16:9
16:9 is a billboard attached to the yard-side of Kingsgate Workshops. It's visible from the street and from Kilburn Grange Park. Kingsgate Project Space commissions new works from emerging and established artists specially for this site.
Now showing:
Chengxuan Xie
21 November - 14 December 2024
PV: Wednesday 20 November 6-9pm
Chengxuan (Jacky) Xie (b. 1997) is a Hong Kong based artist. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020, and subsequently completed his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2023. Recent exhibitions include Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, Grotto Fine Art presents, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong (2024); Impressions, Subtitle Labs presents, 79 Ledbury Road Notting Hill, London (2023); A Pig on the Tracks, curated by Catherine Li, 10 Greatorex Street, London; Autonomic Disorder, Ke Yi Gallery, Beijing (2023); and A Man, A Man and A Man (solo exhibition), Grotto SKW, Hong Kong (2021).
Previous:
Paul Becker
11 October - 2 November 2024
PV: Thursday 10 October 6-9pm
Paul Becker has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally with solo exhibitions at Marc Jancou, Switzerland in 2023, Mackintosh Lane, London in 2022, M_HKA Antwerp in 2017 and Le Salon, Brussels in 2013. He has worked with a wide variety of galleries, publishers and curatorial initiatives such as JOAN in London, Gallery Celine in Glasgow, MAUVE in Vienna and Juan de la Cosa in Mexico City. In 2022 How We Made ‘The Kick Inside’ was produced by JOAN publishing. In 2020 he was the Abbey Fellow in Painting at the British School at Rome. He is currently exhibiting in ‘Drawing the Unspeakable’ curated by Liza and David Dimbleby, at the Towner Eastbourne. He lives and works in London.
I Close My Eyes to Change the Weather by Sophie Lourdes Knight
8 - 30 March 2024
PV Thursday 7 March 6-9pm
The title of the billboard, “I Close My Eyes to Change the Weather,” comes from Nisha Ramayya’s poem “We Are Seen by the World / What Must Be Seen.” Like the string connecting a kite to its flyer, the poem explores themes of connection, belonging, and the bonds that tie individuals to their heritage and community. Starting with her painting titled “90”, Knight invert its imagery, transforming it into an invitation for action: “do”. Suspended high in the sky like a kite’s loose ribbon, the painting now floats in free fall, waiting for someone to act. The action of “do” is akin to pulling the ribbon tight, lifting the kite towards the skies.
Sophie Lourdes Knight is a multidisciplinary artist from California, USA. She studied at California College of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in 2014, and at the Slade School of Fine Art, graduating with an MFA in 2022.
Your love is like a heatwave by Catherine Parsonage
10 November - 3 December 2023
PV: Thursday 9 November 6-9pm
This new work for the 16:9 billboard draws together Theodore Gericault’s painting Raft of the Medusa (1819) and Martha Reeves and the Vandella’s track (Love Is Like A) Heatwave (1963). Your love is like a heatwave, comes from a series of work made in Brian Fooks’ (1954-22) house earlier this year; Brian’s house contains a collection of photographs, memories, and memorabilia from a lifetime’s fascination with soul music. Your love is like a heat wave is part of a group of paintings (a break-up album of sorts) which explores the expression of intense feeling in pop culture and painting: its power and potential for cliché.
Made with the support, skills, and kindness of Owen Bryant.
Catherine Parsonage (b. 1989 Birkenhead, UK) is an artist and educator, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2013. Catherine was the Freelands Painting Fellow at Bath Spa University 2021, the studio program fellow at Castro Projects, Rome 2018-9 and the 2016-7 Sainsbury Scholar at the British School at Rome. Selected exhibitions include Speed Date, Oceans Apart Gallery, (2023) Triangle, Freelands Foundation, London, (2022), Anecdotes & Attitude, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath, (2021) Notes in Green, Clima, Milan, (2019) and Convivium, Bosse and Baum, London. (2017-8).
Portal 23 by Sarah Pickstone
22 September - 14 October
PV: Thursday 21 September 6-9pm
Portal 23 is a new work by Sarah Pickstone made specifically for the 16:9 billboard - and part of an ongoing series. The imagery comes from a Greek vase in the Altes Museum, Berlin.
Broad art historical and literary connections are an important source for Pickstone’s work, especially in
relation to women’s history. An Allegory of Painting made for the Royal Academy of Arts looked at the
work of 18th century painter Angelica Kauffman and The Writers Series interpreted the work of writers
including Katherine Mansfield, Stevie Smith and Angela Carter. In Portal 23 the maenad – a follower of
the Greek god Dionysus – is taken to represent freedom of expression for all.
