TJ Boulting - Hannah Watson

Interview with @tjboulting founder of @trolleybooks by @brynley.odu.davies I first met Hannah Watson when I was looking for a home for my first book Artists. I’d spent years photographing artists across the United Kingdom, building up a huge archive, and was searching for the right place to publish it. A gallery I was working with at the time suggested @trolleybooks I remember messaging a friend who works in the bookshop at The Photographers’ Gallery and asking, “Trolley Books?” She replied immediately: “Absolutely go with them if you can, they’re amazing.” (…) Full interview in bio 🔗 Interview and photography by @Brynley_Odu_Davies #art #books #photography

On this most auspicious of days I would like to announce that after 13 incredible years, I have closed the gates under the green and gold mosaic portal of TJ Boulting for the final time. Sending my heartfelt thanks and love to all the artists, supporters, collectors and visitors that have passed through them. Many, many wonderful times have been had, we’ve hosted some sensational exhibitions, worked with amazing artists and loved every second of it. It is with a full heart I am looking forward to the future and continuing to work with incredible artists, publishing books with @trolleybooks and curating and consulting on exhibitions. And I hope whoever lives in TJ Boulting next appreciates they have the best loo in London. Lots of love ❤️❤️❤️ 📸 2 For @elleuk Oct 2024 @noorunisa 3 With Gigi, Oct 2011 @misscarlaborel

A very exciting moment! @leemillerarchives portrait of Jill Craigie filming in Henry Moore’s studio enters the collection of @nationalportraitgallery ✨ The work was acquired from the exhibition at TJ Boulting ‘You Will Not Lunch In Charlotte Street Today’ and joins their collection of important British women. Jill was filming ‘Out Of Chaos’ which looked at how British artists were responding to the war. It will go on show in the next rehang in a special Lee Miller corner of NPG. Thanks to curators @sabinajaskotgill @clarepereira_aka_freestone and Georgia Atienza for making it happen and Lee’s granddaughter Ami Bouhassane for delivering in person and Jane Parsons from the archives for the beautiful packing 😍 (and Larry’s for the celebratory cocktail afterwards, the Yevonde is lethal)

🔥🔥🔥BIG NEWS🔥🔥🔥 Poulomi Basu has been announced as one of the BAFTA Breakthroughs for her immersive VR game, Maya: The Birth of a Superhero. 🤩🤩🤩 @poulomi07 @bafta HUGE CONGRATS!!! (and what a photo by @manuelvazquezfoto 📸) What defines a superhero? Beyond the fantasy world of masks and capes, perhaps the real-life answer is about believing in your own radical power for transformation, to accept self-love, abandon shame and form solidarities. This superpower is innovatively depicted in Poulomi Basu’s illuminating VR experience Maya: The Birth of a Superhero. This 3D hand-drawn immersive project that also uses mixed reality, blends the teenage trauma of menstruation with stories of the abhorrent practice of menstrual exile that is rife in parts of Asia, including her birthplace, India, all explored in a virtual space. Despite a difficult childhood, Poulomi, who is neurodiverse, was invigorated by Calcutta’s militant and artistic milieu, finding inspiration in the cinematic works of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Agnes Varda and written word of Arundhati Roy. After moving to the UK in 2008 and earning a scholarship to study at the London College of Communication, Poulomi started on her artistic journey as a photographic artist before moving into more immersive realms, such as her first work, Blood Speaks (2013–) 🩸🩸She is also continuing to extend the legacy of Maya by taking a toolkit into schools, civic centres and women’s health centres that focuses on the intersection of reproductive health, women’s rights, education and climate change 💥”I’m a director, filmmaker and creator that sits in this intersection between film and games. I thought Breakthrough would be a wonderful opportunity to enhance this by meeting other directors, female directors and creators… I want to make meaningful, genre-bending films and games, that push the medium forward… I also want people to know that if I can do it – someone who isn’t born and brought up [in the UK] and didn’t have many opportunities – then other people might also be inspired.” @netflix Styling (@peterbev & @clementinelucybrown ) Hair (@schwarzkopfprouk ) Makeup (@lancomeofficial )

