Stop Scrolling: Here are 6 art shows to go to this March
Featuring indie sleaze photography, working class portraits and powerful protest art
Featuring indie sleaze photography, working class portraits and powerful protest art
Perhaps, like us, you’ve come across a bunch of cool artists on Instagram whose content you’ve saved with the best intentions of revisiting. Or scrolled by a fun video of an immersive exhibition you’ve sworn you’ll go to with a friend. If so, then you’ll know that sometimes it’s hard to keep track of these IRL events when you’re always on the FYP.
Luckily, woo’s Senior Social Producer and resident art expert Hollie Hilton has done the leg work for you, digging into her Explore page and recently saved to pull out a selection of standout shows and culture events to visit in the coming weeks. Read on for picks including immersive installations, dream-like paintings and nostalgic 2000s photography.
What if you could condense the feeling of a night out into an exhibition? This immersive audio-visual installation attempts to do just that by reinterpreting ‘moments’ at a rave across nine different zones, while championing Black and LGBTQI+ creatives within the dance music scene.
Work from Parisian photographer Teddy Daly and digital artist Professor Wrecks is seen alongside ‘90s rave scene photographs from Tristan O’Neil and social activist DeLovie Kwagala. There’s also exclusive recorded conversations with artists such as Nia Archives, Sherelle and more. See you front left!
move/003 is open until 9 March – get tickets here.
A picture of working-class life past and present, this touring group show features the work of over 19 photographers. United by their ability to challenge the ideals of classic documentary photography and offer expressions of life and community, the exhibition is a moment to consider our own ideas of class and identity.
There’s Kavi Pujara’s ode to Leicester's Hindu community, plus Rene Matić’s portrait of growing up mixed race in a white working-class community in Peterborough.
After the End of History is a touring exhibition, open in Coventry from 29 March until 16 June when it will move onto Southend-on-Sea (3 July - 14 September 2024) and Nottingham (27 September - 15 December 2024).
2000s nostalgia, indie sleaze and high fashion it girls are all themes of this exhibition which peers inside subcultures, showcasing the work of photographer Rebecca Zephyr Thomas from 2007-2009. All set backstage at London Fashion Week during a hugely influential era, the photos feature runway strutters Agyness Deyn, Alice Dellal, Ash Stymest and Luke Worrall.
Make sure to do a weather check before attending, as this archive project is displayed outside, along Lower Sable Street.
We Are Your Friends is open until 12 April 2024.
If you reflected on the dreams you had when you slept, what would they look like? Probably a collage of imagined and forgotten people, fuzzy textures, and places, right? Scottish painter Andrew Cranston calls his paintings an act of ‘creative misremembering’, taking inspiration from real places, moods and the layered emotional quality of everyday life to mimic those hazy ZZZs.
From a blurry koi pond he remembers seeing at Edinburgh Museum and Gallery, full of pink and peach tiles, to a school hall, with some kind of science experiment on a windowsill, his paintings have a sense of revelation, wonder and oddness. These range from large-scale canvases to intimate works painted on old linen-bound book covers. Get down to Wakefield and explore these strangely familiar situations.
What Made You Stop Here? is open until 2 June 2024. You can get tickets here.
Love both pop culture and literary refs? You’re in luck: Cardiff-based Freya Dooley is known for combining these to create unstable narratives, soundtracks and autobiographical semi-fictions. Her upcoming solo show is set to explore the many meanings of the term ‘False Note’ – think miscommunication, untruths and insincerity.
Site Gallery is worth a follow on IG – it’s a huge advocate of early-career artists and new art practices. Alongside the show is a plethora of exciting events, including a live performance to close the exhibition, supported by PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music.
False Note opens 7 March until 26 May 2024
Reflecting on key events such as the #MeToo movement, the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US Supreme Court and the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Iran, this exhibition brings together works by over 16 international artists and collectives. All of which are using the camera to fight the power, and move beyond traditional protest photography.
Organised into themes of bodily autonomy, institutional failure and feminist histories, the show addresses different approaches to feminist practices over the past decade. Hoda Afshar explores the symbolism of images circulating on social media in the wake of protests to Iran’s strict dress code, while Indian artist Poulomi Basu envisions the future of the planet in relation to women’s rights to water, earth, fire and air.
Acts of Resistance opens 8 March to 9 June 2024.
What if you could condense the feeling of a night out into an exhibition? This immersive audio-visual installation attempts to do just that by reinterpreting ‘moments’ at a rave across nine different zones, while championing Black and LGBTQI+ creatives within the dance music scene.
Work from Parisian photographer Teddy Daly and digital artist Professor Wrecks is seen alongside ‘90s rave scene photographs from Tristan O’Neil and social activist DeLovie Kwagala. There’s also exclusive recorded conversations with artists such as Nia Archives, Sherelle and more. See you front left!
move/003 is open until 9 March – get tickets here.
A picture of working-class life past and present, this touring group show features the work of over 19 photographers. United by their ability to challenge the ideals of classic documentary photography and offer expressions of life and community, the exhibition is a moment to consider our own ideas of class and identity.
There’s Kavi Pujara’s ode to Leicester's Hindu community, plus Rene Matić’s portrait of growing up mixed race in a white working-class community in Peterborough.
After the End of History is a touring exhibition, open in Coventry from 29 March until 16 June when it will move onto Southend-on-Sea (3 July - 14 September 2024) and Nottingham (27 September - 15 December 2024).
2000s nostalgia, indie sleaze and high fashion it girls are all themes of this exhibition which peers inside subcultures, showcasing the work of photographer Rebecca Zephyr Thomas from 2007-2009. All set backstage at London Fashion Week during a hugely influential era, the photos feature runway strutters Agyness Deyn, Alice Dellal, Ash Stymest and Luke Worrall.
Make sure to do a weather check before attending, as this archive project is displayed outside, along Lower Sable Street.
We Are Your Friends is open until 12 April 2024.
If you reflected on the dreams you had when you slept, what would they look like? Probably a collage of imagined and forgotten people, fuzzy textures, and places, right? Scottish painter Andrew Cranston calls his paintings an act of ‘creative misremembering’, taking inspiration from real places, moods and the layered emotional quality of everyday life to mimic those hazy ZZZs.
From a blurry koi pond he remembers seeing at Edinburgh Museum and Gallery, full of pink and peach tiles, to a school hall, with some kind of science experiment on a windowsill, his paintings have a sense of revelation, wonder and oddness. These range from large-scale canvases to intimate works painted on old linen-bound book covers. Get down to Wakefield and explore these strangely familiar situations.
What Made You Stop Here? is open until 2 June 2024. You can get tickets here.
Love both pop culture and literary refs? You’re in luck: Cardiff-based Freya Dooley is known for combining these to create unstable narratives, soundtracks and autobiographical semi-fictions. Her upcoming solo show is set to explore the many meanings of the term ‘False Note’ – think miscommunication, untruths and insincerity.
Site Gallery is worth a follow on IG – it’s a huge advocate of early-career artists and new art practices. Alongside the show is a plethora of exciting events, including a live performance to close the exhibition, supported by PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music.
False Note opens 7 March until 26 May 2024
Reflecting on key events such as the #MeToo movement, the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US Supreme Court and the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Iran, this exhibition brings together works by over 16 international artists and collectives. All of which are using the camera to fight the power, and move beyond traditional protest photography.
Organised into themes of bodily autonomy, institutional failure and feminist histories, the show addresses different approaches to feminist practices over the past decade. Hoda Afshar explores the symbolism of images circulating on social media in the wake of protests to Iran’s strict dress code, while Indian artist Poulomi Basu envisions the future of the planet in relation to women’s rights to water, earth, fire and air.
Acts of Resistance opens 8 March to 9 June 2024.
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