Visions Programme 1 led by Rosie Gibbens
Saturday 4th October 2025 – Sunday 9th November 2025 , 10:00am to 4:00pm
Artist Rosie Gibbens will lead Programme 1 of Visions in the Nunnery in 2025
Rosie Gibbens makes performances, videos, sculptures and photographs that feature her body. Using absurd humour, she explores the slippery overlaps between identity, labour and consumer desire. Gibbens brings to Visions her intrigue in the technologically augmented body and will present her work and the films selected from the open call in an installation that will take over the gallery.
Visions offers an informed overview of the provocative and quick-changing mediums of moving image and performance, presenting works from across the world. Each Visions presents two to three exhibition and event programmes and invites lead artists, renowned for their innovation in the digital field, to head and inspire each one. The ideas of the lead artists support the selection process and set the tone for the wider exhibition.
Established in 1999, Visions has exhibited artists including Oreet Ashery, Tacita Dean, Ori Gersht, Dryden Goodwin, Susan Hiller, Mikhail Karikis, Tina Keane, Lawrence Lek, Uriel Orlow, Hetain Patel, Heather Phillipson and Nye Thompson, many at the very early stages of their careers. Not to be missed, Visions gives viewers the unique experience of a curated conversation of filmmakers from across the world.
Visions in the Nunnery is curated by artist and selector Tessa Garland with Sophie Hill, Director of Arts and Events at Bow Arts.
The Open Call for the 2025 edition of Visions in the Nunnery is now live. To submit work, click below to find out more.
About Rosie Gibbens
Rosie Gibbens makes performances, videos, sculptures and photographs that feature her body. Using absurd humour, she explores the slippery overlaps between identity, labour and consumer desire. She often makes sculptures that combine household gadgets with sewn body parts. These are brought to life through low-tech chain reactions in the performances/ films. Rosie playfully blends bodies with objects to unpack and question the prospective future body as it becomes increasingly ‘optimised’ by technological augmentation. The mindset behind her work is of a nonsensical product demonstration combined with a perverse children’s TV show.
Solo exhibitions include Muta at Pippy Holdsworth Gallery, 2025 and Parabiosis at the Bomb Factory in 2024. In 2022 Gibbens was winner of the Ingram Prize, ‘Founders Choice’ award and undertook a Sarabande Residency funded by the Alexander McQueen Foundation.
About Bow Arts
Bow Arts creates inspirational, supportive environments where artists and communities interact, learn and flourish. Since 1994, Bow Arts has nurtured London’s diverse creativity and talent, providing artists and creative practitioners with affordable workspace, connecting them with local communities and supporting their professional development. Bow Arts give communities throughout London greater access to and interaction with the arts, through their schools programme, workshops, exhibitions and events.
Housed in a former 19th-century convent building, surrounded by artist studios, the Nunnery Gallery is Bow Arts’ not-for-profit art space. The programme pushes boundaries with an original and creative approach that explores the stories of east London and celebrates today’s artistic talent.
Access information
The Nunnery Gallery and Cafe have 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
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.
Address: Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Opening hours: Tues-Sun, 10am to 4pm
