A Conversation with Water

Presented by artist curators Lorraine Snape and Eva Brá Barkardóttir, featuring Maria Konder, Rosie Dahlstrom, Dirk Tsai, Lizzie Cardozo, Simon Job, Shuyi Gao, Stephen Nulty, Anita Agarwal, Michael Poole, Alexandra Errington, Coline Le Quenven, Lorraine Snape and Eva Brá Barkardóttir.

A group of thirteen emerging artists present works relating to water, a most essential but often overlooked substance. Offering work which incorporates sculpture, kineticism, construction and installation; that investigates the boundaries of painting, print, video and performance. From the fragmentation of information to notions of time, place and temporality; exploring feminine identity through nature and surrealism. Exploiting speculative processes, which lead to enigmatic organic compositions; assuredly performative in nature, relating to the here and now.

Exploring the theme in the broadest sense, the subject of water acknowledges how important and fragile the environment is. As these artists accept water’s impact on the everyday, and on their practice, they are asked to reconsider its importance on the minutia and vastness of life, lazily dripping from a kitchen tap while carving all life on earth.

Supported by HYPHA Studios and made possible by Get Living, A Conversation with Water is sited in a former Sainsbury’s supermarket. A programme of workshops, performances and talks will run throughout the exhibition.

We offer free temporary project space or more permanent studio space to remove the financial obstacles from displaying and making work.

About The Curators

Lorraine Snape and Eva Brá Barkardóttir met at Chelsea (UAL) studying MA Fine Art. Notable projects include Altered Planes at Metre2 (2023), Vegsummerki/ Traces in Anddyri Reykjavík, Iceland (2023), Annotations are Sometimes Presented in the Margins at Elephant Arcade (2022) and Constructing Landscapes: Building Worlds for Late at Tate Britain online (2020). Exhibition highlights include Deptford X Fringe (2023), Safehouse 1&2 (2023&2019), Gallery 32’s Winter Sculpture Park (2022), Yanjiao Art Biennale Beijing (2021) and Chelsea Arts Club (2020).