Jerwood Survey is a major biennial touring exhibition that presents new commissions by 10 early-career artists from across the UK, providing a distinctive snapshot of current concerns and approaches in the visual arts. Established in 2018, it responds to a vital need for artists who are still early in their careers to benefit from a supported opportunity to make new work for a group touring exhibition. Jerwood Survey spans a wide breadth of disciplines and takes a non-institutional approach by inviting leading artists to nominate the most outstanding early-career artists making work today.
Jerwood Survey III is led by Southwark Park Galleries, touring nationally in collaboration with Collective, g39 and Site Gallery, and supported by Jerwood Arts. The final selection was chosen by a panel representative of all the partners plus Jerwood Survey II artist Tako Taal. The Jerwood Survey III artists are:
Che Applewhaite (nominated by Sin Wai Kin), Aqsa Arif (nominated by Alberta Whittle), MV Brown (nominated by Hanna Tuulikki), Philippa Brown (nominated by Davida Hewlett), Alliyah Enyo (nominated by Hanna Tuulikki), Sam Keelan (nominated by Lindsey Mendick), Paul Nataraj (nominated by Nicola Singh), Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh (nominated by Locky Morris), Ebun Sodipo (nominated by Evan Ifekoya & Sin Wai Kin) and Kandace Siobhan Walker (nominated by gentle/radical).
Tour Dates
g39, Cardiff 13 July – 7 September 2024
Site Gallery, Sheffield 27 September 2024 – 26 January 2025
Collective, Edinburgh 28 February – 4 May 2025
Publication
An exhibition catalogue with 10 new writing commissions will be available from May 2024.
Events
Catalogue Launch // Readings & Talks
Wednesday 22 May, 6 – 8pm
Dilston Gallery
Join us for the launch of the limited edition Jerwood Survey III publication designed by Conway and Young featuring 10 new writing commissions responding to each of the Jerwood Survey III artists work. To celebrate the vital connection between art and writing, readings by writers dove / Chris Kirubi and David Steans will be followed by a talk together with their paired artists Ebun Sodipo and Sam Keelan, chaired by the publication’s editor Phoebe Cripps.
There will be time for refreshments and the opportunity to buy the book at an exhibition price of £12 (full price £15).
Free, no booking required. The exhibition at Lake & Dilston Gallery will be open late until 6pm
Alliyah Enyo // Aphotic Archaeology
Thursday 20 June, performance 6-8pm
Dilston Gallery
Activating her installation, Enyo performs an ethereal story echoing a futuristic deep sea (aphotic) apocalypse and the strange creature that wakes up there. Objects and relics from within the installation become unearthed using movement and vocal scores creating a haunting landscape.
Please join us after the performance for an informal conversation with Alliyah Enyo and Charlotte Baker, Deputy Director at Southwark Park Galleries, to discuss the work.
Artist Bios
Che Applewhaite is an artist, filmmaker and writer. He facilitates engagement with how ongoing histories interfere with intimate, difficult and collective experiences. His works combine analogue and digital media in hybrid documentary forms. These works embed listening as both practice and ethic of invention, embracing the pain of change and honesty that James Baldwin taught us loving ourselves and each other requires.
His debut short film A New England Document received distribution via The Criterion Channel. Previous screenings, performances and exhibitions include Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield; Aesthetica Film Festival, York; Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, Bristol; Cubitt Gallery, curated by Languid Hands, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA; Express Newark, NJ, USA; and transmediale, Berlin, Germany.
Aqsa Arif is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, installation and poetry in which she explores identity disruption, migration and the process of healing through archetypal narratives. As a Pakistani refugee to Scotland, she experienced life with the split of two cultural identities, a polarity underpinning her work. Recently, she was awarded a 15-month residency at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum with UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute, the RSA Morton Award, and the Platform: 2023 Early Career Artist Award at Edinburgh Art Festival.
Arif has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art. Previous exhibitions include Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow; Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; and Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh.
Rooted in performance, MV Brown’s practice uses the human body and new technologies to explore tensions across embodied subjectivity, the body as spectacle and socio-techno constructs of gender and sexuality. Their practice builds upon questions around the (non)performance of daily life and identity in a post-internet context. Drawing on cyberfeminist, glitch-feminist and transhumanist approaches, they investigate avatars, prototypes, ‘false-self’hoods and the fallacy of the ‘IRL’.
Brown has an MA in Film & Television Studies and English Literature from the University of Glasgow, and an MLitt in Fine Art Practice from Glasgow School of Art. Previous exhibitions and performances include French Street Gallery, Glasgow; Glasgow International; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Celine Gallery, Glasgow; and Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy.
