Be afraid, 2019, machine knitted wool tapestry
3000 × 1900 mm
edition of 5 + AP

Photography: Douglas Atfield

Thames-Side Studios Gallery
Harrington Way, Woolwich, London SE18 5NR
1 – 16 February 2020

New Doggerland is a new multi-disciplinary artists project for a future imagining of physical and cultural re-connection between Britain and the European mainland. Doggerland is the name given to the ancient landmass, now submerged, that once connected Britain to Northern Europe. What if a new land mass rises up and we become physically part of the mainland again? New Doggerland is a project about future land and humans. It asks questions to which the exhibitors and participants respond with different ideas and answers. Who will be living there and how? It may evoke a Ballardian dystopia, or ideas of possible Utopia. Or could New Doggerland be the heterotopia where we go to experience ‘other’ selves, a place of becoming?

Exhibiting alongside: Fran Burden, Clare Burnett, Alison Cooke, Richard Ducker, Elaborate Kingdom, Deborah Gardner, Oona Grimes, Sula Hancock, Nicky Hodge, Melanie King, Sarah Kogan, Jo Lawrence, Jane Millar, Stephen Nelson, Sarah Sparkes and Virginia Verran.

Curated by Jane Millar

Photography: Justin Piperger

Messums Wiltshire
Place Farm, Court Street, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6LW
9 March – 28 April 2019

An exhibition of works by artists working in tapestry and textile from 800 AD to the present day.

Exhibiting alongside Anni Albers, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Adam Belcher, Louise Bourgeois, George Braque, Antoni Calvé, Oscar Dominguez, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Roger Fry, Magne Furuholmen, Liam Gillick, Ashley Havinden, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Des Hughes, Kurt Jackson, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth, Francesca Lowe, Goshka Macuga, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Christian Newby, Ben Nicholson, Pablo Picasso, John Piper, Laure Prouvost, Alan Reynolds, William Scott, Nicholas de Staël, Hans Tisdal, Rosemarie Trockel, Gavin Turk, Keith Vaughan, Paule Vézelay and Henrik Vibskov.

A colour catalogue is available from Messums.

Photography: Steve Russell

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Das Kühlhaus Berlin
Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 Berlin, Germany
16 – 18 November 2018

EXCHANGE BERLIN is an international exposition of artist/curator-led presentations loosely underpinnned by ideas around transnational localism. EXCHANGE BERLIN encourages integrated, collaborative and even spontaneous modes of exhibition and critical evaluation. The aim of all Sluice projects is to offer an independent alternative to the dominant organisational paradigms whilst demonstrating a belief in the importance of international engagement for otherwise local projects.

Exhibiting with the Blackwater Polytechnic alongside EMC Collard, Ben Coode-Adams, Fiona Curran and Justin Knopp.

Read Resistant Materials, an essay by Ben Coode-Adams and Freddie Robins (Blackwater Polytechnic) in Sluice magazine, Inter/nationalism issue, Autumn/Winter 2018

Photography: Ben Coode-Adams

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M100, Exhibition Centre for Contemporary Art, Søndergade 26, 5000 Odense, Denmark
7 – 30 September 2018

Resistant Materials is an exhibition about how to live out of the centre, outside a framework of mutual endeavour and shared values.
The view of landscape from the city is very different from living in it. Being here in Essex there is not all that much romance. Here in this landscape it is mainly by turns muddy or dusty. It is dark. I become overwhelmed by colours. The birds are staggeringly loud. There is never quiet. A strimmer or chainsaw is always struggling to carve a clear space. This land is resistant. It bites and stings, catches at your clothes, and obstructs you at every turn.
Ben Coode-Adams

All four artists in the exhibition work with stuff, actual physical things produced with skill and craft.
I very much like physical material because it is uncompromisingly visual. I am naturally distrustful of text and words, of theory. I like action.
Ben Coode-Adams

Exhibiting alongside: Ben Coode-Adams, Fiona Curran and Justin Knopp.
Curated by Ben Coode-Adams/Blackwater Polytechnic

Photography: Kirstine Mengel

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