Their underground lair, which seemingly spreads as far as the coast, occasionally erupts to reveal glimpses of their nefarious activity. They raid birds’ nests, race snails and dance to the beat of buzzing bees and snail shell drums. They’ve captured hornets and lounge on tabletop toadstools feasting on worms and other delicacies. They ride bumblebees and hunt with spiny spears harvested from hedgehogs. This exhibition consists of some (but by no means all) of Ellis’ favourite artists who have shown over the years at CHARLIE SMITH LONDON some whom he has been tracking and wanting to show and gallery artists.”įrom June 2018 First manifestation 17 June 2018 Across Northampton And, perhaps most notably, the gallery has placed millions of pounds worth of artwork into collections globally, working with many of the most prominent international collectors, and enabling artists to continue to do what artists do best: making work. Ellis has also curated or co-curated gallery, museum and pop up exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Klaipėda, London, Los Angeles, Naples and Rome. Zavier Ellis also launched the monumental annual exhibition THE FUTURE CAN WAIT with Simon Rumley, a ten-year project that was presented in partnership with Saatchi’s New Sensations for four years and culminated in helping organise the seminal fund-raising exhibition In Memoriam Francesca Lowe. Beyond the gallery walls, the gallery has participated in over 30 art fairs in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, UK and USA. The gallery has also established itself as a discovery zone by being the first to exhibit many acclaimed young artists via its annual graduate exhibition Young Gods. During this time we have presented 88 exhibitions within the gallery, defining CHARLIE SMITH LONDON and gallery director Zavier Ellis’ unique curatorial vision. “CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is delighted to announce ’10 Years’, our anniversary exhibition produced to celebrate a full decade’s operations in Shoreditch. I’m showing ‘The Raid’ which sees the fairies and an enslaved gang of ants steal eggs from an unattended blue tit nest. I’m delighted to have work included in this exhibition. And there’s plenty of potential to read concerns about the future of nature into the work of the twelve artists gathered here. Rather, we should see humans as just one species among many in the ecosystem, and hold that the natural environment is intrinsically valuable independent of what benefit accrues to people.Īrt is good at evoking, amplifying, and provoking in response to such shifts in perception.īournemouth’s former Debenhams – a doomed cathedral of sorts to the society of consumption which lies behind the Anthropocene - is an appropriate place to reflect on how we relate to nature. Timothy Morton has suggested how ‘putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it fromĪfar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman’. Yet the growing consensus around the effect of a history of exploiting and abusing nature has altered how we see the relationship. How should we relate to nature? As recently as fifty years ago the anthropocentric way of looking purely through the lens of human outcomes was the mainstream assumption, at least in western traditions. Kelly Richardson | Toby Tatum | Esther Teichmann Theo Ellison | Tessa Farmer | Matt Hale | Andy Harper | Sandra Kantanen | Julie Maurin | Alan Rankle I'm delighted to be showing work in NatureMax at GIANT Gallery, Bournemouth.
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