We are a-i-r,  a collective of cultural advisors. Navigation
  • Assign a Menu
  • Assign a Menu

our INFLUENCES

We are inspired by and learn from others. To every project, we bring ideas from personal experiences, observation and research. Our Influences capture artworks, ideas and initiatives from our immediate environment that we believe bring new perspectives.

Instagram post 18027027322900741 Instagram post 18027027322900741
Repost from @gaiaartfoundation • 📣 We’re hi Repost from @gaiaartfoundation
•
📣 We’re hiring! 📣

We’re looking for a Social Media and Website Content Manager (maternity cover). 

We’re looking for a creative and passionate Social Media and Website Content Manager to join our team on a part-time basis. In this role, you will shape our digital presence and narrative, directly contributing to our mission by engaging our community, amplifying our projects and enhancing our online visibility. 

Gaia Art Foundation is committed to fostering artistic expression and supporting innovative projects that connect art, environmental awareness and community engagement. Our foundation believes in the transformative power of art to inspire change and enlighten perspectives. We’re looking for someone passionate about environmental issues and contemporary art to work in a small and dedicated team.

If this could be you, head to the link in bio to see the full job description and how to apply.

Application Deadline: 17th May 2024

#Hiring #SocialMediaManager #EnvironmentalIssues #contemporaryart
#thankyou again to everybody who contributed to @f #thankyou again to everybody who contributed to @futureconnectedculture
•
We are delighted to announce Manifestos for Optimism, a collection of conversations with cultural leaders conducted over two years as part of the programme. This beautiful edition was published by our media partner @cultureshockit, also available as a free e-book (link below).

The 14 interviews explore what it takes to lead a cultural organisation, the structural factors that can get in the way of delivering a collective vision and how cooperation, shared values and persistence can enable organisations’ ambitions to be realised. The conversations reveal the vital role that optimism plays in building business resilience. It is hoped that the energy from these conversations will offer new perspectives on how to approach the creative act of business planning.

Thank you so much to everyone who made this possible: all of our Inspirational Interviewees - Mark Ball, Alex Beard CBE, Farooq Chaudhry OBE, Ekow Eshun, Dr Errol Francis, Laia Gasch, Dr Ali Hossaini, Suhair Khan, Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE, Karen Napier MBE, Ben Rawlingson Plant FRSA, Victoria Siddall, Anne Torreggiani, and Erica Whyman OBE; and our collaborators Matthew Blades, Director of Economy, Culture & Skills, Alice Edwards, Head of Culture & Creative Economy, and Joshua McTaggart, Cultural Development Manager, at London Borough of Lambeth; Tilly Leris, Programme Co-ordinator for Future Connected; our media partner, Cultureshock, especially Phil Allison and Patrick Kelly; and to our Year 1 colleagues, Rebecca King Lassman, and Renée Trumpet.

Click here to watch all Inspirational Interview films and to access the e-book: https://lnkd.in/eYjva3bu.

For more information, please contact Director @louisemckinney at: louisemckinney@a-i-r.co.

Published by @cultureshockit 
ISBN 978-1-7385035-0-6
#congratulations to @gaiaartfoundation On their #1 #congratulations to @gaiaartfoundation
On their #10th #anniversary 
repost: This year marks 10 years of Gaia Art Foundation 🎉 so we’re looking back through the archive at past projects to celebrate. In 2020, Gaia Art Foundation partnered with @somersethouse to produce an engaging public programme to accompany the exhibition “Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi”, curated by Francesca Gavin @roughversion.

🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄

The exhibition was a visual celebration of the mushroom, and all the progressive, poetic and psychedelic wonder it evokes. Bringing together the works of 35 artists, designers, writers and musicians including John Cage, Haroon Mirza, Beatrix Potter and Cy Twombly.
‍
The accompanying public programme, supported by Gaia Art Foundation, included:

* A talk exploring the mind-altering properties of mushrooms with Robin Carhart-Harris, Head of The Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, and Darren Springer, Edible Utopia Mycologist, researcher and educator.

* A panel discussion on the organic phenomena of mycelium, both in the natural world and in design with Merlin Sheldrake, fungal biologist and celebrated author; Ehab Sayed, founder of Biohm, an organisation that use biological systems to drive innovation in domestic design; and Nancy Diniz, architect, co-founder of bioMATTERS LCC and course leader of the Biodesign MA at Central Saint Martins UAL.

