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gill@gillianbrent.co.ukThis autumn, Assembly brings together 35 members and fellows of the Royal Society of Sculptors at Hypha Gallery South Bank, following its inaugural presentation in Sunderland earlier this year. Opening during Frieze season, the exhibition brings a diverse group of established sculptors into a new architectural and cultural context, creating an opportunity for audiences, collectors, curators and artists to encounter contemporary sculpture beyond the conventional gallery framework.
The exhibition brings together practices spanning installation, object-making, architectural intervention, film, performance and material experimentation. Across the exhibition, sculpture moves between the intimate and monumental, the poetic and political, the familiar and unexpected.
Together, the works explore the capacity of sculpture to transform space and shape human encounter, while engaging with themes including ecology, identity, migration, labour, landscape, memory and the human experience. Rather than presenting a single definition of what sculpture can be, Assembly reflects the breadth of approaches being pursued by artists working within the field today.
The move from Sunderland to London marks a further development of the project. Following its presentation within Sunderland’s historic Athenaeum building, Assembly now enters a very different cultural landscape, bringing the work of its artists into proximity with major institutions, galleries, collectors and international audiences during one of the most significant periods in London’s art calendar.
Artists in the show
- Farnoush Amini
- Tabatha Andrews
- Sally Barker
- Perla Krauze
- Ronn Beattie
- Mary Bourne
- Gillian Brent
- Julie Brook
- Owen Bullett
- Ros Burgin
- Alexandra Carr
- Ali Darke
- Kate Davis & David Moore
- Sally De Courcy
- Mandeep Dillon
- Ebru Dosekci
- Victoria Ferrand Scott
- Andrea Geile
- Peter Hanmer
- Steve Johnson
- Ben Joiner
- Caroline Lambard
- Julia Ellen Lancaster
- Olana Light
- Jenny Pope
- Gary Power
- Simon Raines
- Stefan Reiss
- Si Sapsford
- Susanne Schmidt-Nielsen
- Louise Frances Smith
- Jill Townsley
- Almuth Tebbenhoff
- Sarah Villeneau
- Susan York
