Exhibitions
2024
LICK, Safehouse 1, London. April 12th-14th, 2024
Bollington Arts Centre, Macclesfield, October 2024
Haines & Watts Exhibition Space, Exeter. Dec 2024 - March 2025
2023
‘DO NOT SWALLOW’, Safehouse 1 + 2, London. Sept 18th-24th
co-curator & exhibitor.
Held in two extraordinary, derelict Victorian buildings, Do Not Swallow is a not-to-be-missed provocative invitation to art-lovers to take a bite, chew, and savour the content of the artworks on display before digesting them in one of the largest exhibitions of its kind in London.
The selected works will be by more than 60 acclaimed international artists, painters and sculptors.
Too often, we are expected to swallow anything, gulping down ‘fake news’ or partial information as if they were the whole truth. The exhibiting artists - a collective from Turps Banana Art School, London - believe that a good meal should not be unconsciously swallowed. It’s time for a redress.
Menu across the exhibition rooms
Consumption: These artists indulge in a banquet. They consume resources in a manifestation of abundance. Swallow down quickly.
Mastication: These artists chew on those hard to define truths. Forms get stuck in the throat, all jumbled up, eventually coalescing into a distinct flavour. Chewy yet tasteful.
Poison: These do not shy away from difficult and painful subjects, addressing personal or societal problems. Ingestion can cause illness or death.
Nourishment: These focus on the hopeful, the beautiful, and the resplendent. They find inspiration in the appetizing world. A pleasant enrichening plate.
Artists
Joanne Boyle, Rivkah Gevinson, Elspeth Penfold, Alice Carr, Pennie Lordan, Penny Green, CD Lewis, Victoria Snazell, Alison Berry, Zelga Miller, Peter Driver, Sarah Ria Mursal, Laura L Bell, Emma Withers, Nick Ivins, Cathy Hayes, Jane Peacock, Matthew Swift, Blandine Martin, Beata Kozlowska, Julie Goldsmith, Hermione Carline, Joy C Martindale, Eliana Marinari, Nicole Heinzel, Mel Pozniakow, Chloe S Moncrieff, Elaine McCracken, Vivienne Baker, Samantha Fellows, Jen Chau, Helen Baines, Sophia Vigne Welsh, Misa Gott, Roger Healey-Dilkes, Frances Ross, Sarah Praill, Caitlin Heffernan, Maeve Curtis, Kirsty Fionagh Robson, Janine Hall, Giuseppe Iozzi, Niall Cullen, Louise Evans, Phil Woodward, Alexandra Beteeva, Susan Montgomery, Louise Harley, Jane Merriman, Helen Scalway, Darina Meagher, Eugenia Cuellar, Djuro Selec, Frances Wren, Moussa David Saleh, Frances Watts, Zoë Rivas Zanello, Emma O’Rourke, Jason Gregory, Hitoko Urago, Jo Fleming Smith, Tania Skeaping, Emma Davies, Susan Montgomery, Sharon Lacey
It is with great excitement that we announce that a group of Turps Art School students will be showing their works in MUD, FOR YOU at The Fitzrovia Gallery in London, from the 28/03 - 2/04. Join us to celebrate together at the PV, on the 31/03 at 6pm.
“The pigment itself is reverse alchemy, a gold that becomes shit in our studios, and our task is to try to turn that shit back into gold" - from Amy Sillman's book ’Faux Pas’, 2020.
As illustrated in this book, all painters speak of their paints becoming “mud”, and this happens with any other medium too. All artists struggle to turn muck, grime and filth into something one will see as an artwork.
The 25 international artists included in this exhibition see their work stem from a deep engagement with the medium, an exploration of its possibilities for the contemporary world, and the necessity to shift between countries and contexts. Enrolled at Turps Art School, they share an affliction; a compulsion to make and to reinvigorate each other's work.
The works on display are the simple by-product of hours of alchemic research and inevitable mistakes, however, it is only by working through the mud, by putting it out there and throwing it on the walls of galleries, that it can become something else.
"It is by serving our mud to you in this gallery, that we attempt to elevate the mess we make. Here is our mud, for you."
Haines & Watts Exhibition space, Exeter. Dec 2022 - March 2023