NEWS
Anne Bean: Paul Hamlyn Award
14 November 2024
Anne Bean has received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists. These awards were established in 1994 to give artists a financial award at a timely moment in their careers. The aim is to give artists the freedom to develop their creative ideas and to grow both personally and professionally, reflecting the Foundation’s strong belief in the value of artists to society. Initially, the awards were made to artists from different art forms each year and there has been a consistent focus on visual artists since 1998 and composers since 2007. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation was founded in 1987 by the publisher and philanthropist, Paul Hamlyn.
Liliane Lijn’s Liquid Reflections
Clay Perry‘s 1966 portrait of the artist Liliane Lijn is the cover of her recently published memoir, Liquid Reflections, her account of leaving her native USA in 1958 to become an artist in Paris, and the following decade of experiment and adventure. (Published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books Ltd.)
Anne Bean and Monica Ross: Sit-In 4 / Outside the Circle
Cooper Gallery, Dundee
18 October 2024 – 1 February 2025
This exhibition (part of a five-chapter project) at the Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, brings together archives, drawings, ephemera, manifestos, paintings, performance, photographs, sculptures, video works and writings by artists, activists, collectives, writers, and thinkers. They include: Sam Ainsley with Anne-Marie Copestake, Anne Bean, Sutapa Biswas, Sheba Chhachhi, Phyllis Christopher, Akwugo Emejulu, Margaret Harrison, Barbara Howey, Carol Massey Lingard and Jenny Stevens, Alexis Hunter, Tari Ito, Derek Jarman, Amelia Jones, Mary Kelly, Suzanne Lacy, Audre Lorde, Katharine Meynell, Annabel Nicolson, nussatari, Griselda Pollock, Monica Ross, Georgina Starr, Marlene Smith, Jo Spence, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Maud Sulter, Ronald Wright, Ajamu X, alongside collective actions and groups including Blk Art Group, Castlemilk Womanhouse, Cyber feminist collective Old Boys Network, Fenix, Feministo: Women’s Postal Art Event, Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Haven for Artists, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, The Hackney Flashers, OutRage!, Womanifesto, Womanhouse and Women in Profile.
England & Co at Paris Photo
7-10 November 2024
Grand Palais, Paris
England & Co will return to Paris Photo with a presentation featuring images relating to Conceptual and Performance Art from the 1970s and 1980s, with artist-photographers including Li Yuan-Chia (1928-1994), James Collins (1939-2021) and Anne Bean (b. 1950).
Others exhibiting on the gallery’s stand this year will include Jenny Matthews (b. 1948), Rose Boyt (born 1958), Clay Perry (b. 1940), Silvia Ziranek (b. 1952), Hannah O’Shea (b. 1939) and David Thorp (b. 1947).
Anne Bean at Southwark Park Galleries
18 October 2024
To celebrate their 40th birthday, Southwark Park Galleries are holding a performance night and fundraiser evening in their Dilston Gallery, featuring Peter Liversidge’s Gin Bar and live performances by artists Florence Peake, Anne Bean, Fani Parali and Patrick Cole.
Anne Bean: towards a new ceremony
VSSL Studio, London SE8
11 – 12 October 2024
Anne Bean will be speaking at Autobituaries, an artist lab exploring catalysts for creating ritual. She will speak about aspects of her work and propose solo and collective actions towards a new ceremony.
Nek Chand: Tropical Modernism at V&A
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Until 22 September 2024
England & Co have arranged the loan of five sculptures by Nek Chand for the exhibition Tropical Modernism at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Nek Chand Saini (1924-2015) was a self-taught Indian artist who created the Rock Garden of Chandigarh – a vast fantasy kingdom inhabited by a myriad of sculptures of people and animals constructed from recycled materials such as broken crockery. Now hailed as a visionary environment and a much-visited site in India, the Garden was initially built without permission within a city redesigned as a modernist utopia by the Swiss architect, Le Corbusier. England & Co first exhibited works by Nek Chand Saini in 2001 following a memorable visit with him at the Rock Garden in Chandigarh.
David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos
9 June – 15 September 2024
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The portrait of David Medalla taken by Clay Perry in 1964 greets visitors to the exhibition In Conversation with the Cosmos at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
The curators write that it is ‘the first comprehensive survey in the United States dedicated to the late Filipino artist David Medalla (1938–2020). The exhibition contextualizes the elusive and experimental practice of an artist whose pioneering work spanned kinetic, performance, and participatory art movements… Beginning with paintings and drawings from the late 1950s and concluding with the works he produced before his death, In Conversation with the Cosmos presents the accumulations of a creative life imbued with an anti-institutional ethos and a commitment to impermanence and change.’ England & Co were pleased to assist the project with exhibition loans and images for the accompanying publication.
Christine Khondji: Beyond the Thread
Bin Matar House, Muharraq, Bahrain
22 April – 30 May 2024
Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction 1950-1970
Turner Contemporary, Margate
3 February – 6 May 2024
Paule Vézelay and Anthea Alley are included in Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction 1950-1970, a group exhibition at Turner Contemporary presenting abstraction as a radical global language shared by women artists in the twenty years following the Second World War. Guest curated by Dr Flavia Frigeri, the exhibition brings together the works of more than 50 artists to examine how, through abstract forms, materials and modes, women pushed the boundaries of artmaking while tackling seismic cultural, social and political shifts. Comprising more than 80 artworks, predominantly sculpture, the exhibition traces how the language of abstraction developed on a global scale. Paule Vézelay is represented by two constructions from her ‘Lines in Space’ series; and Anthea Alley by Resting Circles, an architectural, polished metal sculpture from 1970, and an earlier work from the Arts Council Collection.