NEWS: Exhibitions, Talks & Interviews
For Silent Disco in August Davis exhibited Gateway 24 (part of teh Gateweay series) made especially for Graham Crowley.
Here’s a little excerpt in text:
”I made a judgement about Rosalind’s approach and what she aspired to do is what she inspired to.
“The gateway series are not something about being sold, they are about talismans, tokens about respect and generosity. She has reflected my work with her choice of materials….coupled with her preoccupation with architectural space and the narratives of spaces. For me its the constant idea of an elastic space, its not constant, every time I look at it I see something different…the works are an elastic space its all about inference but its also ambiguous…
There’s something so well judged about the tone and opacity…that I find fascinating…”
a space arts workshops x 3 with Rosalind Davis.
Autumn 2024.
Free! More info & booking (required)- click here
RESILIENCE & SUCCESS WITH ROSALIND DAVIS X ART & PEOPLE IN CONVERSATION
TUESDAY 2nd July 11AM - 12PM (via zoom)
40 min conversation + 15 mins Q&A
Price: £7 concessions / £10
Tickets: For sale on eventbrite here
Welcome to a virtual event where we delve into building resilience, understanding success and value with art professionals Rosalind Davis and Claudia Kennaugh.
Claudia and Rosalind are both mentors and have shaped a conversational talk with a unique opportunity to gain insights and advice as there are no straightforward paths to being an artist.We are here to help you!
Format: 40 min conversation + 15 mins Q&A
Topics that will be discussed:
Why artists need to be resilient
How artists can be resilient
What does success look like?
Different ways to measure success
How to build a community / peer crit group.
How to seize and make the most of opportunities.
Advice going forward.
About us.
Art & People is a Bristol-based art advisory service offering guidance to artists and collectors. Founded in 2019 by Claudia Kennaugh in response to 15 years working in the arts as a musician and performing artist, then gallery partner and art advisor at Hollywood Road Gallery, London. Claudia has been a judge on the Jackson’s Painting Prize and is an artist mentor on the BBC One TV programme Make it at Market Series II. She brings her dual experience to support artists’ professional development with 121 sessions, talks, tutorials and workshops to foster artist communities - including Artes Mundi, Bow Arts Trust, Farnham Maltings, Kindred Studios, Spike Island, Visual Artists Ireland and Wimbledon Art Studios. Art & People hosts an annual charity exhibition, Precious Postcards. The open call collection is an opportunity for largely unrepresented artists to sell their works to collectors and showcase to galleries, whilst raising funds for FoodCycle.
Rosalind Davis is a Curator, Artist, art consultant, teacher /mentor, writer and designer.
Davis has curated over 30 exhibitions to date and recently an ambitious group show at Arthouse Jersey r 2023 andwas the Curator at Collyer Bristow Gallery in London 2016 -20. Independent curatorial projects have been curated Trace Elements | 1971 at The Factory Project produced by Thorp Stavri, London (2021) Athens Art Fair- Platforms, Athens (2023), and Standpoint Gallery, Arthouse1 and Geddes Gallery, London. Davis co-directed Art Organisations Zeitgeist Arts Projects (2012-15) at Bond House Gallery (ASC) and Core Gallery 2010-12. Davis is co-author of ‘What they didn’t teach you at art school’ and lectures at universities, galleries and organisations across the world including the RCA, ICA, Camden Arts Centre, UAL.As an artist Davis has exhibited nationally and internationally and work is held in a number of private and public collections including Soho House.
Insta: @rosalindnldavis
Rosalind Davis , Artists in Conversation May and June. Free and all welcome
Andrea V Wright 24 May at 4pm, Thames- Side Gallery /Studios, Harrington Way, Warspite Road, Greenwich, London, SE18 5NR
Diana Taylor, 1 June at 3pm, Bobinska Brown Lee, 36 Great Pulteney Street W1F 9NS
More details below.
“Andrea V Wright’s “Eyes of Skin” presents an evolving installation with accompanying sculpture, delving into the multifaceted aspects of her artistic practice. By bridging digital technologies with handmade and appropriated objects, the exhibition explores the permeability and interactions between the body and architecture, as well as the tensions arising from the ever-changing precariousness of our external and internal constructed environments.
