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THE BOTANICAL CABINET
195 Mare Street Sept 16-24 Open Sept 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 from 11am-5pm Also open by appointment (t. 07594345099) Private View: Thursday 21 September, 6-9pm Three artists - Marcia Teusink (London), Milena Michalski (London), and Tulika Ladsariya (Chicago) - respond to the legacy of Hackney’s historic Loddiges Nursery, the complexities of the historical global movement of plants and their personal connections to plants as well. 195 Mare Street is an grand and unusual historic home and arts space which is a stone’s throw away from the original nursery site, near St Thomas’s Square. @that-house-on-mare-street UNCERTAIN EDGES
Electro Studios Project Space Coastal Currents Festival St Leonards Sept 28 - Oct 1, 12-6pm Private view: Sept 29, 6-9pm Performance and Poetry Saturday Sept 30 3pm Workshop Sunday Oct 1 12pm Ground Collective is back at it with an exhibition on the coast this time. Ground Collective's interest lies in finding objects and making observations from everyday landscapes traveled through, reconfiguring these discoveries into artworks, performances, poems and installations. They celebrate a slowing down and a closer scrutiny of things that are overlooked or forgotten. @ground__collective FLO(RA)TILLA: A Natural and Not-So-Natural history
Still and Still Moving, Od Arts Festival 2023 Dawe's Twineworks, Somerset May 26-28 I'm very pleased to be participating in Od Arts festival 2023, STILL & STILL MOVING, which takes place in East and West Coker, Somerset, with a commissioned installation at Dawe's Twineworks. My installation Flo(ra)tilla, includes sculpture and videos. Also part of the project is a plant procession through town, drawing workshops and a plant exchange. odartsfestival.co.uk LOOTED
Galeria Podbrzezie, Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland May 9-30 Private view: evening of May 9th Looted is a large-scale, multi-channel video installation featuring 80+ videos by The Prezent Collective, being exhibited for the first time at Galeria Podbrzezie in Krakow. Looted comprises a huge grid of videos showing the copying and wiping out of images of paintings stolen in Poland during WWII along with some other famous looted works. The Prezent Collective currently consists of me, Dorota Mytych (Krakow), Jessica Houston (Montreal) and Tracy Grubbs (San Francisco). The exhibition will also include painting workshops and a panel discussion. theprezent.org EN TIBI (Here for You a Smiling Garden of Everlasting Flowers)
Vernissage: Thursday 20th April, 17:00-20:00 Open daily through Sunday, May 14th I'm pleased to have a solo show at the Botanical Gardens in Rome. The En Tibi herbarium is an early book of plant s specimens that were compiled by an unknown botanist in the 16th century. The show looks at the complicated history of plant specimen collecting through paintings and objects. Curated by art historian and curator Guido Rebecchini. Annuncio in italiano Eleven Twenty Three
April 20 - May 3 PV & Cocktails: Thursday, April 20th, 19:00 Also opening on April 20th is an exhibition of contemporary art celebrating the 900th Anniversary of St Bartholomew the Great, an amazing church in Smithfields, London. The exhibiton is curated by Elena Unger and Heidi Pearce. I have a video projection in the church's 'oriel window' - a glazed bay window overlooking the nave where Prior Bolton allegedly used to sit to spy on his monks in the 16th century. greatstbarts.com |