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A World of Island Online Salon: Pure Flow

Thursday 6 July 2023 | 12:30-1:30pm

Join us to hear curator Ligaya Salazar in dialogue with A World of Islands artists Alex Quicho and Derek Tumala who discuss their shared interest on water, climate and sovereignty. 

A World of Islands – On Palms, Storms & Coconuts considers the movement of indigenous knowledge, practices, materials and people, and historical and current fabrications of tropical utopia and dystopia. Locating the ‘tropics’ as both a mythological and real place with shared colonial and ecological trauma but wildly divergent histories and cultures, the exhibition unpicks some of the clichés and relocates agency in the ‘tropical’ narrative. Featuring work by Stephanie ComilangRonyel CompraCarol Anne McChrystalCeramica SuroDerek Tumala and Alex Quicho.

Ligaya Salazar is a curator focused on contemporary interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of design, art, craft and graphics. Her approach is shaped by an interest in how audiences can be positioned at the heart of curatorial practice, enabling a human-centred take on storytelling. Salazar was appointed to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in 2021.

Alex Quicho is a writer and artist in London. Her work focuses on multi-scalar violence and pleasure; affective experiences of technology; and resonances between pre-colonial spirituality and post-colonial futurity.

Derek Tumala is a visual artist working with new emerging technologies, the moving image, industrial materials and objects. His practice revolves around the realms of science and nature meditating on the idea of interconnectedness.

Online Salon: Maeve Brennan An Excavation

Wednesday 22 June 2022 | 3-4:30pm. All Welcome.

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Join us to hear Maeve Brennan discuss the broader context and implications of her collaboration with forensic archaeologists Dr Christos Tsirogiannis and Dr Vinnie Norskov.

Register your attendance for free via eventbrite to receive a joining link on the day of the event.

A recording of the conversation between Maeve Brennan, Dr Christos Tsirogiannis and Dr Vinnie Norskov will be uploaded following the event.

Maeve Brennan An Excavation is a new body of work derived from Brennan’s long-term research project The Goods (2018–ongoing), carried out in collaboration with forensic archaeologist Dr Christos Tsirogiannis. Central to the exhibition is a major new film commission An Excavation (2022), documenting a forensic investigation into a crate of looted antiquities discovered at Geneva Freeport in 2014. The exhibition will also launch Illicit Antiquities Network, an ambitious digital project developed throughout Brennan’s Stanley Picker Fellowship.

Click here to watch a trailer for An Excavation (2022) by Maeve Brennan.

Maeve Brennan is an artist and filmmaker, based in London, appointed to the Stanley Picker Fellowships at Kingston University in 2019. Brennan is currently participating in British Art Show 9 and was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award 2021.

Onsite Event: Maeve Brennan in conversation with Elizabeth Price

Wednesday 29 June 2022 | 3-4:30pm. All Welcome.

Join us at Stanley Picker Gallery to hear Maeve Brennan in conversation about her current project and research-based practice with Kingston School of Art Professor Elizabeth Price.

Maeve Brennan An Excavation is a new body of work derived from Brennan’s long-term research project The Goods (2018–ongoing), carried out in collaboration with forensic archaeologist Dr Christos Tsirogiannis. Central to the exhibition is a major new film commission An Excavation (2022), documenting a forensic investigation into a crate of looted antiquities discovered at Geneva Freeport in 2014. The exhibition will also launch Illicit Antiquities Network, an ambitious digital project developed throughout Brennan’s Stanley Picker Fellowship.

Click here to watch a trailer for An Excavation (2022) by Maeve Brennan.

Maeve Brennan is an artist and filmmaker, based in London, appointed to the Stanley Picker Fellowships at Kingston University in 2019. Brennan is currently participating in British Art Show 9 and was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award 2021.

Online Salon: Speculative Conversations Erika Tan in conversation with Kathleen Ditzig and Wenny Teo

Saturday 9 July 2022 | 1-3pm. All Welcome.

1pm (BST) Online Screening Barang-Barang: Spectral Entanglements

1.30pm (BST) Online Salon with Erika Tan, Kathleen Ditzig and Wenny Teo

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Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University) and the Decolonising Art Institute (UAL) invite you to join us for the online premiere of Erika Tan’s Stanley Picker Fellowship commission Barang-Barang: Spectral Entanglements (2022) and the launch of the artist’s limited-edition publication Barang-Barang.

The online film screening will be followed by an unfolding speculative conversation between Erika Tan, National Gallery Singapore curator Kathleen Ditzig and art historian and writer Wenny Teo. Their conversation will focus on ideas of speculation in use as a form of methodology to unhinge and unsettle fixed notions of history and nation state boundaries, as well as to open up the possibilities of altering the status, resonance, value and interpretation of a work, or its reception.