Wright’s exploration of materiality and tactile engagement also examines the intricate interactions between this human and environmental physicality and the garments with which we adorn ourselves – drawing on her background in fashion.
Visitors can transcend the boundaries of perception, immersing themselves in an experience that unravels the layers of texture, depth, and emotion embedded within our surroundings. “Eyes of Skin” challenges the traditional exhibition format, offering a holistic experience that inspires and captivates in an ever-evolving state.
By reimagining skin as an active participant in shaping our emotional landscape rather than a passive receptor, Wright invites us to embrace the profound interconnectedness between ourselves and the world we inhabit. The exhibition blurs the lines between reality and illusion, providing an immersive journey into the creative process. Spanning the gallery space and a dedicated residency area, “Eyes of Skin” unfolds as a living, breathing entity over its two-week duration.” - Thorp Stavri
OTHER EVENTS
ARTIST TALK - Saturday 25th May 4-5pm - I will be in conversation with Rosalind Davis
BREAKFAST RECEPTION & TOUR - Saturday 1st June - Led by curators Eric Thorp and Nicholas Stavri
In this conversation we will discuss new paintings in Diana’s show Borrowed Time as well as her wider work. The themes in Diana’s work revolve around loss and ruin, disruption and reconstruction, dismantling and repairing in these layered paintings, which include complex processes, wide ranging content and materials.
In the talk we will also glean an insight into Diana’s journey into become an artist and influences in her work and wider topics including resilience and turning points in her career….
In Borrowed Time, Taylor presents a series of new paintings and collages, layering images drawn from her collection of printed ephemera spanning various histories across nature and culture. The title refers both to the urgency of the times we live in, seen through the ruptured images of plants and organic forms, and also plays on the working methods of picture appropriation. Taken from botanical guides, tapestry patterns, colouring books, graph papers and engraved illustrations, Taylor oscillates between analogue, mechanical and digital strategies of scanning, cropping, printing and assembling as a way of reconstructing history. An ongoing concern with ruination and things falling apart is echoed in the process of ‘un-painting’- exposing the swaying between decision and indecision.
The paintings become a kind of archival archaeology, dissolving of past and present temporal boundaries, reflecting the atemporality or poly-temporality which marks our contemporary condition. The narrative rupture of the past, as experienced in the many revivals which haunt the present, is translated through the re-presenting or material presence of the past which sometimes reappear as fragments. Through processes of re-materialisation, assembling digital and mechanical print technologies with traditional handcraft processes, within the realm of painting, Taylor seeks to create new meanings appropriate to this current hyper-complex temporal multiplicity.
Continues 8/6.
a-n. Session 1 | Funding for artists: Different approaches with Rosalind Davis.
Friday 16 February 2024, 12:30-2:30pm
Info and booking here.
“We’re starting with a module about money. Specifically, how you ‘make it’. Over three sessions with different art professionals you’ll learn how to get ahead of the game and give yourself the best chance of winning that grant, smashing that crowdfunding target, and simply boosting your income now and in the future. Using a mix of theory and hands-on practical exercises, you’ll come away with a new set of tools to give you the best chance of securing funding…”
Through an artist-centred approach, Rosalind will run through the different types of funding out there, tactics to employ for each, and top tips. Davis graduated from RCA & Chelsea College of Art & works within painting and installation & has exhibited nationally & internationally in a wide range of galleries and has had a no.of solo shows in London. Davis is also a curator of over 30 exhibitions & is an art consultant, teacher, writer ofWhat they Didn’t Teach You in Art School and a designer.
The talk is Online via Zoom
Free for a-n members. Registration required. Membership to a-n starts with student membership at £16 & allow you access to all 3 of the seminars plus so much more including opportunities, webinars, professional practice toolkits et al.
Live captions will be available.
A video of the session will be made available to attendees after the event.
H-M-S at PLATFORMS PROJECT 2023
26th – 29th October 2023
Technopolis City of Athens, Gazi.
