The Shock of the Now - Issue #132
Afternoon All,
I hope you’re all well, and welcome to Issue 132 of The Shock of the Now.
As London Gallery Weekend returns for its fourth year, I bring you an expanded selection of twenty seven Recommended Exhibitions opening over the week ahead!
Alongside, there are seventeen active Artist Opportunities.
I hope you enjoy Issue 132, and if so do forward it along! As always any questions, comments or feedback are welcome, so feel free to get in touch.
All the best, and speak soon, H x
Recommended Exhibitions Opening This Week:
Isabella Benshimol Toro - ‘Rinse and Hold’ Solo Exhibition - Zerui, Camberwell (30th May - 29th June, opening Wednesday 29th May, 6-9pm)
Marieke Bernard-Berkel - ‘All the world's a stage’ Solo Exhibition (ft. Tom Bull) - Sherbet Green, Bethnal Green (30th May - 29th June, opening Wednesday 29th May, 6-9pm)
Linnea Skoglösa - ‘Ultra Currency’ Solo Exhibition - Neven, Bethnal Green (30th May - 6th July, opening Wednesday 29th May, 6-9pm)
Lucía Pizzani - ‘Rites, Seeds and Refuge’ Solo Exhibition - Cecilia Brunson Projects, Bermondsey (30th May - 12th July, opening Wednesday 29th May, 6-8pm)
‘Sin Centre’ Group Exhibition - Hannah Barry Gallery, Peckham (30th May - 14th September, opening Wednesday 29th May, 5pm-late)
BLCKGEEZER - ‘Black Nausea / 24’ Solo Exhibition - Alma Pearl, Haggerston (31st May - 22nd June, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-9pm)
Andrew Maughan - ‘The Great Divide’ Solo Exhibition - Larkin Durey, St. James's (31st May - 21st June, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-8pm)
Peter Spanjer - ‘SWIM’ Solo Exhibition - Cob Gallery, Camden (31st May - 22nd June, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-9pm) & Elli Antoniou - ‘passages through the caustics’ Solo Exhibition - Cob Gallery, Camden (31st May - 6th July, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-9pm)
Adam Rouhana - ‘Before Freedom Pt. 2’ Solo Exhibition - TJ Boulting, Fitzrovia (31st May - 22nd June, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-8pm)
‘The Future of Loneliness’ Group Exhibition - Guts Gallery, Hackney (30th May - 25th June, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-8pm)
‘Welcome To My Crib’ Group Exhibition - Guts Projects, Hackney (30th May - 25th June, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-8pm)
Hajime Sorayama - ‘I, Robot’ Solo Exhibition & Ana Karkar - ‘Whole Cookie’ Solo Exhibition - Almine Rech, Mayfair (31st May - 27th July, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-8pm)
Nina Davies - ‘Becoming the Edit’ Solo Exhibition - Seventeen, Haggerston (31st May - 6th July, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-9pm)
Hannah Lees - ‘Something where before there was nothing’ Solo Exhibition - TACO!, Abbey Wood (31st May - 7th July, opening Thursday 30th May, 7-11pm)
Charlie Godet Thomas - ‘Little Sound’ Solo Exhibition - Vitrine, Fitzrovia (31st May - 13th July, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-8pm)
Hettie Inniss - ‘Rememories from the Floating World’ Solo Exhibition - Grimm Gallery, Mayfair (31st May - 20th July, opening Thursday 30th May, 6-8pm)
Jade de Montserrat - ‘In Defence of Our Lives’ Solo Exhibition - Bosse & Baum, Peckham (31st May - 15th July, opening Saturday 1st June, 4-6pm)
Leonardo Devito - ‘Tired City’ Solo Exhibition - The Artist Room, Soho (31st May - 29th June, opening Friday 31st May, 6-8pm)
Juliette Blightman - ‘Hierarchies’ Solo Exhibition - Niru Ratnam, Fitzrovia (1st - 29th June, opening Friday 31st May, 2-8pm)
