Peter Downsbrough watches Aurea Romero during filming at CHELSEA space

The final two days of Peter Downsbrough’s show were taken up with filming Aurea Romero’s rehearsals as part of the larger AND HERE + A PLACE TO BE project curated by Anna Manubens. Visitors were encouraged to enter the main space and witness the filming process standing alongside Peter Downsbrough and Curator/Choreographer Anna Manubens.

More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Avalanche 1970 - 1976 curated by Lisa Le Feuvre. invitation card

Director Donald Smith has designed the exhibition programme so that it would be divided between the shows that he curates and those by invited curators working on new projects made especially for CHELSEA space. This invitation to particular curators is an exploration of curatorial practice, to examine different approaches and to encourage guest curators to be experimental and explicitly describe their process through the exhibition itself.

[caption id=”attachment_1080″ align=”alignnone” width=”366″ caption=”CHELSEA … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

box lid for the Rock Against Racism archive of Syd Shelton and Ruth Gregory

Curator and writer Carol Tulloch and CHELSEA space’s Donald Smith were invited to talk on 16. 03.11 as part of the ‘Graduate Encounters’ series chaired by Prof. Hayley Newman at Chelsea College of Art and Design. The two chose the form of a ‘show and tell’ using selected artefacts from their personal archives with the intention of giving insights into their individual approaches to research and curating. The title,’ The Raw and the Cooked’, was … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Tobias Collier supporters

Hana Noorali, co-curator of our fifth year anniversary celebrations, Should I Stay Or Should I Go, has recently been working with the artist Tobias Collier. CHELSEA space has followed Hana since she first arrived on our doorstep in 2005 and she never disappoints; we hope Collier’s science inspired ‘pointillist’ drawings, light pieces, diagrams, and sculpture gets the attention they deserve.

John Dunbar and David Tremlett

Through Hana, CHELSEA space Director Donald Smith … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute and curator of Avalanche 1970 -1976, stopped by CHELSEA space to see Shelagh Cluett’s work on Monday 6th December. Lisa was good friends with Shelagh and found her inspirational, which led to Lisa generously writing the introduction to our publication for the … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

CHELSEA space Assistant Jo McGaffin emerses herself in Stephen Farthing's epic painting of the Atlantic Ocean

Stephen Farthing RA, artist, writer, and co-curator of The Life Room at CHELSEA space has opened a magnificent exhibition entitled The Back Story at the Royal Academy of Arts as part of their ‘Artists’ Laboratory’ series. The brilliant centrepiece of the exhibition is a 10m (30ft) long painting of the Atlantic Ocean entitled Painting The Atlantic which coincidently was commissioned by CHELSEA space Director Donald Smith for the inaugural exhibition … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here