The Shock of the Now - Issue #148
Afternoon All,
I hope you’re all well, and welcome to Issue 148 of The Shock of the Now.
This week there are seven weekly Recommended Exhibitions, as well as four fresh Artist Opportunities.
I hope you enjoy Issue 148, 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 have a great summer, H x
Recommended Exhibitions Opening This Week :
Othello De'Souza-Hartley - ‘9005’ Solo Exhibition - The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Holborne (24th October - 9th November, opening Wednesday 23rd October, 6-9pm)
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation presents Othello De'Souza-Hartley’s solo exhibition, in collaboration with architect Laura Büchi and sound artist Elliot Buchanan.
“The exhibition takes its name from the industrial code for Jet Black, the sole colour De’Souza-Hartley employs in his work. Through this monochromatic palette, he explores the narrative potential of human skin and built environments, skillfully integrating painting, photography, sound, and architectural design. At the heart of 9005 are De’Souza-Hartley’s large-scale paintings, which feature intuitive mark-making and rich textures. These works create a compelling dialogue between the traces of time on skin and architectural surfaces, encouraging viewers to reflect on the beauty inherent in both personal and structural histories.” - The Bomb Factory Art Foundation
Ralph Anderson - ‘Dig’ Solo Exhibition - JGM Gallery, Battersea (23rd November - 30th November, opening Wednesday 23rd October, 6:30-8:30pm)
JGM Gallery presents Ralph Anderson’s solo exhibition ‘Dig’.
“Anderson's use of a rotary tool to sand down layers of paint strikes a line of continuity between his early and current practice. The exhibition's title takes inspiration from this technique. The resulting scratches, inscriptions and hollows, which figuratively 'dig' through the surface of these paintings, are the artist's primary motifs in this exhibition.” - JGM Gallery
Johannes Bosisio & Sian Fan - ‘Another Self’ Two-Person Exhibition - Night Café, Fitzrovia (24th October - 22nd November, opening Thursday 7th November, 6-8pm)
Night Café presents Johannes Bosisio and Sian Fan’s two-person exhibition ‘Another Self’.
“The exhibition navigates the intersection where identity is continuously molded by external forces, and where the transient nature of perception itself becomes a transformative force on the self.” - Night Café
Daniel Shanken - ‘The Pits’ Solo Exhibition - Chemist, Deptford (25th October - 1st December, opening Thursday 24th October, 6:30-9:30pm)
Chemist presents Daniel Shanken’s solo exhibition ‘The Pits’.
“The Pits is a new installation by artist Daniel Shanken that descends through tiers and levels: the pit in your stomach, in the ground, and in your brain. It uses eating as a crux, imagining the digestion, assimilation, offloading, and onboarding that occur when giving yourself to be devoured by technologies or entities with their own agency and agendas. The work shifts between different perspectives—human, non-human, pizza box, and microwave—exploring the pleasure and horror of willingly opting in and zoning out.” - Chemist
Lily Bunney - ‘girls peeing on cars’ Solo Exhibition - Guts Gallery, Hackney (25th October - 19th November, opening Friday 25th October, 6-8pm)
Guts Gallery & miłość present Lily Bunney’s debut solo exhibition ‘girls peeing on cars’. It is the first of two presentations of Lily Bunney’s work as a collaboration between the galleries, with the second part to open at miłość in November.
“girls peeing on cars is an expression of reverence for friendship, with the exhibition being an homage not just to the concepts of closeness, communion, mutual support and celebration, but also to Lily’s actual friends. Lily speaks of narrating her life through friendship, with her adulthood being an exploration of comfort evolving from close personal relationships.” - Guts Gallery
‘Purity&Danger’ Group Exhibition - Guts Projects, Hackney (25th October - 19th November, opening Friday 25th October, 6-8pm)
Guts Projects presents ‘Purity&Danger’, a group exhibition curated by Mathilde Friis featuring Aj Bravo, Anna Sampson, DaddyBears (above), Darya Diamond and Maite de Orbe.
