Open Call 2023 Winners Announced

We’re delighted to announce the winning projects of our 2023 Open Call for Exhibitions. As a space committed to research-led, educational and collaborative exchanges, we look forward to supporting more artists to experiment with new ideas this year. We received a large quantity of applications this year, of which many were of an exceptionally high standard. Thank you to all those who took the time to apply. Meet our 2023 Open Call artists:

Sam Williams

Sam Williams is an artist with a multidisciplinary practice, working across moving-image, collage, choreography and text. Sam is based in London where he is a resident at Somerset House Studios. He has exhibited and screened work at institutions including Arnolfini, Baltic39, Siobhan Davies Dance, Somerset House, Tate Britain, Studio Voltaire and South Kiosk (UK), She Will (Norway); Kino Arsenal, Akademie der Kunst, Tanzhalle Wisenberg and B3 Biennale (Germany).

His ongoing research focuses on multispecies entanglements, ecological systems, bodies-as-worlds and folk mythologies and how they can inspire ideas for present and future ways of non-human-centric living.

Anneke Kampman

Anneke Kampman (b. 1986, Edinburgh) is an artist and musician working across writing, music and moving image. Operating through a range of theoretical, fictional and artistic frames, her works draw from her own experiences as a musician alongside the methods and arguments of critical theory and institutional critique, re-staging the techniques of the cultural industries in an “immanent critique” of pop. Key to this is an interest in the commodification, standardisation and reproduction of the artistic ‘personality’ (broadly understood). Her recent work explores the politics and histories of popular music and its global circulation via visual media forms such as music-video.

She is currently completing a practice-led PhD at the School of Art under the supervision of Jon Thomson, David Burrows and Benedict Drew. Her work has been presented at LUX Artist Moving Image Festival, Tramway, Glasgow; Pump House Gallery, London; South London Gallery; Glasgow International Festival; Jerwood Space, London; Somerset House, London; La Monnaie De Munt, Brussels; Café Oto, London; Mayday Rooms, London; Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff and BBC Tectonics Festival.

Maria Joranko, Armor Amor VII: EspírituCorazón, 2022, Lyrical Collaboration with Allison Balanc. Photography @charlie.pic.c

Maria Joranko and Tiffany Wellington

Maria Joranko (b. South Dakota, USA) is a mixed media artist and performer, dancer, musician, and researcher who is specifically interested in examining how healing, transformation, and change can be presented as possibilities within an arts context. She is currently based in London where she maintains a practice that is integrated with meditation, bodywork, and sculpture, while using soil and plant based materials as the main conduits for connection with the Earth, ancestors, and those who are yet to come. Maria draws on carried knowledge from her Latinx, American, and Indigenous biological and chosen family, her research in decolonial land practices, and racial activism experiences to create objects that are relics from a potential future that has sustained equity and sense of magic connection.

Tiffany Wellington, NAAF (Not Always & Forever) - 2021

Tiffany Wellington (b. Kingston, Jamaica) weaves webs of fact and fiction. Their work focuses on themes of false narratives, true identities, and opacity. Given time it gains and forgets meaning, creating alternating tales that separate off into various timelines of self-discovery. Interlacing painting, photography, performance, sound, and sculpture through the insertion of their own personal experiences, they provide certain truths that lie parallel with the falsehoods provided in narration. They are not creating a lie, but the lie can be seen within.

Rufus RockJanuary 18, 2023