NEWS
Anne Bean: Elles x Paris Photo
November 2021 and continuing online
Anne Bean has been selected for Elles x Paris Photo. For this edition in 2021, Nathalie Herschdorfer, an art historian and curator specialising in the history of photography, spotlighted a selection of works – both online and at Paris Photo itself – by women artists and the galleries that support them.
Elles x Paris Photo is a programme initiated in 2019 in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture and supported by Women In Motion, a Kering programme focused on women artists and their contribution to the history of photography.
Tina Keane: In Our Hands, Greenham
15 – 24 October 2021
Studio Voltaire, London
Tina Keane‘s In Our Hands, Greenham will be screened at Studio Voltaire as part of Conal McStravick’s project, Desperate Living: Queer Care Camp that aims by generating “collaborative outcomes and public events, the project will explore how past, present and future care can provide tools for our current social, political and ecological crises, and hopes.”
The Light of Day: Anne Bean/Alex Eisenberg
3 October 2021
LUX, Waterlow Park Centre, London
A special screening was held of The Light of Day, a unique collaborative film celebrating the life-long friendship of artists Anne Bean and Jeanette Iljon. Presented by LUX, the film is a “series of tender exchanges between life long friends Jeanette Iljon and Anne Bean. Born eleven days apart to Jewish families in Zambia in 1950, they both went on to become artists in the UK. The Light of Day carefully recomposes Iljon’s experimental, feminist and social activist film works made in the 1970s/80s. It combines these with an almost lost interview, shot by Anne Bean in 2000 and new performance material that was made with Alex Eisenberg in 2019 following Iljon’s diagnosis with dementia.”
Photographs of Eileen Agar by Jane England
Until 29 August 2021
Three photographs by gallery director Jane England are on display at the Whitechapel Gallery in a complementary section of Eileen Agar’s retrospective exhibition (alongside other photographers’ images and a film). The photographs were taken at Agar’s studio and home in West House, Melbury Road, Kensington, where she had lived since the late 1950s. The exhibition, Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy ends on 29 August 2021.
Anne Bean interview in The Guardian
18 August 2021
In this interview in The Guardian, Anne Bean has been revisiting her past: on 21 August, the pioneering performance artist is taking part in a 10-hour “durational live event” as part of PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the UK. This required her to look back on five decades of practice – her past work, she says is “intimately linked” to her present – and takes place at The Ugly Duck event space in Bermondsey, not far from the Butler’s Wharf studio where Bean worked from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.
ZKM acquires ‘Change Painting’ by Roy Ascott
July 2021
The ZKM – the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe – has acquired Change Painting (Love Code), 1961, by Roy Ascott from England & Co. The work comprises five sliding painted glass panes in a wooden frame; in 2016 it was included in the exhibition Electronic Superhighway at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
The ZKN was founded in 1989 with the mission of continuing the classical arts into the digital age, which is why it is sometimes called the ‘electronic or digital Bauhaus’.
Vale Michael Horovitz OBE (1935-2021)
Anthea Alley: Breaking the Mould
Exhibition tour starts at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park on 29 May 2021 and ends at The New Art Gallery, Walsall on 6 April 2023
Anthea Alley is represented in Breaking the Mould, the first survey of post-war British sculpture by women. This major touring exhibition challenges the male-dominated narratives of post-war British sculpture by presenting a significant range of ambitious work by women, providing a radical recalibration, addressing the many accounts of British sculpture that have marginalised women or airbrushed their work from art history altogether.
The exhibition surveys 75 years and explores the work of over forty sculptors. All of the works have been selected from the Arts Council Collection, which currently holds more than 250 sculptures by over 150 women. The exhibition features a number of sculptures on public display for the first time since they were purchased for the nation.
Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy
19 May – 29 August 2021
Whitechapel Gallery
England & Co were pleased to arrange the loan of Portrait of the Artist’s Mother – a major painting from the 1940s by Agar, which the gallery sold to a private collection some years ago – to the retrospective exhibition, Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
This is the largest exhibition ever of her work to date and traces Agar’s “ground-breaking career from the 1920s to the 1990s. From early works influenced by her teachings at the Slade, through her experiments with Cubism and her inclusion in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition, to her later compositions of lyrical abstraction, Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy features over 150 works… reveal[s] Agar as one of the most dynamic, bold and prolific artists of her generation, which included friends André Breton, Gertrude Hermes, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Paul Nash and Man Ray.”
Paule Vézelay and Louise Hopkins in Glasgow
10 June – 4 July 2021
England & Co were pleased to loan selected works by Paule Vézelay to 42 Carlton Place in Glasgow. The exhibition Paule Vézelay-Louise Hopkins: You can have curves and straight lines paired the work of the pioneering abstract artist of the 1930s and beyond with that of the contemporary artist Louise Hopkins.