standpointgallery

Dear beloved guest, We offer ourselves on a plate, and we offer you the plate itself. A coming together of mud and water and fire. A gluttonous gorging of slurry, slip, grog and glaze. Breaking bread and biscuit over mutual eccentricity, we extrude this feast for the eyes. We craft this just for you, with your taste in mind, with your flavour on our collective tongue. Please use our dysfunctional vessels, crockery and cutlery. Consume our glost clay and chew on it’s opulent inedibility. We invite you to a ritual of the palate, a savouring of our mutual flavour. Partake in this obscene scene in which we are no where to be seen. Pour yourself a generous helping of indulgence and bask in the aftermath of our debauchery. You will not be disappointed by the lack of company. Perhaps the devil will come to dine, or Jesus or Judy Chicago? This will not be our last supper, we can promise you that. Let them eat fake. Selflessly, The Altruistic Artist Exhibiting artists: @evieyussuf @denisedecordova1 @rosiemreed @gracegershinson @rayagray_studio @diana.hare.art @helenrhamilton @luk_lola A huge thank you to @standpointgallery for hosting us and offering up the minds of Will and Emma for us to excavate! Also a massive thank you to @rosiemreed for her incredible insights into the concept of @theamberroomart and her feedback! Thank you so much for the amazing opportunity 💖 Photos by @poppycauchi Head to RCA Battersea to catch the show FESTUS! Open until Saturday Keep your eyes peeled for the next post of the collaborative project of FESTUS!

Thank you to everyone who visited Denise de Cordova: Rocks Remember & Other Stories! Always a special time working with @denisedecordova1 and having these incredible meteorites for company over the past month. Thank you to @emmahilleagle for inviting us to collaborate on this project together and all her support🙏🏻 The gallery programme is now closed but will reopen in January with a residency presentation from @lizzieemunn and @sophiaxrosenthal to follow! Photos: Douglas Atfield @denisedecordova1 @emmahilleagle

Thank you to everyone who came out for the launch of ‘There is nothing old under the sun,’ a special publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition by Steph Huang. The event included a panel discussion with the artist alongside arts writer Ellen Mara De Wachter, Professor Allan Walker, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the School of Arts, Media, and Creative Technology at the University of Salford; and Stephanie Fletcher, Assistant Curator of the University of Salford Art Collection, with moderation by esea contemporary Curator Jo-Lene Ong Designed by Huang’s frequent collaborator, Leslie Chang, the English-Chinese bilingual book invites readers into Huang’s visual explorations and conceptual journeys, centred on a mode of drifting. It features images of Huang’s artworks and original photographs, alongside writings from esea contemporary’s Director Xiaowen Zhu, Jo-Lene Ong, Ellen Mara De Wachter and the artist. ‘There is nothing old under the sun’ is published by esea contemporary in a strictly limited edition — get your copy from our online shop via the link in bio. The publication has been created through generous support from the Henry Moore Foundation, Public Gallery, Arts Council England, and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. #HenryMooreGrants @HenryMoorefdn_grants @theinvisibleisland @standpointgallery @acegrams @uos_artcollection @crosslaneprojects Photos courtesy of Joe Smith.

Final few days to visit! Ends Saturday. Denise de Cordova Rocks Remember & Other Stories De Cordova’s work plays with ambiguities – there is a tension between notions of surface embellishment being at odds with what lies beneath. By grouping and regrouping objects, her narratives adapt fluidly to different environments. Within their fabricated forms and painted surfaces, de Cordova’s sculptures hold allusions to many literary genres, from magical realism, landscape writing and classical novels, to ancient myth and folklore tales. She describes the work as the embodiment of real and imagined space, a nexus for lived experience, re-readings, and collected stories. De Cordova has consistently explored ideas through the prism of female figurative forms that carry reiterated motifs: rocks, rauks, gogottes, stones, sticks – objects that imply women’s burdens, but also innate and transgressive power, where non-human sentience is valued as kinship. Rocks Remember and Other Stories presents work developed from recent solitary forest walks in British Columbia, Canada, and a summer residency at The British School Of Rome, where de Cordova extended research into Cybele, who had a dual role as goddess of civilisation’s order and nature’s chaos, and who came to earth in the form of a meteorite. Denise de Cordova is represented by Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts, London. Photos: Douglas Atfield @denisedecordova1 @emmahilleagle

