Past
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Material Rites
2 Feb - 9 Mar 2024 Gathering is delighted to announce Material Rites, opening Friday 2 February, as our first show of the year. In 1963, Paul Thek travelled to the Cappuccini catacombs of Palermo, where the mummification and display of human remains has been taking place for centuries. On this visit, he describes the 'corpses... Read more -
Pictures of Us
Curated by Lewis Dalton Gilbert 1 Dec 2023 - 20 Jan 2024 Pictures of Us brings together contemporary artists using photography and film to foreground tenderness and intimacy as the connective tissue within and across a range of communities. Each artist explores ways in which selfhood is forged through relationships; these extend from familial, romantic and social connections to those that cross geographic and temporal boundaries. Read more -
Simeon Barclay: At Home, Everywhere and Nowhere
6 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Gathering and Workplace are delighted to present At Home, Everywhere and Nowhere, an ambitious solo exhibition of large-scale sculpture, installation, and wall-based work by Simeon Barclay, collaboratively shown across both galleries. Each gallery will feature paintings from the same wall-based acrylic series, drawing an explicit continuity between the overlapping exhibitions.... Read more -
Support Structures
22 Jun - 23 Sep 2023 Gathering is pleased to present Support Structures, a group show bringing together artists exploring the ‘fixed instability’ of the human condition and the notions of care and fragility as a collective responsibility. This mode of relationality evades linear time, avoids contractual relationships and instead embraces reciprocity and responsiveness, assembling works... Read more -
Soojin Kang: To Be You, Whoever You Are
11 May - 17 Jun 2023 Gathering is pleased to present To Be You, Whoever You Are, a solo exhibition of new textile sculpture by Korean artist Soojin Kang opening Thursday 11 May, 6-8pm. Using the ritualistic actions of weaving, knotting, winding and unwinding to explore the sculptural possibilities of textiles, Kang transubstantiates raw materials into... Read more -
Violins/Violence
Bruce Nauman, Cécile B. Evans, Jesse Darling, Ndayé Kouagou, Sung Tieu 16 Mar - 1 May 2023 Gathering presents ‘Violins/Violence,’ a group exhibition featuring works by Bruce Nauman, Cécile B. Evans, Ndayé Kouagou, Sung Tieu and Jesse Darling. Read more -
Wynnie Mynerva: Bone of My Bones, Flesh of My Flesh
24 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 Bone of My Bones, Flesh of My Flesh focuses on the binary creation myths of Abrahamic religions. Lilith, a figure from Judaic biblical tradition and Mesopotamian folklore, is Adam’s first wife. Created from the same clay as her male counterpart, she is considered a ‘primordial she-demon’, banished from Eden after refusing to accept subservience to Adam. Read more -
Tai Shani: Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With The Angels
6 Oct - 17 Dec 2022 ‘Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With The Angels’ is comprised of film, painting, and sculpture, centring around a trip; a journey through history and myth, life and the afterlife, the factual and the hallucinated. The work teleports us to the 19th century volcanic island of Alicudi. Standing separated from the coast of Sicily, Alicudi was described in 1835 by French writer Alexander Dumas as, ‘a corner of the earth forgotten by creation and stuck in an era of chaos.’ Read more