Exhibition

From The Kitchen Table. Drew Gallery Projects 1984-90

5 Oct 2018 – 9 Nov 2018

Regular hours

Friday
10:00 – 17:00
Saturday
11:00 – 16:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Herbert Read Gallery

Canterbury
United Kingdom, United Kingdom

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  • Travel from London Victoria to Canterbury East Station (1h 13-30mins), then by taxi or foot to the campus (10 minute walk). Canterbury West Station (which is a twenty minute walk from the gallery) is also served by trains from St Pancras and Waterloo (1h
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In the 1980s curator Sandra Drew staged a series of ground­breaking exhibitions in locations around Canterbury. Drew Gallery Projects supported artists in the early stages of their careers, often experimenting with 'new media' which didn't resemble what was broadly accepted as sculpture at the time (video, objects, photography, installation, performance and text.) This exhibition brings together original and related works from these ambitious and impactful shows and the Drew Gallery Projects' archive, telling the story of how these exhibitions came about and why their legacy is enormous. 
Drew Gallery Projects' archive, now gifted to and digitised by UCA, provides an invaluable resource for subsequent generations of students, artists, curators, academics 
and 'do-ers', for many years to come. During the initial conversations regarding the archive's digitisation it soon became imperative to shine a light on Drew's continuing contemporary relevance within the curatorial and artistic­led activity which in 2018 is taken as given, and yet would not have happened if it weren't for people like Sandra who pushed, and pushed, until it happened. 
The exhibitions in Canterbury, Folkestone and London during 2018-19 and the accompanying publication celebrates Sandra Drew's visionary legacy to a whole new generation, a career that has remained modestly observed and yet passionately championed by those artists, students and communities who directly benefited from Drew's revolutionary curatorial spirit during the 80s and 90s. 

CuratorsToggle

Judith Carlton

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Phyllida Barlow

Julia Wood

Marion Urch

Jayne Parker

David Mach

Tina Keane

John Cobb

Katharine Meynell

Judith Ahem

Catherine Elwes

Joanna Mewbray

Ron Haselden

Zoe Redman

Judith Goddard

Rose Finn-Kelcey

Maeve Woods

Rob Kesseler

Bonita Ely

Jason Hartcup

Hamish Fulton

Maryrose Sinn

Yoko Terauchi

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