Larry Achiampong: And I Saw A New Heaven
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Copperfield Gallery, London4 May – 17 June 2023   Working in film, sculpture, installation, sound, collage, music and performance, Larry Achiampong draws on his shared and personal heritage to explore class, gender, as well as the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonialism. His work examines digital identities and constructions of ‘the self’, offering multiple perspectives that reveal the deeply entrenched inequalities in our society. Achiampong’s second solo show at Copperfield gallery is a thought-provoking exploration of the intersections between video games ..read more
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June 2023 Recommends
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Larry Achiampong’s Wayfinder Baltic presents the first major solo exhibition by British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong. Working in film, sculpture, installation, sound, collage, music and performance, Achiampong draws on his shared and personal heritage to explore class, gender, the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonisation. Read more…   Around London – Jeremy Deller: Art Is Magic, Southbank Centre, Waterloo. 31 May – London Gallery Weekend, View Galleries, 2 – 4 June – Monster Chetwynd: Moths, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, 10 June – 20 August   Aroun ..read more
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May 2023 Recommends
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Tour of Bani Abidi’s The Song with Jo Bressloff and Hannah Kemp Welch Jo Bressloff‘s tour will be followed by a fun and creative activity exploring Foley sound making with Hannah Kemp Welch. Refreshments provided. Whilst there, be sure to also visit Bani Abidi’s The Song​​​​​​​ exhibition Read more… Around London – Eric Gyamfi: Fixing Shadows – Julius and I, Autograph, Shoreditch, 28 April – 2 September 2023 – Isaac Julien: What freedom is to me, Tate Britain, Millbank, Today – 20 August 2023 – Bow Families: natural dyes and painting with Lou-Atessa Marcellin, Bow Arts, Bow, THI ..read more
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Adi Toch’s In Motion Whispering Vessel acquired for Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery have recently acquired In Motion Whispering Vessel, 2022, by Adi Toch through the Contemporary Art Society Omega Fund. Adi Toch explores the vessel form through manipulating metal, exploring its conductive, sonic and reflective qualities. She starts with a flat metal sheet and, using different tools, contorts them by hand into the shape she has envisaged. Toch investigates the relationship between people and objects as part of her process, and in the final object she creates. Her work is generally based around the form of the container or vessel, which she see ..read more
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Dee Ferris’ The Places We Go acquired for Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
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Swindon Museum and Art Gallery have recently acquired two works by Dee Ferris for their permanent collection, through the CAS Fine Art Acquisition Scheme. Dee Ferris uses large-scale canvases to immerse the viewer in fields of colour, emotive brushwork and enigmatic imagery. She treads the line between abstraction and figuration, resisting a finite narrative whilst evoking a sense of light, space and energy. Ferris uses an intense process where she finds reference images which then are dissolved and re-emerge in her paintings. The Places We Go is from Ferris’ latest series Azyl/Azul, which exp ..read more
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Various Artists, In the Pink
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by CAS Team
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Parlour (London) 18 March – 12 May 2023   ‘Pink, it’s my new obsession’, sang Aerosmith in the late 90s. My six-year-old daughter states that pink is her favourite colour several times a day. A true passion or a result of how the colour is gendered from early on? These questions are explored through the new exhibition In the Pink at Parlour (London), which connects the colour pink to its immediateness and the complexities around it. Paintings, sculptures, jewellery, and design objects come together in the intimate setting of the gallery, which is also the home of its founder. The objects ..read more
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Maria Amidu, Two Exhibitions
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Maria Amidu, living in fear of quicksand The Nunnery Gallery in partnership with Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, Bow3 March – 21 May 2023 – Maria Amidu, Untitled: an exhibition of works in progress Iniva, Chelsea14 February – 28 April 2023 – Living in fear of quicksand explores the fragmentary nature of memory in relation to a fragile experience of home. Hosted across two venues – The Nunnery Gallery, a non-for-profit art space in East London and nearby Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives – Maria Amidu’s first solo-exhibition pays specific attention to what i ..read more
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Mohammed Sami, Point 0
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Camden Art Centre, London 27 January – 28 May 2023   Mohammed Sami was born in Baghdad in 1984 under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. His prodigious talent as a painter was recognised when he was still a child and he spent years working on large-scale propaganda paintings for the regime. He gained asylum in Sweden in 2007 and subsequently has come to make his home in London. This is his first institutional solo show in the UK, following contributions to the Hayward’s Mixing it Up last year and to the Whitechapel Open.   We are a little more than a week away from the 20th anniversary of ..read more
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Alison Britton, Plattering
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Corvi-Mora, 2 March 2023 – 22 April 2023   Upstairs at Corvi-Mora gallery there is a large table set with tableware, made from various oval shapes. On the walls hang similar ceramics. This particular setting plays with what a traditional dining table might look like before a meal: dishes ready to be plated up. Artist, writer, and educator Alison Britton evokes conviviality and communality through her objects.   The dishes are empty highlighting the power of their abstract form. They are sculptures baring the signs and traces of their making. In Red Ripple, 2021, a palette of earthly ..read more
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Stacy Lynn Waddell’s Goldenhot Butterfly Queen acquired for Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
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American artist Stacy Lynn Waddell’s Goldenhot Butterfly Queen has been acquired for Bristol Museum & Art Gallery through the Valeria Napoleone XX Contemporary Art Society award, which supports the acquisition of significant works by a living female artist for a museum collection. This monumental gold leaf image brings together two figures in colonial history. Sarah Baartman (1789-1815), the so-called ‘Hottentot Venus’ and Thelma ‘Butterfly’ McQueen (1911-1995), the Hollywood actor, ‘Prissy’ from Gone with the Wind. This work will be on display in the gallery from March, as it will be reve ..read more
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