London Art Collective is pleased to share that the 2025 ArtEvol Catalogue is now available in two digital formats.
Poiesis in Memory appears in the ArtEvol 2025 Catalogue, alongside contributions from artists internationally. The catalogue marks a significant moment in the contemporary art landscape. Featuring contributions from over 400 artists worldwide, it brings together a dynamic cross-section of emerging practices and global perspectives. With mediums ranging from painting and sculpture to digital installations and text-based works, the catalogue reflects the evolving language of contemporary art today.
Spanning painting, sculpture, digital installations, and text-based work, it offers a concise record of the artistic languages and positions shaping contemporary art today.
Browse the catalogue on the London Art Collective official website:
The London Art Collective (LAC) considers its annual exhibition a continuous project, with the exhibition ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined intended to continue and summarise LAC’s exhibition direction over the past few years. ‘Evol’, which signifies ‘evolution’, has each letter representing the spirit of each year’s exhibition. In the previous four years, these were: Launch, Openness, Versus, and Exchange, moving from ‘opening’ to ‘openness’ and from ‘dialogue’ to ‘communication’, forming the core methodology of this series. From the first major annual exhibition, Neo-Space: Meet the New Generation of Independent Artists in 2022, LAC has been committed to supporting emerging artists and providing exhibition opportunities for them. In the following years, as the global art ecosystem entered a stage emphasising collaboration and co-production, collective art and collaboration gradually became an important trend in the international art world. In this context, the 2024 exhibition ART COLLECTIVE: From the One to the Many further deepened and echoed the global context.
Poiesis of Weathering is a sculptural performance installation funded by Arts Council England’s Develop Your Creative Practice grant. The project is interested in finding new ways to address racism, combining ceramic sculpture, performance, and sound with a theoretical, speculative narrative through scriptwriting.
The work confronts the complexities of racism by framing experience and shaping artistic practice. The sculptural assemblages are made of ceramic and represent surreal body abstractions. They are attached to the performers’ costumes and become extended layers worn like a second skin.
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Three visual artists Pauline Bailey, Joyce Treasure and Ola Brown have been involved in a collaborative artist residency to explore the Lapworth Museum's collection of fossils, rocks and minerals.
They responded to specific items or themes in Lapworth's vast collection, and this exhibition shares installations the three artists have made in response to their brief explorations. This pilot is produced and curated in partnership between the Black Arts Forum and the Lapworth Museum of Geology.
Exhibition dates
1 April - 31 August 2022
Lapworth Museum of Geology
University of Birmingham
B15 2TT
INTIMATE XENOLITH
Skeleton leaves, wool, synthetic hair, mycelium packaging, text, sugar starch and cowrie shells.
Soundscape
67cm height
34cm width
17cm depth
INTIMATE XENOLITH asks,
Can we study the success of natural science, like a planetary oracle, to grasp how social science can proceed? Intimate Xenolith is a soundscape installation piece combining mythology, ritual, and geology to form a speculative ancestral narrative around healing.
Intimate Xenolith written by Joyce Treasure orated by RED MEDUSA.
RED MEDUSA is an established spoken word artist and scholar who combines her learnings from her experiences as a Black, neurodiverse, educated, working-class woman and mother with her academic knowledge of health and social inequalities to deliver moving, visceral and disruptive poetry. Grounded in Black feminist theory, her exciting works have led to headlines at the famous Southbank Centre in London, the infamous She Grrrowls Festival, The Million Woman Rise March and published in Vogue and Forbes Magazines.