Vile Diva - Ted Rogers
Vile Diva is show about rage, dance and the subversive power of viper tongued queens.
Ted Rogers' debut solo show at Quench will include film, drawings, sculpture and installation.
Opening Saturday July 22nd and running til August 27th. There will be performative happenings on opening night.
Cook in the Slaughterhouse - Daniel Burley
An audio book about a necrophiliac/ cannibal exploring metaphysical and moral philosophy and the process of them being captured by the authorities, playing alongside sculptural attempts to obtain abstraction through referential juxtapositions with the overarching goal of exploring consumption, pseudo-ism, absurdism and existentialism.
Lean Six Sigma - Kialy Tihngang
The result of a body of research speculating on the ornaments and desk toys of supervillains of antiquity (1600s merchants, slave traders, and industrialists), present (billionaire profiteers of extractive neo-colonial practices such as mining and waste dumping), and future (colonisers of as-yet-unknown territories such as space and the deep sea).
Duppy Dance - Annis Harrison
Duppy Dance is a solo exhibition by Annis Harrison. She presents a new body of work that celebrates carnival whilst engaging with its inherently revolutionary and rebellious spirit.
The Carnival seen here is a triumphant representation of freedom and movement, but also a direct response to the legacy of the problematic Black history of the United Kingdom.
Gratitudenously - Ann Churchill & J.M. Churchill
GRATITUDENOUSLY is an exhibition of works by J.M. Churchill and Ann Churchill organised by Elizabeth Neilson (Judith’s granddaughter and Ann’s daughter).
It includes works by two generations of the same family who would not define themselves as artists, but who both used drawing as a tool to document their own inner journey.
From Another Carriage - James Metsoja
From Another Carriage is a new solo show by Norfolk based painter James Metsoja
Perishing Thirst - Katayoun Jalilipour, Kenji Lim, Sophie Spedding
Perishing Thirst is a group exhibition of works by Katayoun Jalilipour, Kenji Lim and Sophie Spedding.
Happy Birthday, Dear Speed - Hamish Pearch
Hamish Pearch presents two new series of photographs in his exhibition ‘Happy Birthday, Dear Speed’. Pearch has serialised 72 moments of stretched time. Presenting the cosmic and the mundane, the images were taken at a moonlit Botany Bay and a print shop near to the artists studio.
Tomato Potato - Clara Hastrup
A bluefooted battery, a wind-up mandarine and a tiger lurking in a paint brush. For her solo exhibition "Tomato Potato" Clara Hastrup will exhibit a new group of photographs extending an ongoing series, "Instant Sculptures" (2020-). Via playful and simple gestures and through the lens of the camera everyday objects and magazine cut-outs transform into illusions that not only touch on the dichotomies of our relationship with nature and the endless cycle of consumption but invites us to look closer.
Adult By Nature
Adult By Nature
Ty Locke, Bashar Ali, Matilda Sutton, Pink Suits, Lo Lo No, Studio Lenca, Wayne Lucas
05/08/22 - 14/08/22
Adult by nature sits in the paradox of queer childhood, inescapbale from an adult lens, a lens of imposition, reconciliation and affirmation. The inherently adult world of queerness is created by the historical criminalization and patholigising of queer sexuality that severed its perceived existence (in a wilful ignorance) from childhood. This oppression of queerness creates an orientation of displacement, surrealism and otherness for queer children, a disavowing of authenticity in a world that is adult by nature, revealed as unobtainable, whilst omnipresent and deemed perverse if crossed before threshold of puberty and young adulthood. The journey of queer childhood is an intrapsychic space, an exploration beyond closed doors, a risk taken on desire. A reliance on adults for acceptance if found out or declared. The undeniable effect of this othering and bendy perceptiveness of queer artists lived experience is processed through art making (subconciously or with intent) where adultness impacted their childishness; and as adults the pitfalls and wormholes of those experiences are raked, healed, embraced and transformed. Most childhoods are lucky enough to be navigated through the site of a home, a collection of rooms or spaces, with different functions, governed and formed by adults. A home is a duplicitous space to perceptions bent by systems of displacement; A kitchen full of weapons, a toilet full of screams and gargles and bedrooms where babies are made or nightmares are repeated. Doors left open or locked out of bounds. Adult By Nature invites artists to investigate this phenomena and create rooms in Quench Gallery. Site specific, mixed media, audio visual and performance work will create the exhibition that manifests through abstraction; a memory, an object, an absurdity, an anecdote, a trigger, a telling of a home.
