past exhibition | Generator | A fundraising season in support of civilians in Ukraine and in solidarity with the Woman Life Freedom movement | March 2023

Bobinska Brownlee gallery is pleased to present a salon-style season of art, music, poetry, performance, comedy, discussion, food, drink and more, to raise funds for civilians in Ukraine and to demonstrate solidarity with the Woman Life Freedom protest movement in Iran.

Salons take place every Saturday afternoon in March 4-6pm, doors open at 3.30pm.

We kick off the season with ever-popular comic, musician and poet John Hegley with his band, plus a fantastic treat in the form of Dvi Doli, a music duo from Ukraine on the ‘bandura’, an instrument unique to Ukraine, on Saturday 4th March.

Saturday 11th March sees poet and critic Cherry Smyth curate a poetry salon, featuring Caroline Bergvall, Margareta Kern, Petra Palkovacsova, Juwairiah Mussa, Hanna Komar, Bob Brightt, Iris Colomb, Ghazal Mosadeq, Zainab Ismail, Andra Simons and Keith Jarrett.

Saturday 18th March has a focus on music, with poet/comic/musician John Hegley, with accompaniment on violin by Eleanor Morton (whose painting can also be viewed in our current exhibition).

Celebrated artist Susan Collis will premiere and discuss a previously unseen single screen video work on Saturday 25th March, just down the road from her solo exhibition at Seventeen gallery. She writes ‘In the autumn of 1974, the writer Georges Perec sat in various cafes and locations in Saint Sulpice square, Paris and wrote down what he saw passing across his field of vision. The resulting text – An attempt at exhausting a Place in Paris, is a paean to the everyday, or as he put it, an attempt to describe: ‘that which is generally not taken note of, that which is not noticed, that which has no importance: what happens when nothing happens other than the weather, people, cars and clouds’ 

 An interest in the quotidian and the overlooked, has informed my practice from the outset – I often make work that looks very ordinary or random, but which turns out, on closer inspection, to be considered and detailed.  My reasoning behind this is partly to do with an investigation into general and artistic production processes, and partly that things often simply deserve a second look.  So this little book appealed to me when I first came across it 10 years ago and has inspired the work that I will be showing and talking about for this fundraiser’. 

We’re delighted that the salon on Saturday 25th March will also feature a short introduction to the KHARPP Project’s work by Panayiotis Xenophontos, as well as a chance to discuss the works in the Generator exhibition with some of the participating artists.

 We are asking for donations of a minimum of £10 to each salon. We're delighted that so many friends and colleagues have offered to take part in this season, and look forward to seeing you all there!

The Generator group exhibition, on themes of war, civilian resistance and human rights, includes works by Magda Blasinska, James Brooks, Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh, Cedric Christie, Andrew Cross, Slawa Harasymowicz, Nicky Hodge, Eleanor Moreton, J A Nicholls, Chris Niedenthal, Miroslav Pomichal, D J Roberts and Vlad Yurashko.

Exhibition poster by Slawa Harasymowicz, commissioned for Generator, generously donated by the artist

Now is a time for rage

KHARPP Project