Giles Round | Collected Fictions, St Leonards-on-Sea

Giles Round | Collected Fictions
Unit 1, 6-8 London Road, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex TN37 6AE

27.09.2024 from 6pm
ends 01.12.2024

WORKS ON PAPER: QUENCH FUNDRAISING AUCTION, Quench, Margate

WORKS ON PAPER
An auction to save Quench Gallery in Margate
27 July - 11 August 2024

Quench Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition and auction of over 75 works on paper by many of the UKs leading artists including Tracey Emin, Sonya Boyce, Jeremy Deller, Delaine Le Bas, Pio Abad, Ryan Gander and Sophie Von Hellerman.

Quench is a project space and gallery in Margate, Kent run by Lindsey Mendick, Gemma Pharo and Guy Oliver. Quench was created in the pandemic with the aim of giving artists and curators an opportunity to develop new work and put on exhibitions. We are a not-for-profit venture and all proceeds from the gallery go directly to the artists. Quench also houses one-off events within the gallery such as screenings and performances, as well as, pop-up opportunities for local practitioners. In order to make art more accessible, Quench is passionate about providing arts education for children in the local area. Over the past two years we have successfully run a summer school, gallery tours and creative workshops for children and we have just initiated a Wednesday night youth club.

Due to the cuts in both arts funding and social services, the pressure on organisations like ours has increased to the point that we have sadly been unable to sustain the model that we have started and we are on the brink of having to close our doors. We are proud that we have supported 68 artists with bursaries amounting to 89.4K since 2021.

The auction will go live on July 27th 5pm with an opening at Quench Gallery and close online August 11th at 6pm. The auction will be accessible through Quench website and Instagram once live.

Quench Gallery
Cliftonville Avenue
Margate

https://www.quenchgallery.co.uk/

Time passes & still I think of you, The Arbour, Brent Cross West mainline station, London

Time passes & still I think of you (for Margaret Round), 2023
Screenprinted vitreous enamel panels

Brent Cross West station opening on Sunday 10 December 2023

COMMISSION – Bristol Beacon, Bristol

The reticence of warehouses and the opulence of banks. An interior after the Byzantine-influenced Italian Gothic manner of the Bristol Byzantine, 2023

Bristol Beacon
Trenchard Street
Bristol BS1 5AR

OPENING: 30.11.23

https://bristolbeacon.org/art-at-the-beacon/
https://www.levittbernstein.co.uk/now/inside-bristol-beacon-public-art-1/

24 Guildhall Road Commission, NN Contemporary Art, Northhampton

24 GUILDHALL ROAD, 2024
NN Contemporary Art, Northampton

NN Contemporary Art (NNCA) is excited to reveal new designs for 24 Guildhall Road commission by Giles Round in Northampton. Round is designing a new artist-led civic, social, and educational space comprising a community kitchen, reading room, café-bar and co-working and learning hub, as a permanent, additional offer to NNCA’s expanded programme. The creative spaces will open to the public in Autumn 2024, following the completion of the £4.7 million capital project that is transforming 24 Guildhall Road into a major contemporary arts centre for Northampton and the wider East Midlands region as a partnership project between West Northamptonshire Council and NNCA.

Round’s work is collaborative, grown through a deep engagement with people and place. This commission draws inspiration from the particular architectures of Northampton, weaving in references to town landmarks including 78 Derngate, The Guildhall and Mounts Baths, whilst incorporating design choices that might run counter to conventional expectations of civic public spaces. In these new images, Round has created a collage of future creative communities, human and non-human, to portray an eclectic palette of possibilities and collaborations enabled by creating these kind of spaces.

Round’s bold, colourful designs for 24 Guildhall Road will create welcoming spaces for local residents, students and NNCA’s community of onsite studio artists. The spaces will facilitate artistic practice and creative conversations between studios and galleries, recognising social activity and community gathering as vital parts of generating creative and artistic visibility in towns. A varied collection of objects and commissions inspired by local knowledge and skills will be available in the space to create and inspire a programme of hosting and being hosted by artists and their communities. A dining room and cafe will focus on local circular economies, local produce and sustainable practices across food and design. This unique project allows NNCA to open fully to the public with a new business model that offers opportunities for participation, development, education and support of its community and creative-led groups and individuals.

https://nncontemporaryart.org/24-guildhall-road/giles-round/

The Library, Tenderbooks, London

Giles Round, The Library, Tenderbooks, London

Opening: Tuesday 11 October, 6-8pm

The Library is a series of watercolour works on paper depicting the front covers of books by queer artists and writers.

The works cover a rich frame of reference from Virginia Woolf, Constance Spry, Truman Capote and James Baldwin; to Juliet Jacques, Annie Leibovitz and Etel Adnan. Round's selection follows no overarching principle or criteria - some are personal favourites, others recommendations, often they are visually interesting or appealing to paint - all are significant. They are at once a visual reading list, a celebration, and a homage to queer history. This series, begun during the tiered restrictions of 2020, is open-ended and ongoing. The Library is open.

