Sluice Biennial 2017
Morning Lane / Bohemia Place / Mare Street
Hackney Central, London E8

L-R: Alistair Woods, Phill Hopkins, David Cotton, Alistair Woods Foreground: Pippa eason

Saturday 30th September

Public Opening Hours:
Sunday 1 – Tuesday 3 October
12-6PM

A Sale of Two Cities

Sluice Biennial: Preview
The Sluice Biennial is an international platform that combines the visions of artist/curator-run galleries and projects. It prioritises artists over strictly art-market interests by focusing on curatorial rigour, a DIY ethos and collaborative programming.

This year, for the fourth edition, the Sluice Biennial is based in Hackney Central. The Biennial will create a hub of artistic activities over four days and multiple venues. It will present artistic practice as an investigation and promote self-initiated galleries, projects & discussion, all within the context of the global community. With a diverse range of galleries & projects at the Biennial, there will be a large programme of exhibitions, live-performances, screenings and moderated talks all presented by over twenty-five galleries from as far afield as Canada, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, the USA and from around the UK.

Artists

  • David Cotton (b. 1987) is a UK based artist whose interests lie in exploring the intersection of scientific research with the physical world. One of his key interests is in how we process and consume information, and how it can become distorted – from interactions between individuals to the microscopic level, in the chemical signaling between cells; or at a macro scale, in how civilizations depict themselves through maps and charts.

    David maintains an active interest in diverse fields such as artificial life, teratology, mapping, mathematics, impossible physics, and outdated scientific theories. He graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2011, and has since exhibited across the UK and Europe. Previously he has worked with the Biotechnology Department of JCC (New York, USA) and the British Museum (London, UK), and is proud to have received funding from New York State Council on the Arts.

    WEBSITE: www.david-cotton.co.uk

    CONTACT: info@david-cotton.co.uk

  • Dr Alan Dunn is an artist, curator and publisher educated at Glasgow School of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago; he is also a lecturer in Fine Art and MA Art & Design at Leeds Beckett University. He works with sound and digital billboards and has developed projects for the ICA (London), Liverpool Art Prize and BBC Radio 3.

    WEBSITE: www.alandunn67.co.uk

    INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/alandunn67/‍

    TWITTER @alandunn67

  • Pippa Eason (b.1993), is currently a Leeds based artist, and has recently finished her MA in Art & Design, at Leeds Beckett University. She has completed several shows this year, alongside an internship at The Henry Moore Institute. She is part of a collective named TPA, merging Liverpool and Leeds together. Recent exhibitions have included Penny Idol$: Whitecloth Galleries, Leeds; De-CON-Struction: Duke Street Studios, Liverpool; Work-In-Progress: Birds Yard, Leeds; About Time: The Brunswick, Leeds; Threshold Festival, Liverpool.

    Pippa Eason also worked on the #7SecondTour publication by BasementArtsProject in conjunction with British Art Show 8, Leeds

    WEBSITE: www.pippaeason.com

    INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/pippaeason_/

    TWITTER @pippaeason

  • Phill Hopkins was born in Bristol in 1961 and has been an artist based in Leeds since graduating from Goldsmiths College, London in 1985. His practise is very cross-disciplinary and includes the use of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation.

    He exhibits both nationally and internationally, with recent shows at BasementArtsProject, Leeds; Pangolin Gallery, London; 3rd on 3rd Gallery, New York USA; Galerie Youn, Canada and Cross Gallery, Australia. His work resides in various public and private collections including The Imperial War Museum, London, Nanjing Baijia Lake International Culture Investment Group, China, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Leeds Art Gallery, Doncaster Museums & Art Gallery, Stadt Dortmund, Germany, The Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet, Hungary.

    WEBSITE: www.phill-hopkins.co.uk

    INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/phillhopkins_studio/

  • Alistair Woods (b. 1991) is one of the co-founders of Manchester based Depot Art Studios, educated in Leeds graduating from Leeds Met in 2013.

    Focusing mainly on painting, producing minimal abstract works using a combination of materials and a variety of different types of paint creating separate dialogues about process and equality, these works often reference found compositions as well as interests outside of art, such as politics, British sitcoms and underground subcultures. Within the work there is an attempt to try and see the beauty in what’s overlooked by many in the environment we find ourselves in, poorly executed advertising that usually incorporates some element of appropriation or the remnants of some tape of the back of a telephone box as examples. 

    The aim is to represent this in a painterly form in an attempt to aesthetically draw the viewer in, whilst the references allows the work to become a lot more relatable to viewers who perhaps aren’t interested in art as the work draws inspiration directly from everyday life.

    WEBSITE: http://www.alistairwoods.co.uk

    FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/alistair.woods.5

    INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/_alistairwoods/

    Depot Art Studios

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