Pickstone studied at the Royal Academy Schools 1988-91, for postgraduate and undergraduate at the
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 1983-87. In 1991 – 1992 Pickstone won the Rome Scholarship in
Painting and spent a year in Rome, which had a significant impact on her work. Pickstone won First
Prize in the John Moores Painting Prize, 2012 where she had been a runner up in 2004.
Teaching is an important part of Pickstone’s practice. She has been a tutor at various UK art schools
and currently mentors at Turps Banana Painting School and the Royal Drawing School, both in London.
She is a member of Cubitt studios, an artist’s cooperative in central London.
With thanks to Ben Deakin @benjamin_deakin
Instagram: @sarahpickstone
www.sarahpickstone.co.uk
In the River by Rosa Loy
23 June - 15 July
PV: Thursday 22 June 6-9pm
Rosa Loy lives and works in Leipzig. She studied horticulture at Humboldt University Berlin and completed her BFA and MFA at the Academy of Visual Art in Leipzig. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in international art museums including Museum Bensheim (2023), in Bensheim, Art and Museum Centre Sinkka (2023), in Kerava/Helsinki, Frauen Museum (2022), in Wiesbaden, Museum der Stadt Bensheim (2020), Gutshaus Steglitz (2019) in Berlin, Pinakothek der Moderne (2019) in Munich, Drents Museum (2017) in Assen, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (2012), Fondazione Coppola (2019) in Vicenza, Space K (2021) in Seoul. Her works are included in the collection of major art institutions and organizations such as MoMA, MoCA in USA, Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Deutsche Bank in Germany, Busan Museum of Art in Korea.
Sawtooth Star by Anne Carney Raines
5 - 27 May 2023
PV: Thursday 4 May 6-9pm
Anne Carney Raines (b.1990) is a painter from Nashville, Tennessee currently living in London, UK. She completed her MA in Painting at The Royal College of Art in 2021 and is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. She has her BFA in painting from Indiana University, Bloomington. Recent exhibitions include London Grads Now at Saatchi Gallery, New Contemporaries 2021 at Firstsite Gallery, New Contemporaries 2020 at South London Gallery, her solo show Between the Acts at Wilder Gallery, and Uprising at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.
Collioure Sunset by Andreas Rüthi
14 January - 26 February 2023
PV: Friday 13 January 6-9pm
Andreas Rüthi was born 1956 in Zürich, Switzerland. He studied painting under Jan Sierhuis and Peter Reisma from 1987 to 1990 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. After his studies in Holland he worked from 1990 in London, where his early group shows include the 1990 touring show British New Contemporaries including young British artists such as Damien Hirst, Glenn Brown and Mark Leckey.
His much celebrated still life paintings where shown regularly from the mid nineties onwards in the Europe, the US and Australia.
Juxtaposing knick-knacks with postcards representing figures from the canon of 20th century art, such as Mondrian or Giacometti. In his unlikely partnering of objects with artists, Rüthi has staged these still-life paintings in a way where each carefully chosen item has a meaning and contributes to the overall resonance of the work, acknowledging the past-masters of the still-life painting: Chardin, Cézanne and Morandi. Since working in rural Burgundy and Collioure in the south of France, his subjects also include landscape paintings – made en plein air or from drawings and watercolours. These hybrid landscapes play with spatial and temporal simultaneity, where the light and colours from different times of the day co-exist in a single painting.
Collioure Sunset plays with spatial and temporal simultaneity, where the light of dawn and dusk co-exist, and the yellow mimosa, white almond blossom, lemon and orange tree are in permanent flower. Rather than reconstructing the experience of a unified perspective, the work is a collage of fragments investigating new possibilities held within the tradition of landscape painting.
Out of This World by Julia Adelgren
18 November - 10 December
PV: Thursday 17 November 6-9pm
The Journey by Sara Sigurðardóttir
30 September - 22 October 2022
PV: Thursday 29 September 6-9pm
Julia Adelgren (b.1990 Stockholm, Sweden) lives and works in Copenhagen. She studied at the Bergen National Academy of Art 2014-2016, and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in the class of Prof. Tomma Abts 2016-2020. Recent solo shows in London are The Watery Realm (MAMOTH Gallery, 2021) and Dragonfly Den (MAMOTH Gallery, 2022).
The billboard work is a slightly cropped version of the painting Out of This World, 2019 (110X130cm, oil on canvas). It was part of Adelgren’s first solo show at MAMOTH gallery titled The Watery Realm (2021).
