First Thursday Lates: Music Night with Gusty Ferro and Joseph Ijoyemi
Thursday 6th February 2025 , 6:00pm to 9:00pm
An afterhours chance to explore this year’s East London Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition (6pm-9pm) alongside two exclusive live music performances by exhibiting artists Gusty Ferro and Joseph Ijoyemi (7pm-8pm).
Bow Art’s East London Art Prize celebrates the talent and diversity of art made by east London artists. This exhibition will present 12 incredible artworks shortlisted for the second iteration of the Prize. Read more about the exhibition here.
For this special late opening, Gusty Ferro will be activating their shortlisted installation Untitled (2024) by dismantling and assembling elements of the work. Using contact mics and electronic devices, the interactions with the materials in displacement will create live soundscapes. The performance will explore notions of tension between the body, objects, and the physical infrastructure that surrounds us in the city.
Building on from his shortlisted work Revival Boats (2023) for his live performance, Joseph will be performing Fragments (2025) live, a sound piece featuring recordings from his recent journey to Ondo, Nigeria, where he worked closely with traditional goldsmiths and blacksmiths. Drawing on the authentic sounds and conversations Joseph documented, the performance will serve both as a tribute and a living archive, invoking the importance of remembering ones roots and honouring cultural legacies passed through generations.
The Nunnery Café will be open for the duration of the evening, serving drinks and a range of tasty snacks and refreshments.
Please note, the performances will take place between 7pm-8pm in the Nunnery Gallery.
More about Gusty Ferro
Gusty Ferro works across sculpture, video, sound, and drawing. Ferro considers their approach a form of personal cartography, one that centres and the ‘other’ as witness to the shifting dynamics of control, negotiation, and desire to shape public space. They graduated in BA Visual Arts at Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo in 2011 and participated in the fine arts roaming programme School of the Damned (2019). Ferro has exhibited extensively across Latin America and the UK, including at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, SWG3 Gallery, Abingdon Studios (Blackpool), Palmer Gallery (London), Manchester Contemporary, and Centro Cultural São Paulo. Hello Neighbours is their first solo project in London, currently happening at TACO! (SE London). Ferro will graduate from the Royal Academy Schools postgraduate programme in 2025.
More about Joseph Ijoyemi
Joseph Ijoyemi is a Swedish-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist whose work combines diverse materials and imagery to tell stories fuelled by life experiences, cultural conversations, and a deep connection to his heritage. His output includes sculptures, multimedia installations, and sound performances, through which he shapes conversations around the African diaspora. Ijoyemi holds a MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. He has previously won the prestigious Helen Scott Lidgett Award, and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Prize 2023. His works were exhibited at Camden Art Centre, London, and Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023. Joseph is co-founder of The Collective Makers, and organisation that mentors and empowers young creatives, and he was recently awarded the MEAD Fellowship at UAL for his project Tracing Roots: Exploring Nigerian Heritage Through Ondo’s Treasures.
Access information
The Nunnery Gallery has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Tues-Sun, 10am to 4pm
Address: Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
