Fri, 22 Mar
|The Ancient Priors
Finding Place - Contemporary Art Exhibition
Time & Location
22 Mar 2024, 16:00 – 24 Mar 2024, 16:00
The Ancient Priors, 49 High St, Crawley RH10 1BW
About the event
22/03/24 Private View - 4pm - 7pm.
23/03/23 Open 10am - 5pm.
24/03/24 Open 11am - 4pm.
FREE to attend.
Finding Place is an ambitious contemporary art exhibition featuring local, national, and international artists, celebrating a cultural renaissance in Crawley while complementing the history of the Ancient Priors' buildings.
We invite you to share in this experience and to interact with our workshops, talks, and diverse, exciting artworks in various artistic mediums to form a meaningful dialogue on how we want to experience art and culture locally and explore concepts of how we find our place in the world.
This exhibition will highlight how we need art to connect to ourselves, others, and the world. It is a bridge that links the seen and unseen, the said and unsaid, the felt and the unfelt. Art, in its many forms, is not just an accessory to life; it's a fundamental aspect of what makes us human, helping us to create, share, and understand the complex tapestry of human experience.
Finding Place 2024 follows the massive success of the Manufactured Body Exhibition at the Ancient Priors in 2023; we are delighted to invite back artist and Curator Alison Dollery, alongside Curator Sophie Nowakowska.
The exhibition is supported by Pop Up Culture Crawley, an organisation renowned for its innovative approaches to cultural engagement.
About Curators
Alison Dollery, a visual artist and curator of the Manufactured Body Project, explores her body as the canvas and the materiality of her work, expanding her practices of drawing, painting, performance art, and writing. Alison holds a BA (Hons) in fine arts from the UCA and is currently studying for her MFA in arts and humanities at the Royal College of Art. She has exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Tate, OXO Tower London and New York Times Square.
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Sophie Nowakowska is a independent curator whose expertise shines in her ability to create engaging exhibitions in unconventional spaces, shared with a wider audience through her Instagram. Her professional experience spans various roles, including evaluating socially engaged artworks, leading marketing strategies, and managing artist studios. She graduated BA (Hons) Fine Art at the Cambridge School of Art and MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art.
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