NEWS
Anne Bean performance at Modern Art Oxford for Barbara Steveni opening
28 February 2025, Modern Art Oxford
Anne Bean performed at the opening preview of the exhibition, I Find Myself, the first retrospective exhibition of pioneering, influential artist-activist Barbara Steveni (1928-2020). Bean will develop a new live work inspired by Steveni’s important long-term work, I Am An Archive. Bean has previously presented live performance work at Modern Art Oxford with Bow Gamelan in 1984, as well as the work I’d Rather Go Blind in 2012, as part of Solo curated by Brian Catling. (I Find Myself continues until 8 June 2025.)
Anne Bean and Bow Gamelan
6 February 2025
Tate Modern
Formed by Anne Bean, Paul Burwell (1949-2007) and Richard Wilson in 1983, Bow Gamelan Ensemble are known for their powerful, large-scale performances using unexpected sounds and pyrotechnics. This evening of conversation and short films includes the premiere of Maps of Other Possibilities, a new documentary about the group made in collaboration with Alex Eisenberg.
Paule Vézelay: Living Lines
Royal West of England Academy
25 January – 27 April 2025
England & Co are pleased to have arranged numerous loans for this celebratory retrospective exhibition spanning Paule Vézelay’s career held in the city of Bristol where she was born in 1892 as Marjorie Watson-Williams. She later adopted the name Paule Vézelay after moving to Paris in 1926. On display are more than 60 of her works, including paintings, prints, sculptures and textiles, in addition to material from her archive.
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.