The idea of a speculative encounter or entanglement runs central to the artist Erika Tan’s recent exhibition at the Stanley Picker Gallery, where four women artists (Georgette Chen (1906-1993), Kim Lim (1936-1997), Dora Gordine (1895-1991) and Erika’s mother, Fay Tan (1940-2005) are brought together in cinematic and imaginative space to ‘converse’. Interwoven into the project is the physical work of the artist’s mother’s estate and Tan’s own materials, artworks and ‘stuff’ or ‘barang’, which operates as a tool for thinking through and connecting sometimes the unexpected, forgotten, or invisible.

The conversation will also touch upon short texts each speaker has contributed to the associated publication and expand on these responses and ideas which meditate on art as ecology and family network’s histories and affinities as a feminist resistance of historical amnesia.

Register your attendance for free via eventbrite.

A recording of the conversation between Erika Tan, Kathleen Ditzig and Wenny Teo will be uploaded following the event.

Barang-Barang: Spectral Entanglements (2022) will be available to watch online for one week following the premiere. The Online Salon discussion will be available to watch on the Stanley Picker Gallery website and Decolonising Art Institute website from the end of July 2022.

Copies of the publication Barang-Barang (edition 50) are available directly through the Stanley Picker Gallery, priced incrementally from £15 to £75 as the edition is sold.

Kathleen Ditzig is based in Singapore and is a curator at the National Gallery Singapore and pursuing her Ph.D. at Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include exhibitionary histories of Southeast Asia, global histories of capitalism and the enduring cultural legacies of the Cold War. She has presented Erika Tan’s work in recent curatorial projects such as Art Histories of a Forever War: Modernism between Space and Home (2021/2022) curated with Fang Tse Hsu at the Taipei Fine Art Museum and As The West Slept (2019), a Performa Consortium Project hosted and organised by Silver Art Projects in New York.

Wenny Teo is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Her research centres on layered histories of transnational encounter, geopolitics, ecology, infrastructure and speculative futures in Chinese and Sinophone visual cultures. She is currently preparing a monograph on the work of the Singapore-born British sculptor and printmaker Kim Lim (1936-1997), supported by a Paul Mellon Centre Mid-career Fellowship. Prior to joining faculty of the Courtauld, she worked in various curatorial positions at Tate Modern and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai. She has published essays and articles in numerous journals and catalogues, including Erika Tan’s Come cannibalise us why don’t you (2013) at the National University of Singapore Museum.

Erika Tan is an artist and curator whose research-led practice manifests in multiple formats including large installations, moving image, print, 3D works, publications, participatory and curatorial projects. Her research interests focus on the postcolonial and transnational, working with archival artefacts, exhibition histories, received narratives, contested heritage, subjugated voices and the transnational movement of ideas, people and objects. Tan was the Stanley Picker Fellow at Kingston University (2018) and is currently Reader of Contemporary Art Practice and MAFA Course Leader at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, and an Associate Researcher with the Decolonising Art Institute, UAL in 2020-2022.

Online Salon III: Oreet Ashery, Nadia Hebson & Judy Rabinowitz Price

Thursday 18 March 2021

Join us to hear Oreet Ashery, Nadia Hebson and Judy Rabinowitz Price in conversation with each other, for the third in our series of Online Salons to facilitate exchange and dialogue between the creative community around the Gallery. Each of the three artists has created significant bodies of work over recent years that have (re)considered the lives and work of other women artists.

Oreet Ashery is a former Stanley Picker Fellow whose award-winning web series Revisiting Genesis premiered at her Fellowship exhibition in 2016. Nadia Hebson is an artist based in Stockholm, who over the past year has been the Dorich House Museum Studio Resident remotely, and recently published her contribution to Dora: Dialogue’s on Women’s Creative Practice and ThinkingJudy Rabinowitz Price‘s recent exhibition at the Gallery The End of the Sentence presented her research on Holloway Women’s Prison.

The first two Online Salons featuring Larry Achiampong, Maeve Brennan & Erika Tan and Dani Admiss, Ben Judd & The Decorators are now available to watch in full online.

Online Salon II: Dani Admiss, The Decorators & Ben Judd

Thursday 17 December 2020

The Stanley Picker Gallery is delighted to host the second of its new series of Online Salons to facilitate exchange and dialogue between the creative community around the Gallery.

With COVID-19 changing how we operate as a cultural venue, our digital platforms have become ever more vital as ways of engaging with each other and with our audiences. We hope these gatherings will enhance our role as an “expanded studio”, where creative work is shared during its production, by inviting practitioners to gather online to share their working practice in an informal manner.

The second Online Salon features three of our current of Stanley Picker Fellows Dani AdmissThe Decorators and Ben Judd. They will be in conversation with each other about their Fellowship projects which are all collaborative in nature, draw on the Gallery’s locality in Kingston Upon Thames, and engage with our local community in different ways. Each project is at a different stage of development, so this will also be an opportunity for them to reflect and discuss the impact COVID-19 has had on their practices.

