Museums at Night is the annual after hours celebration when hundreds of museums, galleries, libraries, archives and heritage sites open their doors for special evening events. Culture24’s project for Museums at Night, Connect10, matches ten contemporary artists with ten museums and galleries for a series of special one-off Museums at Night events over the weekend of May 18, 19 and 20 2012.
The list of Connect10 artists venues can vote for includes Bob and Roberta Smith, Susan Stockwell, Martin Parr, Polly Morgan and Ryan Gander. And yours truly (read more here).
Closing date for entries is January 31 2012 and if you’re a museum you can enter the competition via this simple application form.
Read the Connect10 venue terms and conditions.
Go to the full list of Connect10 artists.
My We English exhibition is traveling to Wolverhampton and will be on show at Light House gallery from Friday 27th January – Friday 13th April.
I will be doing an artist talk on Thursday 15 March, 7pm. More details here.
will open at the photography festival Pluie D’Images in Brest, France, later this January.
You can view a programme for the festival here, which runs from 14th January – 24th February.
Simon will be giving an artist’s talk
at 6pm, details here.
Flowers Gallery and Robert Morat will both have samples of my new Pierdom work available to view at Paris Photo, which opens today.
Flowers Gallery are on stand D54 and Robert Morat on stand A47.
Tonight I will be presenting my Landscapes of Innocence and Experience video as part of the Open ’11 festival. Wendy Pye will also be screening work and together we will be ‘in conversation’ with Miranda Gavin, Deputy and Online Editor of HotShoe Magazine.
The works will be screened in the gallery throughout the day.
Places are limited and can be booked here.
About Open ’11:
The Brighton Photo Fringe Open ‘11 presents an exhibition, events programme and collection of texts at Phoenix Brighton between 19 November – 18 December 2011. Open Wednesday – Sunday 11.00am – 5.00pm, and late nights every Thursday, until 9.00pm. Through an international open call the Open ’11 brings together a diverse group of curators and artists to explore different perspectives on the critical issues emerging from contemporary photographic practice.
We English is going to be exhibited at the British Council in Sao Paulo at the Centro Brasileiro Britânico from 11th November to 25th February 2012, shown alongside the work of Brazilian photographer Iatã Cannabrava.
Address: Rua Ferreira Araújo, 741 – Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
Telefone: (0xx)11 3819-4120
In association with Galeria de Babel.
Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, which boasts one of the best collections of Modern British art in the UK, have just acquired four prints from We English for their permanent collection. The photographs are currently on display as part of their Edward Burra exhibition.
You can read an interview I did in the gallery’s magazine pdf.
I’ve recently taken part in a commission for Save the Children called ‘Our Lives’, which looks at contemporary child poverty in the UK. An exhibition of the work, which also includes photographs by Liz Hingley, Laura Pannack, Carol Storey and Abbie Trayler-Smith opens tonight at the The House of St Barnabas.
“Our Lives brings a new perspective to the lives of British children living in poverty, told through photographs, film and interviews. Award-winning photographers worked collaboratively with families to
move beyond the stereotypes and capture daily challenges and family moments.” Save the Children
You can view a gallery on the Guardian here.
I will be giving the keynote lecture in association with Photomonth East London, International Photography Festival, at Whitechapel Gallery in London on October 27th. The lecture will focus on his Election Project series and he will also be screening his new film ‘Landscapes of Innocence & Experience’. For more details and tickets visit the Whitechapel Gallery website here.