We are delighted to welcome our new residency artist @sophiaxrosenthal to Standpoint. Sophia Rosenthal is a contemporary painter exploring complex themes of belonging and memory. She recently graduated with a Distinction in MA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School and has been an artist resident at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives (2018) and exhibited at Tate St Ives (2018); The Poly (Falmouth, 2018); The Cornish Bank (Falmouth, 2021); Assembly Point Studios (selected graduate works, London, 2019); and at the open studios at the Academy of Fine Art in Venice as an Erasmus grantee (2018). Sophia completed a residency with the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Italy (2023), and this year participated in groups shows ‘Entranced Essence’ (RuptureXibit, London); ‘Sprung24’ (Prema Arts Centre, Dursley); and ‘Art Lark’ (Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea). Winner of the inaugural Judith Tucker Memorial Prize at the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2024, Sophia won The Blyth Gallery Award and is part of their touring show to BayArt (Cardiff), Thames-side Studios (London), and Yorkshire Artspace (Sheffield). Standpoint residencies facilitate artist development and enable the production of new work in a supportive environment, encouraging artistic exchange and collective working. The 8 week residencies are designed to be flexible and responsive to the project, needs and desired outcomes of individual participants. This residency is in partnership with City & Guilds Art School #residency #studio #Painting #contemporarypainting #sophiarosenthal

*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE* Curator Jo-Lene Ong (@ongjolene) walks through historic marketplaces across Taiwan, Paris, Devon, London, and Manchester, exchanging island mentality for more archipelagic thinking, via Steph Huang’s (@theinvisibleisland) sculptural installation, I’m in a Pretty Pickle (2024). listen+follow🔊pod.link/1533637675/episode/85504239f9a155f5ea2dd41e1bd17937 Steph Huang: There is nothing old under the sun runs at esea Contemporary in Manchester (@eseacontemporary) until 8 December 2024. The exhibition is part of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award (MTSA)’s National Touring Programme, first exhibited at Standpoint in London (@standpointgallery) in 2024. The exhibition will tour to Cross Lane Projects in Kendal (@crosslaneprojects) in March 2025. An exhibition book of the same number launches at esea Contemporary on 30 November 2024. Art Now: Steph Huang: See, See, Sea runs at Tate Britain in London (@tate) until 5 January 2025. For more about archipelagos and Édouard Glissant, listen to ⁠Manthia Diawara⁠, co-curator of The Trembling Museum at the Hunterian in Glasgow, and artist ⁠Billy Gerard Frank on Palimpsest: Tales Spun From Sea And Memories (2019)⁠, part of ⁠PEACE FREQUENCIES 2023⁠: ⁠instagram.com/p/C0mAnSuodAZ⁠ @edouardglissantartfund @thehunterian @billygerrardfrank @nationaltrustforscotland @stjpiccadilly @grenadapavilionvenice @labiennale For more from esea contemporary, hear Musquiqui Chihying, a recent artist-in-residence, on Too Loud a Dust (2023) at Tabula Rasa Gallery during London Gallery Weekend in 2023: pod.link/1533637675/episode/29b9e85442a30e487d8a7905356541dd @musquiqui_chihying @tabularasa_gallery @londongalleryweekend @delfinafdn @uos_artcollection @boundartbookfair @henrymoorefdn_grants @henrymooreinstitute @aceagrams @zhu_xiao_wen @binitawalia Ref. @yanghaegue @hayward.gallery @southbankcentre @mrhorseyung @rasheedaraeen @kjanejin @sharjahart @sanmeigallery @belmaczlondon @public.gallery

BOOK NOW: Artist Talk: Denise de Cordova in conversation with Jonas Grimås Thursday 5 December, 6.30pm Denise de Cordova will be joined in conversation with the filmmaker Jonas Grimås. Together they will explore ideas in de Cordova’s current exhibition ‘Rocks Remember and Other Stories’, including themes of origin myths and non-human sentience, which are expressed in the show through recurrent motifs of rocks and meteorites. Highlighting her multi-dimensional practice the exhibition features large scale sculpture, painted carvings and works on paper that incorporate aluminium leaf and embroidery. Jonas Grimås is a Swedish director and writer based in London since 1988. He won a BAFTA for the short film ‘Artisten’, and was nominated for the same award for ‘Marooned’. He has directed around 100 hours of prime-time drama and documentaries for BBC, ITV, SVT and Channel Four, including Silent Witness, Second Sight, Hamish Macbeth, Wallander, Hope and Glory and Heartbeat. As an independent director-producer, he has made a string of award winning short films and numerous documentaries about painting, conducting, directing, glass design and concert performances. Places are free. Please RSVP via DM message or email. Rocks Remember and Other Stories continues until 7 December Open Thursday- Saturday, 12-5pm, and by appointment @denisedecordova1 @emmahilleagle @jonasthedirector

