Invitation to Commune in Mecklenburgh Square, London

Join us for Group Portrait With Garden

Featuring works by:

Perienne Christian, Barbara Einzig, Benedict Ernst and Helen Morse Palmer, David George, Alison Gill, Clair Joy, Florian Roithmayer, Karin Ruggaber and Anne Ryan, Clare Stent, Suzanne Treister

SEPTEMBER 6 – 9, 2018     12:00 – 6:00 

P.V. SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER   4:00 – 6:00

READING by BARBARA EINZIG 5:00 each day.

 Mecklenburgh Square, WC1

Alison Gill: Regenerator (Utopia n)  Sculpture Performing Tumbleweeds-Out-of-Place

Tumbleweed thrives on an ecology of less, in environments where humans need more from elsewhere.  Think of tumbleweed and it conjures up images of Western films after the gold rush, deserts and desolate locations, tragic-comic emptiness and the silence of ghosting. Tumbleweed, in visual media, often appears where everything else has gone; the place is wiped out (i.e. nothing left but tumbleweed).

Tumbleweed, an adaptation for survival. Uprooting, rolling, free-forming and seekers of abandonment. A developer’s loss could be tumbleweeds gain. As our climate changes could they arrive in a place near you? Uncontrollable and ancient, the future looks bright for these wind-witch revolutionaries…