Curated by CREAM’s Samuel Stevens. The Workers Film and Photo League (1934-1939) brought together political activists, professional film technicians with amateur filmmakers and photographers. The League produced over thirty films beginning with a series of Workers’ Newsreels. These covered subjects such as Hunger Marches, Poverty, Unionisation, Housing, Spanish Civil War Relief and Anti-Fascism. This exhibition presents, […]
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This event has been cancelled due to sickness. The ninth in a series of curated conversations presenting artists working with clay and ceramics. This edition of Clay in Conversation features presentations by artists Jo Pearl and Kim Norton and is chaired by Tessa Peters. Curated by artist Julia Ellen Lancaster in partnership with the Ceramics Research Centre-UK, CREAM, University of Westminster. […]
Roshini Kempadoo is contributing a selection from two photographic series to the show ‘The 80s: Photographing Britain’ which explores powerful photography in a decade of social and political change. Her contribution is a selection of montage photographs from the series ECU: European Currency Unfolds originally commissioned for the show ‘Shifting Borders’ at the Laing Art […]
New work developed by artists Christina Peake, Erika Tan and Yu-Chen Wang are on display in the Tate Modern’s South Tanks, as part of Transforming Collections Artist Research Residencies. Peake presents an archipelago of imagined objects that appear to have been taken from marine environments in the Caribbean, including Wayfinding Shells – Exodus, ‘the Maroons’ Diadem – […]
Screening programme and discussion This screening programme aims to untangle the pervasiveness of colonial violence in collecting practices and cultural heritage, and engage with ideas of care, repair and social justice. Deploying archival materials, the films included in the programme aim to deconstruct the colonial foundations of cultural institutions. Moving images have always been at […]
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 […]