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WILMA TABACCO
EMMA LANGRIDGE
SIMON KLOSE
STEPHEN WICKHAM
DAN WOLLMERING
CURATED BY STEPHEN WICKHAM
20.07.22 – 06.08.22
Because you said so.
Commitment to ideas, actions, events and even results, may well change through the passages of time. This is a given.
Making artworks for decades is not reliant on having fun, making money, enjoying prestige, exercising power or increasing one’s hand holds in history. These are byproducts of ‘a snout to tail’ approach to projects that are bigger than a life of practice.
No doubt the absence of some of the above may be cause for pause of thought, and it may well be a very long pause.
The five artists in this exhibition continue to make works of considered interest and value. They have been doing so because they said they would. No doubt each artist’s life events and circumstances have shaped and reset expectations and trajectories.
Evidently the artist is this exhibition have enjoyed privileges and have been supported by the tangential circumstances of their individual commitment.
I note many others with greater professional credentials than I have, have made this claim before me, and will continue to do so after me.
My thanks to you, my fellow exhibitors for making work that I respect and continue to enjoy.
Stephen Wickham 2022.
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.” – Chaucer’S – famous quote is his circa 1382 translation of an Hippocrates quote (460 to 370 BCE).
‘Woe to him who wilfully innovates While ignorant of the constant,” Tao Te Ching. Laozi around 400 BC.