Brianna Leatherbury - ‘SURVIVAL BIAS’ Solo Exhibition - Brunette Coleman, Bloomsbury (31st May - 6th July, opening Friday 31st May, 6-8pm)
Mohammed Z. Rahman - ‘A Flame is a Petal’ Solo Exhibition - Phillida Reid, Bloomsbury (31st May - 13th July, opening Friday 31st May, 6-8pm)
Theresa Weber + Nathanael Amadou Kliebhan - ‘Anthropophonia’ Two-Person Exhibition - Studio/Chapple, Deptford (31st May - 13th July, opening Saturday 1st June, 5-9pm)
Irini Bachlitzanaki - ‘The Consolation of Imaginary Things’ Solo Exhibition - Ione & Mann, Mayfair (31st May - 13th July, opening Friday 31st May, 6-8pm)
Ryan Huggins - ‘PLUTO’ Solo Exhibition - a. SQUIRE, Bloomsbury (1st June - 13th July, opening Friday 31st May, 6-8:30pm)
Jin Han Lee - ‘Keen Feet’ Solo Exhibition - Union Pacific, Bloomsbury (31st May - 13th July, opening Friday 31st May, 6-8pm)
Alexandra Metcalf - ‘1st Edition’ Solo Exhibition - Ginny On Frederick, Farringdon (1st June - 20th July, opening Saturday 1st June, 5-8pm)
Sofia Mitsola - ‘Villa Venus: The Garden’ Solo Exhibition - Pilar Corrias, Savile Row (5th June - 20th July, opening Tuesday 4th June, 6-8pm)
Artist Opportunities:
Michael O’Pray Prize 2024, Film and Video Umbrella. Deadline - Friday 31st May.
The Michael O’Pray Prize is an award for new writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image. The prize is open to all early-career writers based in the UK and is free to apply to. Applicants are invited to send a proposal or pitch for a new text, alongside an example of previous writing. Three of the applicants will be selected to realise the proposed text. From these, there will be a £750 prize for the winner, with £350 each for two further awardees. All three awarded texts will be published by Art Monthly and FVU.
Open Call, Performance Revue. Deadline - Saturday 1st June.
Billy Parker & Jaya Twill are curating a revue which will take place at the end of June (exact date TBA). If you’re interested in putting your work on, please send your pitch and writing sample to dontlookround@gmail.com. All work should in some way involve text (open to interpretation).
The Mick Bateman Memorial Award, Bow Arts x London Sculpture Workshop. Deadline - Monday 3rd June.
Bow Arts and London Sculpture Workshop are pleased to announce the Mick Bateman Memorial Award. In 2022, the artistic community suffered a profound loss with the unexpected passing of Mick Bateman, a dedicated artist and sculptor. The Mick Bateman Memorial Award is a new award set up with specific intention to support and encourage emerging artists working in metal. Each award offers: Two years of financial support towards the whole cost of a professional artist studio at Bow Arts. The award is up to a maximum of £2,000 in any one year. Up to £1,000 (equivalent to 8 days) access to courses and/or workshop time in the London Sculpture Workshop.
Thanks to support from the British Council, Delfina Foundation and Foundation Art Divvy are delighted to offer opportunities to three artists to develop their practices through residing in and engaging with the rich artistic and cultural landscapes of London and Lahore. One Pakistan-based artist will be selected for a twelve-week residency at Delfina Foundation in London, taking place between 23 September and 15 December 2024, as part of Delfina’s autumn residency season. Two UK-based artists will be selected for a three-week residency with Foundation Art Divvy in Lahore, taking place between 15 September and 8 October 2024.
Open Call, SET Film Festival 2024, SET Social. Deadline - Sunday 16th June.
