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A collaboration with Tom Cole on a series of 4 exhibitions
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 19th 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.
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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.
Central Saint Martins | Sid Motion Prize winner 2024: Vidya Meera
We are delighted to announce that Vidya Meera is the 2024 winner of the Sid Motion Gallery Prize at Central Saint Martins.
Vidya Meera is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. Through holistic and ethical practice, Meera encapsulates people, culture, and conservation through an experimental digital lens, telling stories and encouraging community engagement.
For Meera, the beauty of documentaries lies in the constant state of influence, observation, learning, and participation, with a desire for others to experience and grow with the world.
Determined to bring community closer through narrative, she explores the power of the voice and narrative as tools for intimacy and highlights storytelling’s transformative capacity for fostering connections and its power to drive social change.
For Meera's Degree show, she presented a documentary film and photography installation from her time exploring religious sites of worship in North and South India in March 2024. View her film 'Dear Daivam' here.
Desire Lines | Vincent Hawkins publication
'Desire Lines' is a new publication of watercolours by Vincent Hawkins, published by Folium Publishing which includes a text by Rev Dr Richard Davey.
The publication coincides with 'Beyond the walls of one’s own making' a solo exhibition by Vincent Hawkins at Sid Motion Gallery 3 November - 16 December 2023
£30. Available from the gallery.
For online orders please email: mail@sidmotiongallery.co.uk
Central Saint Martins, Sid Motion Prize winner 2023: Sriram Venkatesh
Sid Motion Gallery is delighted to announce that Sriram Venkatesh is the 2023 winner of the Sid Motion Gallery Prize at Central Saint Martins.
Venkatesh works with 3D animation and VR to reflect on the internal states of being, in particular dreams and memories. Venkatesh states "The medium of 3D animation allows me to effectively materialise my internal experiences, turning the inward outwards... From vast, internal landscapes, to claustrophobic, nightmarish rooms, I want to record all of it in as much vivid detail as possible – I want to capture the language of my dreams and its visual vocabulary." Venkatesh creates his worlds, cinematic in their angles and painterly in their use of light.
For the degree show, Venkatesh presented three films on screens in a line, each can be viewed here:
Thought Log: A Nameless Land
Dream Log: St Christopher's School
Dream Log: Adliya Gardens
South Bermondsey Art Trail: 25th & 26th August 2023
