Discernible is Zeitgeist Arts Projects’s highly anticipated annual exhibition of 47 new, promising and established national and international artists who have created works under £500 in the same ethos as last year’s Collectible exhibition. Discernible will include a cross section of disciplines; including painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture and print. *Particiapting artists: Katriona Beales, Katrina Blannin, Kate Bowen, Sasha Bowles,… read more
Limited Edition Missing Book Coming Soon! A full colour 100-page fine art book on the Missing Series, to include the National Museums Liverpool collection and many previously unseen images, will be published in January 2013. More info to follow soon! To register your interest, please email rachel@rachelwilberforce.com with your full name with Missing Book in the subject title. read more
ZAP Open Studios, 30 November 6-9pm for SLAM Last Fridays | 1 December 12-4pm One of the most unique artists’ open studios around with high profile, established, promising, ambitious artists. An opportunity to meet artists in person, see new works and the spaces where we all make our work. Come join us for a glass of wine! Ten artists with… read more
South London Gallery Salon, 30th October, 5.30-8.30pm “A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace’s definition of the aims of poetry, either to please or to educate”… read more
22-24th October 2012, PV 24th, 6-9pm, Hanmi Gallery, Fitzrovia, London The 2012 edition of Sluice art fair will manifest itself as a publication and an exhibition in which all of the work will be auctioned. The whole event will function as a fundraiser for Sluice art fair 2013. The Sluice publication will be launched on the evening the auction draws… read more
Fri 10 August, 6-8.30pm | Sat 11 August, Artists’ Walk & Talk 1-2pm, Studios Open Until 6pm One of the most unique artists’ open studios around with high profile, established, promising, ambitious artists. An opportunity to meet artists in person, see new works and the spaces where we all make our work! An inviting, inspiring environment. Come and browse, have… read more
Venue: Lewisham Arthouse 140 Lewisham Way London SE14 6PD Curated by Emile Mendes Photographers: Yohan Forbes, Emile Mendes, Eleonora Pecorella & Rachel Wilberforce Private View: Friday 13th July 2012 6pm-9pm Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 11th July – Sunday 22nd July Gallery Hours: Wednesday- Sunday 12pm – 6pm. Wilberforce’s ‘Mirage’ series of abstracted contemporary landscapes takes the viewer on a journey through… read more
I am delighted to be awarded The Rector’s Scholarship for MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design commencing 2012/13. Read more about the Rector’s Scholarship here and here . read more
Norfolk & Norwich Open Studios (NNOS) is delivered by Norfolk & Norwich Festival in partnership with Norfolk artists for the benefit of Norfolk artists, offering to help and support them in opening up their studios, meeting their public and selling works of art. The scheme runs annually in May/June time for two weeks (including three weekends). Now in its eighteenth… read more
PRESENT COMPANY, A NEW ARTSPACE IN WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, OPENS MUTUAL FRIENDS— THE FIRST EXHIBITION FROM ITS 2012 CURATORIAL PROGRAM MUTUAL FRIENDS group exhibition curated by Present Company May 11 – June 3, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday May 11, 6-9pm Brooklyn, NY, April 27, 2012 — Present Company is proud to open Mutual Friends on Friday, May 11, 2012, its first… read more
The Brit Pak, Part of Southbank Centre’s Alchemy Festival, 12-22 April 2012 Mica Gallery invites you to ‘The Brit Pak’ as part of the Alchemy Festival at Southbank Centre, London. The exhibition reflects the very best of emerging contemporary British Pakistani art and culture, an area that has largely evolved in response to, and as a result of, the key… read more
Scale and Place Selected by Rise Art and ALISN Artists Reception: Wednesday 28 March 6-9pm Exhibition Continues: 30 March – 7 April EAT with ART 2012: Sunday 1 April 12.30-4pm Gallery Open: Mon-Fri 2-6pm, Sat-Sun 12-6pm Address: Mile End Art Pavilion, Grove Road, E3 4QY *Tom Estes | Felicity Hammond | Rab Harling | Brian D Hodgson | Thorsten Knaub… read more
