rory pilgrim

Stap binnen in ‘An Impossible Sound’ 🚘💫 de immersieve tentoonstelling van Rory Pilgrim waarin Vleeshal transformeert door middel van zang, tekeningen en installaties. Twee auto’s vormen het vertrekpunt voor een gelaagde luisterervaring met stemmen van jongeren van het Isle of Portland (VK), te midden van muziek, verhalen en reflectie. Bezoek de tentoonstelling en beleef op 23 mei een bijzonder live concert midden in de installatie. 🎫Tickets via de link in bio✨ Tentoonstellingsbeelden van ‘An Impossible Sound’ van Rory Pilgrim bij Vleeshal 📷 Sander van Wettum @sandervanwettum - Step into ‘An Impossible Sound’ 🚘 💫 Rory Pilgrim’s immersive exhibition transforming Vleeshal through sound, song, drawing and installation. Two cars, unfolding audio journeys, voices of young people from the Isle of Portland (UK), and a space filled with music, stories and reflection. Come experience the exhibition and join us on 23 May for a special live concert performance inside the installation. 🎫Tickets via link in bio!✨ Installation views of ‘An Impossible Sound’ by Rory Pilgrim at Vleeshal 📷 Sander van Wettum @sandervanwettum

Curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé at MADA Gallery, ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ moves between scale and proximity. Dense surfaces absorb you, then smaller gestures interrupt: a plant, a bag, a voice — forming an unstable system of conditions. Climate catastrophe underpins the exhibition alongside a quieter question: how life continues within damage. Paintings by Susan Norrie rise vertically, almost bodily. First they read as fields; but up close they fracture — pitted, porous, textured with formations resembling coral, growth, infection. Joshua Petherick’s ‘Condolence’ sculptures rupture the gallery itself. Massive screw-like forms force through the wall, cracking plaster, asserting weight and intrusion. They sit between tool and weapon — extraction made spatial, immediate. Polly Boland’s portrait of ‘Sir Robert May, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government’ presents him against patterned red, holding a stuffed thylacine. Extinction is held calmly, framed as object. Science appears not as solution, but as witness — or something arriving too late. Rory Pilgrim’s red and blue plastic bags, ‘Tomorrow in your hands’ and ‘Government lover’, lie on the ground. Their language gestures toward governance and control, but the material undercuts it — disposable, thin. In ‘Time Is the Fire in Which We Burn’ by Dani Marti, a man speaks from a bed, his face close enough to become a landscape — mouth, eyes, lines of age. Intimacy becomes attention rather than resolution. Wendy Hubert’s paintings assert continuity through colour and gesture: open yet grounded, a figure tending to a horse, land extending beyond the frame. Above and around, ‘Blue Marble’ by Holly Childs and Gediminas Žygus disperses a voice through the space — fragmented, searching. Strawberry and blueberry plants climb the wall in increments, each pot spaced like data points. Looking up at the ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ photocopy shifts the body too — neck craned, perspective altered. Hope is assembled and held in the friction between extraction and care, knowledge and loss, isolation and relation ✩ @mada_fine_art #luminosa #luminosaartsscene #madagallery

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW🪉Join us on Saturday May 23 for ‘An Impossible Sound’, a live concert by Rory Pilgrim at Vleeshal 💚🩷 with Robyn Haddon, Chloe Peplow, Ellia Webb & Vocaal Ensemble Cantare In connection with Rory Pilgrim’s long-term work on the isolated Isle of Portland (UK), this performance opens a dialogue with young people in Zeeland, where similar social and geographic conditions resonate. The concert combines live renditions of songs from Rory Pilgrim’s forthcoming film ‘pink & green’, performed by Pilgrim on harp with long-term collaborator Robyn Haddon, alongside the Zeeland-based choir Vocaal Ensemble Cantare and local musicians. Special arrangements reimagine the film’s score for Vleeshal’s unique acoustics. A highlight of the program is the presence of two protagonists from the film, Chloe Peplow and Ellia Webb, who join as narrators and performers. These voices will activate the exhibition in real time, imagining new futures by blending film, music and storytelling. 📅 23 May 2026 🕐 4 - 5:30 PM 📍Vleeshal, Middelburg 🎟️ Tickets - via link in bio! @rainbowsofgorse @robynhaddon @chloe_.peplow @elliawebb__ @cantare_goes @_lizzie.graham_ @martha.jager

