HS Projects: Capital Movement

In spring 2007 I was commissioned to curate an exhibition for a number of corporate buildings in the city.
The resulting project was a 12 week course engaging a group of ex-homeless artists. Asking the artists to
re-approach their practices from new perspectives, they were taken on a series of tours around London
with professional artists and photographers. The following brief and exhibition was delivered.

London’s homeless community are perhaps the capitals most fl uid inhabitants, interacting with
communities and institutions often at polar ends of the social spectrum. The artists based at Providence
Row example this fact in their practice of art. This project explores the infl uences that fuel their artistic
practice. The people, the places, and the events that have shaped their opinion and experience of life in the
Capital now become the focus. Many of the artists work within traditional mediums such as drawing and
painting, combining them with contemporary concepts such as installation. This project requires them to
abandon the safety of their practices, in an attempt to understand what drives their subject and interest as
artists. Using photography as the instrument for an outsider eye, there was a frenzied surge of city spaces,
portraits, and wild life in suburbia. This was then returned back into the fold of their practice. The result
was a series of photographs, considered and refl ective of both the artist and the art that they make.