Bow Open x Lindsey Mendick present A Personal Treasure
Friday 7th June 2024 – Sunday 25th August 2024
, 10:00am to 4:00pm
Bow Arts’ annual Bow Open Show showcases the talent and diversity of art being made across the charity’s artist community, selected by a guest curator. This year’s curator, visual artist Lindsey Mendick, invited submissions with her provocation “A Personal Treasure”, and has gathered work from 33 artists, various in media and all distinctly precious for sharing a treasured notion.
Lindsey Mendick, photo by Elissa Cray
Exhibiting artists: Haydn Albrow, Sadegh Aleahmad, Nicky Amin, Isobel Atacus, Joy Baek, Rachel Bailey, Hannah Billett, Rhys Brown, Christina Brown, Eleanor Burkett, Tommy Camerno, Catherine Chambers, Yuyang Chen, Micheal Coppelov Nathalie Coste, Piero D’Angelo, Laurie Fitzgerald, Emma Franks, Ben Goldnagl, Cecily Loveys Jervoise, Gaby Jonna, Woo Jin Joo, Katka Krajči, You Liang, Lindsey Jean McLean, Tabitha Powles, Harriet Richardson, Moussa David Saleh, Sila Sen, Cameron Ugbodu, Fredrix Vermin, Paul Westcombe, Maddie Yuille.
Laid out in a museum style under the gothic arches of the Nunnery Gallery, the show spans painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, video, and millinery, with small objects collected in intimate groups in vitrines. The exhibiting artists include some of Bow Arts’ brightest stars and growing talent, and the show is a chance to explore some of the most exciting art being made across east London.
Images, left to right: You liang Growing Up is an Animal Trap (detail) 2024; Cameron Ugbodu Das Kind mit den goldenen Knochen steht wieder auf ungebrochen (detail) 2023; Haydn Albrow Serious Quarrels (detail) 2024
Suitably eccentric and theatrical, Mendick’s selection of treasures ranges from a wearable Sicilian cassata cake (La Sicilianedde, Micheal Coppelov), a series of tufted swords embellished with ceramic teeth and trinkets (Serious Quarrels, Haydn Albrow), and fantastical sensory worlds drawn on coffee cups (Paul Westcombe). What artists have chosen to share is beautiful, both visually and personally: Cameron Ugbodu’s Das Kind mit den goldenen Knochen steht wieder auf ungebrochen (the child with the golden bones stands up again) gleams with gold and contrasting deep blue, reflecting on transformational reflection; You Liang’s Growing Up is an Animal Trap is a triptych of silvery soldered and printed shapes, delving into the artist’s younger years of growing up as a “Chinese queer individual navigating the complexities of growing up in a conservative town”.
Images, left to right: Tabitha Powles Frog 2023; Maddie Yuille A kiss 2024; Moussa David Saleh Nose To Cheek 2024.
There are also quieter, intimate treasured moments to be found through exquisite painting: Moussa David Saleh’s Nose To Cheek, Maddie Yuille’s A kiss, and Tabitha Powles’s Frog – referencing the treasured possession of a patient Powles cares for as a nurse. Not to be missed, Mendick’s Bow Open invites viewers to explore some of the most exciting work being made in London today through her unique curatorial lens.
The exhibition is accompanied by a carefully curated event programme, building on themes from the show, and including chances for visitors to take part in hands-on workshops run by Bow Arts artists.
Bow Arts’ annual Bow Open Show showcases the talent and diversity of art being made across our artist network, from our studios and spaces, as well as by our artist educators. This year’s curator is visual artist Lindsey Mendick, who has invited submissions with her provocation “A Personal Treasure”.
Working with clay and paint, join us for a hands on workshop with fashion and footwear designer Hernán Guardamagna. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!
An after-hours chance to explore this year’s Bow open, curated by Lindsey Mendick – and with our Nunnery Cafe open late every Thursday, finish the evening with a cocktail or a locally brewed draft pint.
How do objects and foods pass down memories? How do they inform who we are and the construction of our identities? These are the questions that root Yasmin Falahat’s hand-building workshop as we share, mould, and pay homage to the stories and archival powers that objects hold.
Rooted in core Qi Gong principles and ideas around energy cultivation, explore a movement practise that tends to our internal energy, which we will then transform into sculptures made from paper clay.
Reminisce with creativity as we create our own vibrant prints honouring cherished memories with fashion and footwear designer Hernán Guardamagna. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!
Drawing upon the centrality of love to her practice and her Hindu and Christian background, join multidisciplinary artist Cora Sehgal Cuthbert to make a mini, portable shrine as a means of loving and extending care to the world around us and ourselves.
An afterhours chance to explore the exhibition, alongside two exclusive live performances by exhibiting artists Sadegh Aleahmad and Harriet Richardson.
Drawing inspiration from the longstanding traditions of mask-making and masquerade in the Caribbean and Nepal, join artist Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell to create masks which embody folkloric storytelling and honouring nature through ritual.
Grounded in ideas around universal languages, dream states, and the deep memories that objects hold, join multi-disciplinary artist Haydn Albrow as we build our own clay vessels to act as carriers and homes for our dreams.
Who lived here before us and what does writing about their lives reveal about us? Taking inspiration from a walk in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, join artist Sheyamali Sudesh as we use writing and mixed media to root storytelling in our own history, local ecology and that of historical people from East London
Join fashion and footwear designer Hernán Guardamagna to design and customise your very own, unique overshoe accessories, inspired by a personal treasure. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!
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