🌬️Our show this week will be exploring Radical hope as a way to live, make and create during times of uncertainty.  We will be discussing the current exhibition ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé as part of the MADA curator-in-residence program. Bella will be coming into the studio to chat with us all about the project! Also, Mio will share the work of artist Wendy Hannah whose installation work in Aotearoa had her smitten 🎐 Playing some hopeful tracks along the way too so tune into SYN90.7fm from 3-5pm this Monday🤞 Credit: 1. Rory Pilgrim, ‘Tomorrow in your hands and Government lover’, 2026 plastic bags with printed text, grass. Exhibited in ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ at MADA gallery 2. Wendy Hannah, Liberty – Herekoretanga, 2023. 3. Scott Kelly (NASA astronaut), picture of zinnia plant on the international space station, 2016.

GOOD NEWS 🚘 our exhibition has been extended! ‘An Impossible Sound’ by Rory Pilgrim will be on view through 14 June. ✨Join us May 23 for ‘An Impossible Sound’, artist Rory Pilgrim presents a special LIVE CONCERT performance at Vleeshal, blending film, music, and storytelling. Tickets via the link in bio 🎫 Before closing, join us for a special finissage on 6 June, organised by Team V, the youth program of Vleeshal. Titled “hang up, come hang”, the event responds to the exhibition while reflecting on their own experiences of being young. More info to be announced! 📷 @sandervanwettum - Goed nieuws 🚘 onze tentoonstelling is verlengd! ‘An Impossible Sound’ van Rory Pilgrim is nu te zien tot en met 14 juni. ✨Op 23 mei, als onderdeel van het publieksprogramma voor ‘An Impossible Sound’ presenteert kunstenaar Rory Pilgrim een speciaal liveconcert in de Vleeshal, waarin film, muziek en storytelling samenkomen. Tickets via de link in bio 🎫 Vlak voor de sluiting nodigen we je uit voor een bijzondere finissage op 6 juni, georganiseerd door Team V, het jongerenprogramma van Vleeshal. Onder de titel “hang up, come hang” reageert het evenement op de tentoonstelling en reflecteert het tegelijk op hun eigen ervaringen van jong zijn in regionale gebieden. Meer informatie volgt binnenkort! 📷 @sandervanwettum

🪉Join us on Saturday May 23 for ‘An Impossible Sound’, a live concert by Rory Pilgrim at Vleeshal 💚🩷 with Robyn Haddon, Chloe Peplow, Ellia Webb & Vocaal Ensemble Cantare Developed over three years on the Isle of Portland (UK), Pilgrim’s forthcoming first feature film ‘pink & green’ was created in close collaboration with young people, exploring themes of law, cycles of harm, and the possibility of renewal. In connection with the exhibition in Middelburg, this performance opens a dialogue with young people in Zeeland, where similar social and geographic conditions resonate. The concert combines live renditions of songs from 'pink & green', performed by Rory Pilgrim on harp with long-term collaborator Robyn Haddon, alongside the Zeeland-based choir Vocaal Ensemble Cantare and local musicians. Special arrangements reimagine the film’s score for Vleeshal’s unique acoustics. A highlight of the program is the presence of two protagonists from the film, Chloe Peplow and Ellia Webb, who join as narrators and performers. Together, music and youth voices activate the exhibition in real time, imagining new futures by blending film, music and storytelling. 📅 23 May 2026 🕐 4 - 5:30 PM 📍Vleeshal, Middelburg 🎟️ Tickets - via link in bio! @rainbowsofgorse @robynhaddon @chloe_.peplow @elliawebb__ @cantare_goes @_lizzie.graham_ @martha.jager

