London Craft Week: THIS COUNTRY
THIS COUNTRY is an artist led exhibition supported by Korea Craft and Design Foundation in partnership with London Craft Week. Curated by studio collective Forest + Found, the exhibition platforms seven artists working in the UK who demonstrate deep commitment to their understanding of material traditions within contemporary and conceptual art practice. Featuring artists Max Bainbridge, Abigail Booth, Sayan Chanda, Nancy Fuller, Jonathan Michael Ray, Frances Pinnock and Lotte Scott, the exhibition is hosted by Crafts Council Gallery in Islington, London.
Image: Frances Pinnock Portrait. Photo courtesy of Luke Fullalove. Image above: Abigail Booth. I See You looking At Me, 2023. Image courtesy of Forest + Found.
Bringing together artists whose work engages in conversations around shifting cultural identities bound up in their relationship to place and selfhood, the exhibition draws upon an unbroken history of making re-interpreted through the hand and mind of each artist........................
Bringing together artists whose work engages in conversations around shifting cultural identities bound up in their relationship to place and selfhood, the exhibition draws upon an unbroken history of making re-interpreted through the hand and mind of each artist........................
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