The first viewing room on Greg Rook Advisory launched earlier this month with the work of Clyde Hopkins.
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My interest is in helping create and share NFTs made by contemporary artists that are as much a part of their practice as anything else they create. I’m focused on just those NFTs that are made by pioneering contemporary artists - those who are exploring and really excited by the possibilities of the new media, new platform and new audience.
Ansel Krut and Jem Finer on SuperRare
At 6pm on the 7th October, 2021, on the SuperRare NFT platform, Ansel Krut’s animation, Profile with Pipe, with music by Jem Finer, will go to auction. Following his celebrated 1000 year composition, Longplayer, Jem Finer has composed a 10 second piece of music for Ansel Krut’s animation. This is a unique collaboration between two beautifully idiosyncratic creative forces.
Show launch at 6pm, 9th September
Traditional ways of seeing are based on geometric perspective - shared by human vision, painting and film. New technologies have collapsed these physical distances and so uprooted the familiar patterns of perception on which our culture and politics have been grounded. The distinctions between near and far, between an object and a horizon against which the object stands out have been erased by the real-time electronic transmission of information. If information from any point can be transmitted with the same speed, the concepts of near and far, horizon, distance and space itself no longer have any meaning.
From can see to can't see
We might feel that we can grasp the majesty of the pyramids, the beauty of a far-flung wilderness, or the haunting atmosphere of an interior, but, if experienced through a screen, our understanding is distorted. In this second SuperRare exhibition with GRA, the artists consider natural and man-made environments, interior and exterior landscapes, and investigate the possibilities and distortions of the new technologies on our ways of understanding the world around us. They consider the magical possibilities of the digital realm as a positive companion to ‘real’ experience. They explore what it is to experience and be confused by it.
Marilyn, Clyde, Mali and Turps
I would always recommend Turps Painting Magazine, but issue 24, just published, is of particular significance. Within, Mali Morris interviews Marilyn Hallam about her life with Clyde Hopkins. This atmospheric piece is both redolent of the recent past and yet also offers an insight into a world which is superbly contemporary - reminding us of painterly concerns that are continuously relevant. It is wonderful to see their work recognised and discussed.
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A curated NFT exhibition on SuperRare
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From July, Greg Rook Advisory will be curating a series of group exhibitions on SuperRare - the most credible of NFT platforms. Please follow @greg_rook and @gregrookadvisory on Instagram and @gregcorbeau on Twitter for updates on these drops. In the coming months there will also be further collaborations with rights consortiums and first class Contemporary Collections.
Rachael House - Resistance Sustenance Protection
2021, Giclee print on Archival paper, Edition of 25, 25 x 25cm
Throughout lock down, as we were dealing with isolation and the extraordinary new circumstances, Rachael House was documenting her thoughts through almost daily drawings that she published on Instagram.
Launching on Friday 28th May is a book of those drawings - Resistance Sustenance Protection.
Resistance Sustenance Protection is a year of drawings - a pandemic record, an archive and a call for change.It reflects on the political and personal of the pandemic, locally and globally, addressing queer issues, mental health, daily walks and raging about government.
To coincide with the launch, Rachael and I have published 12 of those drawings as limited edition prints. 20% of the cost of each print will be donated to the Alzheimers Society, and the remaining 80% of one particular drawing, the viral ‘Wash your hands’, will be donated to The Good Law Project.
Wash your hands, Giclee print on Archival paper, Edition of 25, 25 x 25cm
“In April 2020, House posted a comic strip reading ‘However thoroughly you wash your hands, if you voted for this government – they will never be clean’ (9 April 2020, p.x). Each window of the four-square grid features a close-up of hands, washing. While the first three drawings refer to the government’s illustrated handwashing guidelines, the blemished palm in the final square refers to Lady Macbeth, the Shakespearean character whose ambition leads her to murder. Despite getting what she wants, she is ultimately driven to psychosis, unable to escape the vision of her bloodied hands. House’s drawing summed up our collective rage. It was shared by thousands.”
Rosie Cooper, Head of Exhibitions, De Le Warr Pavilion
Gaslight the nation, Giclee print on Archival paper, Edition of 25, 25 x 25cm
“Rachael House is part of a transtemporal, feminist family of artists and makers whose work is a form of resistance. She revels in the space between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, making use of performance, comic strips and ceramics to address themes such as queerness, ageing, mental health and gender-based discrimination. Presented in galleries and museums, House’s art can also be found in places where it can get things done: in parks, nightclubs and in the streets…
Rachael House gives us space to think, feel, and act. Her work is an affirmation that being political can be fun, that anger must be a force for change, that we cannot do without solidarity, ever, and that by sharing experiences we might be able to free ourselves from the toxicity of shame and find compassion for ourselves and for those around us. And she reminds us that, whatever happens, we must smash the patriarchy.”
Rosie Cooper, Head of Exhibitions, De Le Warr Pavilion
Bottle tree, Giclee print on Archival paper, Edition of 25, 25 x 25cm