* “Mushrooms Gallery Late”, which included mushroom workshops, short films and a special performance by Siôn Parkinson with Sam Annand, which is inspired by the stinkhorn mushroom, featuring a spectacular ‘mushroom dress’ created by designer Matty Bovan.
___

📸 @seanagavin
📸 Sebastian Cox & Ninela Ivanova
📸Installation View

#GaiaArtFoundation #Mushrooms #SomersetHouse #ContemporaryArt #Exhibition #london
Repost from @rowena_chiu • Congratulations @shon Repost from @rowena_chiu
•
Congratulations @shonibarestudio on the opening of your solo exhibition @serpentineuk curated by @tamsin_hong 

“Suspended States addresses the suspension of boundaries, whether psychological, physical, or geographical — all boundaries of nationhood are in a state of suspense. This is an exhibition in which Western iconography is reimagined and interrogated, at a moment in history when Nationalism, protectionism and hostility towards foreigners is on the rise.” – Yinka Shonibare CBE

For over 30 years, Yinka Shonibare CBE has used Western art history and literature to explore contemporary culture and national identities. Suspended States is the artist’s first London solo exhibition in over 20 years. It showcases new works, interrogating how systems of power affect sites of refuge, debates on public statues, the ecological impact of colonialisation and the legacy of imperialism on conflict and consequential attempts at peace.

Opening at Serpentine tonight 

#yinkashonibare #yinkashonibarecbe #serpentine #serpentinegallery #suspendedstates
Repost from @curatorial.school • Presenting the Repost from @curatorial.school
•
Presenting the artists part of our forthcoming exhibition Double Take.

Preview April 15th 2024, 11.30am – 8.30pm
Opening reception: April 15th 2024, 5.30pm
A plus A Gallery, San Marco 3073 Venezia 30124
curated by School for Curatorial Studies Venice
April 16th to July 15th  2024
Free entry

Jesse Darling (1981, Oxford)
Lives and works in Berlin. They work in sculpture, installation, video, drawing, text, sound and performance. Their practice draws on his own experience as well as the narratives of history and counterhistory to explore what it means to be a body in the world, with its political and cultural implications. To be a body is to be inherently vulnerable, and this is the starting point for a practice in which fallibility and fungibility are acknowledged as fundamental qualities in living beings, societies and technologies. 
Jesse Darling has received commissions from Moma in Warsaw, the Serpentine Gallery in London, Volksbühne in Berlin. They won the Turner Prize in 2023.

Image: Jesse Darling, installation view Turner Prize 2023, Townes Eastbourne, UK (2023). Photograph: Angus Mill

#doubletake #curatorialstudiesvenice #labiennaledivenezia #youngcurators #schoolforcuratorialstudiesvenice #paolocirio #jessedarling #simondenny #kasiafudakowski #enejgala #monilolaolayemiilupeju #evaandfrancomattes #ahmetöğüt #barbaraprenka
Opportunities at one of #fantasric @futureconnecte Opportunities at one of #fantasric @futureconnectedculture #fellow Repost from @groundedsoundsuk
•
We’re excited to partner with @brockwell_live to present internship and volunteer opportunities this summer!

We’re looking for applicants aged 18-25 who are interested in the live music industry and willing to get stuck in with the festivals being held at Brockwell Park across May/June!

Check out the job descriptions and application forms via the link in our bio and apply before the 21st April ✨

#volunteer #intern #internship #brockwellpark #festival
More to look forward to from our inspiring client More to look forward to from our inspiring client Repost from @camdenartcentre
•
Opening this month at Camden Art Centre is ‘Animals to Remember Uganda’ by Andrew Omoding. 

Following from his residency with Camden Art Centre in 2019, this new commission is developed site-responsively for Gallery Three and the Reading Room. 

Omoding will repurpose abandoned materials and objects, interweaving them with new metalwork produced in a London foundry, music, and video in an installation that embraces the characteristic exuberance and generosity of his practice. 

