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what the press says
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publications
The New York Times
In the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, online shopping and remote working have created a blight of shuttered storefronts and empty office buildings in towns and cities across the world. Allowing artists to infuse life into these vacant commercial spaces, even on a temporary basis, has become one way landlords can address the issue. (They can also burnish their corporate responsibility credentials.)
TimeOut
‘Dumping Ground’ Review
The line between rubbish and art has been trampled over for decades, but this group show at the bottom of a towering office block stomps it to pieces.
The space is pitch dark, its windows blacked out. A heat lamp hangs over a ceramic ear, a landline phone lies on the ground ringing incessantly; there are sheets of scrap wood, a discarded vacuum cleaner, rotting fruit, images of corporate offices smeared in Vaseline.
Plaster
Right, here’s a crazy idea: give empty retail spaces over to artists. Why? Um, because there’s a massive shortage of affordable exhibition space. Wouldn’t artists have to pay? No, plus, landlords actually save money if their building is occupied. Whose amazing idea is this? Hypha Studios. Think of them as a matchmaker for artists and landlords, cutting out bureaucracy, barriers and BS. Where do I find them? They negotiate spaces for artists all over the UK, but they’ve got a lot going on in London this week. Highlights: ‘Antigone Revisited’ at Hypha HQ (Unit 3, Euston Tower); ‘Hoówen’, a show of international Indigenous and Diasporic artists at their new Mayfair space (8-9 Dover St); and ‘Uncanny Playgrounds’ (1 Sugar House Island), a freaky combo of childhood nostalgia and adult discomfort. – HLS
The Telegraph
In the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, online shopping and remote working have created a blight of shuttered storefronts and empty office buildings in towns and cities across the world. Allowing artists to infuse life into these vacant commercial spaces, even on a temporary basis, has become one way landlords can address the issue. (They can also burnish their corporate responsibility credentials.)
BBC Front Row
Kirsty Lang talks to its founder Camilla Cole about the process, and to its first beneficiary, artist Molly Stredwick whose temporary studio space is now a shop front in Eastbourne. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Sarah Johnson Studio Manager: Matilda Macari
Frame Magazine
WHY DOES ART AND CULTURAL SPACE WITHIN A NEW DEVELOPMENT SOMETIMES FAIL? Artists respond to space. We’ve used a former travel agency as a site, and a discount fashion store for a show about post-consumerist society. You get these site-specific aspects that creative brains like to respond to. Being too prescriptive is problematic.
Dazed
As a young artist, exhibition space is notoriously hard to come by and, in London this problem is only amplified. Hypha Studios, however, is looking to change that. For the last year and a half, the charity has helped provide creatives across the UK with free space to work and showcase their art, matching them up with everything from abandoned supermarkets to empty shops on dying high streets.
Hypha Studios, which offers support right across the arts – not just contemporary painting and sculpture but music, theatre, poetry, crafts, VR and AR – acquire spaces and then puts out an open call for artists to fill that space with art. Cole elaborates: “When we get a site, we announce it on socials – primarily Instagram – and promote it to artists in the local area.
Marie Claire
Frieze Art Fair marks the full arrival of Culture Season in London, when the city is buzzing with new openings and events. We’ve rounded up the ones to visit now and in the coming months. Curator Bakul Patki shares her must-see exhibitions and artworks from Frieze Art Fair and beyond.
Living Land Collective present ‘Hoówen’ in Aston Martin’s old Mayfair showroom.
BBC Radio
Hypha Studios CEO Camilla Cole talks to BBC Radio about their new gallery space in Stratford, a former 8k sqft former sainsburys, with their first exhibition “Taste the Difference” by a collective of artists from Goldsmiths.
Fetch
Unveiling Abstractions at Hypha Studios follows the narrative of representing abstraction through different mediums of art, showcasing the artwork of 17 female artists who are at the forefront of the London art scene and the innovative curation champions a fresh, individualistic take on abstract impressionist.
Arts & Collections
The exhibition’s title, MELT, pays homage to the legendary FREEZE exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988 – a pivotal moment that echoes the current climate of creative evolution. Just as the Young British Artists emerged from that time, MELT raises poignant questions about the future of contemporary artists amid the wealth of unclaimed spaces.
London Art Round Up
Melissa Vipritskaya Topal’s abstract creations that look like remote controls for an alien games console. The experimentation might not be to everyone’s taste but it’s refreshing and energising to see so many works that don’t just catch your attention from across the room, but hold it once you get up close.
