Sid Motion Gallery is delighted to announce a collaboration with Tom Cole on a series of four exhibitions taking place across 2024-2025. Their partnership for the exhibitions builds on the spirit of collaboration that has characterised the gallery’s exhibition programme to date. With a shared respect for each other’s curatorial activities over the years, Motion and Cole are excited to come together for this programme which will highlight historical and conceptual overlaps across an intergenerational range of artists with materially rich practices.
Sid Motion and Tom Cole said, “Working collaboratively on this series of exhibitions represents a new challenge for us, and provides a fertile ground for new connections and associations to emerge. We have both previously championed craft influenced practices, and artists who use fibre-based materials and ceramics and in this new series of exhibitions, we hope to initiate dialogues between a generational and geographical mix of artists, demonstrating the conceptual possibilities inherent in a range of craft related mediums.”
The first iteration of the collaboration will take place at Sid Motion Gallery, opening on 20th September 2024. DUST TO DUST is a three person show, featuring Magdalena Abakanowicz, Phoebe Cummings and Robert Mapplethorpe, that considers the relationship between the organic world and the condition of the human body. Exploring decay and renewal, each artist uses motifs and forms evocative of the fragility and vulnerability of nature, positioning cycles of life within the temporality of the natural world.
For all press related inquires please contact isabel@sam-talbot.com
Following DUST TO DUST, the gallery will host a further three exhibitions from early 2025. The second exhibition in the series will include Elizabeth Fritsch, Kate Newby, Vicken Parsons, Jacqueline Poncelet, and Max Wade. Examining how different narratives of landscape and place are communicated and embodied through pattern and abstraction, the show will bring together ceramics, textiles and paintings – and will open in January 2025. Further details to be announced in due course.