“The title draws inspiration from anthropologist Mary Douglas' 1966 theory, which examines how societies construct ideas of purity and impurity by distinguishing between the clean and the dirty, the sacred and the profane, the pure and the dangerous. The selection of works explore the intimate relationship between art and sex, reimagining purity and danger by embracing fluidity, sensuality and excess as powerful expressions of the human experience.” - Guts Projects
Nicolaas van de Lande & Lucía Scarselletta - ‘The Forever Temporary’ Two-Person Exhibition - Turf Projects, Croydon (30th October - 22nd March, opening Saturday 26th October, 3-5pm)
Turf Projects presents ‘The Forever Temporary’, a two-person exhibition by Nicolaas van de Lande and Lucía Scarselletta.
“How do we name a place home when it feels forever temporary? Through soft sculptural works, woven texts and film, Nicolaas van de Lande & Lucía Scarselletta explore the tender threads of existing in precarious housing environments. Acknowledging the rise in temporary housing situations in Croydon and beyond, Nicolaas and Lucía address their shared experiences as property guardians through expanded sculptural works.” - Turf Projects
Artist Opportunities:
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council are looking for an artist or artist collective to create a new public art installation/sculpture for an area of open space in Basingstoke. The council's vision is to create an inspiring piece of art that enhances the area's surroundings. The artwork should reflect and have benefits for the natural environment, complement the natural ecosystem and provide a place for wildlife to live. The area has been previously enhanced by a programme to create a rewilding meadow and local artists have been commissioned to work with community groups, residents and local schools to create three new murals reflecting the natural environment. The value of the commission is up to £10,000.
Open Call, Boscolo Collection Art Prize 2024/25. Deadline - Sunday 27th October.
Roberto Boscolo, in collaboration with the BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, is pleased to announce the Boscolo Collection Art Prize. This prize, an extension of the current activities of the Boscolo Collection Art Program 2024/2025, is designed to support and promote deserving young international artists, continuing the patronage role assumed by the Boscolo Collection over the past three years of the program. The winner will be selected from the finalists who will be entitled to: 15-day artistic residency at Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa with a production prize of Euro 1,500. Acquisition by Boscolo Collection of one of the three works submitted by the winner.
Residency open call for for artists based in Brazil. Deadline - Monday 28th October.
This residency open call is for an early-career artist based in Brazil. The eleven-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London from 7 April – 23 June 2025. Gasworks’ residencies programme supports professional development, cultural exchange, and artistic experimentation. They host up to sixteen residencies each year, bringing artists from all over the world to London. All their residencies are self-led, non-prescriptive and process-based; they are about enabling artists to research and develop new work, engage with the city, and build their networks. Gasworks provide administrative, pastoral, and curatorial support throughout the residency, but they expect residents to be self-motivated, and to lead on the research and production of their own work.
NYC Open Call 2025-26, apexart. Deadline - Thursday 31st October.
apexart's Open Calls are opportunities for artists, curators, and other professionals to turn their curatorial idea into an apexart exhibition, combined with inviting apexart’s international community to collectively determine our programming through an online jury process. Winning proposals become part of apexart’s next exhibition season and receive funding and staff support. apexart is not a granting organization-all exhibitions are part of apexart’s programming. Anyone, from anywhere can submit. There are no fees involved at any level. Creative people who have interesting exhibition ideas, trained and student curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals, regardless of experience level, background, or location can apply. Winning proposals will receive up to a $10k exhibition budget and become apexart exhibitions presented at apexart’s NYC space as part of its next exhibition season. Of the $10,000, the curator/organizer receives up to a $2,000 honorarium for coordinating the project and writing the exhibition brochure essay.
Open Call 2025, Staffordshire St. Deadline - Thursday 31st October.
Staffordshire St is looking for proposals from curators, artists, makers and performers to exhibit in their project space as part of Staffordshire St’s 2025 programme. They want to support artists at all stages of their career. They will select one proposal through the Open Call 2025 submissions process to deliver a 4 week exhibition and two related events in their gallery space during March/April 2025. Staffordshire St are looking for exhibitions that will engage with their audiences both in the artistic and local community. They highly encourage a cross-disciplinary approach through collaboration with partners to run events alongside the exhibition to deepen engagement.
Open Call, The Miniatures Challenge, Canal Boat Contemporary. Deadline - Friday 1st November.
