Hypha Studios HQ to present Antigone Revisited, a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph. Adopting a hybrid invitational and open-call model, the curator chose the 17 participating artists from an incredibly strong cohort of over 300 applicants to feature their work in this exhibition that coincides with Frieze London.
At Hypha Studios we believe culture should be at the heart of our towns and communities, so we transform empty high street commercial spaces into free exhibition space for local artists. We have done this up and down the country, from Bristol to Penrith, Eastbourne to Dudley. We are thrilled to be working with Marcelle Joseph to bring together curated artists and artists from our traditional open call model to explore this very relevant theme. We will be opening the call out for our Euston space.
In 3 years we have awarded to artists £2.3m of free space for studios and gallery spaces, worked in 51 locations, supported 923 individual artists and created 832 free events for local communities – we are thrilled Marcelle is helping us to raise funds for our charity by curating this exhibition from invited and open call artists
Camilla Cole & Will Jennings, Hypha Studios
The tragedy of Antigone written by Sophocles in 441 BC has attracted writers and dramatists throughout the ages from Jean Cocteau in 1922 to this excerpt from Anne Carson’s 2000 anthology of essays and poetry. Just as Cocteau turned to the drama of ancient Greece for inspiration after the upheaval of World War I, this exhibition turns to the contemporary poet Anne Carson and her interpretation of the Greek heroine of Antigone for guidance in our present era of societal crisis. And just as the Cubists and Surrealists made revolutionary changes in the field of visual art around the same time as Cocteau’s Antigone, the 17 artists in this exhibition create works with the same effect while mining myths, folk tales and pagan practices from the past or building their own worlds as they process the intense drama played out on the world stage today – whether it be the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Gaza conflict, the catastrophic effects of climate change, the struggle to protect our individual identity or the constant battle to stop the infringement of citizens’ rights in our world’s democracies. Just as the epigraph to this exhibition ends in a hope for personal freedom, the works of these artists present a united front in these times of collapsing liberties and constitute a collective strength or light akin to the Greek heroine Antigone.
Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, installation and drawing, Antigone Revisited also incorporates a diverse range of materials that date back to ancient times, such as clay, wool, beeswax, lavender, cotton, mosaic tile, bronze, hessian and aluminium, alongside other modern materials, such as the latex in KV Duong’s work that also links back historically to the oppressive conditions of the French colonial rubber trade in Vietnam and the sumptuous fabric employed in Richard Malone’s sculpture where the artist is critiquing various translations of Greek myths that have left out the queer identity of many of its protagonists. In Ann Carson’s words, each artist in their own unique way ‘twists…off’ a bit of freedom, whether it be in their creative expression or the underlying meaning of their work, be it universal, personal or political.
Curator Marcelle Joseph adds
As the geopolitical and environmental complexities of the world continue to proliferate in a downward spiral, the artists here use mythology, folklore and worldbuilding to posit a utopic future of freedom. A freedom to do the right thing and go against the powers that be in the spirit of Antigone.
Featured artists: Alexi Marshall, Alice Anderson, Alicia Radage, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Anna Perach, Ariane Heloise Hughes, Ayla Dmyterko, Becky Tucker, Bethany Stead, Camilla Hanney, Cecilia Charlton, Chantal Powell, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, KV Duong, Maria Konder, Richard Malone, Scarlett Pochet.
Antigone Revisited, 24th September – 12th October 2024, Hypha Studios HQ, Euston Tower
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 to 6pm
Private View: Thursday, 3rd October, 6 to 9pm
Frieze West End Night: Thursday, 10th October, 6 to 9pm
About the artist
Alexi Marshall (b. 1995, UK) is a Hastings-based artist who graduated from the Slade School of Art in 2018. She works in print, mosaic and embroidery, investigating themes of womanhood, folklore and rebirth. The hand is always present; handmade, hand sewn, hand carved, hand printed, hand bound. The traces it leaves are often visible and embraced. Lines, bodies and worlds fold into each other to create theatrical tableaux, driven by storytelling and otherworldly narrative. Marshall has exhibited her work in five solo exhibitions in the UK and Italy: most recently; ‘Nostalgia for the Mud’, Brooke Benington Gallery, London (2024); ‘Under The Pomegranate Moon’, Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea (2023); ‘Taming The Unruly Gods’, Sara Zanin, Rome (2023); ‘Cursebreakers’, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2021), and ‘ The Redemption of Delilah’, Public Gallery, London (2019). She has shown internationally in selected group shows including Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2018. Marshall was the inaugural artist in residence at the Demoni Danzanti residency in Italy (selected by Marcelle Joseph) in 2022 and completed the Early Careers Artist Programme at Flatland Projects. She founded and facilitates a community based project, ‘Peculiar Arcana’, centering on fostering connection within groups through tarot and printmaking and works with Wysing Art Centre delivering workshops with the Creative Youth Council.
