Installation of The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea 2017 photograph: Prim
Installation of The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea 2017 photograph: Prim
Installation of The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows, (detail) Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea 2017
Installation of The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows (detail), Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea 2017 photograph: Prim
Installation of The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows, (detail) Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea 2017 photograph: Prim
Installation of The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows, (detail) Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea 2017 photograph: Prim
The Moon and a Smile responds to a period in the 1840s and 1850s, when Swansea was at the centre of early experiments in photography worldwide. In particular, the Dillwyn family circle was prolific in the development of photography, especially Mary Dillwyn and John Dillwyn Llewellyn.
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Thank you Metro Imaging for the printing and framing
Artists:
Greta Alfaro, Anna Fox, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Neeta Madahar & Melanie Rose, Sharon Morris, Sophy Rickett, Helen Sear, Patricia Ziad
Installation of Observation 95, 1991/2013 at Kettles Yard
15.03.17 – 24.03.17
Rather than causing the death of analogue photography, the dominance of digital media has recently increased interest in analogue and historical processes amongst image makers and artists.
MATERIAL LIGHT explores the fallout from the collision of these two worlds through the work of a wide range of artists for whom the photographic image, either digital or analogue, is the main point of departure.
The exhibition includes installations, prints, film and video by 15 artists from the UK, India, and elsewhere. MATERIAL LIGHT has previously been shown in London and Belgrade and includes work from the host countries of previous exhibitions. Please see the Material Light website for full details of current and previous contributors.
Participating artists:
Mia Cuk and Alia Zaparova / Serbia/Russia
Tereza Zelenkova / Czek Rebublic
Natasha Ranganath & Nandini Bhotika / India
Ajit Bhadoriya / India
Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari / Greece/Armenia
Slobodan Stosic / Serbia
David Blackmore / Ireland
Jonathan Michael Ray / UK
Jack Hirons / UK
Tahire Lal / India
Allan Parker / UK
Andre Pinkowski / Germany
Sophy Rickett / UK
Nihaal Faizal / India
Jersey Tiger Settled on Window, 2012/ The Death of a Beautiful Subject, 2015 (24)
Thursday 2 March, 6.30-8.30pm
Authors: Rob Ball, Lewis Bush, Robin Christian (Makina Books), Edmund Clark, Alexander Cooper, Sara Davidmann, Anna Fox, Tom Hunter, Wiebke Leister, Johanna Love, David Moore, Paul Reas, Sophy Rickett, Karen Shepherdson, Corinne Silva, Stuart Smith, Bettina von Zwehl, Jason Wilde, and Val Williams.
Building on the success of the 2013 book launch event at Shoreditch Town Hall, the Moose 2017 photo book launch will take place in the atmospheric surroundings of St John on Bethnal Green, in the East End. This beautiful church, which is situated a few metres away from Bethnal Green Underground station, was designed by John Soane and has become a home for artists and charities in its extensive crypt as well as a fully functioning Anglican church.
Fifteen authors of photo books will be invited to have a book table, to present their publication and to engage in conversation with visitors about their photobooks and to sell signed copies. The Journal of Photography & Culture will also be present.
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA
Archivist, 1, 2017 from the series The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows
Preview: Friday 3 March, 7-9pm
Room 3
Artists:
Greta Alfaro, Anna Fox, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Neeta Madahar & Melanie Rose, Sharon Morris, Sophy Rickett, Helen Sear, Patricia Ziad
The Moon and a Smile responds to a period in the 1840s and 1850s, when Swansea was at the centre of early experiments in photography worldwide. In particular, the Dillwyn family circle was prolific in the development of photography, especially Mary Dillwyn and John Dillwyn Llewellyn.
Commissioned by Glynn Vivian, the nine international artists have created new work for the exhibition. Alongside there will be a display of 19th century photography.