The theme of H-M-S Platform is PLOT
• a small area of ground
• a schematic or technical drawing showing variables
• a chart, map, or graphic representation
• the story that is told as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
• a devise for the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
• secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
• plan secretly, usually something illegal.
Curating PLOT 5 as part of H-M-S is Rosalind Davis
Participating Artists:
Sasha Bowles, Rosalind Davis, Justin Hibbs, Jillian Knipe, Kate Murdoch and Joanna Whittle (UK)
See more here
H-M-S is an artist led initiative built on the success of Harrington Mill Studios (2007–18). The studios and gallery were established by Jackie Berridge to provide work spaces and opportunities for artists. As well as hosting shows by local, national and international artists, the studios also organised artist exchanges and exhibitions in Chicago, Seoul, Stockholm, Honfleur and Athens.
Other PLOT Curators: Jackie Berridge, , Wendy Williams/Basement Arts, Cynthia Harrision Or, Sean Williams & Fronteer
No Place Like Home
Wednesday 6 September to Sunday 15 October 2023
At ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House + unexpected locations around the Island
Capital House, 8 Church St., St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK.
Tuesday to Sunday 10:30am - 6pm. Closed Mondays
There is also a programme of talks and events throughout the show and audio interviews available.
Included in the Jersey Evening Post and Forbes
Head over to the Curatorial Projects place here!
ArtHouse Jersey presents No Place Like Home, an ambitious multi-disciplinary exhibition that reaches beyond the gallery to locations around Jersey. For this exhibition twenty-three artists build a rich narrative that delves into personal stories, global issues, childhood memories, and speculative worlds as well as the bleak realities of the current housing market to look at a broader concept of home and what it might mean today.
Curated by Rosalind Davis and Laura Hudson. Home may be a sanctuary or a place of danger, it might be stable or temporary, intimate or shared, rooted for generations or a refuge in times of need. Home might be a person, place or planet, a community to which we belong or contested land no longer available to us. We may all yearn for a Home, but homes are full of histories, meanings and tensions; charged with political, social and economic realities they are subject to both external forces and internal dramas. ‘Home’ means something important and different to each one of us.
For this exhibition ArtHouse Jersey has commissioned new work by Ana Čvorović (Bosnia/UK), Sasha Bowles (UK), Justin Hibbs (UK), Will Romeril (Jersey), Lindsay Rutter (Jersey) and Lisa Traxler (Isle of Wight/UK).
Alongside the commissions the curators have selected existing work by artists who resonate with the broad ranging themes of No Place Like Home including: Jananne al-Ani (Iraq/UK), Rachel Ara (Jersey), Jackie Berridge (UK), George Bolster (Ire/USA), Peter Jones (UK), Daria Koltsova (Ukraine/UK), Peter Liversidge (UK), Harriet Mena Hill (UK), Kate Murdoch (UK), Ravelle Pillay (South Africa), Saba Qizilbash (Pakistan/UAE), Martha Rostler (USA), Judith Tucker (UK), Joanna Whittle (UK), Eddie Wong (Malaysia/NZ) and Andrea V Wright (UK).
About ArtHouse Jersey
ArtHouse Jersey is a charitable arts organisation that serves the Island community and wider audiences by supporting artists from Jersey and across the world to create and present ambitious work. ArtHouse Jersey manages studios, provides residency opportunities, offers development grants and provides spaces for developing new work. ArtHouse Jersey runs an exhibition space at Capital House in St. Helier and two salons for live events and pop up shows at their HQ, Greve de Lecq Barracks, as well as working with schools and local communities to deliver education and outreach programmes throughout the year.
Website:www.arthousejersey.je Facebook:www.facebook.com/arthousejerseyTwitter: @ArtHouseJersey
Image created by Rachel Ara and Laura Hudson.
I am delighted to be the invited Curator for this fantastic organisation with @uknewartists that I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with over uthe years
CALL FOR ARTISTS - UKNA’s 6th Weekender Residency - Friday 27 to Sunday 29 January 2023, generously supported by Hotel 4C Group Canopy By Hilton London City hotel.
