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Karolin Wolter by Marcus Tomlinson and Nathan Klein
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Photography: Marcus Tomlinson
Fashion: Nathan Klein
Spatial Designer & Curator: Andree Cooke
Hair Stylist: Pablo Kumin
Makeup Artist: Helene Vasnier
Production: The Curated
Lighting Director: Marion Duchaussoy
Photographer assistant: Jacob Topen
Special thanks to Galerie Kreo
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HERE IS A GALE WARNING
ART, CRISIS & SURVIVAL
KETTLE’S YARD
22 March – 29 June 2025
Exhibition curated by Dr Amy Tobin, Curator, Contemporary Programmes, Kettle’s Yard.
Kettle’s Yard is delighted to present ‘Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival’, a major exhibition exploring the capacity of artworks to both warn us of political, social and ecological upheaval, and to serve as a source of replenishment. It brings together eight contemporary artists working across forms, territories and generations, each responding to specific moments and broader systems of instability, from housing crises and ecological breakdown to racialised violence and colonial displacement. These artists may attest to a broken world, but they also work to heal, mend and imagine new possibilities for survival.
Drawing together artists working in different media and distinct contexts, the exhibition finds points of connection and solidarity across generations, moments, priorities and struggles.
The exhibition borrows its title from the 1971 work Here is a Gale Warning by Rose Finn-Kelcey, a hand sewn flag originally installed at Alexandra Palace. Bearing its matter-of-fact message in block capitals, the flag broadcasts of an emergency already in progress, alerting us that perpetual crisis nonetheless demands vigilant attention.
THE WONDER AND THE WARNINGS OF ROSE FINN-KELCEY
FRIEZE MAGAZINE
Reflecting on the artist’s enduring influence as her flag flies over Tate Britain in London.
Written by Goshka Macuga
..."It is remarkable to me that, in the early 1970s, Finn-Kelcey was already commenting on the relationship between humans and their environment in the context of climate change. Yet, 50 years on, we have done little to heed those ‘gale warnings’. Finn-Kelcey argued that flags reflect upon ephemerality, value and the power of words, highlighting how we communicate, interpret and amplify messages. Moreover, by their very nature, flags demonstrate how a message can change from truth to absurdity with a sudden shift in the wind. They can also be read as metaphors for a political climate, a commentary on how attitudes change in fundamental – though not necessarily truthful – ways, depending on which direction the winds of history blow. In the current social and cultural context, this seems highly poignant."
ROSE FINN-KELCEY
WOMEN IN REVOLT! ART AND ACTIVISM IN THE UK
8 November 2023 - 7 April 2024
The first of its kind, this exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It shines a spotlight on how networks of women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to make an invaluable contribution to British culture. Their art helped fuel the women’s liberation movement during a period of significant social, economic and political change.
ANTONI & ALISON X ROSE FINN-KELCEY
The estate of British artist Rose Finn-Kelcey is delighted to announce a collaboration with fashion designers Antoni & Alison, who have created two silk scarves in response to her work. The scarves will be on sale at Tate Britain to coincide with the Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 exhibition, 8 November 2023 – 7 April 2024.
In Tried Everything, a deadpan text alludes to the difficulty of working without recognition. Antoni & Alison reflect upon how, ‘this happens to creatives all the time, artists who work away, influencing others but rarely getting the credit they’re due...we completely related to this...we are sad Rose isn’t here to see our response and the response and attention of others to her work’.
ROSE FINN-KELCEY
FRIEZE MASTERS 2023
11 - 15 October 2023
Kate MacGarry and the Estate of Rose Finn-Kelcey are delighted to present key conceptual works by Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014) from the 1970-80s at Frieze Masters 2023.
Working in a variety of mediums, Finn-Kelcey’s work explored the relationship between the subjective and the personal: several of her works were staged in public spaces, ranging from broadcasting corporations to churches, energy suppliers and government buildings.
Finn-Kelcey’s early work in the 1970s was predominantly performance-based. It was important to her that art should be seen by, and engage with, the life around it. Engagement implied that the artist should be involved with or should be a part of the work itself and meant that her pieces from this period were often ephemeral.
