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Visit the Nunnery Gallery in this after hours chance to visit the East London Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition 2025. Join two of our twelve shortlisted Prize artists for exclusive live music performances by exhibiting artists Gusty Ferro and Joeseph Ijoyemi.
For this special late opening, Gusty Ferro will be activating their shortlisted installation 'Untitled' (2024-2025) by dismantling and assembling elements of the work. Using contact mics and electronic devices, the interactions with the materials in displacement will create live soundscapes. The performance will explore notions of tension between the body, objects, and the physical infrastructure that surrounds us in the city.
Building on from his shortlisted work 'Revival Boats' (2023) for his live performance, Joseph will be performing 'Fragments' (2025) live, a sound piece featuring recordings from his recent journey to Ondo, Nigeria, where he worked closely with traditional goldsmiths and blacksmiths. Drawing on the authentic sounds and conversations Joseph documented, the performance will serve both as a tribute and a living archive, invoking the importance of remembering ones roots and honouring cultural legacies passed through generations.
The Nunnery Café will be open for the duration of the evening, serving drinks and a range of tasty snacks and refreshments.
This event is part of the pulic programme for the East London Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition 2025, which celebrates the talent and diversity of art made by east London artists. The exhibition presents 12 incredible artworks shortlisted for the second iteration of the Prize.
Artist:
Gusty Ferro works across sculpture, video, sound, and drawing. Ferro considers their approach a form of personal cartography, one that centres and the ‘other’ as witness to the shifting dynamics of control, negotiation, and desire to shape public space. They graduated in BA Visual Arts at Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo in 2011 and participated in the fine arts roaming programme School of the Damned (2019). Ferro has exhibited extensively across Latin America and the UK, including at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, SWG3 Gallery, Abingdon Studios (Blackpool), Palmer Gallery (London), Manchester Contemporary, and Centro Cultural São Paulo. Hello Neighbours is their first solo project in London, currently happening at TACO! (SE London). Ferro will graduate from the Royal Academy Schools postgraduate programme in 2025.
Joseph Ijoyemi is a Swedish-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist whose work combines diverse materials and imagery to tell stories fuelled by life experiences, cultural conversations, and a deep connection to his heritage. His output includes sculptures, multimedia installations, and sound performances, through which he shapes conversations around the African diaspora. Ijoyemi holds a MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. He has previously won the prestigious Helen Scott Lidgett Award, and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Prize 2023. His works were exhibited at Camden Art Centre, London, and Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023. Joseph is co-founder of The Collective Makers, and organisation that mentors and empowers young creatives, and he was recently awarded the MEAD Fellowship at UAL for his project Tracing Roots: Exploring Nigerian Heritage Through Ondo’s Treasures.
The Nunnery Gallery will be open from 6pm-9pm, and the performances will take place from 7pm-8pm in the Nunnery Gallery.
Free! Drop in only.
Nunnery Gallery, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
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