Graham Martin
Portals
June 2022
Huxley-Parlour Gallery
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Huxley-Parlour are delighted to present the third exhibition in their fourbythree programme: Graham
Martin, Portals. The exhibition considers queer space and time through the specific lens of cruising.
Portals uses paintings, ceramics, and decommissioned historical objects as works which explore
cruising as an autoethnographic methodology, and a mode of resistance.
Portals will be accompanied by a text between Graham Martin and art historian Fiona Anderson.
Written in response to a conversation which took place in early May 2022, the text discusses cruising
as methodology and its limitations, the problem of critical distance and scholarly objectivity, and
accessing the queer histories of objects as what Elizabeth Freeman calls ‘undetonated energy from
past revolutions’.
Fourbythree focuses on UK based artists with multi-disciplinary and installation-based practices,
and encourages submissions from under-represented and lower socio-economic backgrounds
to provide the opportunity and to create a space for those often neglected by the established art
community. Each recipient receives a fully-funded, three month solo exhibition at the gallery’s
project space in London’s West End throughout 2022, and a £5000 grant to realise their exhibition.
In situ
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Installation View: Graham Martin, Portals
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Huxley-Parlour are delighted to present the third exhibition in their fourbythree programme: Graham Martin, Portals. The exhibition considers queer space and time through the specific lens of cruising. Portals uses paintings, ceramics, and decommissioned historical objects as works which explore cruising as an autoethnographic methodology, and a mode of resistance.
Portals will be accompanied by a text between Graham Martin and art historian Fiona Anderson. Written in response to a conversation which took place in early May 2022, the text discusses cruising as methodology and its limitations, the problem of critical distance and scholarly objectivity, and accessing the queer histories of objects as what Elizabeth Freeman calls ‘undetonated energy from past revolutions’.
Fourbythree focuses on UK based artists with multi-disciplinary and installation-based practices, and encourages submissions from under-represented and lower socio-economic backgrounds to provide the opportunity and to create a space for those often neglected by the established art community. Each recipient receives a fully-funded, three month solo exhibition at the gallery’s project space in London’s West End throughout 2022, and a £5000 grant to realise their exhibition.
In situ
Installation View: Graham Martin, Portals