Earthbound - Sam Keelan
Rolling in from the shimmering mirage of some rural English landscape — encrusted in a layer of crumbs from all the regional cakes — comes The Earthbound, a photographic exhibition by Sam Keelan, tailored for those amongst us who are troubled by the disquieting breakdown of their relationship to place. Let this new series of high spec tableau images re-root you through its use of romanticised depictions of ye olde rituals — or more accurately with a forgery of a forgery of a recollection of those rituals — by which you will learn useful self-practices to re-impose meaning onto the houses, neighbourhoods, and patches of greenery you encountered during your daily life. A show that feels texturally just like being inside one of Thomas Hardy’s descriptions of the countryside—if he’d been describing a village in 2007 somewhere off the M62 instead, and all his main characters were gay men— Not to be missed.
SLUDGE - Lulua Alyahya
In Lulua Alyahya’s paintings there is a spatial poetics, an architecture and scaffolding that asserts its own infinite and colossal thick time. In the desert our little histories hang in the balance, swallowed up by the harbour of time. In the mountains, obsessions, that so often leave us exposed and at the mercy of others, echo around and amplify on the hot zephyr. A gulf mist of teenagedom, boredom, frustrations, desires, shame. A new text by Ed Leeson will accompany the exhibition.
Gore End - Jack Lavender
The saying goes that all good things must come to an end: an end to make a new start, as outlined in the above quote monotony is indeed dull, new is exciting. Gore End is Jack Lavender’s first solo show at Quench Gallery. A new revised text by Hannah Lees will accompany the exhibition.
In the Land of Cockaigne - Robert Aberdein, Bobby Baker, Lindsey Mendick, Paloma Proudfoot, Olivia Sterling, Caroline Wong
The group exhibition titled In the Land of Cockaigne at Quench presents the works of artists Robert Aberdein, Bobby Baker, Lindsey Mendick, Paloma Proudfoot, Olivia Sterling, and Caroline Wong. Each artist explores the themes of abundance, the right to pleasure, the absurdity associated with the consumption of food, domesticity, race, and revulsion in the context of food politics.
once solid now dissolved - Ruth Claxton
Towards the end of the first lockdown I started making work with what was to hand.
Foil:
a thwarting
a person or thing that sets off or enhances another by contrast
metal in the form of very thin sheets
Pressure applied to matter, squeezed flat, pushed sideways, spread out.
Microns away from nothing.
Aluminium. The most abundant metallic element. Infinitely recyclable. Unnatural in its purest form. Impermeable to light, odour and contamination.
Fragments. Armour. Feathers. Blankets. Rocks. Covers. Shawls.
Fugitive surfaces. Organising time into light.
Wormb - Rosie Vohra and Rae-Yen Song
WORMB weaves together the work of Rosie Vohra and Rae-Yen Song. An array of paintings, objects, artefacts and images are distributed throughout a space coloured with a flushed, bloody palette of venous reds and pulpy pinks. Vohra and Song make an invitation to descend into a quietly theatrical, bodily space; to get under the skin, into the belly, towards the heart of the matter.
‘in spite of, instead of’ - Rene Matić
This intimate display of work by Rene Matić comprises new and old works and possessions from the artist’s archive. This assemblage of objects takes as it’s starting point a quote from Kathleen Collins’ book, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love,
What about the love of two human beings who mate in spite of, or because of, of instead of, or after the fact of
The artist returns to a 2020 video work, we give a lead to britain, which was filmed in Lambeth Town Hall as an homage to the ‘No Colour Bar dance’ that took place there in 1955. The dance saw 180 Black people and 180 white people brought together to dance in the name of integration. In this display, the film is brought into dialogue with personal artefacts that hold rich and romantic family histories.
Inhabiting a body that perhaps wouldn’t exist without moments and stories like these, Matić revisits and makes visible the nuanced relationships that have gone before them.
Hard as Nails - Emily Moore, Maddalena Zadra and Miranda Forrester - curated by artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan
‘Hard as Nails’ is a group exhibition of works by Emily Moore, Maddalena Zadra and Miranda Forrester, curated by artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan.
Gone With the Weather - Samuel Vilanova
Deprived of human activity, our condition is explored through objects. By being present in our everyday, the objects we own, absorb the characteristics, flaws and feelings of their owners. These things that will probably outlive us, carry so much of our stories captured through our usage of them, that they will end up continuing to tell our individual stories long after we are gone. Dislocated from their functions, as visual elements, when placed within compositions with others, these objects have the potential to represent very human things. I find in those, a flexibility to explore our complexities, whether through the roughness or smoothness of their texture, or the way they sit and interact with each other and the environment around them.
OOOO - Hannah Lees
Hannah Lees has produced a body of work exploring ideas of motherhood and the depletion of the body. The works span a period of three years and document a journey from failed conception to pregnancy and motherhood.