Exhibition

Two By Two

2 Feb 2023 – 15 Feb 2023

Regular hours

Monday
10:00 – 19:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 19:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 19:00
Thursday
10:00 – 19:00
Friday
10:00 – 19:00
Saturday
10:00 – 19:00
Sunday
10:00 – 19:00

Free admission

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Morrell House

London
England, United Kingdom

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23-artist group exhibition Two by Two explores and celebrates the wild and domesticated mysteries of the animal kingdom.

About

Andrea Gomis | Becky Tucker | Benji Thomas | Billy Bagihole | Darcey Murphy | David Harrison | Henrietta MacPhee | Giles Walker | Harry Rudham | Hira Gedikoglu | Irena Posner | James Dearlove | James Mortimer | Jiwon Cha | Julia De Ruvo | Karina Eibatova | Layla Andrews | Marina Renee Cemmick | Niall Campbell Strachan | Rene Gonzalez | Salvatore Pione | Selby HI | Valerie Savchits

Two by Two celebrates the wild and domesticated mysteries of the animal kingdom, and of mankind’s sometimes healthy, sometimes unhealthy, obsession with other species. From wild beasts to domestic pets, animals have traditionally sustained our nutritional, emotional, religious, artistic and scientific needs and desires. Our relationships with the animal aspect of Nature has allowed the human aspect of Nature to reach ambitious cultural heights throughout history, for better and worse. All the while animals have lived out their evolutionary journeys without any need for humanity.

Our ever-decreasing daily exposure to animals that is a feature of the contemporary western lifestyle, has impelled us to try to reintroduce them into our lives using a variety of cultural means, that includes the making of animal artworks by the artists in the present exhibition Two by Two.  
This exhibition, presented throughout three spaces, is an installation that celebrates the reintroduction of the animal into our daily lives, by allowing the viewer to undergo a circular rite of passage from the domesticated culturality to the wild naturality of animals and back again. Each of the artworks in this circular journey may be conceived to lie somewhere between the polar opposites of naturality and culturality on a spectrum of naturalculturality.

The exhibition title alludes to the story of Noah, a human whose actions, whether self-motivated or not, taught us a perpetually valuable lesson: that of prioritising the welfare and survival of all animal species, which in Noah’s case was an attempt to re-establish a previously lost Paradise.

The welfare of animals and their importance to human culture that inspired Noah’s heroic act, also underlies increasingly global ecological activities, that include the work of the animal welfare and conservation charities Celia Hammond Animal Trust and RSPB to which we are donating a part of the sale price of the works sold in this exhibition.

CuratorsToggle

Jack Trodd

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Giles Walker

Valerie Savchits

Selby H.I

Salvatore Pione

Rene Gonzalez

Niall Campbell Strachan

Marina Renee-Cemmick

Layla Andrews

Karina Eibatova

Julia de Ruvo

Jiwon Cha

James Mortimer

James Dearlove

Irena Posner

Hira Gedikoglu

Harry Rudham

Andrea Gomis

Becky Tucker

Billy Bagilhole

Darcey Murphy

David Harrison

Henrietta MacPhee

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