Submissions are now open for the second edition of SET’s annual festival of contemporary, artist, and archival film. They’re interested in short films (under 30 minutes in length) of all genres and production techniques, including animation, documentary, experimental or artists’ films, and projects spanning low to high budgets. Films must have been completed after 1 January 2019. Screenings will take place every Thursday from 7 November to 5 December 2024 at SET Social in Peckham.
The FLAMIN Fellowship, Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Deadline - Monday 17th June.
Film London and Arts Council England with the support of The Fenton Arts Trust present The FLAMIN Fellowship, a major development programme for early-career artist filmmakers living in England. Part of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), the Fellowship aims to support the most exciting, innovative and challenging moving image practices from filmmakers at the early stages of their careers, with development and funding for new work. The FLAMIN Fellowship offers a unique opportunity in developing professional artistic practice with a series of monthly workshops, which cover key areas including selling artwork, film festival strategy, writing funding applications, archiving your work, sound design, insurance, copyright and sustaining a practice.
In October this year, Bow Arts will present In the footsteps of the East London Group – an exhibition exploring the past and present of east London, bringing together the historical paintings of the East London Group with their 21st century contemporaries. For the exhibition, they are inviting artists with a connection to east London to submit their proposals for a new, contemporary sound piece to be exhibited in the show. The piece will activate the gallery and provide an atmospheric soundtrack which will immerse visitors as they move through the exhibition and encounter the streets, scenes, and communities which make up the fabric of east London, then and now.
Bow Arts are looking for proposals for sound artworks in a range of different formats – from soundscapes, field recordings, conversations, and interviews, to community radio broadcasts, audio experiments, songs, chants, incantations, and more. There are no explicit requirements for format or length of the audio artwork – they only ask that the work must be suitable to be played/looped throughout the exhibition, but they are open to different interpretations of this and more experimental installations too.
Open Call, Ethereality, Photobook Cafe. Deadline - Thursday 20th June.
A photographic one evening group exhibition and print/publication sales event curated by Alice Campos. In response to Lyle Rexer’s Antiquarian Avant Garde, Ethereality brings together artists using photographic forms of image making to transform the physical world, and the acquisition of power-the power to separate out spirits of metals.
International Curators Forum (ICF) is accepting applications for an emerging or early career UK-based Black or Brown researcher/curator with an interest in working on an exciting, new project addressing the legacy and contemporary relevance of Ten.8 Magazine. Their research into the Ten.8 archives will inform their development of a public event which they will curate and produce with the ICF programmes team, at The Photographers’ Gallery in London to correspond with an archival exhibition on the legacy of Ten.8 in January 2025; a major exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall activating the Ten.8 archive and bringing it into dialogue with artworks and other materials set to take place between April and September 2026; digital programming or outputs activating the Ten.8 archive; a contribution to a new publication on the legacy of Ten.8, bringing together key existing texts and new commissions.
The Hari Art Prize 2024. Deadline - Sunday 23rd June.
A Space For Art is delighted to announce the Third edition of The Hari Art Prize, celebrating the global roster of artistic talents attracted to London. A Space for Art is pleased to collaborate again with award-winning luxury hotel The Hari in Belgravia for the return of The Hari Art Prize for 2024, with a cash prize of £10,000 awarded to the finalist. The two runners-up will receive £3000 in second place, and £1000 in third place. The prize is open to applicants who have graduated within the last five years (2019-2024) from UK art colleges or Art Students who are currently studying at a UK Art College. All shortlisted artists will be invited to exhibit a work in The Hari Art Prize Shortlist exhibition which will be on view at The Hari Hotel in September.
The Muse Residency Competition 2024, The Muse Gallery. Deadline - Wednesday 26th June.
