It's been seventeen years since I first moved to London in 1999; the same year that the Victoria and Albert Museum started its Friday Late views, on the last Friday of every month – a series of ever-changing, curated programmes of live performances, cutting-edge fashion, film, installations, debates, special guests and DJs, with bars, food, and late-night exhibition openings.
So it seems quite apt that my last London exhibition (before I leave the Capital next month, and re-locate my practice to a much larger studio space up in Shropshire) should be at this month's Friday Late, Baroque to the Future - the theme being Europe, Baroque and the Future.
Taking place this Friday, Baroque to the Future will be on from 6:30-10:00pm, and my sculptures will be installed at the bottom of the National Art Library staircase, inside the museum's Sculpture Gallery. Orifice Tower and Sleeping Beauty Box will be among some of the pieces that I will be showing, as well as salvaged sections (now in a temporary display structure) from my cabinet of curiosities sculpture, The City, which was unfortunately destroyed back in 2011, when it was lent to a Trove exhibition in Birmingham. But once I relocate to the new studio I am finally going to have the time to work on a new, and hopefully bigger, version.
Baroque to the Future
The Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London SW7 2RL
Friday 29 April
18.30 – 22.00
April's Friday Late invites Amy Grimehouse with Late Night Library Club to explore the Europe 1600-1815 Galleries, and celebrate the influence of European culture as the possibility of Brexit looms.
Listen in on courtly gossip, participate in Versailles dance-offs, and marvel in encyclopaedic knowledge of power and revolution in Europe.
Drop by and singalong to Napoleonic pop songs and enter the V&A's very own Eurovision song contest. Nil point?
