July is back with fresh First Thursdays picks, so don’t miss tonight’s highlights! The walking route will be approximately one hour and fifteen minutes long and comprise three galleries.
The first stop will be at Gallery 46 for Clutching At Ornaments. The exhibition brings together the work of three photographers, Celia Croft, Jesse Glazzard and Finnegan Travers. The show delves into each of the photographers personal worlds. In a diary like state, it follows a journey through intimacy, touch and spaces in-between. All photographs are handprinted, and much of it has not been seen before.
Later, the walking route will head to Beers London for Found On The Way by Beto Fame. Between the cities of Rio de Janeiro and London, Beto Fame’s painting unfolds as a walk without a map — guided by chance, active listening, sensitive gaze and a sustained visual enquiry. Rather than anchoring his practice in fixed styles or formulas, his pictorial language embraces movement: references, affections, atmospheres, and rhythms that permeate his urban and personal experience. The elements that compose the paintings in this exhibition appear to have been gathered over time — like flashes of memory intertwined with visual and affective impressions.
The final stop will be at Autograph for Dianne Minnicucci‘s exhibition Belonging and Beyond. In our culture preoccupied with outward appearances, Dianne Minnicucci explores how vulnerability and discomfort in front of the camera can become acts of self-discovery and collaboration. She embraces the unease of being photographed – where to look, how to position the body – allowing these moments of uncertainty to shape this new series of portraits of herself and her young son. Set within the ancient woodland of Abbey Wood in South London, Minnicucci’s poetic black-and-white images foreground her roles as artist, mother and teacher. Layers of light and fragmentation draw attention to subtle shifts in body language, inviting us to consider what it means to be truly vulnerable. As gestures slip behind leaves or linger in dappled light, the artist asks: what does it mean to be unguarded? What do we reveal of ourselves to each other?
