My first flirtation with the world of curating was undertaking an internship in the Curatorial department at the South London Gallery. I spent a little over three months here and loved every minute. There programming is always engaging, showing high quality work from established international contemporary artists. Personal highlights have been Stay Forever and Ever and Ever, a group show curated by Andrew Renton, which I had the pleasure of working on before completing my placement and Eva Rothschild.
While working at SLG I assisted on Melik Ohanian's Seven Minutes Before, John Armleder's About Nothing: Works on Paper 1962-2007 and the aforementioned Stay Forever and Ever and Ever.
Still from Melik Ohanian's Seven Minutes Before (2004) 7 Synchronized video projections with surround soundtrack. Duration 7 x 21 mins
Installation view of John Armleder's About Nothing: Works on Paper 1962 - 2007. The show included hundreds of works on paper and specially commissioned wall paper to transform the space of the gallery.
As part of this exhibition I worked on a project with the galleries education and outreach teams to develop a participatory project in the education space. In the spirit of Fluxus we commissioned Mark Pawson to design postcards to be used to contribute thoughts, drawings or simple musing on the exhibition and add them to an ever growing structure in the space.
Installation view of Stay Forever and Ever and Ever
Including works from Maarten Baas, Martin Boyce, Spartacus Chetwynd, Tony Conrad, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Jeroen de Rijke/ Willem de Rooji, Michael Fullerton, Georg Herold, Ann Veronica Janssens, Andreas Slominski and Monika Sosnowska.
Favourites were: Tony Conrad, Ann Veronica Janssens, de Rijke/ de Rooji and this exhibition cultivated a little fascination with Sparticus Chetwynd (pictured below)
Sparticus Chetwynd
Hokusai's Octopai (2004)
Here is a link to a review in Frieze of the exhibition!
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