Flo London
Hypha Studios and Creative Land Trust join forces for the MELT exhibition at Frieze 2023, a tribute to the iconic FREEZE exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988. This exciting event features 32 supported artists in London, paying homage to the city’s vibrant creative spirit.
Londonr
A continuous leitmotif connecting all works is the female body. Installations and films examine the forming of feminine bonds through narratives of consumption, both fears of and yearning for, while paintings question the parameters of the body and home.
The Fokawolf exhibit in a small shopping centre in Dudley today
The Fokawolf exhibit in a small shopping centre in Dudley today
Property Week
New charity Hypha Studios recognises these issues with a strategy to help landlords, as well as benefit community and footfall. Coming from the cultural sector – which also has economic and spatial struggles – it places local artists into empty units for short-term projects or longer-term studio use.
Hastings Online Times
New art school in Hastings opens doors for September A new fully accessible art school comes to Hastings and St Leonards. Julia Kotziamani writes.
Big Issue
You’re renting a studio that costs almost the same as your room in a house share,” says Nick Stavri, one of the exhibition’s curators. “It’s difficult to make art to a similar scale and production value you would have had at university.” So in the old Sainsbury’s, they showed how art can breathe life into places. As a sculpture exhibition, the empty supermarket became a focus of attention.
Reading Today
AN ART collective’s follow-up exhibition is continuing the work of the original at a venue in Reading. Open Collective is returning to the town with Entropy 02: The collection explores the lack of order in the world and the universe’s inherent tendency towards disarray, and draws comparison between this and integration into the community.
Ministry of Arts Podcast
In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Hypha Studios (@hyphastudios) Hypha Studios is a charity matching creatives with empty spaces & regenerating the high street with cultural hubs & events for local communities.
Recessed Space
Battersea’s riverfront is a landscape of rebirth and oblivion. It’s woven from water, glass, and rust. Embroidered with crane lights, studded with silted bolts. Once an imperial warehouse, today a repository for capital assets. Luxury flats are built over the rotten planks of industrial wharfs, stretching between the crests of rise and fall.
London TV
Get Living, the UK’s leading build-to-rent operator, has partnered with Hypha Studios, a charity matching creatives with empty spaces for free, to reimagine a former Sainsbury’s store into a unique space for emerging design talent at East Village, London.
Mialondon Blog
Behold, a wildly eclectic and ambitious group show exploring the theme of touch, has just opened at Hypha Studios’ incongruous and crowded pop-up exhibition space in a vacant high end retail unit in Mayfair’s Conduit Street. Its friendly, makeshift, mildly anarchic atmosphere is amplified by its proximity to the vast, cool, white warehouses of the prestigious galleries of Pace and Hauser and Wirth.
Behold is a wonderfully eclectic show featuring kinetic sculpture (Mosquito Farm), drawing (Paul Noble), painting (Graham Little) and photography (Sara Maringeli ) as well as video, augmented reality, performance art, sound art, interactive works and an intriguing programme of workshops.
Newbloodart
Delighted to announce that Masters Artist Lindsay Mapes is exhibiting as part of MELT which will take place as part of FRIEZE week. “Hypha Studios (HS) x Creative Land Trust (CLT) have joined forces to present a new exhibition, as part of Frieze 2023, spotlighting the work of 32 exceptional artists.
Fad Magazine
In a city pulsating with creative energy, MELT shines a spotlight on the source of London’s artistic vibrancy. Featured prominently are Hypha Studios’ own talent, including Margaret Ayres, Luca Bosani, and Kialy Tihngang. These artists have been granted invaluable free studio and exhibition space in London, a testament to the organisation’s commitment to fostering innovation.
BBC London
Tori Taiwo being interviewed on BBC Radio London about her upcoming exhibition Black in South.
Twin Factory
The brainchild of Camilla Cole and Will Jennings, Hypha Studios emerged as an idea during the pandemic, prompted by the three-sided problem of increasing high street vacancies, loss of community spaces and deteriorating conditions for artists and creatives.
Tom Salmon Podcast
We jumped into Camilla’s experience of working her way up in London’s private art gallery space, why she’s so passionate about curating and championing independent art exhibitions and her mission to reimagine our high streets by working with artists and landlords to create cultural hotspots in empty spaces across the country.
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