Alice Anderson (b. 1972, France) is an eco-feminist performance artist based in London. She studied femininity and gender at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France and Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Anderson has been performing for fifteen years, using the intelligence of the body, alone and collectively, by dancing ‘with’ technological objects of our Anthropocene era to open-up new fields of reflection towards a potential Symbiocene era. Winner of the SamArt prize for Contemporary Art 2024, she travelled to Brazil to join several members of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian woman communities. Anderson has exhibited and performed internationally at the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands, (Spiritual Urgency, 2023); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (A Worlds of Networks, 2022); Musée Art Moderne Fontevraud, Fontevraud-l’Abbaye, France (Female Power Figures, 2021); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (Marcel Duchamp Prize Finalists, 2020); Atelier Calder, Saché, France (paintingscultures, 2019); La Patinoire Royale, Brussels, Belgium (Body Itineraries, 2018); Palais des Italiens, Paris, France (Permanent Sculptures, 2017); Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (181 Kilometres, 2016); Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (Data Space, 2015); Wellcome Collection, London (Memory Movement Memory Objects, 2014); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (Albums, 2012).
Alicia Radage (b. 1989, UK) is a London-based artist who works with sculpture, performance, video, text and sound. They graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK in 2011 with a Distinction in MA Advanced Theatre Practice. Their current research looks at the intersection between neurodiverse experience and animist practice. Looking to ways of communicating and being outside of neurotypical, late capitalism, Radage is drawn to an animist way of processing the world around them, detecting and deciphering the life forces of the more than human. Their core concern is remembering a fluency in spiritual connection to the more than human by reclaiming and foregrounding, within a feminist framework, intuition and emotionality as potent creative tools, historically disregarded within patriarchal structures. Alicia has shown their work internationally and has been supported by Arts Council England, the British Council and Shape Arts. Notable shows and performances include Pictorum Gallery (London, UK), Whitstable Biennale (UK), Venice International Performance Art Week (IT), MAMBO (Bogota, CO), GIANT Gallery (Bournemouth, UK), San Mei Gallery (London, UK), Meno Parkas Gallery (LT) and Parlour Gallery (London, UK).
Alicia Reyes McNamara (b. USA) is a London-based American artist who spends time between London and Chicago. They completed their MFA at University of Oxford Ruskin School of Art in 2016. Reyes McNamara makes work that meditates on issues of displacement, particularly within a double diaspora. They draw upon both Mexican and Irish (their parent’s cultural heritages) mythology and folklore in order to make work that speaks of navigating gendered and cultural identities and questions how to negotiate the idea of cultural authenticity. They have recently shown in ‘The London Open’ Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2022); Lismore Castle, Lismore, IR (2021); and participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting Residency, Maine, USA (2022). They were commissioned by The Showroom in London as part of ‘Communal Knowledge’ (2018) and have had solo exhibitions at Niru Ratnam, London, UK (2023 and 2021); Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2023); Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland (2021); Lychee One, London, UK (2020); and ‘Nowhere Else’ at South London Gallery, London, UK (2017).
Anna Perach (b. 1985) is a London-based artist who graduated with an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (2020). Perach’s practice explores the dynamic between personal and cultural myths. Specifically, Perach is interested in how our private narratives are deeply rooted in ancient folklore and storytelling. In her work, she interweaves female archetypes into sculptural hybrids in order to examine ideas of identity, gender and craft. Her main medium of work is wearable sculpture and performance, using tufted wool. In 2024, Anna presented an institutional solo show with Gasworks, London. Other solo shows include ADA gallery, Rome, IT (2023), Edel Assanti, London, UK (2022) and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, IL (2021). Perach has exhibited in international art fairs such as Arrtissima with ADA Gallery, Rome where she won the Carol Rama award, Arco Madrid with The Ryder Gallery, Madrid and Art Cologne with Sommer Gallery, London. Significant group exhibitions include ‘Shamans, Communicate with the Invisible’, ‘Mart’, Trento, IT (2023), ‘Threads’, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2023), ‘Unruly Bodies’, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2023), and ‘Antigone’, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK (2023). Perach was one of the winners of the Hopper Prize (2023), The lngram Prize, and the Gilbert Bayes Award (both in 2021).
