CURATING

'Memory Maps'
V&A Museum and The University of Essex
Ongoing online exhibition

Memory Maps is a new website, designed to inspire and foster work which will continue this approach. It begins as a joint venture between the Dept of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and the website team of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
It includes works in many different media, posted here to stimulate ways of thinking, writing, recording and inventing: for example, a Tattooist parlour, Southend; Old Grand Theatre, Colchester; abandoned Merry Go Round ; portrait of Francis Bacon, East India Company coffee pot; child’s sampler, etc.)
Many of the images come from the archive of Recording Britain, which Kenneth Clark commissioned during World War Two, and is kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Memory Maps website can be viewed here.

‘You Silently: Image-Object-Text’
University of Essex, 14th January - 16th February 2008
The Courtauld Library, June 2008

Exhibition curated by Marina Warner and Dawn Ades for University of Essex and The Courtauld Library with a focus on visual poetry in the age of the internet.

'Only Make Believe - Ways of Playing'
Compton Verney Exhibitions, 25th March - 5th June 2005

Curated by Marina Warner, ‘Only Make-Believe’ explores the innate relationship between play, make-believe and art, through the work of over thirty modern and contemporary artists. The link between play and creativity deepened during the twentieth-century and the exhibition focuses on the important historical, social, psychological and cultural aspects of this subject.

Featuring works by Francis Alÿs, Ida Applebroog, Clive Barker, Hans Bellmer, Christian Boltanski, Mat Collishaw, Dorothy Cross, Adam Dant, Henry Darger, Erno Goldfinger, Roger Hilton, Joan Jonas, Glenn Kaino, Wassily Kandinsky, Zbigniew Libera, Melissa McGill, Wendy McMurdo, Annette Messager, Piet Mondrian, The Brothers Quay, Paula Rego, Gerrit Rietveld, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith, Monika Sosnowska, Jo Stockham, Richard Wentworth, Sarah Woodfine and Kumi Yamashita.

'Eyes, Lies and Illusions'
Hayward Gallery, London, October 7th 2004 - January 3rd 2005

This exhibition combined more than a thousand instruments, images and devices drawn from the remarkable collection of the German experimental film-maker Werner Nekes with major works by internationally renowned contemporary artists (including Christian Boltanski, Tony Oursler, Marcel Duchamp, Carsten Höller, Markus Raetz, Alfons Schilling, Anthony McCall and Ludwig Wilding) showing how optical phenomena continue to fascinate to this day.

'Metamorphing: Transformation in science, art and mythology'
A Wellcome Trust Exhibition for the Science Museum London, 16th September 2002- 16th February 2003

Metamorphing: Transformation in science, art and mythology.
Co-curator: Sarah Bakewell. Conference, Metamorphing, 12 Feb. 2003 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

'The Inner Eye'
Hayward Touring Exhibitions, 1996-1997
Manchester City Art Galleries
Brighton Museum, Swansea Museum
Dulwich Picture Gallery

 

 


 

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