No Place Like Home

PV Tuesday 5 September: 5:30-7:30pm

Wednesday 6 September to Sunday 15 October 2023

ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House + unexpected locations around the Island

Curated by Rosalind Davis and Laura Hudson.

Capital House, 8 Church St., St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK.

ArtHouse Jersey presents No Place Like Home, an ambitious multi-disciplinary exhibition that reaches beyond the gallery to locations around Jersey.  For this exhibition twenty-three artists build a rich narrative that delves into personal stories, global issues, childhood memories, and speculative worlds as well as the bleak realities of the current housing market to look at a broader concept of home and what it might mean today. 

For this exhibition ArtHouse Jersey has commissioned new work by Ana Čvorović (Bosnia/UK), Sasha Bowles (UK), Justin Hibbs (UK), Will Romeril (Jersey), Lindsay Rutter (Jersey), Lisa Traxler (Isle of Wight/UK). Alongside the commissions the curators have selected existing work by artists who resonate with the broad ranging themes of No Place Like Home including: Jananne al-Ani (Iraq/UK), Rachel Ara (Jersey), Jackie Berridge (UK), George Bolster (Ire/USA), Peter Jones (UK), Daria Koltsova (Ukraine/UK), Peter Liversidge (UK), Harriet Mena Hill (UK), Kate Murdoch (UK), Ravelle Pillay (South Africa), Saba Qizilbash (Pakistan/UAE), Martha Rostler (USA), Judith Tucker (UK), Joanna Whittle (UK), Eddie Wong (Malaysia/NZ) and Andrea V Wright (UK).

Home may be a sanctuary or a place of danger, it might be stable or temporary, intimate or shared, rooted for generations or a refuge in times of need. Home might be a person, place or planet, a community to which we belong or contested land no longer available to us. We may all yearn for a Home, but homes are full of histories, meanings and tensions; charged with political, social and economic realities they are subject to both external forces and internal dramas. ‘Home’ means something important and different to each one of us.When we think of home do we think of planet earth or something on a smaller scale? The shelter we find to sleep or the relationships that hold us together? Across the British Isles, homes are less affordable now than they have been at any time in housing history, nowhere more so than the setting for this ambitious exhibition, the Channel Island of Jersey.

About ArtHouse Jersey

ArtHouse Jersey is a charitable arts organisation that serves the Island community and wider audiences by supporting artists from Jersey and across the world to create and present ambitious work. ArtHouse Jersey manages studios, provides residency opportunities, offers development grants and provides spaces for developing new work. ArtHouse Jersey runs an exhibition space at Capital House in St. Helier and two salons for live events and pop up shows at their HQ, Greve de Lecq Barracks, as well as working with schools and local communities to deliver education and outreach programmes throughout the year. 

Website: www.arthousejersey.je  Facebook: www.facebook.com/arthousejersey Twitter: @ArtHouseJersey

Open Tuesday to Sunday 10:30am - 6pm. Closed Mondays

JUSTIN HIBBS

Solo Show; The Lives of Others

18 March – 24 April 2022

9th April 4-6pm; Artist talk with Laurent Delaye & Rosalind Davis

Laurent Delaye Gallery, 1 Addington St, Ramsgate CT11 9JN

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful…” William Morris

Justin Hibbs solo exhibition presents a new collection of work for the Laurent Delaye Gallery. This diverse body of work includes paintings, prints, collages, photographs and assembled design objects that include shelving units and a room dividing screen. Through this work Hibbs addresses the blurred boundaries between art, design and their respective modes of display, curated to highlight both the formal and informal relationships we have with both art and design objects both as viewers and ‘collectors’ of our own personal artefacts.

The title of the exhibition, ‘The Lives of Others’, summarises the rich implications of this show challenging some preconceptions around art making - notions of value and use, collections and collectors, as well as the curatorial role of artistic authorship.

This site-specific installation is considered as a total environment – ‘a construction’. From the transparent vinyl on the windows modifying the light entering the space to the larger shelving works which act simultaneously both as sculptures and objects of display. The shelves, (a prominent feature of the exhibition) house collections of the artist’s work and research (or thinking) material, as well as reference points to shared histories; his influences and relationships to others, as all of our objects do...  Curated on the shelves is the work of his partner Rosalind Davis and her father Peter Davis, as well as his collaboration with music composer Ben Lancaster to create the new limited edition record release ‘Hidden Future Reverse Synthesis.’ Like every home, the artworks are personal, intimate, transitory and ever changing.

 Alongside the shelf sculpture is another transformative object; a folding screen, for all intents and purposes is designed as a partition for a domestic space – to conceal and divide, operating as a modular painting and functional object. Made from frosted Acrylic, framed in ply-wood, the artwork within is formed with geometric shapes counteracted by organic plant forms drawn with ink. It is simultaneously both hand and machine made, informed by the environment of his own home and his wider work as a designer where the organic and the geometric playfully collide.

