“For me, it’s a really magical medium which is really about the 20th and 21st Century and it is the medium of now. And by now, I think only 40 years is quite a good have a retrospective. I’ve become more confident about my practice, and I spend most of my time actually doing my …
Hannah Silver writes: “Most exciting are the exhibitions and events that spring up around the capital during the fair. In one day alone this week, I whizzed from Joy Gregory at the Whitechapel Gallery to Marina Abramović at Saatchi Yates, Nicolas Party at Hauser & Wirth, Lee Miller at Tate Britain and on to Wayne Thiebaud’s gorgeously painted American pies at …
“Each work has led on to the next. My endangered language work in the Kalahari has been going on for decades, but then making that work in 1999 was part of me trying to make sense of it too. And the idea of self-portraiture, in Autoportrait, is also a really important part of taking pictures …
Fashion platform 3EIB- run by Dania Arafeh- and designer Kazna Asker team up for a scarf customisation project and speak about their relationship to the garment in a workshop responding to Joy Gregory’s Fierce and Fearless textile installation. “Part of artist Joy Gregory’s Fierce and Fearless textile installation, the upcycling project invites participants to customise their …
“Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey is the first major survey show of the British-Jamaican artist, Joy Gregory, who has worked with photography and related mediums since the 1980s. The show brings over 250 photographic and moving image works together, many of which probe into the themes of history, race, colonialism, gender and beauty norms, …
Mahoro Seward for British Vogue lists Catching Flies With Honey at the Whitechapel Gallery as a must-see exhibition during Frieze Week London 2025. The link to the full list can be found here.
“Winner of the Freelands Award, Joy Gregory has long been regarded as one of the UK’s most innovative voices in feminist art and photographic practice. Her work spans from early self-portraiture to complex, multi-sensory installations, uniting social commentary with striking visual beauty. Gregory’s approach, as the exhibition title suggests, is one of quiet persuasion — using …
“Not having a gallery has been a freedom for me,” says Gregory. “I haven’t worried about what work is going to look like before I make it. A lot of artists complain that galleries are doing too many art fairs and will tell them they need a work for Art Basel or Frieze and insist …
Katy Hessel, author of ‘The Story of Art Without Men’, recommends Catching Flies With Honey at the Whitechapel Gallery in her Frieze Week Roundup 2025. The link to the full list can be found here.
“In an essay for e-flux Journal titled Beauty Is a Method, writer and academic Christina Sharpe asks us to consider “what beauty as a method might mean or do: what it might break open, rupture, make possible and impossible, how we might carry beauty’s knowledge with us and make new worlds.” In a new retrospective at Whitechapel …