Rosalind is the most informed artist and curator around. Intellectually stimulating and well thought through she curates the smartest, and most intelligent and thought -provoking exhibitions shows of new and emergent art in London of such a consistently high standard. Her exposition and catalogue notes are both engaging and informative - and always written in an intelligible manner. Brilliant…
Graham Crowley, Painter, Writer, Curator.
Davis has curated over 30 exhibitions to date and recently curated with Laura Hudson, an ambitious group show at Arthouse Jersey in 2023, exhibiting 23 acclaimed international artists. Following that was a stand with H-M-S at Platforms, an independent art fair in Athens. In 2023 she also delivered a Curatorial Residency for UK New Artists. Davis was the Curator at Collyer Bristow Gallery in London 2016 -20. Previous curatorial projects have been with Thorp Stavri, Standpoint Gallery, Arthouse1 and Geddes Gallery. Davis co-directed Zeitgeist Arts Projects (2012-15) and Core Gallery 2010-12. In both organizations she ran a number of curatorial projects, an artist’s education programme as well as tutorials and art tours.
No Place Like Home
PV 5 September 5:30-7:30pm (all welcome).
Wednesday 6 September to Sunday 15 October 2023
At ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House + unexpected locations around the Island
Capital House, 8 Church St., St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK.
Tuesday to Sunday 10:30am - 6pm. Closed Mondays
ArtHouse Jersey presents No Place Like Home, an ambitious multi-disciplinary exhibition that reaches beyond the gallery to locations around Jersey. For this exhibition twenty-three artists build a rich narrative that delves into personal stories, global issues, childhood memories, and speculative worlds as well as the bleak realities of the current housing market to look at a broader concept of home and what it might mean today.
Curated by Rosalind Davis and Laura Hudson. Home may be a sanctuary or a place of danger, it might be stable or temporary, intimate or shared, rooted for generations or a refuge in times of need. Home might be a person, place or planet, a community to which we belong or contested land no longer available to us. We may all yearn for a Home, but homes are full of histories, meanings and tensions; charged with political, social and economic realities they are subject to both external forces and internal dramas. ‘Home’ means something important and different to each one of us.
For this exhibition ArtHouse Jersey has commissioned new work by Ana Čvorović (Bosnia/UK), Sasha Bowles (UK), Justin Hibbs (UK), Will Romeril (Jersey), Lindsay Rutter (Jersey) and Lisa Traxler (Isle of Wight/UK).
Alongside the commissions the curators have selected existing work by artists who resonate with the broad ranging themes of No Place Like Home including: Jananne al-Ani (Iraq/UK), Rachel Ara (Jersey), Jackie Berridge (UK), George Bolster (Ire/USA), Peter Jones (UK), Daria Koltsova (Ukraine/UK), Peter Liversidge (UK), Harriet Mena Hill (UK), Kate Murdoch (UK), Ravelle Pillay (South Africa), Saba Qizilbash (Pakistan/UAE), Martha Rostler (USA), Judith Tucker (UK), Joanna Whittle (UK), Eddie Wong (Malaysia/NZ) and Andrea V Wright (UK).
There is also a programme of talks and events throughout the show. See more here
About ArtHouse Jersey
ArtHouse Jersey is a charitable arts organisation that serves the Island community and wider audiences by supporting artists from Jersey and across the world to create and present ambitious work. ArtHouse Jersey manages studios, provides residency opportunities, offers development grants and provides spaces for developing new work. ArtHouse Jersey runs an exhibition space at Capital House in St. Helier and two salons for live events and pop up shows at their HQ, Greve de Lecq Barracks, as well as working with schools and local communities to deliver education and outreach programmes throughout the year.
Website:www.arthousejersey.je Insta:@Arthousejersey
Image created by Rachel Ara and Laura Hudson.
2021. A new curatorial opportunity with Thorp Stavri.
SEE MORE HERE ON THE CURATORIAL PROJECTS PAGE
Closure of the Collyer Bristow Gallery. Curator Rosalind Davis Retrospective Video
Davis was the Curator at Collyer Bristow Gallery in Bedford Row 2016 -20.
Collyer Bristow remains a passionate supporter of the arts and, over the past 30 years, the firm has become well-known for the distinctive contemporary art exhibited within its offices.
The pandemic has sadly put an indefinite hiatus on our gallery programme and, since the firm has moved to an interim office (ahead of relocating to a long-term home), we will now look to support the arts in new ways until our gallery can be reimagined in a future location. As a result of these circumstances Rosalind Davis will be leaving her role as curator of the Collyer Bristow gallery.
We thank Rosalind for her four years of dedicated curation, transforming the gallery space time-after-time with thought-provoking and imaginative works from emerging artists. She is a truly talented curator and artist who, through her ambitious and creative exhibitions and commitment to championing the gallery and its artists, has created a lasting legacy at Collyer Bristow. We hope to have the opportunity to work with her again in the future and we wish her well in her next exciting ventures. We are having an ongoing conversation with Rosalind about possible future projects with Collyer Bristow.
Steven Heffer, Head of Gallery Committee, Collyer Bristow
Curating generally 3 shows per year there including a graduate award exhibition every 18 months to support new career artists working with top London Art Schools. Davis’ first exhibition with Collyer Bristow Gallery was; Complicity. Artifice and Illusion and reviewed by Art Top 10; ‘Cracking Show. Superb Artists. Brilliantly curated.’ Artworks sold in that show amounted to over £22,000; a number of works were purchased by a major LA collector as well as clients and staff of the firm. The first sales in over 7 years. Davis went onto sell works at every exhibition building up a database of collectors and encouraging people to make their first purchase of artwork and to become new collectors.
Exhibitions continued to be consistently reviewed or covered by Art Top 10 and have also been included in The Times, City Magazine, The Londonist’s top 7 exhibitions in London, Paul Carey-Kents Artworld and DateagleArt blogs. Since her appointment at the gallery she has co-hosted a number of events as well as private art tours for Arts Organisations, Professionals; for the Fine Art Group, The Mall Galleries and Young Professionals in the Arts as well as tours for Barry Schwabsky, the Smithsonian, the Contemporary Art Society and the Government Art Collection, other commercial galleries, curators, collectors, writers, consultants, interior designers, artists , teachers, students et al She achieved record breaking audience figures for many of the exhibitions too.
Davis has also led engaging art tours for the ICA (London and Boston), South London Art Map and the Whitechapel Gallery and contributed to BBC4’s Film ‘Tales of Winter. The Art of Snow and Ice.’ As a Consultant Davis has worked for arts organisations, charities and independants as well as corporations such as BBC4 and E4.
You can read an insight into Rosalind’s Curating for an article she wrote for Delphian Gallery here and hear more on her Podcasts here
If you would like to know more about any of the exhibitions Rosalind has curated there are online catalogues including press releases, curator interviews, press and much more on the exhibition pages in this section in chronological order.
ARTS Advisory. If you would like some help with starting or expanding your own art collection do get in touch. Rosalind has worked with thousands of artists and help you find a special piece/s based on your passions and tastes.