The Weekender is an opportunity to take some time, meet other artists, collaborate and replenish thinking and possible directions for your practice.
I will be supporting the artists, curating our programme for the weekend leading workshops and talks with special guests….
We are offering artists an amazing & FREE! opportunity to work and spend time at the Canopy by Hilton London City Hotel. A hotel is a transitory and a temporary place for its visitors with its own ebb and flow. A place which brings people from all over the world together and Canopy by Hilton London City Hotel is situated in an established and diverse neighbourhood in East London renowned for its arts and cultural heritage and complex and layered history and is at a unique intersection of London by the River Thames.
Participating artists will be offered
* £250 stipend
* Your own room at Canopy by Hilton London City hotel
* All meals will be provided by Canopy by Hilton London City hotel
* All travel to and within London
Application Deadline: Monday 21st November at 10am
More info via the UKNA biog. Get applying!
The exhibition title speaks of outsiders, those who have journeyed from far or near to come into a space that isn’t their own. It is unclear whether these visitors are welcome or something far more unsettling. The title conjures film and TV associations that include horrific, extra-terrestrial, even paranormal visitations. Equally it shares its name with the last album by a certain palindromic Swedish pop group – until that is, 2021 brought the unexpected return of ABBA. Visitors bring joy and energy to our homes and dining tables. Some visitors know when to leave, and some habitually overstay. Visits from an interfering relative, a pair of cultish religious doorknockers or a mob of officers of the law are to be endured & hastily curtailed, while the visit of a migrating kettle of swallows or drift of swifts carry only delight that one hopes becomes frequent. The artists in this exhibition at the newly re-opened Morley Gallery are visitors on the Morley Fine Art Mentoring Course.
It is unimportant which artist visits carried which of the above associations for which mentees. The value of a healthy visitors’ book is that conversations are unexpected, idiosyncratic & (ideally) challenging. Mentoring is not a one-way imposition of knowledge and experience. Mentoring is a live and active two-way discussion about how artists (mentees and mentors) think, make and evaluate art works. This exhibition further extends the role and engagement of the mentors to include a third party. Gallery visitors are welcomed in to engage with, consider and critically evaluate the paintings, sculpture, video, drawings, installations that represent the polyglot voices and disparate studio practices of the artist-mentors. You are invited to visit the gallery to experience the dialogues, exchanges and spin-offs that occur when these nine artists’ works are gathered together.
Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT Preview: Wednesday 17 November 6-8pm
18 November – 4 December 2021 Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 1-5pm
Nearest Tube: Lambeth North or Waterloo.
Read it here.
See more on the Curatorial Projects page here.
Rosalind Davis Curatorial Project for The Factory Project produced by Thorp Stavri
Trace Elements | 1971
Artists: Hermione Allsopp,Fabio Almeida, Sasha Bowles, Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs, Richard Perry, Lex Shute, Lisa Traxler, Andrea V Wright.
9- 22 October 2021, 12-6pm plus events - see below.
The Factory, Thameside Industrial Estate, Factory Road, London, E16 2HB. Nearest Tubes: City Airport, Silvertown, Pontoon Docks
https://www.insidethefactoryproject.com/
Free Entry but booking essential. Book here.
Read an In-depth interview with Rosalind on FAD about her curatorial ideas behind the project and some of the highs and lows of 2020/1
Insights and tips into Curating Lecture. How to curate an exhibition and make it a success with Rosalind Davis.
“Intellectually stimulating and well thought through, Rosalind curates the smartest exhibitions of new and emergent art in London. Brilliant…” Graham Crowley, painter, writer, curator
· An insight from an experienced Curator in developing ideas about an exhibition or project to elevate its premise.
· How to locate a space for your exhibition
· Roles and responsibilities of a Curator
· Ideas about fund raising for your exhibition
· Strategies on marketing and how to maximise the curatorial exhibition opportunities
Read more and book your free ticket (essential) here.
Trans_Formations II is Laurent DeLaye gallery's Summer Exhibition second instalment. The exhibition refers to the process in art and many of its manifestations.