📆📚Saturday 30 November, 2.30-4pm🦪 Steph Huang: There is nothing old under the sun, Publication Launch at @eseacontemporary We are really pleased to share with you details on the publication launch of ‘There is nothing old under the sun’ with Bound Art Book Fair, on the occasion of Steph Huang’s eponymous exhibition at esea contemporary. This English-Chinese bilingual publication invites readers into Huang’s visual explorations and conceptual journeys, centred on a mode of drifting. Through photography, Huang recaptures a sense of wonder in everyday life, expressing, “I feel that I have collected some fragments of the everyday world.” The publication features images of Huang’s artworks and original photographs, complemented by writings from Xiaowen Zhu, Jo-Lene Ong, Ellen Mara De Wachter, and the artist. Designed by Huang’s frequent collaborator, Leslie Chang, ‘There is nothing old under the sun’ reveals narratives woven into the very fabric of making. The launch discussion will bring together Steph Huang; Professor Allan Walker, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the School of Arts, Media, and Creative Technology at the University of Salford; Stephanie Fletcher, Assistant Curator of the University of Salford Art Collection; and arts writer Ellen Mara De Wachter, with moderation by Jo-Lene Ong, Curator at esea contemporary. Published by esea contemporary with generous support from the Henry Moore Foundation, Public Gallery, Arts Council England, and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, ‘There is nothing old under the sun’ will be available for purchase, with signed copies offered at the event. This event is free, but booking is recommended due to limited capacity. Book via link on @eseacontemporary @eseacontemporary @theinvisibleisland @uos_artcollection

Artists’ Lives has completed the life story recording of sculptor Denise de Cordova for National Life Stories at the British Library @denisedecordova1. We are grateful to the Henry Moore Foundation for funding this project (Denise was one of the very first Henry Moore Fellows in 1984) @henrymooreinstitute. Thank you Bill Knight for the arresting portrait shot of Denise in her studio @billknightphotography. Please visit Denise’s stunning exhibition ‘Rocks Remember and Other Stories’ currently on view at Standpoint Gallery until 7 December 2024. This is a rich and layered testimony that will fill in many art historical lacunae as well as offering new insights into the condition of being a practising woman sculptor and pedagogue #denisedecordova #artistslives #nationallifestories #britishlibrary #womenartists #womensculptors #artistsinreflection #oralhistory

Save the date for our Christmas Studio Sale on Tuesday 26th November, 5-9pm🎄 Featuring ceramics by @nicolatassieceramics @williampapworthceramics , cards, posters and books by @newnorthpress and prints from the conservation team! Join us from 5pm!

Denise de Cordova’s current exhibition Rocks Remember (and Other Stories) at Standpoint Gallery is layered with ideas from ancient cultures expressed in forms that are distinctively her own. The Watcher of High Space, 2021-24, carries a strong sense of portent. The figure (whose hairstyle and dress suggest motifs from early Anatolian traditions) is surrounded by a fall of meteorite rocks. She gesticulates to the sky. It would appear in recent days that our warnings should be about things more earth bound - we could certainly benefit from a few goddesses descending from the heavens! Exhibition open until 7 December 2024 Standpoint Gallery 45 Coronet Street London N1 6HD www.standpointlondon.co.uk (Thursday - Saturday, 12 - 5pm and by appointment) @denisedecordova1 @standpointgallery #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #londonartgallery #goddess #meteorites #woodcarving #embroidery #drawing #collaboration #eaglegallerylondon #emh_arts

Opening tomorrow: Thursday 7 November, 6-8pm Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts and Standpoint are delighted to present Denise de Cordova’s solo exhibition ‘Rocks Remember and Other Stories’. De Cordova’s work plays with ambiguities – there is a tension between notions of surface embellishment being at odds with what lies beneath. By grouping and regrouping objects, her narratives adapt fluidly to different environments. Within their fabricated forms and painted surfaces, de Cordova’s sculptures hold allusions to many literary genres, from magical realism, landscape writing and classical novels, to ancient myth and folklore tales. She describes the work as the embodiment of real and imagined space, a nexus for lived experience, re-readings, and collected stories. De Cordova has consistently explored ideas through the prism of female figurative forms that carry reiterated motifs: rocks, rauks, gogottes, stones, sticks – objects that imply women’s burdens, but also innate and transgressive power, where non-human sentience is valued as kinship. Rocks Remember and Other Stories presents work developed from recent solitary forest walks in British Columbia, Canada, and a summer residency at The British School Of Rome, where de Cordova extended research into Cybele, who had a dual role as goddess of civilisation’s order and nature’s chaos, and who came to earth in the form of a meteorite. This new exhibition highlights de Cordova’s multi-disciplinary practice as an artist and educator. As a Fellow and part time tutor of more than 30 years at the Royal College of Art, she has been an influential teacher to younger generations of artists. She is currently a subject of the ‘Artists Lives’, an oral history project, part of the National Life Stories at the British Library. Denise de Cordova is represented by Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts, London. Exhibition continues till 8 December 2024 Read more via link in bio 🔝 @denisedecordova1 @emmahilleagle