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.
Read More22 July - 23 August 2024
Work in Common is an annual short residency series that encourages artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea or developing new collaborations. New Art Exchange Open 2023 prize winner Madi Acharya-Baskerville will undertake a 4-week residency this Summer. Madi works predominantly with pre-existing materials which have been discarded. She has become increasing concerned by the effect of obsolete matter in our environment.
Read More28 August - 24 September 2023
Work in Common is a series of short residencies that encourage artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea or developing new collaborations. Each artist will use the spaces at Primary to produce and present work to the public, through screenings, rehearsals, performances, workshops, and meals.
7 October - 9 December 2023
A new multi-media installation featuring two experimental films. THE WALL is a surreal and absurdist take on housing inequality and its psychological effects. Hyperopia is a psychedelic two channel video installation which uses script, disorientating film and editing techniques.
Landedness is a commissioning, co-creation, and engagement programme running throughout 2022, that explores topics such as land access, custodianship, and intimacy. Through the programme Zethu Maseko has developed a large-scale quilted banner created from natural dyes.
Read MoreGroups in South Africa and the UK will get the opportunity to explore the idea of “landedness” in both cultural contexts.
Read MoreAngela YT Chan is an independent researcher, curator and artist. Her work reconfigures power in relation to the inequity of climate change, through self-archiving, rethinking geographies and speculative fiction.
Read MoreThe spring season is here! Our spring programme is focused around sharing seeds and sharing knowledge.
Read MoreEjaradini 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
Read MoreBuilding on When We Worked At Raleigh, we are pleased to announce that artist Maybelle Peters has been commissioned for a period of research and development, working towards the creation of a new moving image artwork in response to the archive.
February - May 2021
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that curator, producer and writer Nora-Swantje Almes will undertake a three week residency at Primary, where she will develop skills in producing new work as part of Re-Framing Dance.
February - May 2021
Read MoreA series of short residencies that encourage artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea, or developing new collaborations. This year, we're working with Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Richard John Jones, Roy Claire Potter, and Voices That Shake!
July 2019
Read MoreA series of short residencies that encourage artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea, or developing new collaborations. This year, we're working with Libita Clayton, Amir George, Jasleen Kaur, Hardeep Pandhal, Nathalie Wuerth.
August - September 2018
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