Projects

Monthly cooking sessions to share recipes and increase confidence in cooking skills with Open Arms Organisation and community cooks. We aim to use ingredients that regularly found in food parcels, share recipes from different countries and cultures, and support healthy eating.

21 March - 31 May 2025

For Colorado-based artist Maia Ruth Lee’s first UK solo exhibition beginning on the Spring Equinox, we imagine the gallery as a worldly and spiritual centre. Installations of sculpture, painting, and luggage across our galleries will explore human life in motion.

8 November 2024 - 15 February 2025

Kolam is an exhibition, an action, a space, an exploration. Mimicking its namesake, it acts as an invitation to Tamil women, Dalit and other marginalised communities to hold space and have voice within contemporary cultural production. Cross the threshold, Cross that line, defy the mythological man. Erase the kolam.  

16 September - 22 September 2024

Supported by indy. powered by the Auction Collective, we will celebrate the end of summer and ten years of Primary’s public programme as we host our first online art auction featuring artworks by artists Hurvin Anderson, Betsy Bradley, Simona Brinkmann, Seán Cummins, Jade de Montserrat, Line Nilsen and Yelena Popova. 

8 June - 17 August 2024

The exhibition will initially comprise three existing works by artists Ashley Holmes, Jasleen Kaur, and Jala Wahid before it is transformed. Framed by a series of live events (e.g., readings, performances, screenings or discussions), the artists will return to the artworks presented in the exhibition and withdraw, change or replace them, allowing us to witness better the connections between the works inhabiting Primary.

Nare Mokgotho of MADEYOULOOK collective and artist Zethu Maseko came together at Primary in the Edjardini structure to have a conversation about their overlapping practices. The artists discuss how they understand the place of nature and land in their work.

Mummy Hood Nesting Forest is a site to get lost: a forest, a URL, and a new work of fiction by artist David Steans. The commission takes the form of a multipart story hosted online in its entirety via a bespoke website. A macabre story about storytelling, preparedness, and packable techwear, Mummy Hood Nesting Forest uses the provisional scenario of a hiker getting lost in the woods to conjure, recur, rewrite, and exhume.

Ejaradini is an art installation and garden created by South African artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK (Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho). The exhibition features archival images, plants, and text on the façade of Primary. Ejaradini reflects on Black urban gardening, land, and plant life in South Africa and Britain through visual and nature-based storytelling.

April - September 2022