Mary Ramsden has been selected for inclusion in The London Open 2015 the Whitechapel Gallery triennial exhibition which is to open in July 2015.
From a record number of 2,133 applicants, 48 artists have been selected by a panel of high profile art world figures, including writer and critic Ben Luke, artist Angela de la Cruz, collector Nicoletta Fiorucci, gallerist Jake Miller and Whitechapel Gallery curators Daniel Herrmann, Eisler Curator and Head of Curatorial Studies and Poppy Bowers, Assistant Curator.
Manual labour and the ways we work is a theme investigated throughout the exhibition. A number of artists use more traditional techniques such as painting and photography whilst others use more unconventional methods from bricklaying to using panes of glass in their practice to explore the world today. The exhibition includes a fully functioning fishmonger’s counter in the galleries by multi-media Sam Curtis, a brick sculpture built on site by artist Demelza Watt’s father and a tense video work by Nelmarie du Preez of a robotic arm programmed by the artist to stab a knife between her fingers.
The London Open 2015
15 July – 06 September 2015
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX