BLUE MINDS FESTIVAL | Group Exhibition | London
24 June – 6 July 2021
Catherine Prevost, 127 Sloane Street, London, SW1X 9AS
Celebrating artists inspired by the sea
Blue Minds, an artist-led exhibition of 27 world-leading contemporary creatives, was co-curated by Nico Kos Earle, Andrea Hamilton Studio and Julia Campbell Carter. Aiganym Gali exhibited alongside Callum Innes, Anna Barriball, Gideon Rubin, Mariele Neudecker, Bridget Smith, Marcus Lyon, Emma Critchley, Anne de Carbuccia, Andrea Hamilton, Karolina Woolf and Maya Sanbar, among others. The collective frames the ocean as an endless source of inspiration and highlights why a healthy ocean matters. Inspired by the tireless work of marine biologists and in association with the Blue Marine Foundation, Blue Minds set out to highlight the importance of ocean conservation through a creative medium.
Conceived by Blue Marine Ambassadors to inspire hope, this immersive show offers soundscapes, photography, installations, paintings, wearable art brands, ceramics, films, sculpture, workshops, talks, interactive media and discussion rooms.
Writing in Elite Traveler, Kim Ayling described Gali’s Steppe series as “vast and hypnotic”. The Lady also previewed the exhibition.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Friday, June 25th, 11:00 - 12:00
Mariele Neudecker and Emma Critchley in conversation with curator Nico Kos Earle
Mariele Neudecker is a German artist who works with a range of mediums, such as sculpture, installation, film and photography. Her practice investigates the formation and historical dissemination of cultural constructs around the natural world.
Emma Critchley is a British artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to explore the human relationship with the underwater environment as a political, philosophical and environmental space.
Nico Kos Earle is a curator, poet and writer, she was born in Ireland and raised in Paris. Member of the Critics Society. Her work is highly collaborative and focuses on developing artists in early to mid career through storytelling across all platforms.
Tuesday, June 29th, 18:00 - 18:30
Photographer Anne De Carbuccia in conversation with filmmaker Maya Sanbar & curator Nico Kos Earle
Anne De Carbuccia is an Italian environmental artist, photographer and founder of One Planet One Future.
Maya Sanbar is a London based Palestinian-Lebanese multi-disciplinary artist, with a practice centered on storytelling. Her work explores both physical and psychological boundaries, immersive and site specific, her installations highlight the elements we share and help us to mediate the space we occupy.
Wednesday, June 30th, 15:00 - 16:00
Sculptor Emma Elliott in conversation with Rosie Pearson
Emma Elliott MRSS is a British sculptor interested in the incongruous and hypocritical aspects of humanity, and the impermanence and fragility of the natural world.
Friday, July 2nd 11:30am - 13:00pm
Marcus Lyon in conversation with curator Nico Kos Earle
Marcus Lyon is a British artist who has created extensive bodies of work on dance, identity & globalisation. His works are held in both private and international collections, including the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Arts Council Collection (UK) and the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Washington DC.
Stories of Art hosted two lectures for the Blue Minds Festival
"Abstract Expressionism: The Story of the NY School" with Rachel Barnes
Monday 28th June · 11:30 - 12:30 art talk
During our Monday morning talk for Blue Marine Foundation we will unravel the development of the Abstract Expressionist movement in post-World War II America covering the artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler & Willem de Kooning. The talk will be presented by Rachel Barnes.
"In Search of the Sublime" with Dr Kathy McLauchlan
Wednesday 30th June
During our Wednesday morning talk for Blue Marine Foundation we will unravel the notion of Sublime Art. This theory was developed by Edmund Burke in the 18th century. He defined sublime as an artistic effect showing the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling, the greatness in art beyond all possibility of imitation, measurement or calculation.