Ariane Heloise Hughes (b. 1997, UK) is a London-based British artist who graduated with a BA in Painting from Camberwell University, London in 2019. Her paintings are intricate, sensual and absurd. Through processes of objectification, fragmentation and amplification, her paintings hold a mirror to the age of the spectacle, drawing on the ubiquity and farcicality of the digital image and online viewing space. Appropriating often banal and unwittingly familiar narratives into a visual vernacular full of unusual and exaggerated forms, Hughes’ Surrealistic depictions create a world that aims to draw the viewer in, engaging them in a process of active looking and contemplative thought. Hughes’ work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2023) and GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2022). Selected group shows include: CAN Art, Allouche Benias, Ibiza, Spain (2023); ‘Storage Wars’, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2023); Art Brussels, The Hole, Brussels, Belgium (2023); Untitled Art, Steve Turner, Miami, FL, USA (2022); ‘Vacation II’, Vacancy Gallery, Shanghai, China (2022); ‘Salt And Mud’, Kupfer Project, London, UK (2022); ‘Twin Sisters’, Roman Road, London, UK (2022); ‘Don’t Go South’, Studio Berkheim, Stuttgart, Germany (2021); ‘If The House Sets On Fire’, Chapelle XIV, Paris, France (2021); ‘Get A Load Of This’, Daniel Raphael, London, UK (2021); and ‘Idle Thoughts’, Soho Revue, London, UK (2020).
Ayla Dmyterko is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist currently based in Glasgow, UK. She was raised on treaty 4 territories, the lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda and Métis peoples in Saskatchewan, Canada. She completed her MFA at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK after finishing her BFA in Painting at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, CA. Echoing the fragmentary and porous nature of diasporic imagination, her interdisciplinary practice weaves together remedial forms of painting, moving image, dance, sculpture, textiles and texts. By reactivating and re-embodying cultural memory, poetics of precarity and dissonance emerge, exposing how traditions exist amidst new iterations of congregations in an animist world. She has had solo exhibitions at Pangée, Montréal, CA in 2023 and 2016; Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, CA in 2022; Goethe Institut, Glasgow, UK in 2022; and Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK in 2021. Recent group exhibitions and screenings have been with VITRINE Gallery (London, UK & Basel, CH), Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, UK), 5 Florence Street (Glasgow, UK), CCA Glasgow (Glasgow, UK), Art Gallery of Regina (Regina, CA), Mourning School (Stockholm, CHE), Alchemy Film Festival (Hawick, UK); and forthcoming with Bosse & Baum (London, UK) and David Dale Gallery (Glasgow, UK).
Becky Tucker (b. 1993, UK) graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2017 and now lives in Glasgow, UK, working from a studio outside the city. Tucker’s ceramic sculptures could be best described as anachronistic artifacts, historically ambiguous due to the diverse source material they draw from. The mutable nature of symbols plays a strong role as she is interested in images that have been used to signify different things in different cultures. This enhances each object’s timelessness and allows for open-ended interpretations. Her work was recently featured in a solo show in Los Angeles at Steve Turner in 2024 and in London at Five Years in 2023. Recent group exhibitions include: ‘Creatures and Masks’, Fabian Lang, Zurich, Switzerland (2024); ‘Queens of Aquitaine’, Pi Artworks, London, UK (2023); ‘Illuminations’, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2023); ‘Neo-Gothic’, OHSH Projects, London, UK (2023); ‘God of War’, OHSH Projects, London, UK (2022); ‘Cool, Fresh, Sweet Waters’, The Tub Hackney, London, UK (2022); ‘Gambrel’, Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2022); ‘Destructive Mollusc’, Haze Projects, London, UK (2022) and ‘Interior Castles’, Hartslane, London, UK (2022). In 2023, Tucker attended both the GIRLPOWER Residency in France and the Sanctuary Slimane Residency in Morocco. She was the recipient of the Hope Scott Trust Visual Arts Grant (2022), the VACMA Emerging Artist Bursary (2022), the Malamagei Acquisition Award (2020), and the JOYA: AIR Residency in Almera, Spain (2018).
