ABOUT:

“Stranded Exhibitions is a group of artists formed to create exhibitions of contemporary art made especially for and inspired by a specific space of our choosing: exhibitions we seek to present to the public at every stage in a way that is as accessible as possible to a wide range of people and specifically to the visually impaired.

We work with former public spaces. Functional spaces that have meant many things to many people in the past and hold new meanings now and in the future. Places embedded in people's lives, places of transformation, movement and communication. We work together as a group in a way that seeks to expand the sensibilities of each artist to the space and fulfil the potential of each artist's practice in the space. There is not a lead curator, but rather a nurtured shared vision and feeling. We seek to push and expand each other's awareness and potential and so mould a unique unified exploration of the space in its possibilities. We each have a different approach and we celebrate that difference. The work of each artist is not constrained to meet a norm. To define a theme would be to limit our powers. The movement is outward, to explore more widely as individuals, but to take each other through these new insights and questions as a group. So the group does not confine, but expands sensibility. Ultimately, only the space holds the group together in an aesthetic as well as physical frame for the work.

The group has shifted dynamically through an extending group of artists as each show has staged and proposed."

Members of the group: Rebecca Harris, Dorothy Szulc, Ana Vicente

Associate members: Maren Juell Kristensen, Sofia Tillberg

Past associates: Robin Peters, Morten Riise-Hanssen

Exhibitions staged to date:

/ “Call me when you get here” held in the Aldwych disused tube station ticket hall in January 2004; www.whenyougethere.org.uk

/ “Lights Out” in the Carnegie Trust building, the former Public Hall, attached to Stoke Newington Public Library, in May 2002.

For more information on Stranded Exhibitions please email me.