The inaugural Canal Boat Contemporary Miniatures Challenge is open, and free to enter. Winners will exhibit aboard Canal Boat Contemporary (Private View: Wednesday 13th November, exhibition running 14th-17th) alongside some invited guest artists. To enter, follow @canalboatcontemporary, then post your entry to instagram, tagging it #miniatureschallenge and include in your entry description the text: This is my entry to the @canalboatcontemporary Miniatures painting / sculpture Challenge. (delete as appropriate)
For paintings: Miniatures must be paintings, in any paint medium. They can be on any surface, other than paper. They must be small enough to hold in your outstretched hand (Max 25 inches square.) For sculptures: Sculptures must be no larger than 5inches high, long or wide.. They can be in any material.
Residency open call for artists based in Central America. Deadline - Monday 4th November.
This residency open call is for an early-career artist based in Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama). The eleven-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London from 7 April to 23 June 2025. Gasworks’ residencies programme supports professional development, cultural exchange, and artistic experimentation. They host up to sixteen residencies each year, bringing artists from all over the world to London. All their residencies are self-led, non-prescriptive and process-based; they are about enabling artists to research and develop new work, engage with the city, and build their networks. Gasworks provide administrative, pastoral, and curatorial support throughout the residency, but they expect residents to be self-motivated, and to lead on the research and production of their own work.
Residency open call for Argentine artists based in Argentina. Deadline - Monday 4th November.
This residency open call is for a mid or early-career Argentine artist based in Argentina. The eleven-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London from 7 April – 23 June 2025. Gasworks’ residencies programme supports professional development, cultural exchange, and artistic experimentation. They host up to sixteen residencies each year, bringing artists from all over the world to London. All their residencies are self-led, non-prescriptive and process-based; they are about enabling artists to research and develop new work, engage with the city, and build their networks. Gasworks provide administrative, pastoral, and curatorial support throughout the residency, but they expect residents to be self-motivated, and to lead on the research and production of their own work.
Open Call, FALL: a Film Poem Sampler, Beaconsfield. Deadline - Friday 8th November.
FALL is an exploration of experimental film and text and announces the start of a new collaboration between Beaconsfield and Glasgow University's Creative Writing course. They are looking for original, short film poems – up to approximately five minutes – that embrace the radical possibilities of immediacy and intimacy that phone cameras offer, as well as other open-source film editing processes and programmes. FALL embraces the rough-hewn, DIY, low-fi alongside digital cut-glass aesthetics. There is no prescribed theme. Selected film poems will be screened at Beaconsfield London on 29 November 2024 and at the Andrew Stewart Cinema, Glasgow University on 30 November – the first in a series of events observing, researching and opening up established contours and dynamics between visual art and text.
Open Call, Viddy Horrorshow/Daytime Viewing, TACO!. Deadline - Monday 11th November.
TACO! invites submissions for artist, short-form, moving-image for Viddy Horrowshow /Daytime Viewing (VHS/DTV). Selected works will be shown on a daily showreel at TACO! , presented as part of a special one-off screening event, and published and distributed as a limited edition DVD. VHS/DTV is an open-call project conceived and selected by TACO! artist staff members Cillian Finnerty, e v, Denny Kaulbach, and Martha McKellar.
Spring/Summer 2025 Residency, PADA Studios. Deadline - Friday 15th November.
Applications for PADA Studios Spring/Summer 2025 are now open. PADA is an independent, not-for-profit, artist-led organisation located in Barreiro, Lisbon’s South bay. Founded in 2018, PADA provides artists with space to develop their practice, interact with other artists, and explore new approaches in a post-industrial environment, whilst receiving feedback and support. Set in a derelict industrial park with history dating back to 1885, their location gives artists-in-residence a unique experience. Artists will be surrounded by history as well as local fabricators providing inspiration, material knowledge and resources for experimentation and production. PADA’s facilities reinforce this with large studios and technical support to encourage and facilitate ambitious work.
PADA’s International Residency Programme welcomes artists from different disciplines to stay from 1 or 2 months. They will favour artists who have researched and propose projects suitable to the residency and the surrounding environment. The provisional residency periods for Spring/Summer 2025 are as following: APR/MAY (8th April - 3rd June), JUN/JUL (12th June - 5th August), SEPT (3rd-30th September).
Have a great… summer??? 🤔