Dani Admiss is a curator and researcher working across the fields of design, art, technology and science. Her approach is framed by world-making practices and community-based research prioritising these as lenses to explore alternative forms of curatorial practice. Admiss has curated projects across the UK, Europe and internationally including at the Barbican Centre, Somerset House, MAAT, Lisbon and Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

The Decorators is an interdisciplinary design collective founded by Suzanne O’Connell, Carolina Caicedo, Xavi Llarch Font and Mariana Pestana in 2011. With backgrounds in landscape architecture, spatial design, curation and psychology, they work on spatial design projects that aim to reconnect the physical elements of a place with its social dimension.

Ben Judd is an artist based in London. His work examines collectivity and participation through performance, moving image and installation, enabling different forms of communities to be explored in relation to site and context. He often works with collaborators as a method to develop self-reflexive folk histories and construct temporary communities. Judd has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, recently including ICA, Art Night London, Whitstable Biennale and Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool.

Online Salon I: Larry Achiampong, Maeve Brennan & Erika Tan

Thursday 26 November 2020

The Stanley Picker Gallery is launching a new series of Online Salons to facilitate exchange and dialogue between the creative community around the Gallery.

With COVID-19 changing how we operate as a cultural venue, our digital platforms have become ever more vital as ways of engaging with each other and with our audiences. We hope these gatherings will enhance our role as an “expanded studio”, where creative work is shared during its production, by inviting practitioners to gather online to share their working practice in an informal manner.

The first Online Salon features three of our current of Stanley Picker Fellows, Larry Achiampong, Maeve Brennan and Erika Tan, who will be in conversation with each other about their Fellowship projects and how COVID-19 has impacted their studio practices.

Larry Achiampong is an artist whose solo and collaborative projects employ imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance and sound to explore ideas surrounding class, cross-cultural and post-digital identity. Achiampong is a 2018 Jarman Award-nominated artist and a 2019 Paul Hamlyn Award recipient (for Visual Arts) and has worked with major institutions on commissions, residencies and exhibitions with spaces including Tate Galleries, the Venice and Singapore Biennales, Somerset House and Transport for London.

Maeve Brennan is an artist based in London. Her practice explores the political and historical resonance of material and place. Working primarily with moving image and installation, she develops long-term investigations led by personal encounters. Brennan has recently had solo exhibitions at Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Finland (2019); Jerwood Space, London; Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin (both 2018); The Whitworth, Manchester; Spike Island, Bristol and Chisenhale Gallery, London (all 2017). She was the recipient of the Jerwood/FVU Award 2018.

Erika Tan is an artist and curator whose work is primarily research-led and manifests itself in multiple formats such as moving image, publications, curatorial and participatory projects. Tan’s work has been exhibited, collected and commissioned internationally including: The Diaspora Pavilion, (Venice Biennale 2017); Artist and Empire (Tate Touring, National Gallery Singapore 2016/7); Come Cannibalise Us, Why Don’t You (NUS Museum, Singapore 2014); There Is No Road (LABoral, Spain 2010); Thermocline of Art (ZKM, Germany 2007); Around The World in Eighty Days (South London Gallery / ICA 2007); The Singapore Biennale (2006); Cities on the Move (Hayward Gallery, London). Recent curatorial projects include Sonic Soundings/Venice Trajectories.

Artist Talk: Judy Price in conversation with Mo Mansfield and Mandy Ogunmokun

Wednesday 21 October 2020

To coincide with The End of the Sentence at Stanley Picker Gallery, artist Judy Price hosted an online conversation with Mo Mansfield and Mandy Ogunmokun about the issues affecting women in prison and the impact of the pandemic on this sector.

Since the closure of Holloway Women’s Prison in 2016, Price, Mansfield and Ogunmokun have been involved in the coalition group Reclaim Holloway, which has been actively campaigning for a Women’s Building to be included in the redevelopment of the former prison site. Reclaim Holloway have been working closely with Islington Council, the Community Plan For Holloway (CPFH) and grassroots organisations on the Women’s Building – a service hub helping vulnerable women stay out of the criminal justice system, a transformational space for the local community, and a positive legacy for the thousands of women held in Holloway prison over its 164-year history.

Mo Mansfield is a community organiser, advocate and feminist campaigner for prison abolition.  She has over 15 years experience working in the voluntary sector in both front-line and management positions at organisations such as Women at WISHWomen In Prison and the Women’s Resource Centre and currently works on Family Participation at INQUEST. Much of her work has focussed on providing independent support to criminalised women from a social justice perspective.  She is member of the Reclaim Justice Network; Reclaim Holloway; and is co-founder of the Holloway Prison Stories website. Mo was also part of the organising committee for Abolitionist Futures: the International Conference on Penal Abolition held in London in June 2018. Mo recently completed a MSc focussed on improving services for people with personality disorders. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow with the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative at the Open University.

