Bruce McLean 'Pose Work For Plinths I & III from Tate Etc magazine with text by Andrew Wilson

CHELSEA space was delighted to see Andrew Wilson’s piece on Bruce McLean and Nice Style (The World’s First Pose Band) in the Summer 2011 edition of Tate Etc magazine. CHELSEA space exhibited a lot of Bruce’s Nice Style and Pose material as part of Process Progress Project Archive in 2006 and we returned to it with a new installation based on Nice Style’s High Up On A Baroque … Continue Reading

David Tremlett: Aftermath

Even as we reached the last days of the Stephen Willats’ exhibition Laure Genillard and Barbara Elting have been planning his return in Aftermath: Objects From Projects which opens at CHELSEA space on May 3rd.

Barbara Elting and Laure Genillard planning 'Aftermath: Objects From Projects' at CHELSEA space

Aftermath… will include works by Maurizio Cattelan, Mathew Harrison, Dean Hughes, Brian O’Connell, Philomene … Continue Reading

Susan Forsyth in front of her gold leaf wall at Art Space Gallery

The curator of CHELSEA space # 20 Ping Pong Dialogues: Bill Beckley, Jo Melvin, has curated an exhibition at Art Space Gallery entitled Duration and Painting featuring the work of Eddie Farrell and Michael Wedgewood, Susan Forsyth, Jeff Gibbons, and Ralph Hunter-Menzies. CHELSEA space is great friends with Susan Forsyth, who was once a CHELSEA space Assistant, whilst Eddie Farrell first came to CHELSEA space’s attention during CHELSEA space #1 Gary Woodley: Impingement No. … Continue Reading

painted plinths await their destiny

After CHELSEA space’s preparatory work of painting walls and plinths, sending the exhibition publication to print, securing loan agreements for the books and multiples etc , curator Stephen Bury arrived from New York to install his exhibition Aphasic Disturbance.

Stephen Bury examines Daniel Spoerri's 1995 edition of 'An Anecdoted Topography of Chance' while artist and CHELSEA space Assistant Mike Iveson secures the bases of the vitrines

Stephen Bury … Continue Reading

a sculpture in Bruce McLean's soup

Brie on the knee

To end Bruce McLean’s exhibition Waiter Waiter! at Bernard Jacobson Gallery there was a small screening party with visitors including Chris Stephens, Head of Displays at Tate Britain, writer Louisa Buck, and John Wood from the Henry Moore Institute. The film Soup is beautifully shot and takes its themes from observations of manners, gestures, and behaviour of staff and customers in a restaurant, … Continue Reading