Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
Location: London
Year founded: 1999
Address:
50 Pall Mall Deposit
124-128 Barlby Road
London
W10 6BL
Contact details:
Tel: +44 (0)20 8741 7258
Email: gallery@Houldsworth.co.uk
Website: houldsworth.co.uk
Social Media: Facebook group
Indicative opening times:
Wednesday – Friday 10-6, Saturday 10.30-1
Current staff:
Pippy Houldsworth, Director
Hannah Dewar, Gallery Manager and Curatorial Assistant
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is amongst a cluster of galleries in the west end of London providing a valuable platform to some of the most exciting and challenging artists working today. Our aim is to promote young and mid-career artists to the best possible advantage so that their work is seen in an international context.
We have tremendous support from museums and institutions, here and abroad, with curators visiting regularly and buying keenly. Represented artists are part of numerous international museum shows at any one time.
Our programme is refreshing, innovative and stimulating. Apart from solo exhibitions of represented artists, it includes mixed shows curated either by an international curator, an established artist, a student from the Goldsmiths MA Curating Course, or by the gallery team. These exhibitions help to show the work of younger artists in a broader context and beside established names. Recently, Hana Noorali curated On Your Marks with Tobias Collier, Lynton Talbot and Anna Barham.
Pippy Houldsworth was the first to represent artists such as Dalziel + Scullion (exhibited with Dan Graham and Mark Dion, a Public Art Fund Commission, New York 2002, and Artes Mundi shortlist, 2008); Laura Ford (exhibited Camden Arts Centre, British Art Show, Tate Britain, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Miami Art Museum), the Royal Art Lodge (The Drawing Center, New York, The Power Plant, Toronto, MOCA, Los Angeles, the Liverpool Biennial); Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich (Tate Britain, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, ACCA, Melbourne, Beck’s Fusions, the ICA, London, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford); Rachel Goodyear (Tate Liverpool, ICA, London, NKV Wiesbaden, Cornerhouse, Manchester), and Gordon Cheung (now represented worldwide).
Other gallery exhibitions have included Franz Ackermann, Glenn Brown, Andre Cadere (Portrait of Gilbert & George loaned by the artists), Matt Collishaw, Luisa Lambri, David Adjaye, Matthew Ritchie, Doug & Mike Starn, Goshka Macuga, Rut Blees Luxemburg, David Medalla, Padraig Timoney, Kristin Oppenheim, Kiki Lamers, Tobias Collier, Cornford & Cross, Mariele Neudecker and Annelies Strba.
Recent gallery catalogues have been produced with essays by Morgan Falconer, New York; Nick Hackworth, UK; Rachel Withers, London; Mark Gisbourne, Berlin; Dr David Lomas, Manchester; Duncan McLaren, Perth; and David Shrigley, Glasgow.
With a move to a new gallery space now imminent, new artists being added to our roster, and a new programme soon to be announced, Pippy Houldsworth is forging ahead to assure its position as a gallery with an active and intelligent part to play in the contemporary art scene.
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Showing at Trajector:
Searching for a Change of Consciousness
Artists presented: Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich
For Trajector 2011, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery will present a solo project by renowned artist duo Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich. Motivated by the potential of the artwork to act as a catalyst for social and political change and with a playful but powerful approach, Walker & Bromwich explore environmental, economic and political issues to provide aesthetic, imaginative and metaphorical solutions to the pressing concerns of our age.
Walker & Bromwich will present The Bank of Reason and Dancing Borders; two projects that are part of their new series, Searching for a Change of Consciousness, which explores the possibility of transformation in society, and seeks to create alternative ways of thinking about future existence.
Constructed as a pro-active framework for public participation, The Bank of Reason represents an attempt to develop ideas for an alternative banking system and to find new models for the ecology and economy of contemporary society. Through a series of rallying walks through the centre of Edinburgh, banner-led by economists, ecologists and local community groups, members of the public were encouraged to contribute their ideas and enthusiasm to potential systems for a sustainable future. Dancing Borders, shot in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, is a film and performance work created in collaboration with Mobius Dance Theatre that uses dancing, marching and pollination to engage with the border town’s rich history and transform the psychology of place.
Ideologically inline with the notion of ‘neucomics,’ Walker & Bromwich’s Searching for a Change of Consciousness combines wit with an earnest desire to enact change, providing new strategies for viability in an age of political and economic chaos and reform. The exhibition will cross the boundary between the gallery space and the public sphere, combining installation, sculpture, photography, film and drawing to create situations where questions can be asked and the potential for change initiated.
Walker & Bromwich have exhibited at the ICA, the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, South London Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Künstlerhaus, Vienna and Zeppelin Museum, Germany. They have also presented live performances and talks at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, CCA Glasgow, Modern Art Oxford, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Camden Arts Centre, London and Tate Britain. They have an upcoming solo exhibition in 2011-12 at The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne.
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