Until 29 October
Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6pm
Tenderbooks 6 Cecil Court London WC2N 4HE
https://tenderbooks.co.uk

Exhibtion Text by Amelia Abraham, 2022
PDF

Supported by Arts Council England

Back to Earth, Serpentine Galleries, London

Back to Earth, Serpentine North Gallery, London

Exhibition Artists: Agnes Denes, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Brian Eno, Carolina Caycedo, Cooking Sections, Dineo Seshee Bopape and Katy'taya Catitu Tayassu, Formafantasma, Giles Round, Karrabing Film Collective, Sissel Tolaas, Superflux and Studio Ghazaal Vojdani, Tabita Rezaire/AMAKABA and Yussef Agbo-Ola/OLANIYI STUDIO.

Posters by: Adham Faramawy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Asad Raza, Ben Frost, Black Quantum Futurism, Bones Tan Jones, Cooking Sections, David Adjaye, Es Devlin, Etel Adnan, Gabriela Hearst, Himali Singh Soin, Hyphen-Labs X Allison Akootchook Warden, Jacob V Joyce and Rudy Loewe, James Bridle, Kate Raworth and Ruurd Priester, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Koo Jeong-A, London Fieldworks and Gustav Metzger, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Manthia Diawara, Marina Abramović, Martino Gamper, Newton Harrison, Parag Khanna, Pedro Reyes, Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal, Raymond Pettibon, Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Seba Calfuqueo, Torkwase Dyson.

Back to Earth is and has been curated and produced by Eva Speight, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Holly Shuttleworth, Jo Paton, Kostas Stasinopoulos, Lucia Pietroiusti, Rebecca Lewin and Sarah Hamed.

22 June - 18 September 2022

Serpentine North Gallery
West Carriage Drive
London W2 2AR

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/back-to-earth-exhibition/

Persones Persons, Biennale Gherdëina ∞, Val Gardena, Dolomites

Persones Persons

Biennale Gherdëina ∞
20.05–25.09.2022
Val Gardena, Dolomites

Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti & Filipa Ramos

Artists list: Etel Adnan, Chiara Camoni, Alex Cecchetti, Gabriel Chaile, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Jimmie Durham, Simone Fattal, Barbara Gamper, Kyriaki Goni, Judith Hopf, Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), Ignota, Karrabing Film Collective, Lina Lapelyte, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Eduardo Navarro, Angelo Plessas, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Tabita Rezaire, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Giles Round, Thaddäus Salcher, Martina Steckholzer, Ana Vaz & Nuno da Luz, Bruno Walpoth

https://www.biennalegherdeina.it

91 days of clear blue skies

91 days of clear blue skies
Giles Round, Quench, Margate
24 October - 20 November 2021

Opening: Saturday 23 October 2021 3-8pm

Friday to Sunday 12-6pm
or by appointment

QUENCH
Viking House
Cliftonville Avenue
Margate
CT9 2AH

https://www.quenchgallery.co.uk/current-exhibitions/91daysofclearblueskies

and after: a summer, of yes, more love. 1994

and after: a summer, of yes, more love. 1994
Giles Round, Art at Tillingham
3 July 2021 - January 2022


Tillingham
Dew Farm
Dew Lane
Peasmarsh
East Sussex
TN31 6XD

https://tillingham.com

COVERS OF BOOKS available from Tenderbooks

a, A Novel, Giles Round, 2021
Watercolour & pencil on cotton paper
Titled, dated and signed on reverse in pencil
260 x 180 mm

With shows and projects postponed due to the pandemic and without access to a studio, Round spent successive lockdowns confined to working from home. Days were, to the most part, occupied with designing and constructing a self-build studio after Walter Segal. Evenings spent listening to podcasts, making works on paper. These works, usually pencil and watercolour on paper, depict both the artist’s immediate surroundings - the house and garden, and the world elsewhere - through time and space, via screenshots and found images. Varying in abstraction and subject, the series include still-life interiors, groundworks for the self-build studio, flower arrangements from the Ikenobo scroll, houses and studios of queer artists and snapshots by Felix Gonzáles-Torres. This series, open-ended and ongoing, is dedicated to covers of books by queer artists and writers. The library is open.

Tenderbooks
6 Cecil Court
London, WC2N 4HE

https://tenderbooks.co.uk

Drawing Biennial 2021

Drawing Biennial 2021
Exhibition: 21 May – 5 July
Auction: 21 June – 5 July

Drawing Room
1-27 Rodney Place
London SE17 1PP

https://biennial.drawingroom.org.uk/

The Hepworth Wakefield ONLINE Print Fair

The Hepworth Wakefield ONLINE Print Fair
12 – 28 March 2021



ONLINE: https://hepworthwakefield.org/
SHOP: https://gilesround.co.uk/limboparadiso/

EDITIONS: Untitled, circa 1994 editions available from ATELIER CCA
https://brightoncca.art/shop/

RUG:
Logotype 1: LEB, 2020
100% New Zealand wool
2400 × 1926 mm

RUG: Continuos Pattern: LEB, 2020
100% New Zealand wool
2400 × 1800 mm

RUG: 1975, more or less, 2020
100% New Zealand wool
2400 × 1800 mm