Mandy Ogunmokun joined the Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust in September 2005 as a CARAT worker in HMP Holloway offering support in all areas of social issues as well as substance abuse. She became a senior worker within three years organising her own team of staff. Mandy has used her own journey of drug addiction and prison to inspire and motivate others and became an ambassador for both the Rapt Carat Team and the Phoenix Futures Interventions. In 2012, Mandy was awarded the honour of carrying the Olympic Torch to the Guildhall Hall and in 2013, she earned a Commendation from the Butler Trust for her dedication and skill in addressing the needs of women prisoners with substance misuse problems, going “above and beyond her role” to provide guidance and help for the women at HMP Holloway. In 2011, she established the Treasures Foundation to aid women with substance misuse issues and housing needs. Three years later, her tenacity and vision created three connecting houses in East London that are staffed day and night to provide continuous individual support for up to nine women. Mandy continues to connect with women’s prisons and help women find the treasures in themselves.

Judy Price is a London based artist who works across photography, moving image, sound and installation. A focus of her work is how art can create new perceptions of the experiences of individuals and social groups and arts’ effectiveness and relevance to collective struggles. Her practice involves extensive field research where she often draws on images and sounds from archival sources as well as from a sustained study of a place to explores sites and locations that are interweaved and striated by multiple histories, economies and forces. Palestine was an enduring focus of her work from 2004-2017.  She is course leader on the Photography (MA) at Kingston School of Art and is a senior lecturer in Moving Image (BA) at the University of Brighton. Solo exhibitions include Mosaic Rooms, London; Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London; Wingsford Arts, Suffolk; Stiftelsen 3,14 and USF Centre, Bergen, Norway. Group exhibitions and screenings include Delfina Foundation, Imperial War Museum, Barbican, Curzon Cinema Soho, Curzon Cinema Goldsmiths, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery. Price is an active member of Reclaim Holloway.

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Artist Talk: Judy Price in conversation with Pamela Windham Stewart

Wednesday 19th February 2020

The End of the Sentence presents artist Judy Price’s research into the history of Holloway Women’s Prison. The exhibition reflects on the impact of the criminal justice system on women and features new work by Price, archival material, and artists and writers invited by Price including Erika Flowers, Hannah Hull, Nina Ward, Katrina McPherson, Carly Guest and Rachel Seoighe. The project draws on networks, collaborations and relationships developed through Reclaim Holloway, which has been actively campaigning for a Women’s Building on the former prison site since 2016.

As part of The End of the Sentence, Price presents a new moving image installation in collaboration with Dorich House Museum, which features a bronze sculpture of a baby by Dora Gordine (1895-1991) commissioned for the Mother and Baby Unit at Holloway Women’s Prison in 1948. The soundtrack to the film explores incarcerated pregnancy, drawing on the writing and fieldwork of midwife Dr Laura Abbott and forensic psychotherapist Pamela Windham Stewart. The script is re-voiced by actors from Clean Break, a women’s theatre company whose members have lived experience of the criminal justice system. For the duration of the exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery, the original bronze sculpture, on loan from the National Justice Museum, will be on display at Dorich House Museum in Kingston, Gordine’s former studio home.

Pamela Windham Stewart has worked for over twenty years as a psychotherapist in several prisons, including HMP Holloway, where she has developed and facilitated therapy groups for mothers and babies who are incarcerated. Pamela lectures widely and is the founder of the Saturday Forensic Forum. She has a private practice and is a clinical supervisor. With Jessica Collier, she co-edited The End of the Sentence: Psychotherapy with Female Offenders (Routledge, 2018) from which the title of the exhibition is borrowed. This seminal book documents the rich and varied psycho-therapeutic work undertaken by dedicated specialists in HMP Holloway, and the often difficult environment where attempts to provide psychological security were often undermined by conflicting ideas of physical security.

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New Music New Functionalities:

Curated by Yuri Suzuki and Disegno
Friday 6 April 2018
at the Design Museum

An evening of talks and performances exploring the intersection between contemporary design and music, New Music New Functionalities examines the work of a series of practitioners breaking new ground within music and sound design. Yuri Suzuki will be joined by the product designer Vahakn Matossian from Human Instruments, a company that produces high-quality musical instruments for people with physical disabilities, and the artist Imogen Piper, whose ‘Encoded Revolt’ is a musical composition derived from the co-ordinates of airstrikes in Syria. The evening will feature a rendition of ‘Encoded Revolt’, as well as a live performance by the celebrated musician John Kelly, a member of the British Paraorchestra. New Music New Functionalities is part of a wider series of performances and talks curated by Yuri Suzuki and the quarterly design journal Disegno to celebrate Suzuki’s Furniture Music exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery.