Cypher BILLBOARD

FAKERS

Victoria Adam | Cecilia Charlton | Lauren Godfrey | Holly Graham | Erin Hughes | Lauren Keeley | Milly Peck | Scarlett Platel | Amba Sayal-Bennett | Rhea Storr | Reina Sugihara

1-16 December 2018 | Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Harrington Way, London SE18 5NR 

Opening: Friday 30 November 2018, 6.30-8.30pm

FAKERS brings together eleven female artists whose work demonstrates a deep understanding of technical process. The exhibition explores how their contemporary methods are able to question and redefine historical and gendered notions of the term ‘craft’. The feminist politics present in the show does not conceptually underpin the individual works but arises through the material act of making.

Accompanying the exhibition is a booklet with a text written by Adriana Blidaru. 

Victoria Adam lives and works in London. She graduated from Royal Academy Schools in 2015. Recent exhibitions include: Zabludowicz Invites, London; Leks, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam; Concrete Matters, Bank Space Gallery, London; and Joel Wyllie & Victoria Adam, Kennington Space, London. | www.victoriaadam.co.uk

Adriana Blidaru is a curator, the editor and founder of the project Living Content. She has written for different magazines such as Kaleidoscope, The Brooklyn Rail, CURA Magazine, and Revista ARTA. She holds a Master Degree in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and a BFA from Oxford University and currently lives in New York. | www.adrianablidaru.com

Cecilia Charlton received her BFA from Hunter College and her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Recent exhibitions include: From Fantasy, Radio Gallery Salon; SURGE, Courtauld Institute; Living Room, Safehouse1&2, Plants People Pots [an invention], Pinch Project space, and An Audience of Echoes, Hockney Gallery. | www.ceciliacharlton.com

Lauren Godfrey is an artist based in London. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include Hidden Harlequin with Lauren Coullard at Centre For Recent Drawing, London; Alimentari soloshow at Geddes Gallery, London; House Work, 53 Beck Road, curatedby Art Licks; Doing Easy, Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree; a swimwear display for Karen Mabon at Les Filles in Lisbon and a jewellery display for SVP at House Of Voltaire, London. | www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

Holly Graham is a London-based artist. She undertook her BFA at Oxford University and graduated from MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 2014, where she received the Thames Barrier Print Studio Graduate Award and the Augustus Martin Award for Innovation in Print. | www.hollygraham.co.uk

Erin Hughes received her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London 2018. After completing her BA in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, she spent four years living and working in Berlin. She is a co-founder of Cypher Space, Berlin and Cypher Billboard, London. | www.erinlaurahughes.com 

Lauren Keeley lives and works in London. She received her BFA from The Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford and her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art. Recent exhibitions include: 31 Women, Breese Little, London; MK Calling, Milton Keynes Gallery, MiltonKeynes; and The Most Brilliant Amongst the Masks, the American Academy, Rome. | www.laurenkeeley.com

Milly Peck graduated from MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2016 where she was awarded The David Troostwyk/Matt’s Gallery Studio Award. She is also a recipient of a Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursary, 2018. Recent shows include: Survey, Jerwood Space, London; The Slip, Tintype, London; Pressure Head, Assembly Point, London; Rinse and Repeat, Cypher Billboard, London. | www.millypeck.com

Scarlett Platel is a London based artist and recent graduate of The Royal College of Art. In 2018 she was awarded The Labyrinth Lab and Mentorship Award, The New Contemporary Art Prize and The Metro Imaging Mentorship Award. Recent exhibitions include: Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Brighton Photo Fringe Festival, Brighton; and The European Photography Prize, Fondazione Fotografia Modena. | www.scarlettplatel.com

Amba Sayal-Bennett lives and works in London. She received her BFA from The Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford, her MA in The History of Art from The Courtauld Institute, and her PhD in Art Practice and Learning from Goldsmiths. She is currently studying Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. | www.ambasb.com

Rhea Storr received her BFA from The Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford and her MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art. Recently she has exhibited at The Unseen Festival, Denver; Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Hamburg International Short Film Festival. She is also a recipient of the Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursary, 2018. | www.rheastorr.com

Reina Sugihara is a Japanese artist who lives and works in London and Tokyo. She received her BA from Tokyo University of the Arts and her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. She is a co-founder of imlabor which is an artist collective project based in Tokyo. | www.reinasugihara.info