Bethany Stead (b. 1995, UK) is a Newcastle-based artist who works between painting, drawing, sculpture and textiles. She is interested in materials that are historically associated with class, gender and sexuality. Through visual storytelling and object making, Stead draws upon iconography, feminist theory, science-fiction, folklore, and allegory, making symbolic spaces that disrupt our fragile and entangled socio-political fabric. Stead graduated with a BFA from Newcastle University in 2019. She has had solo exhibitions at Moving Gallery, Sunderland, UK in 2024, and Republic Gallery, Blyth, UK in 2022. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Portals’, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK (2024); ‘Counterweight’, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK (2024); ‘Pleasure Permission Boundaries’, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK (2024); ‘CRAWL SPACE’, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK (2023); and ‘Gatherings’, SET Woolwich, London, UK (2023). She has recently been awarded a grant from The Elephant Trust in 2024 and a BALTIC Artist Bursary in 2022.
Camilla Hanney (b. 1992, Ireland) is a London-based Irish artist working in ceramics, sculpture and installation. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London’s MFA programme (2017-2019) and also Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology’s Visual Arts Practice (2010-2015). Working across ceramics, sculpture and installation, Hanney’s practice explores themes of time, sexuality, cultural identity and the corporeal, often referencing the body in both humorous and challenging ways. By subverting traditional, genteel crafts, she attempts to transgress and contemplate conventional modes of femininity, deconstructing archaic identities and rebuilding new figures from the detritus of the past. By materialising the familiar in an unfamiliar context, Camilla stimulates our ability to rethink our relationship towards objects, threatening the natural order and toying with the tensions that lie between beauty and repulsion, curiosity and discomfort, desire and disgust. Her work has been exhibited by a diverse range of galleries including the South London Gallery in conjunction with Bloomberg New Contemporaries, No. 20 Arts, Muse Gallery, Dora House, Rosenfeld Gallery and Cromwell Place in the UK. Hanney was a 2019/20 recipient of the Sarabande Foundation studio bursary. In 2020, she was selected as one of the Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award winners and was granted the 2020 Irish Visual Arts Bursary Award. Camilla received a Glass Lab award in 2021, providing her with a three-month residency and continuous technical support at the Cotswolds Glass Foundry. She was recipient of the 2022 Newbury Trust Craft Excellence Award in conjunction with Cockpit Arts and was chosen for the 2022 artist initiated projects in conjunction with the Irish Arts Council, granting her a funded solo show at Pallas Project Gallery, Dublin, IR.
Cecilia Charlton (b. United States) is a London-based American artist who received a BFA Painting in 2015 from Hunter College in New York, NY, USA and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, UK in 2018. She creates hand-made embroideries and weavings that engage with the formal histories of abstraction to explore a broad range of themes including the cosmos, memory and the subconscious. Through manipulations of geometric pattern and colour, her artworks achieve an optically challenging and playful approach, questioning the hierarchy between painting and textiles.Themes of feminism, human history, time and transcendence are inherently part of the hand-sewn work, and her investigation into the history of textiles from creative, cultural and socio-economic perspectives underpins Charlton’s studio practice. Spanning the mediums of textiles, installation and art in the social sphere, the work results in conversation tending towards both the personal and the universal. Charlton has exhibited in the UK and internationally; her recent exhibitions include: ‘Colours Uncovered’, Harewood House, Leeds, UK (2023); ‘Memory Garden’, Garden Museum, London, UK (2023) (solo); ‘Syzygy’, Candida Stevens Gallery, London, UK (2023) (solo); ‘Mammoth Loop’, SPACE Ilford, UK (2021) (solo); ‘Parade’, Broadway Gallery, Broadway, UK (2019); ‘SURGE: The Eastwing Biennial’, Courtauld Institute, London, UK (2018); and ‘Rogue Objects’, University College London, London, UK (2018). Some awards include the Jerwood Makers Open Award in 2021 and the Ellen Battel Stockel Fellowship as part of the Yale University Norfolk Residency in 2014.
