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Viewing: Jodie Carey upends sculptural traditions at Bishopsgate

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Beyond the Matrix

100 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AG
5 March – September 2024

British artist Jodie Carey’s towering, highly textured sculptures are transforming the glass atrium of 100 Bishopsgate as part of Brookfield Properties’ Beyond the Matrix exhibition series, giving a platform to female artists. Produced in partnership with The Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA), the two shows pair an artist and a curator (Eve Miller of Edel Assanti, in this instance).

Carey draws on making skills with a feminine past in her sculptures. “Juxtaposing crafts traditionally associated with women allows me to make work that offers a counterpoint to the traditional idea that sculpture needs to be heavy, solid, carved or cast, but instead can be sewn or woven, made by women and created in places outside the studio,” she explains.

Next up will be Amelia Bowles in September, in a show curated by Mille Jason Foster of Gillian Jason Gallery. Both artists explore the relationship between space, mass and materiality in works that will be beautifully offset by their glass surrounds.

Viewing Anya Hindmarch reinvents the classic corner shop

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“I’ve always had a fascination with taking an everyday thing – a household brand, a day-to-day food item – and elevating it, using artistry and craftsmanship to turn something ordinary into something extraordinary,” says Anya Hindmarch. Stocking the shelves of the newly opened Anya Mart – the designer’s take on the traditional corner shop – you’ll find everything from limited-edition candles inspired by Heinz Ketchup and Baked Beans to Pritt Stick pencil cases, Fruit Pastille-replica charms, and Pringle-sloganned raffia totes. Stop by her latest concept store to pick up your everyday essentials.

Viewing Rethinking the art of protest

The Wick Culture - Sethembile Msezane, Chapungu – The Day Rhodes Fell, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

Above Sethembile Msezane, Chapungu – The Day Rhodes Fell, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

The Wick Culture - Guerrilla Girls, History of Wealth & Power, 2016. Copyright © Guerrilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com

The Wick Culture - Zanele Muholi, Bester, New York, 2019. © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy Yancey Richardson, NY.

Above Zanele Muholi, Bester, New York, 2019. © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy Yancey Richardson, NY.

The Wick Culture - Hoda Afshar, Untitled #14 from the In Turn series, 2023. © Hoda Afshar. Image courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Meeanjin / Brisbane.

Above Hoda Afshar, Untitled #14 from the In Turn series, 2023. © Hoda Afshar. Image courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Meeanjin / Brisbane.

The Wick Culture - Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, Happy Birthday Marsha!, 2018. Courtesy of the artists and Chapter NY, New York.

Above Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, Happy Birthday Marsha!, 2018. Courtesy of the artists and Chapter NY, New York.

The Wick Culture - Sheida Soleimani, Delara, 2015. © Sheida Soleimani. Courtesy of Edel Assanti.

Above Sheida Soleimani, Delara, 2015. © Sheida Soleimani. Courtesy of Edel Assanti.

The Wick Culture - Mari Katayama, just one of those things #002, 2021. C-print ©Mari Katayama

Above Mari Katayama, just one of those things #002, 2021. C-print ©Mari Katayama

The Wick Culture - Poulomi Basu, from the series Sisters of the Moon, 2022. Courtesy Poulomi Basu, TJ Boulting and JAPC.

Above Poulomi Basu, from the series Sisters of the Moon, 2022. Courtesy Poulomi Basu, TJ Boulting and JAPC.

Above Sethembile Msezane, Chapungu – The Day Rhodes Fell, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

Above Zanele Muholi, Bester, New York, 2019. © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy Yancey Richardson, NY.

Above Hoda Afshar, Untitled #14 from the In Turn series, 2023. © Hoda Afshar. Image courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Meeanjin / Brisbane.

Above Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, Happy Birthday Marsha!, 2018. Courtesy of the artists and Chapter NY, New York.

Above Sheida Soleimani, Delara, 2015. © Sheida Soleimani. Courtesy of Edel Assanti.

Above Poulomi Basu, from the series Sisters of the Moon, 2022. Courtesy Poulomi Basu, TJ Boulting and JAPC.

Acts of Resistance: Photography, feminisms and the Art of Protest

South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UH
8 March – 9 June 2024

See protest photography in a new light at the South London Gallery in Acts of Resistance, an exhibition that explores feminism and activism from an international and contemporary perspective.

The show reflects on recent global sensations, such as anti-rape protests in Bangladesh responding to the rise in violence against women and girls in 2020; the US Supreme Court overturning of Roe vs Wade in 2022; as well as the ongoing protests against the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Discover how artists such as Hoda Afshar, Poulomi Basu and Nan Goldin are wielding their camera in ever more powerful ways.