March 2024
Delighted to have been accepted as a new member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
https://sculptors.org.uk/artists/ali-darke
March 2024 - May 2024. Draw International Artist Residence at Caylus, France.
http://www.draw-international.com
Working here for 8 weeks with Lito Apsotolakou on our joint project SLUMBER.
‘Exploring sleeping states of being, Ali Darke and Lito Apostolakou will present ongoing work and outcomes from their residencies in France and Iceland that centre on experiences of embodiment, the architecture of remembered space and the elusive processes of consciousness within the liminality of sleep, insomnia and dreams.’
January 2024, upSCALE, Project 78, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0EJ
January 27th - February 24th 2024,
Collaboration between online small scale gallery ONE-TO-TEN curator, Sharon Wylde and artist/curator Naomi Holbrook at project 78, to create an exhibition of life size works selected from ONE-TO-TEN exhibitors.
January 2024, IN OUT, Unit 2, Gerry Raffles Sq, E15 1BG
collaboration with @ hivecurates @alicebillingsconnects @universityofeastlondon @blueonthehillgallery
The group show considers the interplay between internal contemplation and external manifestation to explore the dual nature of obscure, overlooked and concealed aspects of the human experience.
December 2023, THE MUSEUM OF ROOMS GIFT SHOP, at the Safe House Gallery, Peckham, London
An exhibition in collaboration with Lito Apostolakou
October 2023, MOTHER OF ALL: A CELEBRATION OF CREATIVE RESILIENCE, at Blue on The Hill, Highgate, London
Meet the artists opening: Saturday 7th October 3-6pm
Meet the artists closing: Sunday 15th October 2-4pm
Open from 6th - 15th October
July - August 2023, AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
An exhibition of hauntingly amorphous sculptures by Ali Darke in which “echoes of trauma, loss and psychic fragmentation are viscerally expressed in materiality and form.”
June - July 2023, MOTHER’S RUIN, at 35 Blumen, Krefeld, Germany.
A group exhibition of 21 female artists, curated by Julia Maddison
April - June 2023, STATES OF EXCHANGE, at Hypha Studios, Stratford, London. Group exhibition organised by DFA Arts Exchange, curated by Jacqueline Rana, and Anne Isaksson.
May - June 2023, BOUND at the Stone Space Gallery
Private View: Thursday May 11, 18:30 - 20:00
Artist in conversation with Denise de Cordova: Saturday May 20, 16:00 - 17:00
Including performance by poet EDRE
BOUND, an exhibition of sculpture by Ali Darke, reflects on the experience of embodiment; being, having and inhabiting a body. As an archive to our lives, the porous threshold of the skin and psyche meticulously records the alchemical exchange between body, mind and environment. Unruly, and in discord with the self we might wish to escape from the entrapment of the body by flights of fancy and dissociation. Through cutting, stuffing and stitching warn blankets and linen sheets the work evolves into corporeal like forms and fragmented parts, that express these conflicts, hovering between growth and decay, beauty and abjection.
January 2023, PARALLEL FESTIVAL, Chelsea College of Arts, MFA, Artists talk in the Cookhouse Gallery.
November 2022, Memento Mori, hARTslane Gallery, Exhibition of work brought back from Passaggi Atina Residency.
November 2022, TOIL & TROUBLE: HOW WE FIND OUT WHO WE ARE, exhibition at the A.P.T. Gallery with Sue Withers and Lucy Renton.
September 2022, THE BEASTLIES selected for Wirksworth Art Festival 2022, Artist and Architecture Trail. Exhibited in the town hall.
July - September 2022, OSTEA selected for opening exhibition Common Placeat Air Gallery’s new space, MICRO
August 2022 CORPORA selected for Wells Art Contemporary 2022 - exhibition in Wells Cathedral 30 July to Sunday 28 August
August 2022 Memento Mori, Passaggi Atina, exhibition of work created during artists residency in Atina, Italy presented in the Cortile di Palazzo Ducale, Italy.
July 2022, takeover of One-to-Ten Gallery instagram @onetotengallery showing MICRO VESTIGES.
April 2022, VESTIGES, Sculpture by Ali Darke and CJ Simpson, at hARTslane Gallery, London
April 2022, FREMD BIN ICH EINGEZOGEN, selected for London Independent Film Festival
February 2022, FREMD BIN ICH EINGEZOGEN, selected for Paris Short Film Festival
November 2021, MOMENTO MORI, BEASTLY I, selected for exhibition at AIR Gallery Manchester.