Chantal Powell (b. 1977, UK) is a British artist based in West Dorset, UK. The work of British artist Chantal Powell is made in response to her personal journey into understanding the symbolic language of the unconscious. A PhD in psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory and alchemical symbolism inform her practice. Living and working on the Jurassic Coast (West Dorset), Chantal’s practice is inevitably shaped by the elemental cycles and forms spiralling within deep time. Working in a variety of mediums that include ceramic, glass, metal and painting, she forges new interdependencies and fluidity between forms and systems. The movement between human and non-human, visible and invisible challenges anthropocentrism and celebrates a symbiotic web of knowledge and existence that deepens our relationship to self, other and the world. Powell has exhibited at galleries and institutions across the UK and internationally including Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; The Lightbox Museum (In collaboration with the Ingram Collection), Woking, UK; Parlour Gallery, London, UK; Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK; Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA; WW Gallery, Venice, IT, amongst others. She is also the founder of the residency program Hogchester Arts in West Dorset and hosts the Jungian online book club and speaker program The Red Book Club. She presents courses, talks and workshops on archetypal symbolism and psychological alchemy and is a faculty lecturer at Jung Archademy. She has co-curated exhibitions in the UK at Arusha Gallery in Bruton, The LightBox Museum in Woking, and Hogchester Arts in West Dorset.
Ingrid Berthon-Moine (b. France) is a French artist based in London. In 2017, she completed her MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London after graduating from London College of Communication with a BA in Photography in 2009. Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing, and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences like sexuality, illness, and death. Rooted in the experience of inhabiting a female body, Berthon-Moine disrupts idealised femininity, proposing a new language for female subjectivity. Combining the strange and the familiar, her sculptures defy conventional gender binaries with anthropomorphic forms, immersing viewers in a realm of ambiguity and disquieting sexuality. Her works has featured in solo and two-person shows at Somers Gallery, London, UK (2024 with Lana Locke), Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK (2024 with Jennifer Nieuwland), Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK (2022); and Kelder Projects, London, UK (2018). Recent selected group exhibitions include: ‘Radical Residency’, Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK (2024); ‘2 for 1’, Hypha Studios, Stratford, UK (2023); ‘Fetish’, Mama Art, London, UK (2023); ‘Love, Celebration and the Road Ahead’, TJ Boulting, London, UK (2022); ‘Gertrude Presents’, Truman Brewery, London, UK (2022); and ‘Annual Open Exhibition’, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK (highly commended by Bedwyr Williams).
KV Duong (b. Vietnam) is an ethnically Chinese artist with a transnational background—born in Vietnam, raised in Canada, and now living as a queer person in Britain. He examines the complexities of Vietnamese queer identity, migration and cultural assimilation through personal and familial history. In 2024, Duong completed his MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London. During his studies, he created works on latex, highlighting its historical connection to French colonial rubber plantations in Vietnam, while simultaneously embracing its sensuality and symbolic association with the queer experience. The recurring motif of a door or portal signifies access and the limitations imposed by societal constructs, particularly those associated with colonial and LGBTQ+ history. His work has featured in solo exhibitions at Harlesden High Street, London, UK (forthcoming in 2024) and Migration Museum, London, UK (2022). Recent group exhibitions include: ‘Layered and Interwoven: Exploring Post-Colonial Identity’, University of Greenwich/ Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK (2024); ‘No Place Like Home’, Museum of The Home, London, UK (2023); ‘Homotopic’, Cromwell Place (with Culture&), London, UK (2023); and ‘Queer Frontiers’, Artiq, London, UK (2022).
Maria Konder (b. 1982, Brazil) is a Brazilian/Portuguese artist who lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Parsons the New School for Design in New York City. In 2021, she graduated with honours with an MFA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, UAL in London. Since then, Konder has completed a postgraduate course in Integrated Movement and Performance Practice at Art Haus Berlin in Germany. Her multidisciplinary practice incorporates drawing, sewing, painting, sculpture, performance and video. Konder’s work draws from areas of research such as mythology, tarot, the occult and pedagogy to create links between the visual world and the invisible realms, as well as the intersection of craft and social practices. Recent and upcoming selected exhibitions include: ‘Cupid’, Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, London, UK (upcoming in 2024), ‘Nem So o Corpo Veste a Alma’, Tropigalpao, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2024); ‘A Conversation with Water’, Hypha Studios, London, UK (2024); ‘Marxismo, Rimmel, Gas’, Kubik Gallery, Porto, Portugal (2023); ‘Still There are Seeds to be Gathered’, Kupfer Project, London, UK (2o23); ‘Fleshy Magic’, Somers Gallery, London, UK (2023); and ‘Mothering’, Kupfer Project, London, UK (2022).