Philippa Brown is a multidisciplinary artist whose work hovers between themes of enlightenment, fantasy and bogus wisdom. She makes sculptural forms, installations and paintings as a means to explore the ambiguous, magical and sometimes fragile interconnectedness between histories, materials, beliefs and bodies of all kinds. Nostalgia, subcultures and the occult, and an undercurrent of playfulness, are the portals through which Brown explores conformity and alternative ways of living.
Brown has an MFA from Cardiff School of Art and Design. Previous exhibitions include g39, Cardiff; Freelands Foundation, London; Spit and Sawdust, Cardiff; and Terrace Gallery, London.
Alliyah Enyo’s interdisciplinary practice gravitates towards embodied and meditative processes. She harnesses song, somatics and sculpture to create ‘sonorous myth’ installations and performances. Woven soundscapes materialise taking the form of multi-layered tape loops, collaging her voice, foraged field recordings and memories. The work shrouds the audience in a slowed, surreal state, revealing the bedrock of her research, which investigates myths, folkloric tales or science fiction stories concerning queer ecological perspectives and histories.
Enyo has a BA (Hons) in Intermedia from Edinburgh College of Art. Previous performances include Hybrid Festival, Groningen, Netherlands; Norbergfestival, Norberg, Sweden; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; St John’s Church, London; and FIBER Festival, Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
Sam Keelan, uses his work to tell gay surreal narratives, primarily executed through photography, moving image and writing. These narratives dissect the day-to-day connections to one another — taking ideas around individualism, care and community from the collective consciousness — then transforming benign aspects from these ideas to create queer doppelgängers of dominant middle class ideologies, often reinserted back into domestic spaces.
Keelan has a BA in Sculpture from Wimbledon College of Arts and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Previous exhibitions include Quench, Margate; and TJ Boulting, London.
Paul Nataraj is a sound artist, researcher and educator. His research and sound art practice explores the South Asian diaspora, sound, memory and sonic materiality. Nataraj has a practice-led PhD in Sound Studies from the University of Sussex, Brighton. Previous exhibitions and performances include Nottingham Contemporary; Leeds City of Culture 2023; Kochi Biennale 2022, India; British Textile Biennial 2021, Blackburn; Prism Contemporary 2018, Blackburn; and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.
He has been published in two sound studies collections for Routledge and Bloomsbury, and in 2024 was included in Riffs experimental musicology journal. Nataraj’s sound work has been played on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, Radiophrenia, Resonance FM, CAMP FR, and NTS; and he has released four albums to date with labels Fractal Meat, Hard Return and Pyramid Scheme Tapes. His self-released 2018 album You Sound Like a Broken Record was voted in the top ten experimental albums of the year by A Closer Listen. Nataraj produces two ongoing radio shows for Resonance Extra and Hale London.
Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh s an artist, researcher and Gaeilgeoir living and working sporadically with chronic illness and the legacy of post colonialism. His mixed media practice explores the complexities of inherited memories, ecological decline, and the embodiment of personal loss and lived experience. Through collaborations (often in informal economies), he explores how we might consider loss in relation to intergenerational trauma.
Ó Dochartaigh has a BA (Hons) in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Ulster, Belfast, and an MFA and PhD in Art Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London. Previous exhibitions include CCA Derry-Londonderry; Lawrence Street Workshops, Belfast; Project Arts Centre, Dublin; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile.
Ebun Sodipo makes work for black trans people of the future. Guided by black feminist study, with a methodology of collage and fabulation, her work locates and produces real and imaginable narratives of black trans women’s presence, embodiment, and interiority across the past, present, and future. In doing this, Sodipo fills in historical gaps to create moments of archival pleasure for black trans people. This work takes place across multiple spaces: galleries, festivals, theatres, digital and print; and in varied forms such as sound, performance, text, installation, video and sculpture.
Previous exhibitions and performances include Goldsmiths CCA, London; V.O Curations, London; FACT, Liverpool; Frieze Live, London; Turner Contemporary, Margate; and Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.
Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Jamaican-Canadian, Saltwater Geechee and Welsh heritage. Her practice explores the intersections of personal history with wider social movements and systems. Dreams, displacement, belonging, care, community, spirituality and justice are recurring themes in her work. Her writing has appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and The Guardian and has aired on Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4. She is the author of Kaleido (Bad Betty Press, 2022) and Cowboy (CHEERIO, 2023).
Walker has an MA in Black British Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. Previous exhibitions include Turner House, Swansea; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; and a Wales Venice 10 Commission from Artes Mundi. Walker won The White Review Poet’s Prize in 2021 and The Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize in 2019.
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