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Untitled #1 from Freeway series, Catherine Opie, 1994. Collection of Maurice Marciano.
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One of seven kids of Mertonian friend, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1970 - 72. Courtesy of the artist
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Untitled, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1967 - 70. Courtesy of the artist
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Landfill, Jeremy Butler, 2015. Courtesy of the artist
Exhibition
Edgelands
26 Sep 2015 – 29 Nov 2015
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 1 Arkwright Road
- London
England - NW3 6DG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 13
- Finchley Road, Hampstead
Curated by Ben Rivers, this group show examines the overlooked fringes of the urban landscape.
About
Based on the concept of ‘edgelands’, the exhibition draws together a selection of works that have inspired Rivers’ interest in these borders of society, both physical spaces – the neglected peripheries of the city – and abstractly, where individuals have withdrawn from mainstream culture.
Self-taught Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s photographs of the American mid-west outback sit alongside La Ville Petrifée by Max Ernst (1933), Catherine Opie’s photographicFreeway series (1994), Robert Smithson’s Tour of Monuments of the Passaic (1967), J G Ballard’s Concrete Island (1974), and others. Together they consider how social distance surfaces in architecture and landscape, the creative potential of overlooked spaces and beauty in the deserted or disregarded.
Artists include: Keith Arnatt, J.G. Ballard, Jeremy Butler, Prunella Clough, Max Ernst, Helen Levitt, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Stuart Middleton, Catherine Opie and Robert Smithson.