Richard Malone is an Irish visual artist from Wexford, Ireland. Malone’s practice explores ideas of queerness, class, place and otherness through sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles and performance. Malone uses gendered and class-based labour practices to test the limitations of language, gesture and symbolism in constructing meaning and identity, with particular focus on the genderless body and working class or invisible labour. These practices include stitch, drapery, welding, weaving, assemblage, choral movement and spoken word. Malone’s work often explores the idea of fluidity and transience – objects, gestures, costume and image carry multiple meanings, moving and altering as time moves through them. Upcoming solo shows include those at the Dock, Carrick-on Shannon, Ireland and The Little House, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Previous shows include: ‘Figures’, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland; and ‘knot, bind, GESTURE, bend’, National Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Recent residencies include those at CCI Paris, France and Fondation Giacometti x National Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. In 2025, Malone will be an artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT, USA. In 2023, Malone was the winner of the Golden Fleece Award for Visual Art, Ireland’s foremost visual art prize. In 2023, Malone’s largest work to date was commissioned for the Central Hall at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London, and their first public performance was commissioned by the Hayward Gallery in London as part of their ‘Dear Earth’ exhibition. Malone’s work is held in public and private collections internationally, including MoMA, New York, NY, USA; Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York, NY, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; and The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
Scarlett Pochet (b. 2001, UK) is a British artist who graduated from the Slade School of Art, UCL in London with a BA/BFA in 2024. She explore ideas around decay/preservation, protection/vulnerability and embellishment/fashion with regards to the female body, often through a still life lens. Pochet attempts to re-establish new narratives, highlighting the importance of ‘the tale’ and the power of education through storytelling. Motifs of belli and eggs often appear in works, symbolising points of origin and fertility, where new discourses are birthed and old ones decay. Such symbols, which swell and hatch, reflect and transgress both contemporary and historical pressures and boundaries imposed upon the body. Taking from personal experiences, where one is preyed upon for not fitting a desired ‘look’, Pochet embeds cage-like structures and tied ribbons, alluding to passed fashions such as the crinoline skirt and corsetry. Recent selected group exhibitions include: ‘Look’, The Crypt, London, UK (2024); ‘Papillon’, Dalston Den, London, UK (2023); and ‘Fishtank’, The Penarth Centre, London, UK (2022).
CURATOR BIOGRAPHY
Marcelle Joseph (b. United States) is an American independent curator and collector based in the United Kingdom. In 2011, Joseph founded Marcelle Joseph Projects, a nomadic curatorial platform that has produced over 45 exhibitions in the UK and the rest of Europe, featuring the work of over 300 international artists. Joseph holds an MA in Art History with Distinction from Birkbeck, University of London with a specialisation in feminist art practice. Her curatorial work focuses on gender and the performative construction of identity with an emphasis on material-led artistic practices. Joseph is the executive editor of Korean Art: The Power of Now (Thames & Hudson, 2013). Additionally, in London, Joseph is the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Mimosa House (since 2021), an Ambassador of the Royal Academy Schools (since 2010), a member of the Advisory Council of the Eye of the Collector, an alternative art fair (since 2024), and a member of the Selection Panel of PLOP Residency (since 2019). She served as a trustee of Matt’s Gallery in London from 2018-2022 and served on the jury of the 2017-2019 Max Mara Art Prize for Women, in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti, and the Mother Art Prize 2018. She also collects artworks by female-identifying artists under the collecting partnership, GIRLPOWER Collection, as well as more generally as part of the Marcelle Joseph Collection. Since 2022, her collection has been on public display in the UK in two institutional exhibitions co-curated by Joseph, the first at the Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby (2022) and the second at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds (2023-24). In 2022, Joseph also co-curated her first museum exhibition in the United States at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles titled ‘The Condition of Being Addressable’. In 2023, she co-founded the GIRLPOWER Residency in southwestern France, an annual artist residency for female-identifying and non-binary artists.