Huge congratulations to the amazing Barry Anthony Finan, who last week was one of ten visual artists awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation @paulhamlynfoundation Award For Artists. Barry’s work was featured in the group show YESS LAD in 2022 at TJ Boulting, which presented the work of artists from the equally amazing Venture Arts @venturearts_ in Manchester with support of @amodestshow . Barry showed his incredible floor to ceiling scrolls with his text based WRRIGHHTINNGSERRSS on them, which he worked on during the private view. Barry Anthony Finan (b. 1958) is a self-taught artist born in Manchester. He has been a Venture Arts studio artist for approximately 15 years. Finan sees himself as a writer, actor and artist and produces bold, text-based visual art. The style is unique, with repetitive letters that elongate his words, which can become scripts, personal messages and hopes for the future. Through the work, the viewer is invited into Finan’s interior world, to engage with his thoughts and his fascination with particular objects and people. It is important for Finan to enact the work through readings and broadcasting. He works with a range of materials, including paper, canvas, metal, wood and ceramics, with the latter being of significant interest in recent work. Finan’s work is representative of him alone and presents a view of his life and ambitions, which exists as valuable and important snapshot of a neurodiverse narrative. It’s a huge honour and Barry received £75k to spend on whatever he chooses. Congratulations to Barry and the Venture Arts team! 🤩✨

LAST CHANCE TO SEE Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf. It really is un oeuf now so don’t miss, ends 16 November! Thank you to all the artists, galleries and lenders who have made it possible and such a joy to produce, and to everyone who has visited. (Prize for most dubious pun left in the visitor book to be announced…)🥚🥚🥚 Artists part I 1 Anna Maria Maiolino 2 Coco Capitan @cococapitan 3 Chieko Shiraishi @chieko.shiraishi 4 Olivia Sterling @oliviaster 5 Gareth Cadwallader @garethcadwallader 6 Rachel Howard @rachelhowardart 7 Piotr Bury Lakamy @piotrlakomy 8 Man Ray 9 Francesca Woodman 10 Roya Bahram @roya.bahram.art 11 Christopher Chiappa @christopherchiappa 12 Sheida Soleimani @sheidajanam 13 Tim Braden @timbradenstudio

One of the incredible new works made especially for our current group show on eggs is by Boston-based artist Danielle Fretwell. I’d seen her work at her gallery Alice Amati and asked if she would be interested in making a work for the show, and was thrilled she said yes and made this beautiful painting, which speaks to Dutch still lifes and wouldn’t feel out of place near the perennially intriguing Arnolfini Portrait in the National Gallery, but also has a contemporary message about women’s bodies which particularly resonates in today’s climate. Thank you Danielle 🖤 Mourning After, 2024. Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches Danielle writes: “In still life painting, eggs often represent fertility, birth, and creation making them particularly relevant in the context of womanhood and reproduction. The title of the work, Mourning After, is a play on the phrase “morning after,” referring to the morning-after pill—a crucial element in discussions surrounding women’s reproductive rights and autonomy. This reference invites contemplation on the societal implications of women’s rights over their bodies and the fear associated with losing the ability to choose, as well as losing access to safe healthcare. In the work, the egg motif serves as a poignant reminder of the complexities surrounding motherhood, loss, and the need for choice, speaking directly to the grim narrative of women’s rights and experiences as the US gears up for another critical election.” Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf is in view until 16 November 🖤🖤🖤 @danielle.fretwell @_aliceamati

Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf our group show on eggs is on view until 16 November. Featuring the work of over 20 artists, from a 1944 Man Ray photograph of an ostrich egg to new work by emerging artists Olivia Sterling, Nettle Grellier and Danielle Fretwell, and across all mediums painting, photography, sculpture and the remaining wall of Sarah Lucas’s performance, it’s cracking, megga, eggsellent and all the puns you can think of that I haven’t for the past six months. 🥚🥚🥚💛💛💛 Install photos by @tomcarterldn