Curated by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley Private View Tuesday 17 April, 6-8.30pm 18 – 28 April (Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm) Open for SLAM Last Fridays 6-8.30pm Artists & Curators Dialogue – Saturday 28 April, 4-5pm A high-profile launch exhibition featuring small works by Collectible artists: Guy Allott, Iain Andrews, Edwina Ashton, Andrew Bracey, Paul Benjamins, George Bolster, Tom Butler, Ben Coode-Adams,… read more
Norfolk Open Studios 2012 runs from 26 May – 10 June 2012. Norfolk & Norwich Open Studios is delivered by Norfolk & Norwich Festival in partnership with Norfolk artists for the benefit of Norfolk artists. Each year for the last 16 years, hundreds of artists scattered across the county have opened up their studios, homes, garden sheds and outhouses to… read more
Runs from 24th November to 27th November 2011 This autumn, London will see the launch of a new and unique Contemporary art fair to be held at The Bargehouse on Southbank. Beginning on 25 November, The Other Art Fair will provide a platform unlike any other for artists, collectors and gallerists to connect directly. A carefully selected array of 100… read more
20 October 2011 – 20 November 2011 The Freud Museum is organising a fundraising art auction as part of the celebrations surrounding its 25th anniversary. Exhibitions of work by contemporary artists have been an important strand in the Freud Museum’s programme for many years. Artists welcome the opportunity to respond to Freud’s home, collections and ideas, and the Museum has… read more
Exhibition runs 24th September 2011 until 2nd October 2011 Preview: Friday 23rd September 7-9pm Participating artists: Alison Hand, Annabel Dover, Amy Moffat, Carolyn Lefley, Charlotte Bracegirdle, Christopher Eyles, Clare Mitten, David Fletcher, EJ Major, Emma Cousin, Emma Roche, Freya Douglas-Morris, Gabrielle Lockwood-Estrin, Iain Andrews, James Ryan, Jon Williamson, Joshua Uvieghara, Lindsey Bull, Lisa Muten, Louisa Chambers, Rachel Wilbeforce, Robert Lang… read more
OUTCASTING – A Century of Artists’ Films Curated by Mike Cousin in partnership with Oriel Mwldan Saturday 21 May – Saturday 2 July 2011 FREE The ability to understand and bestow importance to moving images is embedded in the cultural psyche. From cinema, television and the Internet there is an endless stream of content to view, one that we can… read more
New work by Rachel Wilberforce previews at b9 Galerie Bauernmarkt, Vienna on Friday 13 May 2011 · 19:00 – 23:00 Participating artists: AD reinhardt. AMIT greenberg. BRIAN belott. BENEDETTA jacovoni. CHRISTIAN kobald. CONSTANTIN luser. DAN walsh. DONALD baechler. ELAINE de kooning. HERBERT hinteregger. HERBERT oppeneiger. ILSA murdoch. JAMES andrews. JAMES franklin. JAY gaskill. JEF (wolfy) scharf. JONATHAN quinn. JULIE ryan.… read more
Rachel Wilberforce joins artist Gary Stevens for the Information Highway Mentoring Scheme for mid career artists throughout 2011. The scheme is run by New Work Network’s National Activator 2011-2012 programme, Colchester Arts Centre’s Escalator: Live Art and Arts Council England. http://www.newworknetwork.info/activator/information-highway-mentoring-scheme read more
AIR Council invites you to join us on Saturday 26 March for rally against cuts. The entire cultural landscape is set to contract, along with our job opportunities and potential commissions. This is not just about our livelihoods, galleries and politics. It is about our lifeblood – our culture! How to get involved We are asking AIR members to do… read more
Rachel Wilberforce is shortlisted for the Salon Photo Prize 2011. The Salon Photo Prize is the inaugural photography exhibition produced by Matt Roberts Arts. Private view Thursday 3 February from 18.30 – 21.00. The exhibition runs from 4 February – 26 February at Matt Roberts Arts Project Space, Unit 1, 25 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG. This year’s selection panel… read more
Following a widespread call across the AIR membership in November 2010, AIR Council now includes seven new members who join the seven co-opted artists from the AIR Artists’ advisory group. Katriona Beales – Relocated to London in 2010 following nine years in the North West of England. Her work is deeply influenced by a migratory childhood – questions of how… read more
Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction draws on the wealth of material held by the International Slavery Museum and tells of the 400-year period in which at least 12 million Africans were taken into slavery in the largest forced migration in human history. With a foreword by Reverend Jesse Jackson it’s an excellent introduction to the subject. Wilberforce’s Missing; focusing on sex… read more
