Sv12 members' show
dal 21/2/2012 al 30/3/2012
Segnalato da
Holly Antrum
Emi Avora
William Cobbing
Katie Cuddon
Inez De Coo
Anita Delaney
Melanie Ezra
Ana Genoves
Rose Gibbs
Celia Hempton
Kevin Jacobs
Nnena Kalu
Mawuena Kattah
Colin Lindsay
Damien Meade
Jimmy Merris
Ben Newton
Pat O'Connor
Kate Owens
Veronika Rettich
Helen Robertson
Neil Rumming
Martina Schmuecker
Andrew Seto
Michael Stumpf
Avis Underwood
Clifton Wright
Mike Nelson
Jenni Lomax
21/2/2012
Sv12 members' show
Studio Voltaire, London
The exhibition includes the work of 27 artists based throughout the United Kingdom and include a range of approaches to art making, such as sound, video, photography, painting, drawing, installation and sculpture. Among the artists: Kevin Jacobs, Colin Lindsay, Jimmy Merris, Kate Owens...
Selected by Mike Nelson and Jenni Lomax
Holly Antrum/ Emi Avora/ William Cobbing/ Katie Cuddon/ Inez De Coo/ Anita Delaney/ Melanie Ezra/ Ana Genoves/ Rose Gibbs/ Celia Hempton/ Kevin Jacobs/ Nnena Kalu/ Mawuena Kattah/ Colin Lindsay/ Damien Meade/ Jimmy Merris/ Ben Newton/ Pat O'Connor/ Kate Owens/ Veronika Rettich/ Helen Robertson/ Neil Rumming/ Martina Schmuecker/ Andrew Seto/ Michael Stumpf/ Avis Underwood/ Clifton Wright
Studio Voltaire’s members’ exhibitions aim to showcase the strength and diversity of its membership, which currently comprises over 400 artists. Now in its eighth edition, the exhibition has developed a reputation for spotting emerging talent and bringing it to a wider audience. Previous artists have included: Laura Aldridge, Sara Barker, Juliette Blightman, Pablo Bronstein, Keith Farquhar, Anthea Hamilton, William Hunt, Doreen McPherson, Public Works, Stephen Sutcliffe and Markus Vater.
This year’s exhibition includes the work of 27 artists based throughout the United Kingdom and include a range of approaches to art making, such as sound, video, photography, painting, drawing, installation and sculpture. The selectors were drawn to work that had a strong and unique voice. Works include: Jimmy Merris’ Doing the downturn or finding your feet in the times of the worried man’, a ‘YouTube’ style video of two young men doing “a macabre dance heavily influenced by West-African polyrhythms, shamanistic ritual and the occult in general, and dying and living”, performed in Long Johns and Shoefayre pumps purchased from Rye Lane, Peckham and performed in their kitchen; Damien Meade’s somewhat grotesque oil paintings of figurative forms rendered out of clay and other materials; William Cobbing’s Bamiyan Mirror series, a set of photographs taken during a residency in Afganistan which reference Land Art, particularly Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacement series; And Martina Schmuecker’s Feedback Room, a sound installation exploring the relationship between memory and language.
For the first year, one artist will be awarded the Members’ Show Award by the selectors, along with Joe Scotland (Artistic Director, Studio Voltaire). The artist will be given the opportunity to make a solo presentation in Gallery 2 as a part of Studio Voltaire’s future gallery programme and be given £1,000 towards the production of new work. The Members’ Show Award will be publically announced at the Preview of the exhibition.
Mike Nelson is an artist.
Jenni Lomax is the Director of Camden Arts Centre.
Image: Jimmy Merris, doing the downturn, or finding your feet in the times of the worried man, video, 2010
Preview: Wednesday 22 February 2012, 7 – 9pm
Studio Voltaire
1a Nelsons Row, London
Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm
Admission free