Was honoured to be featured in @elleuk this month alongside some incredible women in the arts. It was also VERY FUN so thanks to the amazing Elle team for my fabulous fifteen minutes ❤️ and to Charlotte Jansen for choosing me and writing so beautifully about my loves TJ Boulting and @trolleybooks ❤️🛒 Words @omfgnoway Photographs @noorunisa Styling @crystallecox Features Editor @lauraantoniajordan Hair and make up @lachlan_hair Producer @theleilalife Art director @barls1 ✨

TJ Boulting is proud to announce our forthcoming group show 🥚Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf🥚Taking the egg as its starting point, it explores ideas that have inspired a myriad of artists from its mythology and symbolism to its aesthetics and form. Each artist featured, from historic to emerging, has found themselves drawn in some way to the potential of the egg, and expressed it across a variety of mediums, from painting to sculpture, photography and performance. Private View Thursday 10 October 6-8pm The main centrepiece, that will open the show, is by renowned British artist Sarah Lucas, who has featured the egg several times in her work over the years, notably real fried eggs in her sculpture and photographic self-portraits. Here she will present her performance ‘1000 Eggs: For Women’ which will see women, those who identify as women and men dressed as women, invited to come to the gallery, on Tuesday 8 October 13.00 – 16.00, to throw 1000 eggs against the gallery wall to create a giant abstract painting. The egg throwing work has multiple references, incorporating performance, action painting and protest. It alludes to both egg as the traditional medium of painting, via egg tempera, as well as the symbol of women’s fertility and reproduction, and the throwing of eggs by women as a protest against the control of women bodies, both socially and politically. The yellow colour of the yolk has featured prominently in Lucas’s work, and was the key shade for her Venice Biennale British Pavilion in 2015. ‘1000 eggs : For Women’ has previously happened at New Museum (New York), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Red Brick Art Museum (Beijing) and Kurimanzutto (Mexico City), and this will be the first time it has been done in London. LINK IN BIO TO SIGN UP 🥚🥚🥚 The eggs sourced are pullet eggs, from younger hens, which are perfect yellow yolks but smaller in size and usually rejected by supermarkets due to their size and only used for egg liquid or powder. Thanks to @fenton.poultry and @dalstoneggshop for your help in sourcing and supplying these eggs Image courtesy @redbrickartmuseum Beijing and @sadiecoleshq

Excited to be taking part in Frieze Sculpture 18 September - 27 October 2024 @friezeofficial with a solo presentation of three works by Juliana Cerqueira Leite @julianacerqueiraleite Shovel, Button and Sand, are taken from her series entitled Repetitive Movements that Make and Unmake the World. This series includes drawings and sculptures that focus on commonplace repetitive movements - digging with a shovel, buttoning of trousers and sanding a wall. The artist turns these movement sequences into precise choreographies which are first captured in line drawings that suggest anatomical structures. The sculptures then return the movements to three-dimensionality, bending stainless steel bars to follow each movement’s contours. Sections where lines intersect and enclose space visually, are ‘filled in’ with pigmented material, reinforcing the sense of time and the shifting presence of a body in motion. The much-celebrated public art initiative coincides with Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which take place concurrently in The Regent’s Park, 9 - 13 October. Curated by @fatosustek Fatoş Üstek, Frieze Sculpture has expanded for its 12th edition to include 22 leading international artists hailing from five continents, whose work will be sited throughout the park’s historic English Gardens until 27 October. Many thanks to Fatoş for selecting Juliana for this edition!

TJ Boulting is proud to be part of the Gallery Circle for Hospital Rooms @_hospitalrooms and support their current fundraising auction in partnership with Hauser & Wirth @hauserwirth and Bonhams @bonhams1793 with the goal of raising £1 million for their work in mental health hospitals. Three artists - Maisie Cousins, HelenA Pritchard and Boo Saville - have donated work for the auction, which is on show as part of the exhibition Digital Art Rooms, at Hauser & Wirth in London from today until 10 September. Boo Saville’s work will be part of the Gala Auction in collaboration with Bonhams, live at the gallery on 11 September, with Maisie Cousins and HelenA Pritchard as part of the Online Auction, 22 August - 12 September. @boosaville @maisiecousins @helena_pritchard_ Link in bio to view Hospital Rooms auctions 👉