August 2021, PRIVATE VIEW BLOG, instagram mini interview. @private.view.blog @ali_darke
July 2021, THE UNDERREPRESENTED, Haus A Rest, Issue 16, online exhibition.
June 2021, BETWEEN HERE AND THERE, paper presented at the Association of Psychosocial Studies online conference, Psychosocial Bodies, Essex University.
June 2021, FINE ART PROFESSIONAL DOCTORATE, final showcase exhibition, AVA Gallery, University of East London.
October 2020, THE SHOW MUST GO ON, exhibition review by Emma Roper-Evans, The Sunday Tribune.
October 2020, BETWEEN WALLS, group exhibition, co-curated with Sue Withers, The Safehouse 1 and Safehouse 2, Peckham, London.
October 2020, PINNING DOWN THE TRUTH, artist profile by Emma Roper-Evans, The Sunday Tribune
January 2020, PASSAGGIATINA, group exhibition, hARTslane Gallery, New Cross, London.
November 2019, RESEARCH SPACE, FINE ART PROFESSIONAL DOCTORATE, group exhibition, Way Out East Gallery, University of east London.
October 2019, BEYOND THE BODY, review by Jude Cowan Montegue, Artlyst.
October 2019, BEYOND THE BODY, group exhibition, The Belfry and North gallery, St John on Bethnal Green, London.
August 2019, PASSAGGIATINA 2019, artist residency, Atina, Italy.
June 2019, THE SUMMER LODGE 10, artist residency, Nottingham Trent university, Nottingham.
June 2019, EAST LONDON ARTISTS, group exhibition, Fine Art Professional Doctorate Show Case, AVA Gallery, University of East London.
June 2019, BRING TO LIGHT, group exhibition, Deptford Does Art, Deptford, London.
BRING TO LIGHT:
This exhibition of recent work by Ali Darke, Suzi Morris and Yaroslaff Soltan, reveals a shared quest by each artist to bring to light that which has previously remained hidden, un-known, or even un-thought through the creative process itself. They recognise in each other’s work the fundamental questions of absence and presence. To ‘bring something to light’ implies not only exposing a truth by an unearthing, a dredging up, or an uprooting from the depths but also the possibility of making apparent, bringing into the mind and materialising that which is intangible and resists representation, defies being and is possibly uncomfortable to behold.
Each artist, through their unique process and medium, be it paint, materiel or object attend to their preoccupations, and through the alchemical process of creation experience a transformation and discovery.
January 2019, FRAGMENTS, group exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, London.
November 2018, YAKUMO KOIZUMI (WHERE CLOUDS ARE BORN), group exhibition, special exhibit, Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece.
March 2018, THE GLIMPSES, solo exhibition, The Container Space Gallery, University of East London.
June 2017, BOW ROAD OPEN STUDIOS, artist open studios.
March 2017, ECHOES FROM THE CAVE: DIALOGUES WITH A TIME AND A PLACE, group exhibition, co-curated with carmen Aleman, The Crypt Gallery, London.
July 2016, THE SUMMER LODGE, THE WILD, artist residency, Nottingham Trent university, Nottingham.
DATES: 4 July - 15 July 2016
The Summer Lodge is an annual event where for ten days each July, the Fine Art studios and workshops of Nottingham Trent University (NTU) are transformed and play host to a gathering of thirty diverse artists. It is intended as an opportunity to think through making by being able to work for a while without many of the usual constraints and distractions. It is a collective space in which to undertake experiments, pursue new ideas and allow unexpected leaps of imagination.
June 2016, EAST LONDON ARTISTS, group exhibition, Fine Art Professional Doctorate Show Case, AVA Gallery, University of East London.
EAST LONDON ARTISTS: AVA Gallery - June 2016
May 2016, TIME AND AGAIN. joint exhibition with Richard Sharples, The Safehouse 1, Peckham, London.
March 2016, INTERIOR, group exhibition, AVA Gallery, University of East London.
October 2015, ART MASTERS, group exhibition, The Old Truman Gallery, Shoreditch, London.
July 2015, VIRUS, joint exhibition with Suzi Morris, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth Station, Wandsworth, London.
June 2015, EAST LONDON ARTISTS, group exhibition, Fine Art Professional Doctorate Show Case, AVA Gallery, University of East London.
April 2012, RESONATE, group exhibition at the Crypt Gallery, Euston, London.
