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27/7/2011

A Future Pump House

Pump House Gallery, London

Wandsworth Council is pleased to announce ‘A Future Pump House’, a group exhibition curated by Nick Aikens.

The exhibition will feature new work by invited artists Jonathan Allen, Simon Faithful, Christian Jankowski, Thomas Kilpper, Bik van der Pol, Henry VIII Wives, and Richard Wentworth. Selected students from the Royal College of Art and residents from within the Borough of Wandsworth will also be included following an open call-out.

‘A Future Pump House: Ideas, Thoughts and Plans’ takes at its starting point the position the gallery (and public galleries across the country) finds itself in following significant spending reviews. Galleries must ask pertinent questions; What is their role? Who do they serve, and how? What part will collaboration play in the Pump House, and other galleries futures?

These questions are equally pertinent for the council itself, Wandsworth residents, students of the RCA, artists who have benefited from exhibiting at the Pump House previously and emerging artists, keen for a place to show their work. ‘A Future Pump House’ is a series of reflections carried out by - and concerning - all of these people: a selection of ideas, thoughts and plans.

The question over the future direction of the Pump House is both a serious and relevant one. Yet, the exhibition aims to avoid an overly analytical or dogmatic approach. ‘A Future Pump House’ is as much a playful proposition, alluding to a set of imagined futures or solutions for the gallery and the building – futures that might be outside the realm of realistic possibilities. By inviting artists and participants to indulge in the notion of ‘future’ the exhibition places artistic and imaginative, as well as practical ideas alongside each other, and in so doing ask which will best equip us for what lies ahead.

A programme of talks and events will also accompany the exhibition more info at www.pumphousegallery.org.uk

Notes to editor:
Pump House Gallery is a public contemporary visual arts space on the lakeside in Battersea Park, South London. The gallery is owned, managed and funded by Wandsworth Council and plays a leading role in the cultural life of the borough. It is the highest profile public visual arts space in Wandsworth, attracting over 30,000 visitors a year.

Nick Aikens is currently Associate Director of Outset Contemporary Art Fund. In 2010 he graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art where he completed the MA: 'Aestheticising Politics? The Political in Globalised Contemporary Art'. Nick completed his BA from the Courtauld in 2004. He was gallery director of Allsopp Contemporary from 2005 - 08. In 2008 he curated an exhibition of work by Alex Hoda at the University of the Arts gallery in Davies Street, London. He is also a writer; contributing to a number of publications on emerging artists and, more recently, Frieze magazine.

For more info contact:
Laura Eldret leldret@wandsworth.gov.uk Tel: + 44 (0) 20 8871 7572

Image: With lake portrait LOW RES courtesy Dan Wilton

Private View: Thur 28 July 6.30 - 8.30pm
Curators Tour: Thur 28 July 5.30pm

Pump House Gallery
Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ
Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday and Bank Holidays 11am - 5pm
Friday and Saturday 11am - 4pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday and during exhibition installations
Free admission

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