Dietmar Lutz
7 - 28 May 2022
PV: Saturday 7 May 12-9pm
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 over Leith in Lockdown by Thomas Adam
1 - 23 April 2022
PV Thursday 31 March 6-9pm
Dietmar Lutz is an artist living in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied Fine Arts / Painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf graduating in 1997. In 1998 he co-founded the artist collective hobbypopMUSEUM. He has exhibited internationally, among others at Deitch Projects New York, Deste Foundation Athens, Anthony D’Offay Gallery London, Kunstverein Hannover and Emily Tsingou Gallery London. Currently some of his paintings are also on view at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
The picture reproduced and slightly enlarged to the size of the billboard is part of an ongoing project painting a picture every day.
The Journey is from a series of paintings by Sara Sigurðardóttir called “Journeyman”. The motifs found in the painting are from a vivid dream that Sara had, in the midst of making the series. The paintings in the series are a response to a time of great uncertainty and attempt to address our temporality.
Sara Sigurðardóttir is a Visual Artist, b. 1993 in Reykjavik, Iceland. She currently lives and works in London, UK. Sara graduated with a MA in Painting from The Royal College of Art in 2019, BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the Art Institute of Cumbria in 2016 and a Higher Diploma in Drawing from Reykjavik School of Visual Arts in 2014.
Sara’s practice focuses on the mystical experience and a search for wholeness. She utilizes dream symbols, visions and fragmented memories in order to conjure a version of reality which resonates with her personal experience. Radiant light beams, tunnels and openings guide the viewer into a hidden realm that exists alongside our own. A timeless state, in contrast to the worldly chaos.
My Bloody Finger - an ode to Kilburn by Josephine Wood
18 February - 19 March 2022
PV Thursday 17 February 6-9pm
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 over Leith in Lockdown was made during the depths of the first COVID lockdown in May 2020, at a time when the entire world appeared to be housebound and venturing to the shop felt like a risky undertaking. In an ethereal contradiction to this painful and monotonous reality we all faced, on May 30th, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was due to pass over Edinburgh, transporting two astronauts to the international space station orbiting the Earth. The launch took place in Cape Canaveral in Florida, with the rocket due to be visible in the skies of Edinburgh 15-20 minutes after its launch. Large groups of skywatchers broke their one hour exercise limit and gathered on top of Edinburgh’s dormant volcano Arthur’s Seat to catch a glimpse of the rare sight, along with those lucky enough to have west facing windows.
Due to the bright Scottish spring evenings I wasn’t able to spot the Falcon 9, I don’t think anyone did. However, I like to think of this happening (or in reality, a non-happening) as inspiring collective feelings of hope and the sublime, escapism at its finest from the confines of Leith in Lockdown. Despite the disappointment of not actually seeing the rocket, the strong sense of hope for the future I was left with prompted me to reimagine the event as something that actually manifested, imagining how it would have looked and felt. Solidifying this event as a mental turning point that everything was going to be alright.'
Thomas Adam is a Scottish artist and MA Royal College of Art graduate (Print 2018) currently practicing in Edinburgh. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Chemtrails Over Camberwell’ at Arusha Gallery, March, 2022, London. Previous exhibitions include ‘Safari of Sorts’ Ltd Ink Corporation, June 2021, Glasgow, and ‘Lightning Without Thunder’ Solo Exhibition, Arusha Gallery, 2019, Edinburgh. Adam was recently awarded the J and W Gordon Smith Prize for painting in November 2021.
'I grew up in Kilburn in the 1970s-80s and played in Grange Park as a child. My family lived on Kingsgate Road. I have a lot of fond memories of the area; it was an integral part of my childhood. This painting is of a memory of an accident I had in Grange Park as a kid where my finger broke in half. I was on roller skates with my bloodied finger hanging off; an image that still haunts and fascinates me today. Making this painting is like a return to the scene of the crime and an ode to Kilburn, and the joy and pain of childhood.'
Josephine Wood was born and lives in London, UK. Her work has been exhibited widely in the UK and Internationally, in and outside of mainstream galleries. Exhibitions include: Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, Whitechapel Gallery, Turps Gallery, London, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, The Horse Hospital, London, Global Art Container, Estonia, Royal Academy of Art, Belgium and Mishenmarche Gallery, Berlin. In 2019, she was nominated for the The Arts Foundation Futures Award by Marcus Harvey. She also facilitates community arts projects with marginalised groups and in prisons.
