Primary Lates are back! Join us on Friday 4 November and enjoy exhibitions across Primary and independent galleries TG, Forth and Beam, all located in our building. The event includes the launch of Ryan Christopher’s A morsel of curd at TG. Refreshments from Wright’s Wines and food from Pasta Shambala will be available!
Primary is showing Attention, Absorption and Open Code, solo exhibitions by Maybelle Peters and Mac Collins retrospectively. Attention, Absorption is British Guyanese artist Maybelle Peters' most comprehensive exhibition of work in the UK to date. During the last year, Peters undertook Research and Development for the When We Worked at Raleigh: Contemporary Art Commission. The artist used her personal archives and reflexive journaling to respond to collective histories and worked with Bettina Wallace (née Wint), a WWWAR interviewee and former Raleigh employee.
Open Code by Mac Collins nods to shared truths and realities. Within certain variations of Caribbean-style dominoes, ‘Open Code’ refers to the system of subtle gestures exchanged between teammates. These slight shifts in body language become coded clues to indicate the dominoes in their possession without using spoken language. At Primary, this iteration features a newly staged installation, including a sculpture which has never been shown. The exhibition seeks to portray the significance and permanence of the Jamaican presence within British society.
Forth present Ella Fleck’s Horsegirls of the Apocalypse, a comedy and platonic love story, taking cues from the world of influencing, aischrologia and nightmare blunt rotations to tell a tale of naivety and toxic female friendship, the pulls between collaboration and ego and myths of spiritual ascendence.
Gallery, bookshop and speciality coffee café Beam present work by Primary resident Marek Tobolewski, including recent paintings, drawings and prints. An exceptional painter of his generation, Tobolewski has explored the formalities of abstract painting for nearly 40 years, in particular one of the building blocks of image making, the line.