Onedotzero, BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX join forces to present a scintillating array of audiovisual and cinematic experiences, forecasting the future of moving image. Presenting the most progressive new short films, creative talent and moving image work from around the world, including exclusive previews, feature films, playful interactive installations, audiovisual performances, talks, workshops and director Q&As. Educational forums and panel discussions on… read more
The Wolf and Badger Pop-Up shop in Selfridges Wonder Room on Oxford Street continues till August 31st with a programme of live art, video and music events and screenings, to include Wilberforce’s Vanishing Point. Click here for Wolf & Badger in the concept store at Selfridges read more
Wilberforce’s re-staging of a key element of the private and domestic archive in a contemporary public realm, together with the red velvet curtains (used in numerous family portraits taken by the artist’s father), creates a possibility for the re-enactment of new portraits, as well as a re-imagined space for the theatrical and the performative. Layering with My Parallel Archive (2010),… read more
Bargains, jumble, thrift chic, games, competitions, fab prizes, tea, homemade cake, tarot readings, massage and more! All stalls run by visual artists. Free entry. For more info go to: www.artquest.org.uk read more
Vanishing Point is screening at East End Film Festival 2010 as part of the ‘Adventures in Experiments’ – shorts programme. It will screen at Rich Mix, Screen 3, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA on Monday 26th April at 8.30pm. Adventures In Experiments (102 min) – this is a selection of work from artists, filmmakers and animators, exploring the… read more
The International Slavery Museum has acquired Missing as part of its contemporary slavery collecting policy. Photographed in urban and suburban Britain, the images depict sex-trafficking and prostitution: the interiors and exteriors of working or derelict flats, brothels and so-called massage parlours. They are devoid of people, yet at the same time reveal human activity. Missing responds to the psychology of… read more
Rachel Wilberforce Artist talk in honour of the unveiling of three new plaques on the Black Achievers Wall, and to coincide with Wilberforce’s exhibition of ‘Missing’ at the museum. Food and beverages will be available. For more information or to guarantee your place please call 0151 478 4543 or email Education and Communities general enquiries on the ISM web site.… read more
Rachel Wilberforce joins international artists for Invisible Empire:Undefined Spaces at VanAbbemuseum/Your Space in creating a site-specific installation and a series of digital photographs. The concept behind the works is a virtual territory that allows art to propose new ways of societal living in order to escape heavy-handed cultures. It is a virtual arena of tension within our subconscious, our true… read more
Wed 7 October 2009: Artist Rachel Wilberforce in conversation with curator Alex Stara. Wed 21 October 2009: Artist Steffi Klenz in conversation with curator Alex Stara. Wed 18 November 2009: Artist Rut Blees Luxemburg in conversation with curator Alex Stara. Other events: Tues 10 November 6.30pm: Strange Places: Photography as Alternative Urbanism debate at the Architecture Foundation, chaired by the… read more
This show brings together eleven international contemporary artists who propose an alternative mapping of the globalized urban condition and its margins. Whether gazing at ambiguous thresholds on the edges of the urban, or tracing liminal spaces in the city, these photographs explore themes of place, identity, boundaries and the uneasy encounter between land and built environment. Shared across the exhibited… read more
The Red Thread was conceived as a flexible exhibition format, and has previously been shown in NYC at the Educational Alliance and a private Gallery in Seattle, WA. Originally The Red Thread served as a connective concept that surveyed various ‘threads’ in the international Vienna art scene: In its current incarnation at Dana Charkasi Galerie The Red Thread again serves… read more
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