ROSE FINN-KELCEY AT
KATE MACGARRY
14 February - 04 April 2020
Curated by Andrée Cooke, Artistic Executor for the Estate of Rose Finn-Kelcey and artist and curator Simon Moretti.
Andrée Cooke and Kate MacGarry are delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014). The exhibition focuses on key pieces from the 70’s to the 90’s, exploring a breadth of work central to Finn-Kelcey’s practice. She first came to prominence in the early 1970s as an artist central to the emerging communities of performance and Feminist art in the UK. The nature of Finn-Kelcey’s work is richly diverse, both in form and subject matter, however it is consistently conceptual and “characterised by a dry wit that belies the formidable intelligence and deep humanity that drove her practice [1]”.She deftly offers humour as a point of access into her work, allowing a wide and varied audience to consider topics as varied as life, death and spirituality communicated with great depth and profundity.
Kate MacGarry
27 Old Nichol Street, London E2 7HR
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ROSE FINN-KELCEY: BUREAU DE CHANGE ON SHOW AT TATE BRITAIN TO COINCIDE WITH THE EY EXHIBITION, VAN GOGH AND BRITAIN.
27 March - 11 August 2019
This major exhibition brings together 45 works by Vincent van Gogh to reveal how he was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British artists.
We are delighted that Rose Finn-Kelcey’s Bureau de Change will be on show to coincide with Van Gogh’s exhibition.
Bureau de Change, 1987, consists of a large-scale rendering (2290 x 1520 mms) of one of Vincent van Gogh’s (1853–1890) iconic Sunflowers paintings (see, for example, Sunflowers 1888, National Gallery, London), made using £1,000 worth of British coinage laid out flat on a fragmented section of wooden flooring. The image of the coin ‘painting’ is lit using a theatrical lighting rig. To one side sits a uniformed guard and a video monitor suspended from the ceiling displays an image of the coin ‘painting’ fed to it by a CCTV camera directed at the work. The installation is completed by a viewing platform from which the piece can be appraised.
Finn-Kelcey’s initial motivation for making the work was the sale at auction in 1987 of one of van Gogh’s Sunflowers to the Yasuda Insurance Company of Japan, for the then record price for any work of art, of £24.5 million.
Read more about Bureau de Change on the Tate’s website.
MARCUS TOMLINSON: MADONNA, SKETCH LONDON
Curated by Andrée Cooke
20 March – 10 May 2019
sketch presents an exhibition of fashion and landscape photographs, films and wallpaper designs by film and image-maker Marcus Tomlinson.
London-based Tomlinson presents a series of photographic and film works spanning thirty years of his career. Large-scale fashion and landscape photographs and short films are set against a backdrop of wallpaper designed by the artist.
‘Madonna’ is an installation celebrating the essence of the idealized woman through the dual lens of fashion imagery and imagery of ‘mother nature’, Tomlinson’s personal passion.
Tomlinson has created visionary photographs and films that uniquely combine art and fashion sensibilities. His intensely crafted, highly stylized, studio-based imagery has won him international acclaim with showcases in prestigiousfashion and lifestyle magazines, as well as in galleries and museums internationally.
sketch, 9 Conduit St, W1S 2XG
MULBERRY AW18 CAMPAIGN
Still life styling by Andrée Cooke, creatively directed with Artistic Director Andreas Neophytou at Spring, for the AW18 Mulberry Campaign, working with Baron Osuna and Johnny Coca of Mulberry.
Photography by Jack Wilson
Thank you to Anton Alvarez for the inclusion of his extruded ceramics onto which the collection was displayed.
MULBERRY SS18 CAMPAIGN
Still life styling by Andrée Cooke for the SS18 Mulberry Campaign, working with Baron Osuna and Johnny Coca from Mulberry and Creative Director Andreas Neophytou from Spring.
Photography by Jack Wilson
Thank you to Anton Alvarez for the inclusion of his Thread Wrapping Machine Stool onto which a Mulberry mustard coloured accordion-pleated leather Amberley Satchel was displayed.
DENIS MASI 1968 - 1972
Curated by Andrée Cooke and Dan Edwards, celebrates some of Masi’s most significant performance and photographic pieces from that period.