Touch by Sofia Stevi
19 November 2021 - 31 January 2022
Touch, a new work by Sofia Stevi, was made during one of the lockdowns. It is about the loss of getting together with people, and the ongoing loss and fear of touch.
Sofia Stevi (born in Athens 1982), a graduate of Central Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design in London, lives and works in Athens. Selected exhibitions include: “the somnambulists”, solo show at Alma Zevi Gallery, Venice (2021), “we don't have to learn something new”, solo show at Pippy Houldsworth, London (2019),“turning forty winks into a new decade”, solo show at the BALTIC museum, Gateshead, UK, (2018), “lizzie & laura”, solo show at The Breeder gallery, Αthens (2017), “The Equilibrists” – Benaki Museum, Athens, co-organised with the New Museum in New York and DESTE Foundation, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari and Helga Christoffersen (2016).
Mediated Meditation by Ye Qin Zhu
18 September - 6 November 2021
Ye Qin Zhu (b. 1986 in Taishan, China) received an MFA from Yale University in 2020 and a BFA from the Cooper Union in 2010. He has exhibited extensively in the East and West Coasts, USA. Currently on view till mid-October is "CONSTELLATION," a series of 6 sculptures throughout Governors Island, New York City; and "A Universe," an instrument-dwelling in the shape of a giant bottle-gourd made of cob and plaster at Beam Camp in Stratford, NH. Zhu is based in New Haven, CT and Brooklyn, NY.
Impermanent Collection (La Négresse, Pourquoi! Naître esclave? Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux 1873, Why Born Enslaved?) by Maslen & Mehra
14 August - 4 September 2021
Tim Maslen studied Fine Art at Curtin University, Perth and completed an MA at Goldsmiths University, London. Jennifer Mehra studied Fine Art at City Art Institute, Sydney and the National Arts School, Australia. Maslen & Mehra have worked collaboratively since 2000. Highlights: Arts Council of England grant for their ongoing work Cash, Clash & Climate (2015 -). Work from this series was presented as a solo exhibition at the Hastings Museum, UK in 2017 and was included in an exhibition selected by Jenni Lomax, Melanie Manchot and Brian Cass at the Towner Contemporary (July 2016). They exhibited work from this series in the exhibition The Fall Of The Rebel Angels in Venice in 2015. Solo exhibitions have been staged in New York, London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Dubai, Istanbul, Toronto, Perth, Sydney and Berlin. In 2011 there was a solo presentation of their work staged at General Hardware Contemporary for the Scotiabank CONTACT International Festival, Toronto. Their work is included in the Altered Landscape Collection, Nevada Museum of Art and the stunning accompanying book titled published by Rizzoli. A monograph, Mirrored –Maslen & Mehra was published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg in 2008 with texts by Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Curator, Eugen Blume and art historian, Edward Lucie-Smith. Earlier projects include an installation at the Frissiras Museum, Athens during the Olympics (2004), a sculpture installation exhibited at Artspace, Sydney (2002), and a solo project at Dilston Grove, London achieved with awards from the Henry Moore Foundation and London Arts (2001).
Over twenty years of collaborative art www.maslenandmehra.com
Flayed by Jasmine Pajdak
1 - 25 July 2021
Strip the red cabbage leaves into boiling water. Let them simmer until the water turns thick with colour. Drain. The flesh should feel soft under thumb and easily punctured. Lie it down on cotton sheets, held between folds of paper and compressed by weighted boards. The paper needs to be changed every 2 hours over the course of 3 days, sleep light and be vigilant. As the water drains, the leaves will flatten and dry. The acrid smell of sulphur you have lived with will turn sweet. Peel from bed and holding the leaves up to the light see veins and arteries.
Jasmine Pajdak graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art in 2019 and previously studied at the Royal Drawing School and Falmouth University. Recent solo exhibitions include Sweet Nowheres, Little Gallery, Calgary, Canada (2018). Group exhibitions include: On Holding, Lambeth Court House, London (2020); And in me too the wave rises, Lewisham Art House, London (2019); What a Relief!?, CGP Gallery, London (2019); Becoming and Dissolving, Alice Black Gallery, London (2017); and Lexis over Land, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall (2017).
Letting Fresh Air In by Ella Belenky
20 May - 12 June 2021
The window is a dream — an exit that is also an entrance.
An opening marks a point of in-between: a layered collage linking inside and outside. Through its repetition, the window becomes a metaphor, a frame-work for transformation in both physical and digital space. It is through this layered entanglement of windows that reveal states of surveillance, transparency and our current heightened awareness of the air around us.
