Exhibition

The Collector's Room

20 Mar 2020 – 17 May 2020

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

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JGM Gallery

London
England, United Kingdom

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  • 19, 49, 170, 319, 345
  • Sloan Square, Victoria
  • Battersea Park
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The group show ‘The Collector’s Room’ is curated by artist and lecturer Karen David, drawing on illusion, stage magic and the escapologist Harry Houdini, and will transform JGM Gallery into a parlour room of a fictitious collector.

About

The Collector's Room holds three narratives: the act of collecting, the lens of fiction, and the illusion of magic. An intangible transformation occurs where the potency of these works in this space take on new meanings due to our viewing experience altering and ‘contorting’ slightly when presented with a fictional agency. We could call this misdirection or sleight-of-hand, or one of many other effects used (to different ends) by stage magicians, faith healers, politicians and, also, visual artists, who using the effect of ‘production’ (i.e. rabbit from a hat) create something from nothing as part of their own presentation, wielding the unconscious into material, thoughts into actions, the invisible, visible.

The Collector's Room becomes a space where myth, rumour and illusion hang waiting and whispering. At once chattering with mysteries and silent in their gaze.

The exhibition include the work of:

Jonathan Allen, Ralph Anderson, Dominic Beattie, Katrina Blannin, Isha Bøhling, Juan Bolivar, Stella Capes Anne-Marie Creamer, Karen David, Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs, Richard Ducker, Austin Eddy Machiko Edmondson, Tim Ellis, James Fisher & Kate McLeod, Ludovica Gioscia, Katie Goodwin, Alastair Gordon Andrew Grassie, John Greenwood, James Hopkins, Chris Jones, Joy Kngwarreye Jones, Richard Kirwan Hiroe Homai, Caterina Lewis, Karl Marrow, Barbara Nicholls, Plastique Fantastique*, John Richert, Lex Shute Sophia Starling, Holly Stevenson, Daniel Sturgis, Phyllis Thomas, Suzanne Treister, Jessica Voorsanger Richard Wathen, David Ben White, Alice Wilson, K. Yoland, Neil Zakiewicz

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Karen David

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Sophia Starling

Andrew Grassie

Richard Wathen

Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs

Tim Ellis

Ralph Anderson

Alice Wilson

Karl Marrow

Joy Kngwarreye Jones

Austin Eddy

Katie Goodwin

Karen David

Neil Zakiewicz

Dominic Beattie

Richard Kirwan

James Fisher & Kate McLeod

Alastair Gordon,

Ludovica Gioscia

Chris Jones

Katrina Blannin

David Ben White

Suzanne Treister

Isha Bøhling

Hiroe Komai

Holly Stevenson

Caterina Lewis

Jonathan Allen

Stella Capes

Anne-Marie Creamer

Plastique Fantastique

K. Yoland

James Hopkins

Phyllis Thomas

Machiko Edmondson

Daniel Sturgis

Jessica Voorsanger

Juan Bolivar

Lex Shute

John Greenwood

Richard Ducker

Barbara Nicholls

John Richert

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