In 1968, Denis Masi started presenting himself in his pieces as the subject, using his body as material for creating artworks, during which time Body Art became an international trend.
Masi’s artwork and reputation from the 1960s to the 1980s became affiliated with the artistic movements in Europe of that time, and with the genres of Performance and Installation Art.
The exhibition is at Darbyshire London, N1, 26th April to 27th July 2017, viewing by appointment only.
ALFRED'S ROOM
Andrée Cooke invited designer Michael Marriott to work with the students and staff at King Alfred School in North London to design and build a new secondary school Common Room; through a series of workshops over the course of one term.
King Alfred School prides itself on its physical, academic and emotional environment for learning. Amongst its qualities is the school’s innovative Design Technology Department, which believes in giving all children the confidence, self-belief and knowledge to have a go at anything.
Struck by the limited internal social areas in the secondary school and the lack of purpose in their common room, Andree Cooke, a contemporary art and design specialist, curator and parent, alongside Claire Murphy – Head of Year 9 and the school’s in-house architect Belinda Webb, approached the parent body for funds to bring in a designer for 12 days to work on the project. The aims of the project were to provide the children a valuable learning and life experience that would give them some inspiring insights into the creative process, as well as creating a space that the children could take ownership and enhancing their everyday school experience.
Cooke invited designer Michael Marriott to lead the project. Marriott is known for his ‘bare-bones’ approach to furniture design, which celebrates functionalism and honest materials. He studied furniture design at the London College of Furniture and at the Royal College of Art. Upon graduating in 1993, he set up his own studio and began to design and make household items and furniture, often utilitarian with visible fixings, combining oak, ply and peg board with reclaimed and found materials.
“We are making something without spending a lot of money; we’re not buying something off the shelf, we’re making something ourselves, thinking about the details…” Says school architect Belinda Webb. “Most schools these days build their environments from catalogues. We are handing the space over to the children to create it the way they see fit, so they can enjoy it and use it as they want.”
THE '‘DANCE’ WALLPAPER SERIES BY MARCUS TOMLINSON
Andrée Cooke proudly presents her latest commission of wallpaper designs by photographer and filmmaker Marcus Tomlinson.
The Dance wallpaper series by Tomlinson comes in 6 patterns, Shake I and II, Tap Dance (small and large), Tonight and Ballet. It is a laminate-coated wallpaper.
Dance, is Tomlinson’s first foray into wallpaper design. For over two decades, he has created visionary photographs and films that uniquely combine art and fashion sensibilities. His intensely crafted, highly stylized, studio-based imagery has won him international acclaim. Tomlinson has collaborated with leading fashion designers such as Philip Treacy, Hussein Chalayan and Issey Miyake and global brands including Mercedes, Porsche and Samsung. His work has been showcased in prestigious fashion and lifestyle magazines including, The Face, i-D, Blitz as well as in galleries and museums internationally.
Tomlinson’s imagery captures a tension around their subject deliberately using raw, stark backdrops with a single light source and a feeling of close up restriction with the placing of the model in the frame. His artworks experiment with still and moving imagery. Tomlinson asks his models to move, recording their gestures across a series of photographs. The effects of movement produced are as central to his images as the models and clothes pictured. In this way, his wallpapers create a series of photographic ‘stills’ sequences, producing a flipbook effect of gestures and articulated movements.
Pricing: £49.50 per meter excl. VAT. Sold in 10 meter lengths (45cm wide) and in double rolls due to the way design has been created. Therefore, £990 excl. VAT for 20m at 90cm width.
To place an order contact Andrée Cooke at cookeandree@gmail.com or + 44 (0) 7905 170 370
LIFE, BELIEF AND BEYOND AT MODERN ART OXFORD 15 JULY - 15 OCTOBER
The Estate of Rose Finn-Kelcey proudly announces the first posthumous exhibition of works by the highly acclaimed and influential artist Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945–2014). Life, Belief and Beyond at Modern Art Oxford.
Life, Belief and Beyond focuses on Finn-Kelcey’s explorations of power, performance, political commentary, and perceptions of the self, belief and spirituality.