The exhibition presents contemporary artists in a wide variety of media including embroidery (Jessica Voorsanger), flint sculpture (Drew Edwards), paintings and collage (Lucy Troubridge, Fabio Almeida, Rosalind Davis), ink monotypes and works on paper (Katrina Blannin, Bérénice Mayaux, Ruth E. Rollason), stoneware ceramics (Duncan Cheetham), porcelain (Steven Geddes), paintings (Russell Chater, Robyn Litchfield), and an etching and aquatint by Salvador Dali.
Laurent Delaye Gallery
1 Addington Street
Ramsgate, CT11 9JN
+44 7798 606 780
Rosalind Davis. Exit Strategy.V.7.Mixed media on canvas. 70x70cm. 2020.
Rosalind Davis Interviews Robert Dunt of ArtTop10 about his piece in Silent Disco
Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs Collaborate with Jamal Sterrett | ITV Creates
Rosalind, Justin and Jamal’s ident for ITV Creates brings together two distinctly modern forms of Art for the very first time; Jamal’s otherworldly expression of the little-documented contemporary dance form ‘Bruk-up’ with Rosalind and Justin’s immersive sculptural Installations that confound perceptions of space.
This is a highly innovative collaboration with ground-breaking potential, pushing both artistic practices into new territories. It is a pioneering first, both in terms of a meeting between these specific art forms but also representing the premier exposure of this dance form on a mainstream cultural platform to a mass audience.
The creative collision of Contemporary Visual Art and Bruk-up Dance not only merges two complimentary artistic forms but also importantly extends the rich shared cultural heritage of British and Jamaican culture.
See more here.
Helping artists build momentum.
The pandemic has changed the future and opportunities for artists, both digitally and in live events. In a new era, how do artists sell more art and create lasting momentum? The VAA Summit focuses on spearheading conversations with worldwide leading experts and a practical session featuring artists, galleries and art advisors as the World reopens.
This event is members only, if you are struggling to find your member password please get in touch with us at hello@visual-artists.org. Alternativily, if you are looking to join the VAA and secure your place at the VAA Sales Summit 2021, please follow the link here.
Rosalind Davis will be giving a lecture at 2.30pm during the summit on Creating Your Artist’s Unique Selling Point (USP). You can watch a short interview with her here.
The Art of the Interview: Rosalind Davis - Artist, Writer and Curator
.ART has for mission to support and help the creative community to generate value from their art. Many of our interviews and articles are pointing in this direction. They are success tips, stories told by people who try an avenue before you. Today we feature an interview by an artist (and much more) who wrote one of the books published earlier this year in our blog post "Books that will help you moving gear with your artistic endeavours". Learn more directly from her.
Interview with artists, writer, curator, mentor... Rosalind Davis
25 March. 11am.Free
About this Event
We would like to invite you to our Online Art Café featuring Curator, Artist, Consultant, Writer, Teacher and Mentor, Rosalind Davis. Series 2 Ep 3; discussing how to survive and thrive as an Artist plus how to represent yourself in a new art world.
This talk is about giving you the tools, to empower and encourage you to be inventive and entrepreneurial in your career as well as with your art to make thriving as an artist a more tangible and realistic possibility. Rosalind Davis is co-author of ‘What they didn’t teach you at art school’ commissioned by Octopus Books which is internationally distributed across the world. COVID-19 has brought about huge changes to how we communicate and sell art, and we will discuss how artists can best position themselves to take advantage (online and offline) of a newly emerging art world. This session is for artists of all levels… Professional Artists Art Students and Creatives at any stage of their career.
Rosalind Davis is an artist-curator and a graduate of The Royal College of Art (2005) and Chelsea College of Art (2003). As an artist Davis has exhibited nationally and internationally and has had a number of solo shows in London: no format gallery, the Bruce Castle Museum, John Jones Project Space; Julian Hartnoll Gallery and The Residence Gallery. She lectures at universities, galleries and organisations across the country including the RCA, ICA, Camden Arts Centre. University of the Arts and for Artquest.
Connect with other artists and be supported in growing your arts business.
