Curation
The Birds Were Here First
3rd of August - 20th of August, 2023The Bomb Factory Art Foundation
99 Kingsway
‘The Birds Were Here First’ featured a new body of paintings by Sam Nicholson which took reference from psychedelia and quantum physics. With literary, scientific and folkloric influence, the works are built from heavy layers of intensely coloured oil paint, smushed into hallucinatory science-fiction landscapes.
Website: https://www.bombfactory.org.uk/post/the-birds-were-here-first-the-bomb-factory-holborn
Press: https://magazine.tank.tv/tank/2023/08/the-birds-were-here-first
Homegrown: Building a Post Carbon Future
20th of January - 15th of April, 2023
The Building Centre
26 Store Street
Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future argues that a new approach to building is needed to answer the social and environmental crises we are facing – one that respects geography, ecology, people and place. Created in collaboration with Material Cultures, this exhibition asks how we can critically reassess our relationship with the built environment by engaging with our landscape and its materials holistically.
Website: https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/whats_on/exhibitions/homegrown
Press: https://enkimagazine.com/shellmet-helmet-helps-recycle-marine-waste-protecting-the-planet/
https://www.ribaj.com/culture/homegrown-building-a-post-carbon-future-with-thatch-and-bio-based-mate...
The Building Centre
26 Store Street
Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future argues that a new approach to building is needed to answer the social and environmental crises we are facing – one that respects geography, ecology, people and place. Created in collaboration with Material Cultures, this exhibition asks how we can critically reassess our relationship with the built environment by engaging with our landscape and its materials holistically.
Website: https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/whats_on/exhibitions/homegrown
Press: https://enkimagazine.com/shellmet-helmet-helps-recycle-marine-waste-protecting-the-planet/
https://www.ribaj.com/culture/homegrown-building-a-post-carbon-future-with-thatch-and-bio-based-mate...
The Acoustic Tunnel
11th-14th of January 2023
Crypt Gallery
The Acoustic Tunnel is an on-going project exploring the social and adaptive behaviours of insects alongside social histories of Camden Borough during the 20th and 21st centuries. We are reflecting on strategies of resistance in ecology, where diversity enables collective transformation, and material adaptability is key in maintaining survival. This project explores ways in which entomological studies (the study of insects) can inform different ways of engaging with local histories. With a site specific exhibition at the Crypt in Euston, we are informing our investigation from makers and programmes in Camden Borough, as well as environmental groups in the UK, to see how these ideas interact with local histories. This project is being made possible through collaboration with Camden Giving and Camden Council.
Website: https://the-acoustic-tunnel.com/
Press: https://www.ofluxo.net/the-acoustic-tunnel-group-show-at-crypt-gallery-london/
Crypt Gallery
The Acoustic Tunnel is an on-going project exploring the social and adaptive behaviours of insects alongside social histories of Camden Borough during the 20th and 21st centuries. We are reflecting on strategies of resistance in ecology, where diversity enables collective transformation, and material adaptability is key in maintaining survival. This project explores ways in which entomological studies (the study of insects) can inform different ways of engaging with local histories. With a site specific exhibition at the Crypt in Euston, we are informing our investigation from makers and programmes in Camden Borough, as well as environmental groups in the UK, to see how these ideas interact with local histories. This project is being made possible through collaboration with Camden Giving and Camden Council.
Website: https://the-acoustic-tunnel.com/
Press: https://www.ofluxo.net/the-acoustic-tunnel-group-show-at-crypt-gallery-london/
DEL
23rd - 26th of June, 2022SAFEHOUSE 1
Solo photography exhibition for Skye Matthew
Press Statement
ZGRIPTOR Journal Launch
28th - 30th of April, 2022USUAL BUSINESS GALLERY
ZGRIPTOR is an independent journal exploring the intersections between material and digital culture. It aims to promote discussion about how technology will reshape ideas around community action, communication, and the arts.
zgriptor.net
Are You Coming Home Yet?
13th-16th of January, 2022
Solo photography exhibition for Yilin Wong
Website: https://areyoucominghomeyet.squarespace.com/
Press: https://www.madamefigaro.hk/art/yilin-wong-%E8%BF%94%E5%B1%8B%E4%BC%81%E6%9C%AA-%E6%94%9D%E5%BD%B1-8...
Solo photography exhibition for Yilin Wong
Website: https://areyoucominghomeyet.squarespace.com/
Press: https://www.madamefigaro.hk/art/yilin-wong-%E8%BF%94%E5%B1%8B%E4%BC%81%E6%9C%AA-%E6%94%9D%E5%BD%B1-8...
Being Amongst, Within, and Without
11th-14th of November, 2021
SAFEHOUSE 2
21 artist group show curated by myself, Sophia Reinisch, and Eric Arnal SAFEHOUSE 2
"As the concept for the exhibition was being incubated, we looked heavily at the cabinets of curiosities in the courts of Early Modern Europe. These ‘‘Wunderkammers’ were collections of both natural and manmade artefacts, but also social spaces intended to encourage discussion around new scientific ideas and artistic developments.
We have endeavoured to explore how an artefact comes to hold its power, and the way this power is constructed by its maker, its location, and the people it interacts with. We are seeking to destabilise conventional notions of collecting, and through that, what an ‘artefact’ looks like. When an object’s physicality originates from an amalgamation of resources, both organic and mechanical, from different times and places: its agency and meaning become multiplicitous. We hope this exhibition can be a space to explore these complexities."
Artists - Andro Semeiko, Bobi McFadzean, De Wei Yu, Carla Andrade, Eric Arnal, Geno Derozario, Hanna Antonsson, Hannah-Rose Albinus, Harry Curtoys, Louise Oates, Maria Dragoi, Marta Klara, Pavel Pepperstein, Shi Yun Teo, Simon Gaiger, Storm Foster, Terry Miller & William Darrell
bawwexhibition.com
Press:
https://www.thestrandmagazine.com/single-post/organism-machine-and-the-agency-of-the-artefact-being-..
https://sebsartlist.com/events/twenty-one-artist-group-show-being-amongst-within-and-without-f67029c...