The exhibition presents works from the early 1970s to 2014, including Divided Self (Speaker’s Corner), 1974; The Restless Image: a discrepancy between the seen position and the felt position, 1975; Glory, 1983; Bureau de Change, 1987; and It Pays to Pray, 1999. These examples of Finn-Kelcey’s diverse and exacting practice are presented alongside photographs, collage, performance documentation, preparatory material and sketches in progress – never before exhibited.
Finn-Kelcey’s work is conceptually powerful, profound and is characterised by a dry wit that belies the formidable intelligence and deep humanity that drove her practice. A central figure in the performance and feminist art scene in
Britain for over four decades, her work is intimately concerned with social dialogue, populism, activism, and how these tools of communication intersect with complex systems of power.
Finn-Kelcey’s far-reaching influence on conceptual art in the 1970s and 1980s extended locally to the generation of YBAs (Young British Artists) in the 1990s as she began to realise large-scale and technically complex installations. Avant-garde in her ideas both in art and politics, Finn-Kelcey’s endlessly inventive practice demonstrates the artist’s interest in creating socio-political statements with a visually arresting quality, often object-based, frequently combining her creative investigations with contemporary technologies.
Life, Belief and Beyond is a celebration of Finn-Kelcey’s work and pays tribute to her extraordinary practice and
influence.
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP
ORLEANS TABLE - STUDIO MAKKINK & BEY
A new bespoke commission by Studio Makkink & Bey, the Orleans Table, for a private residence, through Andree Cooke.
REVOLT OF THE SAGE CURATED BY SIMON MORETTI AND CRAIG BURNETT 24 NOVEMBER - 21 JANUARY 2017 AT BLAIN |SOUTHERN
Revolt of the Sage is an exhibition featuring sixteen artists that takes its title from a work by Giorgio de Chirico painted in 1916.
Selected curated pieces reflect a ‘metaphysical interior’, crowded pictorial spaces overflowing with ephemeral things. Picking up on de Chirico’s vision of a ‘metaphysical interior’, Revolt of the Sage gathers a range of artists who use collage, juxtaposition, fragments, framing devices and layered imagery to explore ruptures in time and the alluring mysteries of the everyday.
Andree Cooke is proud to announce that a selection of works by Simon Moretti, developed with her, will be on show at this exhibition. For private studio visits or exhibition tours please contact cookeandree@gmail.com
Pictured: Paloma Varga Weisz, Woman, boarded, 2015, Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London
BLUEPRINT AWARDS 2016
Andrée Cooke UK shortlisted in Best Non-Public Project Commercial for Spring Studios + Spring Place, New York, USA
Andrée Cooke's interior curation project, Spring Studios NY is a 150,000 sq ft events space and fashion photography facility opened in 2015. The Studios spread across three floors, where Cooke was hired to furnish 5 VIP suites, 7 high-end meeting rooms and lounge areas with 70 art works and 255 furniture pieces. The clients' brief focused on specific eras of furniture they personally liked; 1950s French, 1970s Brazilian and mid-century Scandinavian; combined with a ‘brutalist’ feeling as well as high-end luxury and comfort. Cooke worked closely with Mark Loy, Spring Studios CEO, to create the aesthetic for the studios, which combines bespoke contemporary design pieces with vintage furniture and newly commissioned art works.
Housed in the same building as Spring Studios, Spring Place (its sister company), is a new collaborative workspace and social membership club opened in June 2016.
Cooke curated the interior furniture look for the company extending the previous brief to provide over 300 vintage and contemporary edition furniture pieces, rugs and lighting for the 130,000 sq ft interior. She curated 8 lounge areas, including a music room, and sunken living room, 2 large dining rooms, a communal workspace, which includes a unique commission by Martino Gamper, reception areas, 9 executive suites, conference rooms and boardrooms. Distinctive of her unique style Cooke combined stunning new commissions by Makina and Sam Orlando Miller with high-end vintage pieces.
Cooke worked on this project with a team of vintage specialists including Nicholas Chandor; on the conceptual design development with Paul Crofts and interior architect and designer Antonio Di Oronzo from Bluarch.
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