Closure of the Collyer Bristow Gallery:
Collyer Bristow remains a passionate supporter of the arts and, over the past 30 years, the firm has become well-known for the distinctive contemporary art exhibited within its offices.
The pandemic has sadly put an indefinite hiatus on our gallery programme and, since the firm has moved to an interim office (ahead of relocating to a long-term home), we will now look to support the arts in new ways until our gallery can be reimagined in a future location. As a result of these circumstances Rosalind Davis will be leaving her role as curator of the Collyer Bristow gallery.
We thank Rosalind for her four years of dedicated curation, transforming the gallery space time-after-time with thought-provoking and imaginative works from emerging artists. She is a truly talented curator and artist who, through her ambitious and creative exhibitions and commitment to championing the gallery and its artists, has created a lasting legacy at Collyer Bristow. We hope to have the opportunity to work with her again in the future and we wish her well in her next exciting ventures. We are having an ongoing conversation with Rosalind about possible future projects with Collyer Bristow.
Steven Heffer, Head of Gallery Committee, Collyer Bristow
Image left: Sasha Bowles installation in The Immaculate Dream.
Unit 1 Gallery Talk with Stacie McCormick
Talking art, curating, writing books and much more! You can watch it on their Instagram here
Winter Salon at Laurent Delaye Gallery
Winter Salon is a new yearly event at the Laurent Delaye Gallery in Ramsgate.
Stephen Brandes, Richard Caldicott, Rosalind Davis, Steven Geddes, Justin Hibbs, Peter Lamb, Bérénice Mayaux, Antoni Malinowski, Jason Oddy, Claire Pestaille, Ruth E. Rollason, Michael Stubbs
4-29 November 2020
This year it will take place at the Vinyl Head Gallery in Addington Street, from 4 to 29 November 2020.
There was a time when public Art exhibitions came to change the course of history, and the 19C had plenty of them. As Victorian Ramsgate was basking in the glory of prestige and elegance, monocles in London were dropping at the daringness of the new moderns, while in France the art of the next century was made amid riots and editorial calls for arson. In this spirit, and in view of the present circumstances, we think it really is time for the opening of a Winter Salon in Ramsgate. Starting small, and in one venue, we anticipate that by the next years to come, the whole town will be the stage of an art revolution spreading like fire.
For its first edition the gallery will bring together twelve artists. Coming from all different horizons and practice, working with multiple media, and often with an already established international career, they encompass diverse schools of thoughts and traditions within the realm of contemporary art. In the narrow but open space of the Vinyl Head Gallery the curators are aiming for chaos and order, opposites, clashes, anarchy, where each work interplays with others and defines its own boundaries. The show reflects the longstanding interest of the gallery for constructivism, Op Art, minimalism, feminism, surrealism, Dada, political satire, and concrete poetry. It includes sculpture, painting, photography, prints, collage, calligraphy, ceramics, tapestry, and posters.
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ARTFICTIONS PODCAST WITH Jillian Knipe
Rosalind Davis - artist, curator, author, educator - and Jillian Knipe weave in, out and around her paintings, installations and her artistic journey to now and the mysterious diaries of Hungarian painter Janos Lavin from 'A Painter of Our Time' 1958 by John Berger. Mixed Tapes is an introductory series recorded in lockdown.
Art Fictions' podcast available on
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A recording to accompany their piece in Substance Bundle Curated by Alex Stavrou at Koppel Projects Gallery 2020. Listen here
STATEMENT ART PODCAST EPISODE 1: ROSALIND DAVIS
“ART IS ABOUT MORE THAN MAKING SOMETHING THAT ENDS UP IN A GALLERY. IT TEACHES YOU AND HELPS YOU...”
Rosalind is an internationally exhibiting artist and a curator who has produced over thirty exhibitions to date including nine exhibitions as the permanent curator at Collyer Bristow gallery in London. During our conversation we discussed what makes an outstanding piece of work, explored how social media is changing the landscape and the importance of being nice! Listen here
There is also a follow up article about Cutting Through the Noise: How to Identify an Outstanding Artwork. Read that here