New Contemporaries art exhibition returns to Plymouth

City art galleries host New Contemporaries – the annual exhibition of work by emerging and early career artists
Battle for Home
Sara Osman
Plymouth is hosting a prestigious national exhibition featuring work by the next generation of artists.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries opens at three venues in the city on Saturday 28 September and runs till Saturday 7 December, before touring to London.
Marking 75 years of New Contemporaries, the 2024 exhibition features 35 artists who have been selected through an open call by internationally renowned artists Liz Johnson Artur, Permindar Kaur and Amalia Pica.
Launching at KARST, The Levinsky Gallery at the University of Plymouth, and MIRROR at Arts University Plymouth, this exhibition marks the first time New Contemporaries has been held in Plymouth since 1964.
Donna Howard, Executive Director of KARST says:

New Contemporaries is a great opportunity for Plymouth to showcase the city’s ambitious and dynamic contemporary art scene at a local, regional and national level. The artists in this year’s New Contemporaries focus on themes and issues that are relevant to Plymouth and society more widely and we are excited about the conversations that will emerge as audiences visit the exhibition across the three venues.

Works are arranged thematically at each venue offering an overview of urgent lived concerns, interests and social realities from this generation of artists.
Recurrent themes include mindfulness, consumerism, conviviality, environmentalism, geographical borders, and identity politics. A diverse range of mediums and approaches are featured including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, moving image and sound.
Road Kill by Georgia Dymock
Road Kill by Georgia Dymock
Since 1949, New Contemporaries has presented an annual exhibition of emerging and early career artists from UK art schools and learning programmes. The unique platform provides artists with an opportunity to present their work to a wider audience, alongside a programme of opportunities to support the development of their practice.
This year’s exhibiting artists are: Motunrayo Akinola, Libby Bove, Max Boyla, Molly Burrows, Fergus Carmichael, Mya Cavner and Edith Liben, Karen David, Roo Dhissou, Beverley Duckworth, Georgia Dymock, Tom Fairlamb, Farzaneh Ghadyanloo, Sara Graça, Dageong Han, Siomha Harrington, Anna Howard, Fi Isidore, Asmaa Jama and Gouled Ahmed, Laura Kazaroff, AC Larsen, Sophie Lloyd, Hazel O'Sullivan, Sun Oh, Sara Osman, Saul Pankhurst, Varshga Premarasa, Elliott Roy, Millie Shafiee, Sai Stephenson, Valentino Vannini, Joshua Whitaker, Danilo Zocatelli Cesco, and Yang Zou.
The exhibition will tour to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London from 15 January to 23 March 2025.
 
 
 

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