In collaboration with Tom Cole, the Sid Motion gallery is delighted to present DUST TO DUST, a three person exhibition featuring Magdalena Abakanowicz, Phoebe Cummings and Robert Mapplethorpe that considers the relationship between the organic world and the condition of the human body. Find out more here. […]
Join Club des Femmes for a unique film programme and workshop event, celebrating and continuing the work of the Women’s Media Resource Project, a feminist film collective running out of the Rio’s basement in the 1980s! This programme seeks to draw together not only the work of the WMRP, but of many feminist moving image […]
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The Ceramics Research Centre-UK has partnered with international collaborators: New York University Steinhardt, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and the Indian Ceramics Triennale. The conversations make visible many of the challenges of clay practice, clay’s social and economic ecosystems, its societal value and cultural significance. Dr Tasneem Zakaria Mehta Director Dr Bhau Daji […]
Alongside the Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain exhibition, Phoebe Cummings is crafting a special installation in Pallant House – the Gallery’s 18th-century townhouse. Using raw clay, she will shape the artwork to mirror the features of the house. The work will explore themes of fragility, impermanence, and materiality often found in still life. Cummings shapes […]
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This series of curated conversations, chaired by Tessa Peters, provides a platform for dialogue and discovery, bringing together a diverse range of artists whose practice uses clay and ceramics. Each ‘Clay in Conversation’ event centres on a specific theme – acting as a lens through which the artists present a project. The conversations offer an […]
Matthias Kispert’s 30-minute documentary The Social Life of Food: Movements for Justice & Local Resilience will be screened at the London Conference in Critical Thought at the University of Greenwich, London. Registration for the conference is free and can be booked via this link. The film features interviews with a number of London-based initiatives involved […]
The exhibition Presence: The Figure in British Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture is held in the 13th century tithe barn at Messums West over the summer. It aims to explore the many ways in which artists have represented the human figure within the UK since 1945. Emerita Professor Christie Brown will be exhibiting a work from 2006-10 titled The Uncanny […]
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Emerita Professor Christie Brown is included in this group exhibition at Messums West in Wiltshire, which offers insight into the relationship between two- and three-dimensional practice. This is an area of constant interest to the artist as she has recently developed her many years of life drawing to explore narrative composition that connects to her […]
Prof. Clare Twomey will present her work ‘The Invisible Vase’ at The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, USA. The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse, a comprehensive exhibition that delves into the fascinating journey of the ways a single Classical vase rose to legendary status, shaping and influencing art and commerce across time and space. “This […]
Sara Dominici‘s article ‘Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain’ is out now in the latest issue of History of Photography. The article explores the arrival of the motorcar in Britain as it polarised photographers’ opinions like no other means of transport before. The article asks, more specifically, why those photographers who came from the […]
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