Ella Belenky (b. 1991, USA) is a visual artist currently based in London, UK. Ella completed her undergraduate BA in studio arts at Bard College in Annandale, New York (2013) and her MA in print at The Royal College of Art in London, UK (2019).
Ella has created a reading list that gathers together a range of books and articles that have influenced her billboard work - view the reading list
Kick About by Lydia Hamblet
7 April - 16 May 2021
Kick About is a new work for the 16:9 billboard by Lydia Hamblet which is a continuation of her series focussed on encounters in local sports pitches. Best viewed from Kilburn Grange Park.
Lydia Hamblet (b.1995) is a London based artist whose work takes the form of installations, public interventions and large scale prints for both public spaces and galleries. She received her MA from the Royal College of Art and previously her BA from Camberwell College of Arts. Recent group exhibitions include London Grads Now at Saatchi Gallery, RCA x Slade Degree Show at Kristin Hjellergerde Gallery, Public Notice: An Exhibition of Public Installations in East London and Against the Grain at Southwark Park Gallery. Lydia has also been awarded the Clifford Chance Printmaking Purchase Prize for 2020.
(for now) by Kobby Adi
16 November - 31 January 2020
Kobby Adi graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, London in 2018 and is currently studying at the Royal Academy Schools. Solo exhibitions include: like a lit match in a NU-FREEZER; held, Constance Howard Gallery, London (2018); Bad Nu Days, NU ARKHIVES, Accra (2018); and Supernatural Feetwashing, Centre of Pan African Thought, London (2017). Selected group exhibitions include ITEOTW, Apparently (with Mimi Hope), Kupfer, London (2019); and Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Biennial and South London Gallery (2018). In 2018 Kobby was awarded the Christine Risley Award and was selected to be part of the Art Quest Peer Forum programme at Camden Arts Centre.
CABBAGE by Maisie Cousins
21 September - 6 November 2019
Maisie Cousins (b. 1992) is an artist living and working in London. Maisie completed a BA in Fine Art Photography at Brighton University in 2014. Recent solo exhibitions include: dipping sauce, Elephant West, London, 2018 and grass, peonie, bum, T J Boulting, London, 2017. Group shows include: In The Company Of, T J Boulting, London, 2018; Unseen Photo Festival, Amsterdam, 2018; and Foam Talent, Travelling show, 2019. Earlier this year, Maisie published a new book Rubbish, Dipping sauce, Grass, peonie, bum. with Trolley Books, London.
WOMEN ARE ART SCHOOLS by Nadia Hebson
13 July – 16 September 2019
GREAT MOTHER SPHINX
WOMEN ARE THE REAL LEFT.
WE ARE RISING WITH A FURY OLDER THAN THE FORCE OF HISTORY.
THIS TIME WE WILL BE FREE OR NO ONE WILL SURVIVE.
Power to all the people or to none
WOMEN’S LIBERATION
Monica Sjöö, 1969
WOMEN ARE ART SCHOOLS takes as a starting point artist, writer and activist, Monica Sjöö’s 1969 handmade poster, GREAT MOTHER SPHINX. In response WOMEN ARE ART SCHOOLS is both an invitation and a provocation to consider the possibilities of art school and the potential of those who identify as women. Made in collaboration with artists Sophie Buxton, Tess Denman-Cleaver, Anna MacRae, Ailish Treanor, Sophie Soobramanien and Heather Reid, the image documents the reading group, an open reading project which explored the subjective female voice in literature and film, from 2013-19 at the Northern Charter, Newcastle upon Tyne.
WOMEN ARE ART SCHOOLS Library
To accompany the billboard commission Nadia has designed a portable library with material relating to the reading group, as well as recommendations from participants and literature relating to women’s art education. The library will travel to other venues where it will accumulate further recommendations. All material is available to loan. The library will be on display in our gallery until 19 October 2019, open Thursday to Saturday during exhibitions.
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Nadia Hebson (b. UK) works across painting, large scale prints, apparel and texts, working obliquely with the legacy of women artists her practice has sought to comprehend the relationship between painting, biography, persona and clothing, most recently through a consideration of the legacies of painters Christina Ramberg, Winifred Knights and Marion Adnams. Who she conceives as fictional mentors. Alongside her practice she convenes conversations, seminar series and reading groups, with the intention of making visible creative female friendships.
