Derek Mainella: It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine, Review by Wall Street International

'.. we're up close but strangely at a great distance from the content of Mainella's works. With compositions derived from image creation and editing programmes, their visual prompts reassure us with familiarity, simultaneously cold shouldering our gaze with the indifference of a passive screen. Take the checkered sections of 'Untitled (shopping envy)' and its neighbour 'Untitled (in tatters)'. With popular patterns of Louis Vuitton luggage, image software placeholders and hallway tiles, they trigger comforting recognition while directing us to empty, temporary, nowhere places.'   Review by Jillian Knipe ... Continue reading

5 November 2017

Jack West: Time and Attendance, Review by This is tomorrow

'The focus here is on his video work. Two other videos flank ‘Double Six’ and are each mounted on two floor to ceiling metal supports. In them, various machines undertake tasks with no meaning while emitting the sounds of the actions performed – chains dragging along surfaces, squeaking wheels, metal hitting surfaces. In these videos the camera pans around, over and under the subjects, at times causing mild sensations of vertigo. The videos exist in a digital purgatory with nothing around them apart from pixels and hyperbolic colour palettes emulating materials we know.'   Review by Will Davie  ...  Continue reading

2 May 2017

Andy Wicks, Director of Castor - Interview with Floorr Magazine

'The new gallery enables us to present more expansive shows, not least because we’ve swapped a ceiling a few inches above head height for one at nearly 4 metres. Having ground floor frontage is already proving invaluable for getting people through the door and not being seen as an ‘alternative’ space due to our previous basement home. I’m extremely proud of each show we presented last year however this feels like the step up needed for the space to align more with how I want Castor to operate'...  Continue reading

5 April 2017

Barry Reigate - Interview with Floorr Magazine

'With these newer works I really enjoy the immediacy from doodling, coming up with something to paint without too much thinking (now I’m a zombie) & the enjoyment of totally encompassing the surface with paint, that is applied differently, than via touching the surface of the canvas with a brush, almost like printing… In a way, it gives the process a kind of freedom. Emancipation from history'...  Continue reading

5 April 2017

Barry Reigate, Do Zombies Dance to Love in C Minor

The Protagonist Magazine by Gulnaz Can

...'Zombies, the undead creatures, sound a bit like the artist himself, his making of art, and art as an institution in the text which accompanies the show, written by Reigate. The text is confusing, confrontational, and macho. It refers to a variety of layers, including time, depth, love, life, and body'... Continue reading

20 February 2017

New Gallery Space

After a successful inaugural year of programming in New Cross, we are delighted to announce the gallery is moving to a new space in Deptford. The larger groundfloor space enables us to host more immersive and diverse works to a broader audience. Castor will continue to focus on presenting ambitious and site responsive solo exhibitions by emerging and mid-career artists. The 2017 programme launches with a solo exhibition by Barry Reigate: Do Zombies Dance to Love in C Minor, opening on Friday 18 February.

1 February 2017

Claire Baily interview with Traction Magazine

...'For me, the internal spaces that architecture creates sees the fusion of art and design and it is the curation of these internal spaces that I find interesting.  The role of the curator in this context, the interior designer or the architect seems inextricably linked to a social responsibility and power.'... Continue reading

21 October 2016

Dazed and Confused Article - The artist-run spaces in London to get to know

...'Castor Projects is a gallery run in a basement of a café in New Cross set up by artist Andy Wicks. However, with Goldsmiths around the corner, it’s not a bad location for a space working with emerging artist interesting in site responsive shows.'... Continue reading

28 September 2016

Kate McMillan interview with Traction Magazine

...'I started thinking about the digestive system and the idea that we absorb knowledge, experience and memory through our bodies and that they kind of leave a residue there.'...  Continue reading

10 April 2016 

Derek Mainella, Infinity Poison: Review

...'Canadian Derek Mainella’s attractively constructed semi-flourescent abstracts loll out to suggest tongues, faces and trippy pills. As you jointhem ranged around the IKEA fire, you can also eat a banana, the artist having linked the environmental effect'...  Continue reading

9 January 2016

Permanent Space

We are delighted to announce Castor Projects will be opening a permanent space in New Cross, South East London in January 2016. Focusing on enabling ambitious and site responsive exhibitions by emerging and interdisciplinary artists, the programme will launch with a solo show by Canadian artist Derek Mainella opening on 7 January 2016.

10 December 2015

Trade: Reviews

by Charlie Peters and Paul Carey Kent

...'Castor Projects’ inaugural exhibition, Trade, continues the idea of seeing the extraordinary in the everyday by bringing together a group of five contemporary artists with a shared interest in the sculptural qualities of low-grade industrial materials'... Continue reading

1 September 2014