Join us for the Preview on Thursday 25 April, from 6.30 to 9.30pm. Free, all are welcome. RSVP via the link in our bio✨ 

This exhibition is produced in partnership with @actionspace 

Image: Andrew Omoding, Bird, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and ActionSpace.
One of our fantastic @futureconnectedculture #fell One of our fantastic @futureconnectedculture #fellows upcoming #music #festival visit link below for details Repost from @cloudxfestival
•
☀️ Announcing Cloud X Festival 2024 ☀️ 
Crystal Palace Park | 2nd August | Sign up now: www.cloudxfestival.com

South London’s Glastonbury but with a dose of melanin
Repost from one of our great clients @camdenartcen Repost from one of our great clients @camdenartcentre 
•
Opening this month at Camden Art Centre is a major solo exhibition by Matthew Krishanu. ‘The Bough Breaks’ will present a body of new work, including paintings and works on paper that form the expansive world of Krishanu’s artistic practice.

Matthew Krishanu (b.1980, Bradford, UK) paints atmospheric, pared-back compositions including scenes from the artist’s life, particularly his childhood years in Bangladesh growing up with his brother, and their parents who were Christian missionaries. 

Join us for the Preview on Thursday 25 April, from 6.30 to 9.30pm. Free, all are welcome. RSVP via the link in our bio✨

Image: Matthew Krishanu, ‘Banyan (Boy)’, 2023. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Peter Mallet
Repost from @gaiaartfoundation • Alexandra Daisy Repost from @gaiaartfoundation
•
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s first two @pollinatorpathmaker tapestries are currently on show as part of ‘Landscape and Imagination, from Gardens to Land Art’ @ComptonVerney, curated by Prof Christiana Payne.
__

Images reposted from @daisyginsberg

📸: Details of ‘Pollinator Pathmaker: a4WNehdyCgdiKwVhXKGDBM (Human Vision, Late Spring)’⁠

📸: Installation view of ‘Pollinator Pathmaker: a4WNehdyCgdiKwVhXKGDBM (Human Vision, Late Spring)’ and ‘Pollinator Pathmaker: a4WNehdyCgdiKwVhXKGDBM (Pollinator Vision, Early Summer)’ in ‘Landscape and Imagination: From Gardens to Land Art’, Compton Verney, 2024. Photo: Jamie Woodley. ⁠

⁠

⁠
#comptonverney #PollinatorPathmaker #ContemporaryArt #AlexandraDaisyGinsberg #daisyginsberg
#best #film seen for a very long time #mustsee on #best #film seen for a very long time #mustsee on @piccadilly.cinema #genius suggested viewing by @gillianmcvey #thankyou
#must #read #artinstitutionoftomorrow #thankyou fo #must #read #artinstitutionoftomorrow #thankyou for an insightful introduction to the book #congratulations @fatosustek
Repost from @curatorial.school • Happy to announ Repost from @curatorial.school
•
Happy to announce our forthcoming exhibition curated by School for Curatorial Studies Venice at A plus A Gallery

Double Take
Preview April 15th 2024, 11.30am – 8.30pm
Opening reception: April 15th 2024, 5.30pm
A plus A Gallery, San Marco 3073 Venezia 30124
curated by School for Curatorial Studies Venice
April 16th to July 15th  2024
Free entry

Artists
Paolo Cirio @paolo.cirio.art 
Jesse Darling @jessedarling 
Simon Denny @sden023 
Kasia Fudakowski #kasiafudakowski 
Enej Gala @enejgala 
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju monilola 
Eva&Franco Mattes @evaandfrancomattes 
Ahmet Öğüt @ahmet__ogut 
Barbara Prenka @barbara_prenka 

Coinciding with the preview of the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia A plus A Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Double Take curated by the 2024 participants of School for Curatorial Studies Venice, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year.

The term double take refers to the action of looking at something a second time that had escaped notice at first glance, in order to discern something unusual or new that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. Double Take is an invitation to reconsider, to pay greater attention and care to the content hidden inside the works, to grasp their more implicit meanings. It’s an indication to see beyond the immediacy of mere visual content, to take a critical stance, to move along the boundaries of an increasingly hyperconnected and dematerialized reality. Our attention span has decreased. Deep scrolling, ad bombardment, censorship and online subliminal propaganda are progressively changing the times and modes of content consumption, which is ingested without assimilation. In the so-called age of hyper-information, information overload is generating a phenomenon of mass distraction.
@dubiousfeux #thankyou @dubiousfeux #thankyou
Repost from @futureconnectedculture #fellow @groun Repost from @futureconnectedculture #fellow @groundedsoundsuk
•
Good morning all! We’re day 2 of our campaign week to fundraise £10,000 🎊

Until 26th March 2024, every donation made on our Big Give page will be doubled.