Recent exhibitions and conversations include Speaking With Her, Royal College of Art, London, Gravidity & Parity &, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; one on one: on skills, The Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, EKKM, Tallinn, Material Matters, KKH, Stockholm, I See You Man, Gallery Celine, Glasgow, Alpha Adieu, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, M HKA and Choreography, Arcade, London. In 2014 with AND Public she published MODA WK: work in response to the paintings, drawings, correspondence, clothing and interior design of Winifred Knights (an expanded legacy). In 2017 with Hana Leaper she co-convened the conference, Making Women's Art Matter at the Paul Mellon Centre, London. She is currently working on a new publication which explores the work of Christina Ramberg and her creative female circle.
Nadia Hebson lives and works in Stockholm and is Senior Lecturer in Painting at the Royal Institute of Art. Her practice and teaching have developed through a close consideration of art education and the provocation An appropriate Fine Art education for women?
Jupiter Rising (Onion of Ecstasy) by Nora Berman
18 May - 1 July 2019
For this 16:9 billboard commission, Nora Berman is interested in having the billboard function as an access point to the power of Jupiter, the planet that represents opportunity, fortune, and wisdom. Her approach was to paint the work as a portal, an area elevated in space that invites you in through your gaze, to contemplate the idea of expansion that Jupiter symbolizes. The work portrays abstracted depictions of her figure that drift in and out of each other, void of gravity, in front of the faded planet.
Part of this cosmic expansion is achieved by monumentalizing the artist’s unrestrained femininity pictorially, portraying uncontrollable pubic hair that travels around the picture plane. The nipples of the figures are also portals, cyclone like figures that ground the female figure into a celestial like form, a metaphor for humanity’s bond to the expansive cosmic force of Jupiter. Berman approaches painting as giving; giving energy from her hand, via her cognition, via her soul, in the spirit of Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck. The title of the work, Jupiter Rising (Onion of Ecstasy), describes a meditation on the tears of ecstasy that come through unravelling the fruitful fate of Jupiter.
The work is a photographic reproduction of a large scale oil painting on muslin made to the actual size of the billboard.
Nora Berman (b.1990, Los Angeles) holds a BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles and MFA from Kunst Institut Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland. She will be an artist in residence this Spring at La Becque in Vevey, Switzerland. Solo and two-person exhibitions: Downs & Ross, New York, Weiss Falk, Basel; Ellis King, Dublin. Selected group exhibitions: dèpendance, Brussels; Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Longtang, Zürich; Mickey Schubert, Berlin; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Honolulu, Zurich; Ellis King, Dublin; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany; and Château Shatto, Los Angeles.
What did Tigress say? by Lauren Godfrey
30 March - 27 April 2019
For the 16:9 billboard commission, Lauren Godfrey has super-sized a drawing that was originally created live in the window of Selfridges department store in London in February 2019. Lauren collected clothes from the shop floor and drew a ‘pattern portrait’ of the garments. Prada rubs up against Topshop, which bustles alongside Kenzo with a dash of JW Anderson – their folds and undulations, flattened onto the drawing’s surface, are distilled into a blur of colours and textures, existing as a sort of alluring and abstracted landscape. The drawing – now enlarged and displayed on a billboard – becomes an exercise in ambiguous advertising, disorientation and immersion.
Lauren Godfrey (b. UK) is an artist based in London. Her work invites interaction and collaboration, often swerving close to furniture or the quasi-useful. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include Hidden Harlequin with Lauren Coullard at Centre For Recent Drawing, London; Alimentari solo show at Geddes Gallery, London; House Work, 53 Beck Road, curated by Art Licks; Doing Easy, Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree; a swimwear display for Karen Mabon at Les Filles in Lisbon and a jewellery display for SVP at House Of Voltaire, London. Godfrey was in residence at Triangle, New York in 2016 and Kingsgate Workshops, London in 2015. Godfrey has an upcoming show at De La Warr Pavilion and a residency at Villa Lena, Italy in 2019.
One More Round, Caitlin Akers
17 November 2018 - January 2019
This 16:9 billboard is a continuation of Caitlin Akers’ research into the language, history and poetry of boxing and the lives of her ancestors who were famous boxers from Salford in the early part of the 20th century. The work touches on ideas of class, barriers, divides, masculinity, fighting and talking. The photograph for the billboard was taken by the artist at the Eccles Boxing School - a boxing gym situated in an old cotton-spinning mill in Salford.