 The exhibition is a site of encounter and a space for dialogue where objects & people are encouraged to interact. It brings into play the spirit of the Bauhaus and the Concrete Avant-Garde movement which was about engaging public participation and rejecting the idea of art as a rarefied commodity set apart from the real world and the domestic. The works here want to be collaborated with and modified by the external interventions of others; personalised as props for their own intimate possessions, to become a part of the lives of others…

The exhibition The Lives of Others transforms the notion of the gallery as a white cube space, (which in this case a former shop with its own layers of history and display) and creates artworks from a living context for an imaginary domestic space. Modernist ideas and have now become co-opted into the mainstream within the furniture industry and retail outlets, with the imitation of its heritage a constant feature.  But what the mass-produced design industry often lacks is the poetry of these forms and structures, the use of imagination to reinvent.  

 Text by Laurent Delaye, Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs

References; The Lives of Others exhibition title references the film of the same name by Florian Henckel von Donnersmark (2007).

9- 22 October 2021, 12-6pm plus events.

As featured as Top Picks to see during Frieze in:

The Art Newspaper

FAD Magazine - No 1 show of the week 

The Londonist

Review of The Factory by Paul Carey Kent.

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Free Entry but booking essential. Book here
The Factory, Thameside Industrial Estate, Factory Road, London, E16 2HB. 

https://www.insidethefactoryproject.com/

Rosalind Davis Curatorial Statement for Trace Elements | 1971.

Themes that bring these artists’ practices together are transformation and experience. Their works respond directly to buildings or contexts, scraping back layers of history, materiality or indeed reality, to create new or alternate spaces, objects and environments.

Trace Elements | 1971 is a title that references this incredible building’s links back to the industrial era whilst also acknowledging the cumulative impact of subsequent phases of its history. 

Tate and Lyle’s factory in Silvertown was created in 1878 during the late-Victorian era. This is a period where houses were filled with the ‘lived’ history of their inhabitants. Inherited objects and furniture acknowledged and valued layered histories and the passage of time. In the 20th century as Modernism emerged, the presiding sentiment was to cast aside ornament in favour of transcendent minimal spaces; to remove and erase the past to start afresh. However, we have since moved beyond these polarities, traces of the past are resilient and perhaps we need to recognise the power of both? We now sit somewhere in-between these two positions: treasuring objects, buildings and experiences that acknowledge both past and present while simultaneously creating new memories and spaces.
Online Talk with Artist and Art Critic Jillian Knipe
Videos of a performance by Jamal Sterrett in response to Trace Elements | 1971.

See more on Rosalind Davis Curatorial Page here.

WINTER SALON at Laurent Delaye Gallery

Stephen Brandes, Richard Caldicott, Rosalind Davis, Steven Geddes, Justin Hibbs, Peter Lamb, Bérénice Mayaux, Antoni Malinowski, Jason Oddy, Claire Pestaille, Ruth E. Rollason, Michael Stubbs

RAMSGATE
4-29 November 2020

Winter Salon is a new yearly event at the Laurent Delaye Gallery in Ramsgate.  This year it will take place at the Vinyl Head Gallery in Addington Street, from 4 to 29 November 2020.

There was a time when public Art exhibitions came to change the course of history, and the 19C had plenty of them.  As Victorian Ramsgate was basking in the glory of prestige and elegance, monocles in London were dropping at the daringness of the new moderns, while in France the art of the next century was made amid riots and  editorial calls for arson.  In this spirit, and in view of the present circumstances, we think it really is time for the opening of a Winter Salon in Ramsgate.  Starting small, and in one venue, we anticipate that by the next years to come, the whole town will be the stage of an art revolution spreading like fire. 

For its first edition the gallery will bring together twelve artists. Coming from all different horizons and practice, working with multiple media, and often with an already established international career, they encompass diverse schools of thoughts and traditions within the realm of contemporary art. In the narrow but open space of the Vinyl Head Gallery the curators are aiming for chaos and order, opposites, clashes, anarchy, where each work interplays with others and defines its own boundaries. The show reflects the longstanding interest of the gallery for constructivism, Op Art, minimalism, feminism, surrealism, Dada, political satire, and concrete poetry. It includes sculpture, painting, photography, prints, collage, calligraphy, ceramics, tapestry, and posters.

Curated by Alexander Stavrou, Koppel Projects, Soho, London 

A group show bringing together works in the form of painting, sculpture, installation, film and performance to reflect on how containment can be a tool to enable as well as for restraint. A dictionary definition of ‘containment’ is an action which keeps something harmful under control or within limits. However, what these limits are or what the thing to be contained is appear to constantly shift. As language itself is not immune to change, the dictionary definition for containment has been temporarily replaced by the nonverbal endeavours of the works in this show.  This is playfully investigated in pieces which fragment, occupy pockets of space, or hang over us as we negotiate our way through and around them. Some may appear to be separate worlds which we might peer into while others could engulf us. The array of approaches point towards the question of to what extent an entity is itself a contained unit, or an element of a system in which its context defines it.

This exhibition has a new site specific collaboration by Rosalind Davis and Justin Hibbs and will reopen when Government Policy allows it.

The Collectors Room.

Curated by Karen David

JGM Gallery, Battersea London.

A group exhibition including 3 x new site specific collaboration by Rosalind Davis and Justin Hibbs and will reopen when Government Policy allows it.