The money we raise will be used to fund our song-writing, composing and performing after-school programmes, that currently run across South London 🎶. 

Please visit the link in our bio, donate and share during our Big Give campaign week. Thank you to every single person who has shared and donated so far, we really appreciate  your ongoing support! 🎶

#music #school #education #community
So #grateful to work with @julammer for one of our So #grateful to work with @julammer for one of our clients @gaiaartfoundation #congratulations on #10th #anniversary 
•repost 
This year marks 10 years of Gaia Art Foundation 🎉 so we’re looking back through the archive at past projects to celebrate. In 2015, we supported ‘7,070,430K of Digital Spit’, @anickayi_studio solo exhibition at @kunsthallebasel 
‍
🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠

Perishable substances are Yi’s medium of choice, from deep-fried flowers to recalled powdered milk to potato chips to snail excretions. They are also the building blocks for her peculiar brand of techno-sensual alchemy, which assaults the senses as much as it traffics in a strange emotional charge. In “7,070,430K of Digital Spit”, the Korean-born artist looks back at her practice via a vast new project spread across and imagined for the entire ground floor of Kunsthalle Basel.
‍
This show self-consciously acts as a coda to five years of production and exhibition making that has been organized around very personal subjects such as denial, divorce, and death. Yi now tackles the matter of forgetting by creating new work that refers to and takes up themes from her past production and incorporates an exhibition-specific smell – the scent of forgetting – which wafts through the galleries. The exhibition is accompanied by (and in a sense built around) a new artwork-as-publication impregnated with the scent of forgetting – its pages are meant to be burned after reading.
‍
Anicka Yi, 7,070,430K of Digital Spit, was on view at Kunsthalle Basel from 12 June – 16 Aug 2015.
Repost from @futureconnectedculture • A huge con Repost from @futureconnectedculture
•
A huge congratulations to Caroline Boury, Co-Founder and Director at the Boury Academy @thebouryacademy for winning the Future Connected Award 2024! 🏆 💫

Caroline says: 
“I am absolutely delighted and proud to be awarded this year’s Future Connected Award. I have been so inspired by this year’s fellows and the business leaders who so graciously shared ideas and expertise. This experience has been absolutely invaluable to me both professionally and personally. I am extremely excited to put everything we have learned into the next phase of development for The Boury Academy to ensure maximum impact for our community and the best possible outcomes for our young people.” 

The winner was announced at the Future Connected Awards Ceremony by Cllr Jacqui Dyer MBE and Cllr Donatus Anyanwu, London Borough of Lambeth @lambeth_council, at a celebration hosted by our wonderful partner venue, the Southbank Centre @southbankcentre in the iconic Royal Festival Hall. 

A massive congratulations from the Future Connected team to all participants for completing the programme. 🎉

Photography by @bettinaadelaphotography
Repost from @futureconnectedculture • We are dee Repost from @futureconnectedculture
•
We are deeply grateful to Mark Ball, Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre @southbankcentre, Cllr Jacqui Dyer MBE and Cllr Donatus Anyanwu from the London Borough of Lambeth @lambeth_council, for their inspiring words at the Future Connected Awards Ceremony 2024.

All photography by @bettinaadelaphotography
#fabulous @futureconnectedculture #judges @ricket #fabulous @futureconnectedculture  #judges @ricketts.dean #Karen Napier #Nic Durston #thankyou
Follow on Instagram

 
Image credit

An ornate tailed digger wasp (Cerceris sp.) on a yarrow (Achillea millefolium) spotted during an excursion in Berlin. Photo: Frederic Griesbaum © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.Courtesy Gaia Art Foundation

 
 
 
 
  • Home
  • About
  • SERVICES
  • APPROACH
  • BIOGRAPHIES
  • Portfolio
  • Influences
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy