Abundance is an unmissable group exhibition of artworks by the artists Chandrakant Patel (ActionSpace, London), Erin Keogh (Project Ability, Glasgow) and Kathy Wilmott (Venture Arts, Manchester). The touring exhibition is the culmination of a three year collaborative project between ActionSpace, Project Ability and Venture Arts celebrating the work of learning disabled artists.
This final showcase in London is produced by ActionSpace in collaboration with V.O Curations and is curated by artist Louis Caseley.
All three artists in Abundance have significant bodies of work and are being shown on a larger scale. The exhibition will explore the relationship between the prolific making of the artists and their distinct abstract practices through an immersive experience. A programme of live, inclusive events will accompany the exhibition and a relaxed space will be integrated into the exhibition for all audiences.
The exhibiting artists were selected by artist Sonia Boué, who comments that audiences will be drawn to and ‘connect with the immediacy, energy and abundance of life within the three selected practices.’
Abundance is part of the Explorers Project, a creative programme and framework for increasing the visibility and representation of neurodivergent artists in contemporary visual art.
Abundance Programme of Public Events
Artist and Curator Tour with Chandrakant Patel and Louis Caseley
Friday 1 March, 2 – 3pm
Free, booking recommended:
https://abundance_exhibition_tour.eventbrite.co.uk
V.O Curations, first floor, 56 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2YZ
Join ActionSpace artist Chandrakant Patel and artist/curator Louis Caseley for an artist and curator tour of the exhibition Abundance at V.O Curations. Presented within Abundance, ActionSpace artist Chandrakant Patel will screen films documenting his fluid, site-sensitive installation process and the collaborative workshop he led with One Trust participants.
Curator of Abundance, Louis Caseley, will lead the guided tour, detailing the themes behind each artwork. Join us for an opportunity to learn more about the processes and curatorial decisions within the exhibition.
This tour will be given in a relaxed setting and is open to all.
Book your free ticket here:
https://abundance_exhibition_tour.eventbrite.co.uk
In Parallel
Saturday 2 March, 12 – 4pm
Live painting: 12 – 3pm
Informal artist conversation: 3 – 4pm
Free, booking recommended
V.O Curations, first floor, 56 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2YZ
Robin Smith and Jerome present In Parallel, a live mixed media painting event amongst the new exhibition Abundance at V.O Curations.
In Parallel is both an artist response to the exhibition and an activation of the space, developed through a series of studio visits between the artists to explore figuration, drawing and mixed media processes. Robin and Jerome invite visitors to view their creative processes and experimentation live as they work alongside each other in the gallery. The artists will create new work, whilst sharing concepts that stretch across both their distinct practices through original processes. This event is free and open to all.
Jerome utilises malleable plasticine through a process of layering and cross hatching, combined with an ‘Action Black’ floorboard painting peeling process to explore figuration.
Robin will develop a mixed media painting, layering inks, soft pastel, pen and acrylic to explore a new composition with abstract shape formations.
About Robin Smith
Robin creates abstract, reimagined painted portraits of figures and birds in single and multiple figure compositions. Through interlocking geometric and organic forms Robin uses shape and colour to blur the boarders between the subject and background. Robin combines acrylic, emulsion, and ink with soft pastels to build intense, richly coloured layers. Recent exhibitions include Open House, Studio Voltaire (2023), Paint Live, Battersea Arts centre (2023) Watch This…, Cockpit Winter Open Studios (2022), Parallel, live painting event, Studio Voltaire (2022).
https://actionspace.org/artists/robin-smith/
About Jerome
Jerome’s practice uses play to explore conversations around the ambiguity of our layered identities. His work uses Painting, Drawing, Installation, Performance and Sculpture, often working on several projects simultaneously that can connect, overlap and disconnect at multiple points. The sense of play comes through the intuitive use of when and where to combine the use of mediums, and the interconnected layered exploration of the material acts as a metaphor for the multifaceted realities of our individuality and wider human experience.
Recent exhibitions include ‘Life is More Important than Art’, Whitechapel Gallery (2023) and ‘Cornershop’, Niru Ratnam Gallery (2023). Upcoming exhibitions include ‘Man Like’, Harlesden High Street, ‘Beyond Boundaries’, Guts Gallery (2024) and solo shows at Filet Space (2024) and Niru Ratnam Gallery (2024).
About Explorers
Explorers is a dynamic collaborative programme of art and action that opens up routes into artistic practice for neurominorities, dismantling attitudinal and systemic barriers to representation and rights in art and society. Explorers is led by Project Art Works, in conjunction with eight key partners: ActionSpace, Autograph, BALTIC, IntoArt, MK Gallery, Outside In, Photoworks and Venture Arts. Explorers is a creative programme and framework for increasing the visibility and representation of neurodivergent artists in contemporary visual art.
Explore the previous showcases of Abundance at Project Ability and Venture Arts.
Visit
27 February – 2 March
12 – 4pm (except 28 February, 2 – 4pm)
V.O Curations, first floor, 56 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2YZ
Free entry / wheelchair accessible