I made some work for “Inter-narratives of Hope”, curated by Bella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé at MADA Gallery (Caulfield) opening this Thursday, 16 April 6-8pm Vibes: Blue Marble, Melancholia, Artemis II, Starlink-$49/m-in-Most-Areas, Gravity 🫐🍓 Contributing artists: Wendy Hubert  Susan Norrie Dani Marti  Joshua Petherick Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus  Rory Pilgrim Polly Borland See you there🪐🛰️

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My first 100 days @nestruimte are a wrap.. ! It’s been such a warm welcome by the city, its artists, art institutes, clubs and of course the team! What made it even more special is the return to the DCR @dcr_denhaag with the opening of an exhibition curated by @philipp.gufler Philipp and I first met in 2015 when he was an artist in residence at De Ateliers. Soon after we hosted Bei Cosy at rongwrong, a queer bar, a speak easy dedicated to @cosypiero .. Ever since we’ve continued to collaborate and you can imagine the joy when I heard that Urning & Urningin curated by Philipp (upon invitation by the one and only @hesketencate and with all the support of @eva_burgering ) would be the first exhibition I got to open. It has been wonderful seeing all the artists come together @louwrienwijers @rainbowsofgorse @sharanbala @cosypiero @elielielihill @caconrad88 and @sophieserber to honour the legacy of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and to celebrate queer love and desire! Tomorrow is the last day already so make sure not to miss it! 📸 @gingerhorn

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hello, we made a cute catalogue ~ biggest thanks to audrey jo pfister for their essay, dennis grauel for his design, stray pages for the beautiful riso printing and to creative australia for the funds to produce this first of two publications ~ join us for the opening of ‘inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ next thursday 6–8pm at MADA gallery, caulfield How does hope confront the denial of the future? The ‘inter-narrative’ functions here as a navigational tool for approaching hope, a virtual idea that floats and haunts above us in the everyday of crisis. As a methodology, the inter-narrative refuses to be flattened into a single story; instead, it creates an arrangement of materially and geographically distinct experiences that act as anchors. This intentional commitment drives the formation of the many inter-narratives within this exhibition: human and non-human stories of tender dependence, visual parallels of environmental crisis, extractivism, and utopia. In a void of footholds, hope confronts the denial of the future. Whether foreclosed by climate collapse, monstrous capitalism, or the erasure of marginalised life, hope cannot be a speculative investment in a ‘later’ that may never arrive. In this exhibition, hope is active because it is foundational; it is the infrastructure of resistance that allows us to act despite the lack of a guaranteed outcome. If capitalism denies us a future, hope responds by reclaiming the integrity of the now. By disrupting system breakdown through a constellation of images, people, and symbols, we attempt to collapse the distance between art and solidarity. When we speak of building catastrophe resistance, we are speaking of the way we work together as curators and artists. This is a commitment to a ‘near horizon’ where the work is the sustenance. We offer these inter-narratives not as a promised solution, but as a disciplined methodology for navigating the everyday of crisis. Dani Marti, Holly Childs + Gediminas Žygus, Joshua Petherick, Polly Borland, Rory Pilgrim, Susan Norrie, Wendy Hubert Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé ~ MADA Curators-in-Residence

THANK YOU for being at the opening of ‘An Impossible Sound’ by Rory Pilgrim! We’ve had a blast! 🍾🥂💐 We warmly thank the artist, our team, and the many visitors who joined us last Saturday. With special thanks to guest curator @martha.jager and @vert.restaurant for a beautiful afternoon. The exhibition is on view from now until 7 June 2026! 📸 @nikolalamburov - DANK voor jullie komst naar de opening van ‘An Impossible Sound’ van Rory Pilgrim! We hebben enorm genoten! 🍾🥂💐 We bedanken de kunstenaar, ons team en de vele bezoekers die afgelopen zaterdag bij ons waren. Met speciale dank aan gastcurator @martha.jager en @vert.restaurant voor een prachtige middag. De tentoonstelling is vanaf nu te zien tot en met 7 juni 2026! 📸 @nikolalamburov