The Birds Were Here First
3rd of August - 20th of August, 2023
The 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.
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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 argued 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 asked how we can critically reassess our relationship with the built environment by engaging with our landscape and its materials holistically.
The Building Centre
26 Store Street
Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future argued 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 asked how we can critically reassess our relationship with the built environment by engaging with our landscape and its materials holistically.
11th-14th of January 2023
Crypt Gallery
The Acoustic Tunnel explored 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 researched ways in which entomological studies (the study of insects) can inform different ways of engaging with local histories. This project was made possible through collaboration with Camden Giving and Camden Council.
Crypt Gallery
The Acoustic Tunnel explored 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 researched ways in which entomological studies (the study of insects) can inform different ways of engaging with local histories. This project was made possible through collaboration with Camden Giving and Camden Council.
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23rd - 26th of June, 2022
SAFEHOUSE 1
Solo photography exhibition for Skye Matthew
Are You Coming Home Yet?
13th-16th of January, 2022
Solo photography exhibition for Yilin Wong
Solo photography exhibition for Yilin Wong
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Being Amongst, Within, and Without
11th-14th of November, 2021
SAFEHOUSE 2
Drawing heavily from Early Modern ‘Wunderkammers’, BAWW 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 sought 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.SAFEHOUSE 2