Caitlin Akers (b.1987) lives and works in Manchester and recently graduated with an MA from Camberwell College of Arts (2018). In September 2018, she was commissioned to create a series of prints for b-Side Festival in Dorset. Recent group exhibitions include: MA Select Showcase, Camberwell Space, London (2018) and Xhibit, Bermondsey Art Space, London (2017). She has artist books in many private and public collections, including the University of West England’s Centre for Fine Print Research Collection. Caitlin received a European Cultural Foundation grant in May 2018 and an Academic Residency Fellowship at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice in 2017.
Investment Opportunity, Marisa J. Futernick
25 August - 3 November 2018
Featuring a new photographic work that continues American artist Marisa J. Futernick's ongoing interest in real estate, property, and place. The billboard is accompanied by a new publication by the artist, and a third element—a short film—presented on Saturday 22 September.
Marisa J. Futernick was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. Futernick attended Yale University; Goldsmiths College; and the Royal Academy Schools, London. She has exhibited at venues including the Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Jerwood Space, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Outpost, Norwich; Rice + Toye, London; and Yale University. She has published several books, including 13 Presidents (Slimvolume, 2016), How I Taught Umberto Eco to Love the Bomb (RA Editions and California Fever Press, 2015), and The Watergate Complex (Rice + Toye, 2015). Her new short film about Trump Tower was exhibited by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in April 2018. After living and working in London for over 15 years, Futernick recently relocated to Los Angeles.
The North is Next by Joy Gerrard
30 June - 28 July 2018
Drawing on over a decade of image-making and research on themes of protest and urban space, Irish artist Joy Gerrard archives and painstakingly remakes media-borne crowd images from around the world. For Kingsgate’s 16:9 billboard commission, Gerrard has chosen to represent a contemporary event. On the 25th of May 2018, Ireland voted with a high majority to repeal the Eighth Amendment which made abortion illegal in Ireland. On the following day, a huge crowd gathered in Dublin Castle to hear the final count announced. Gerrard’s billboard image is a monochrome ink drawing based on a photo-collage of images from that day. A sign is held aloft that reads; “The North is Next”. The moment is both an emotional celebration and a protest. In Northern Ireland abortion is still criminalized, and the issue is currently ping-ponged between a collapsed Assembly in Stormont and Westminster. The result in Ireland has left the North with some of the most illiberal abortion laws in Europe. It’s time for change.
An edition of giclee prints and badges are available to buy on our website's shop page or at our gallery shop, open Thurs to Sat 12-6pm during exhibitions. All proceeds will go to Alliance for Choice.
Joy Gerrard (b. 1971, Ireland) lives and works between London and Belfast, and graduated with an MA and MPhil from the Royal College of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include shot crowd at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2017) and Protest Crowd, Peer UK, London (2015). Selected group exhibitions include: Graphic Witness at the Drawing Room, London (2017) MAC International, Belfast (2016) and In a Dream You Saw A Way To Survive and You Were Full of Joy; Hayward Gallery Touring show (2016), (2015). She has installed multiple public installations including major works for Facebook and Tideway in London in 2017/18 and also in the London School of Economics (Elenchus/ Aporia, 2009) and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (Assemble/Move/Map, 2012).
Fox Irving & Katarina Kelsey
26 May - 24 June 2018
Bedridden Aunts
Fox Irving & Katarina Kelsey have looked into the marginalia of their practices in their first collaborative project: capitalist sorcery, forced translation, catharsis and queer performance. This is the first time these two antipodal artists have worked together, and during the process they have formulated a method for working, sharing and expanding their practices. In fortnightly reading groups they looked at societal structures and their disruption in the form of silence (as an unrecognisable language, as flesh in the incorporeal archive, irresolution) and met every three weeks to make work together.
The billboard represents what happens in the margins of the space outside their work; the fragments of text, responses, moments and fractures that occur within the reuleaux triangle.
Fox Irving is currently an artist / producer based at the Live Art Development Agency (LADA), London as part of the Live Art Desk Scheme www.foxirving.com. Katarina Kelsey makes prints, books and writes www.katarinakelsey.co.uk. They met whilst studying Book Arts at Camberwell College of Arts (2015). They will be continuing this shared experimental practice at Metal, Southend, August 2018.
Gideon Rubin
7 February 2018 until 14 April 2018
This new billboard commission coincides with Gideon's exhibition of new works BLACK BOOK at the Freud Museum London. Download the press release here
Gideon Rubin (b.1973) is an Israeli artist based in London. He received his BFA from School of Visual Arts in New York and MFA from Slade School of Art in London. He has had numerous international solo exhibitions, the most recent include 'Memory goes as far as this morning: A dialogue between Gideon Rubin and Shu Qun' at Chengdu MoCA, 'Memory Goes as Far as This Morning' at Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art Israel/San Jose ICA (2015/16), 'Questions of Forgiveness' at Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris (2016), 'Delivering Newspapers' at ROKEBY, London (2015), and 'On the Road' at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco (2013).
