#136 OUTPOST Members' Show 2017
10 November - 17 December
OUTPOST Members' Show 2017 selected by Andy Holden
Adam King | Adrienne Cameron | Alex Crocker | Alex McNamee | Alice Lee | Alistair Levy | Amanda Edgcombe | Amir Chasson | Amy Dickson | Andy Jackson | Andy Parker| Ann-Marie James | Anna Gonzales Noguchi | Ben Bell | Ben Edmunds | Ben McDonnell | Berry Patten | Bev Broadhead | Carl Rowe | Chris Alton | Claire Davies | Craig Barber | Desmond Brett | Fanny Aboulker | Fernando León-Guiu | Grant Bingham | Gudrun Filipska | Hazel Brill | Hedvig Berglind | Henry Driver | Henry Jackson Newcomb | IndustrialMax Building Supplies | Irene Perez Hernandez | Isobel Wohl | Izzy McEvoy | Jakob Rowlinson | James Epps | James Fuller | James Lomax | James Snelling | Jamie Lobb | Jammie Nicholas | Jane Walker | Jennet Thomas | Jennifer Campbell | Jeremy Hutchinson | Jill McKnight | Jo Addison | Joe Carter | Jonathan O’Dwyer | Kaavous Clayton | Katie Turnbull | Katrin Hanusch | Kian Edalat | Kieran Western | Laura Bygrave | Luke McCreadie | Magnus Ayers | Mark Scott-Wood | Marta Bermejo | Mathew Parkin | Matthew Richardson | Matthew Verdon | Michael James Lewis | Mildred Rambaud | Murray Anderson | Olivia Rose Punnett | Oscar Laughridge | Ottilie Rounce | Paul Bryan | Paul Levy | Philip Speakman | Reactor | Rhys Coren | Rob Lye | Robert Orr | Sam Williams | Sarah Caputo | Sarah Horton | Sarah Longworth-West | Scott Robertson | Seungjo Jeong | Shaan Syed | Sophie Marritt | Stephanie Douet | Steve Baker | Susie Green | Townley and Bradby | Tyler Mallison | William Black | Will Peck | Zanis Mivreniks
On the way back from Norwich I stopped to rest in a lay-by and Joseph Beuys came to me in a dream and said Andy I think you have to include everyone.
Dear Members of Outpost,
I arrived tried and slightly broken in Norwich to attempt to ‘curate’ the 2017 members exhibition. I have to say when confronted with the piles of submissions I was overwhelmed and more than daunted. I know quite a lot of you from round and about, I like a lot of the work, many of you know that. But I can’t really make a judgement on what’s good, or even if that is what I’m meant to do. Or just make a show from the hundreds of works and try not to think about the quality judgment this implies. I’ve been wrestling a lot with what it’s like to make a judgement, how to say if something works, and how judgments end up propelling images, and the responsibility that comes with that. Not that I want to shirk that responsibility. I wouldn’t have said yes to this if hadn’t understood I was being asked to make a value judgment of some kind.
Anyway I think I’d like to include everyone. The way I think I can do this is to make a kind of cartoon gallery; include everyones work, but through the images, films and sounds you submitted. These will be projected into the cartoon world, and cartoon me will be there too, as a cartoon of a curator, making arrangements, displays, and walking through your installation shots. I maybe can’t make anything that I’m not somehow in. It’s my way of understanding things, getting into the images. Make of that what you will, I will understand if you judge that harshly.
I like it that everyone who’s a member of Outpost will all be in a show together for the first time, in unlikely configurations admittedly, maybe imperfectly, but I’ll try and put it together in a way that felt true to my experience of roaming through the submissions, sat on the computer in the Outpost office, overwhelmed, daunted, but also ultimately as an uplifting, idealistic experiment.
I hope this is ok with you all? If not just say and you can be included out. But otherwise, if you are okay with this, your work will be in the exhibition, via the images you submitted, in one form or another, if you are happy to trust me with a little licence, a few liberties.
Your, awkwardly, apologetically, but optimistically.
Andy
