Bloomberg New Contemporaries Returns to Plymouth for 2024
28 SEP - 7 DEC 2024
Launching across three venues - KARST, The Levinsky Gallery and MIRROR - the 2024 exhibition marks 75 years of New Contemporaries. Since 1949, the annual survey has showcased emerging and early career artists from UK art schools and learning programmes. Find out more.
The exhibition features 35 artists selected, through an open call, by internationally renowned artists Liz Johnson Artur, Permindar Kaur and Amalia Pica. Presented across KARST, The Levinsky Gallery and MIRROR, this presentation marks the return of New Contemporaries to Plymouth for the first time since 1964.
Donna Howard, Executive Director of KARST says: “New Contemporaries is a great opportunity for Plymouth to showcase the city’s ambitious and dynamic contemporary art scene at a local, regional and national level. The artists in this year’s New Contemporaries focus on themes and issues that are relevant to Plymouth and society more widely and we are excited about the conversations that will emerge as audiences visit the exhibition across the three venues.”
Works on show offer a response to urgent lived concerns, interests and social realities from this generation of artists. Themes explored include mindfulness, consumerism, conviviality, environmentalism, geographical borders, and identity politics. A diverse range of mediums and approaches are featured including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, moving image and sound.
Since 1949, New Contemporaries has presented an annual exhibition of emerging and early career artists from UK art schools and learning programmes. The unique platform provides artists with an opportunity to present their work to a wider audience, alongside a programme of opportunities to support the development of their practice.
The exhibition will tour to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, where it will be on view from 15 January to 23 March 2025.
This year’s exhibiting artists are: Motunrayo Akinola, Libby Bove, Max Boyla, Molly Burrows, Fergus Carmichael, Mya Cavner and Edith Liben, Karen David, Roo Dhissou, Beverley Duckworth, Georgia Dymock, Tom Fairlamb, Farzaneh Ghadyanloo, Sara Graça, Dageong Han, Siomha Harrington, Anna Howard, Fi Isidore, Asmaa Jama and Gouled Ahmed, Laura Kazaroff, AC Larsen, Sophie Lloyd, Hazel O'Sullivan, Sun Oh, Sara Osman, Saul Pankhurst, Varshga Premarasa, Elliott Roy, Millie Shafiee, Sai Stephenson, Valentino Vannini, Joshua Whitaker, Danilo Zocatelli Cesco, and Yang Zou.
OPENING EVENT Friday 27 September, 6-8.30pm
6 - 7.30pm
MIRROR Arts University Plymouth, Tavistock Place, Plymouth, PL4 8AT
The Levinsky Gallery University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
7 - 8.30pm
KARST 22 George Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3NY
AFTERPARTY (limited spaces available)
8.30pm - 1am
Leadworks 170 Rendle Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL1 1TP
To RSVP, please click here
Image: Dear Father, it feels like leaving was necessary for me to realise that I needed to return (2024), Danilo Zocatelli Cesco.