Selected group exhibitions include ’The Reading Room’ at Rokeby, London (2017), ‘Nourish', Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA (2015) 'Disturbing Innocence' at Flag Art Foundation, New York, 'Daily Memories' at Klosterhaus in Magdeburg, Germany (2014), 'To Have a Voice' at the Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow and 'Kunstlerkinder' at Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (2012), 'Lines Made By Walking' at Haifa Museum of Art and 'Facelook' at Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011), Beijing Biennale at the National Art Museum, China and ‘Family Ties’ at Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2009). Gideon Rubin received the 'Shifting Foundation' grant in 2014 and Outset residency program, Tel Aviv in 2013.
Mondragon from the series The Man with The Midas Touch - A Botanical Index Of Narcissus, by Anna Skladmann
18 November - 16 December 2017
This work was shown as part of the exhibition ripe in the main gallery alongside works by Bea Bonafini, Paloma Proudfoot, Gery Georgieva, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Jala Wahid.
Anna Skladmann (b. 1986, Bremen, Germany) graduated in 2017 from the Royal College of Art and previously studied at Parsons School Of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include: A Memory of a Ceremony, The Vinyl Factory, London, 2013; 1991, Zurab Tsereteli's Art Gallery, Moscow, 2013; 1991 - Generation Putin, Upper Orange Gallery, Berlin, 2012 and Little Adults that toured: State History Museum, Chelyabinsk, 2013; History Museum, Ekaterinburg, 2013 and Museum Of Modern Art, Moscow, 2012. Anna’s work is included in a number of permanent collections, including: The Maramotti Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Stiftung für die Hamburger Kunstsammlung and The Pinault Collection.
Alice Hartley
2 September - 4 November 2017
Alice Hartley graduated in 2013 with an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, having previously graduated with a BA in Illustration and Animation from Kingston University in 2010. Recent exhibitions include; Site Strike, Pi Artworks, London (2017), In This Soup We Swim, Kingsgate Project Space, London (2016), Follow Me Around the Room, London Print Studio, London (2015), and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London (2014). Alice was awarded the For Grace residency in Athens, Greece in 2016, and the Tim Mara Residency at Calgary University, Canada, in 2012. She has also worked on album artwork for the band Slow Club, and recently collaborated with fashion designer Sophie Cull Candy for her SS17 collection.
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
21 July - 19 August 2017
Everybody else is wrong. It’s an idea reinforced by our physical and virtual echo chambers every single day. In an ever-more connected world, our world-view grows increasingly isolated. Algorithms ensure we’re only ever confronted with views that support our own. The rest? Well that’s fake news and trolls.
We’re plummeting into the abyss, with no way to process the 24 hour news cycle of atrocities, bombs, murders, riots, disaster and destruction. So we look elsewhere for our monsters. And we find own particular demons, because it’s comforting to assume that each crime is committed by the devil we know. We see the world through a prism of our own assumptions.
So, who’s to blame? It’s the media. The Tories. Islamists. The old (or the young). Snowflake libtards. Republicans. Benefit scroungers. Gays. Blacks. The EU. Bankers. The Russians. Hipsters. Anarchists. Zionists. The metropolitan elite. Stupid northerners. Illegal immigrants. Islamic State. Corbynistas. Jews. Trump supporters. Soap dodgers. Globalisation. Google. Facebook. Liberals, moderates. Hate preachers. The New World Order. New Order? Who really cares? In our post-truth world of finger-pointing, whistle-blowing and virtue-signalling.
We want to decontextualise the accusation; to examine the role we play in creating insular neighbourhoods. We want to try and afford the scope for self-questioning. We’re all drawn to people and ideas that reinforce our own truths, but what better tool could there be for bursting out of the echo chamber than each other?
Text written by Iain & Jane to accompany the work.
(Pyramid, Pink), 2010 by Jack Pierson
26 May - 25 June 2017
This work was shown as part of the exhibition The Man with Night Sweats in our main gallery. This exhibition was inspired by the energy generated within the bourgeoning gay/queer cultures that emerged out of the changing political and social landscapes of the 1960s and 70s. It included works made in the last 10 years that emphasised how this energy persists and transforms amid the constant change of recent histories. It featured work by Steve Farrer, Neil Haas, Dietmar Lutz, Mike Silva and Jack Pierson.