Visual Poetry Art Residencies take over Notting Hill’s Bouda Gallery with two separate exhibitions.
Czech Centre’s Bouda Gallery, situated on the side of the former Notting Hill Books, lends its space to its first Summer Artistic Residency, hosting two different visual poetry exhibitions by British-based poets, writers, and performers. The project aims to follow up on the tradition of the beloved former book shop to provide a save and formative space for the local artistic community.
POET PEASANT: AN EXHIBITION BY SJ FOWLER
The residency starts on 11 July with Poet Peasant, the 8th solo exhibition by London-based poet, writer and performer SJ Fowler whose work has been commissioned by many world-class institutions including The National Gallery, Tate Britain and Southbank Centre, and showed around the world from the V&A to Palais De Tokyo. Spawning from fifteen years of Steven’s rabid activity, Poet Peasant showcases the breadth of visual and conceptual poetry with curious text and literary sculptures drawn from previously unseen works, selected asemic writing and poetic props of performances across the globe.
Open to the public 12 noon – 5 pm every Wednesday to Saturday 16th July – 2nd August.
Accompanying events: July 24th July 26th, July 31st, August 2nd. All 7pm - 9pm.
THE SUN CAN BE: AN IPLA COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION
Throughout August, the gallery will host works by four young British-based poets operating in the fields of visual poetry, experimental textual poetry, text art, and the asemic. Raging from multimedia poetry, self-portraiture and 3D poetry to typewriter art, lino print, and a prose-puzzle poem series exhibiting material, The Sun Can Be by IPLA Collective offers unconventional and diversified aesthetics that redefine traditional poetry.
Open to the public 12 noon – 5 pm every Wednesday to Saturday 9th August – 5th September.
Accompanying events: August 9th, 14th, 16th, 21st, 23rd, 28th, 30th. All 7pm - 9pm.