Since 2004 The Muse / Gallery & Studio has supported a residency program, offering recent graduates subsidised studio space, a gallery to show and the means to cultivate both client and industry connections. Each year they host a group competition show, awarding the residency positions to a few successful artists; they appeal to all disciplines, with a BA minimum qualification from the previous two years. Artwork is then reviewed by their panel of esteemed industry professionals, curators and collectors, with an emphasis on professionalism from the onset. Their curators will award three or four artists with a residency from 13th January to the 30th June 2025. The residency will begin with a group show in January 2025 and conclude with a second group show in June 2025. Further to the residency program, a chosen artist will be awarded a three-week solo show during their 2025 calendar year.
The Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship, Morley College London. Deadline - Saturday 29th June.
This Scholarship is offered in memory of the celebrated painter, Zsuzsi Roboz. Funds have been made available to support contemporary figurative artists of promise working primarily in painting and drawing to study for one year at Morley College London, thanks to the generosity of the ‘Alfred Teddy Smith and Zsuzsi Roboz Art Trust’. In this context Figurative primarily refers to drawing and painting or sculpture related to human form and other forms of figuration that depicts people and considers the politics of representation. The Scholarship offers the recipient one year’s part-time programme of free classes at Morley College, personal tutoring and mentoring from a professional artist and teacher, and an opportunity to exhibit work in their Gallery at the end of the year.
Turps Correspondence Course, Turps Art School 2024/25. Deadline - Sunday 30th June.
Turps Correspondence Course is an innovative programme of online mentoring facilitated through critical, supportive written reviews delivered by a dedicated mentor. The course is aimed at painters who want to develop or reinvigorate their work, whether recently graduated from art school, mid-career or those without any formal arts education. The course is designed and structured to be delivered entirely online so that painters, based anywhere in the world and at any stage in their career, can participate and receive informed, critical feedback from a mentor who is practising painter selected by Turps. There are 5 review points throughout the year when you will be required to upload images of your work and a short statement or ‘letter’ to your mentor. Your mentor will then review what has been uploaded and write their response. It is a very different type of feedback from more conventional face-to-face tutorials but Turps believe this is what makes the correspondence course such an appealing and sought-after professional development course.
MASS Correspondence Course, MASS Art School 2024/25. Deadline - Sunday 30th June.
Mass Correspondence Course is an innovative distance-learning programme of online mentoring facilitated through critical, supportive written reviews by a dedicated mentor. The course is aimed at sculptors based anywhere in the world and at any stage in their career who want to develop or reinvigorate their work, whether recently graduated from art school or those without any formal arts education.
Artists’ Collecting Society Studio Prize 2024. Deadline - Sunday 30th June.
The Artists' Collecting Society (ACS) is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that administers intellectual property rights on behalf of visual artists. ACS is offering a recent graduate the chance to win £6,000 to contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in a UK city of their choice. ACS has once again partnered with Gurr Johns International, a global independent art advisory and appraisal group, to offer this year’s five finalists the opportunity to take part in a group exhibition at Gurr Johns. The exhibition will take place in their St James’s first-floor gallery in autumn 2024. If you are a UK or EEA national and are an undergraduate or postgraduate university student on an accredited art course who is about to graduate, or if you have graduated from a university accredited art course within the last four years, and you work in pictures, collage, painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics, glassware or photography, then you are eligible to apply for the prize.
The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design & Fine Art 2024. Each Fellowship provides up to £16,000 and valuable access to the extensive material workshops, technical resources and expertise within Kingston School of Art and the wider University departments, to support a practice-based, innovative research project that will result in an exhibition of international standing at the Stanley Picker Gallery.
DoBeDo Book Award, DoBeDo Projects. Deadline - Monday 8th July.
The DoBeDo Projects Book Award will be accepting submissions for the publication of a photo book by photographers at any stage of their career with an unpublished photographic project (that is complete, or close to completion). This award offers start-to-finish production of a photobook for those selected by the jury; edited, designed, printed and published by DoBeDo Projects, which also includes distribution, press and promotion of the publication. Different publication formats and budgets will be awarded on a project-by-project basis up to £50,000. Winners will be selected by a jury of established industry professionals.