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Claire Baily: Terra Incognita
6 May - 11 Jun 2022 “Immobile images move, first slowly, repeating over and over those same moments and it’s like extracting ancient skeletons from sand: at first you see a single bone, but a brush soon uncovers more, until finally the whole complex structure is on display, the joints and articulations that comprise the construction... Read more

Liam Fallon: The Hotspot
18 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Un chant d’amour: Liam Fallon and Jean Genet by Matt Retallick ‘from afar, my body passes through thine, and thine, from afar, through mine’ – from Our Lady of the Flowers (1949) by Jean Genet Jean Genet (1910-1986) spent most of his unstable childhood on the run. He... Read more

Derek Mainella: Too Much Fun
18 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Castor is pleased to present Too Much Fun, Derek Mainella’s forth solo exhibition with the gallery. Here we find Mainella in a reductive mood, continuing his self-styled take on abstractive figuration yet striped back in both in scale and complexity to present a series of portraits of creatures of the... Read more

Louis Appleby: Rear View Mirror Sunset
28 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 I won’t forget our 4th date when you invited me round for dinner. I was excited but flustered. The knot in my stomach had been tightening all day, I was so tense I wasn’t sure I’d be able to eat a thing. You answered the door wearing an oversized smile... Read more

Nana Wolke: High Seat
28 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 On the face of it the sprawling iconic landscape of Monument Valley could not be further from the socialist blocks nested around the arteries of European cities. A housing model known for high concentration and repetition of elements was first conceptualized in Sweden and Germany, then replicated from the 1960s... Read more

Jane Hayes Greenwood: Garden of the Night
26 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Jane Hayes Greenwood’s exhibition Garden of the Night, is comprised of three distinct series of paintings, executed in her characteristic high key and luminescent colour palette, and a sculptural installation and CGI video. The artist draws on her research into herbalism and botanical illustrations, specifically looking at obscure medicinal plants, in addition to primeval relics and cultural artefacts, such as Venus figurines, that allude to the discourse surrounding the symbolic visual representation of women over centuries. Read more

Roberta Booth: Paintings 1972 - 1982
8 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 Roberta Booth: Paintings 1972 - 1982 Read more

Doubling Down
17 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Offsite Leicester Contemporary Claire Baily, Alia Hamaoui, Jaime Welsh, Jack West, Grace Woodcock Co-curated with Georgia Stephenson In the casino, stale air circulates through a complacent ventilation system. The plastic slatted covers of which are the closest thing to a window for what seems like miles. Following the river of... Read more

Ian J Brown: Midnight Shadows
3 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 Walking in, there’s an unsettling energy in the air. The once bustling bar is deserted, the solid oak bar top gathering dust, beer taps cling filmed shut from the last service. Looking towards the back of the room is a low stage, the usually shimmering glitter curtains are static, they... Read more

Rosie McGinn: Contemplating my Navel
3 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 ‘Rosie McGinn stares at her cuddly bit whilst painting tiny post-it watercolours of previous works [2015 - today]’. McGinn’s practice centres around a fascination with extremes of human emotion. From euphoria to despair; seeming opposites which can interchange within the space of a sharp intake of breath at sporting events,... Read more

Nick Paton: fala ford
2 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 If you’re fortunate enough to be able to maintain a straight line while walking, you’ll be more than able to do the same thing even at a great height, on a precipice, overlooking a fatal drop. There’s no shift to the logic or the demands on your unconscious faculties. Yet... Read more

Jack Warne: Rtapte
2 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 Castor is pleased to present Jack Warne’s debut solo exhibition ‘Rtapte’. Warne’s practice combines digital paintings, composed soundtracks and augmented reality. Rtapte explores scenes from childhood filtered into a dream like daze combining nostalgia with the domestic and industrial. Jack grew up with moments of his life in complete darkness.... Read more

Ben Jamie: And Other Withered Stumps of Time
13 May - 19 Jun 2021 Monomyth: A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of supernatural wonder where reality and fantasy intertwine: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won. ‍Look, there he is! That guy rarely seen since the school trip to Tate Britain during... Read more

The Stable Object in Precarious Times
9 Apr - 8 May 2021 Claire Baily, Sarah Derat, Jean-Philippe Dordolo, Clark Keatley, Alan Magee, Amanda Moström, Nick Paton, Hamish Pearch, Grace Woodcock As technological advancements in AI & Automation increasingly become the dominant mediators of human experiences and practices, our direct engagement with materiality inversely decreases. So, in a world that no longer distinguishes... Read more

Lucas Dupuy: Florist Mews
5 Mar - 3 Apr 2021 Castor is pleased to present Florist Mews, a solo exhibition by London based artist Lucas Dupuy. The metropolis is awash with a mass of grey. Contrails scar the sky and raking light from cloud cover distorts the pavement below. Yesterdays brutalist ideals still punctuate the retina of urban explorers, architect... Read more

Simon Mathers: The Frenzy
3 - 31 Dec 2020 Castor is pleased to present The Frenzy; an exhibition of new paintings and sculptural works by Simon Mathers. For this exhibition the artist wants us to consider the home as a transitory space. where physical forms of social engagement and entertainment have combined with our professional lives to create a... Read more

Charline Tyberghein: many drops make a puddle
3 - 31 Dec 2020 Castor is pleased to present ‘many drops make a puddle’, Antwerp-based painter Charline Tyberghein’s debut London exhibition. A baseball, pair of pants, a pretzel, the internet explorer logo are just some of the symbols used within Tyberghein’s paintings. In this new series of works, these small silhouetted icons sit in... Read more

Grace Woodcock: GUT-BRAIN
17 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 Castor is pleased to present GUT-BRAIN, Grace Woodcock’s debut London solo show which examines the gut’s role as the original brain, 1960s space-age aesthetic and soft furnishing. “When you go back to creatures with the first nervous systems, they are creatures whose whole bodies were fundamentally an intestine. So they... Read more

Indrikis Gelzis: Figure of Everything
17 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 Castor is pleased to present Figure of Everything, the debut London solo show by Latvian artist Indrikis Gelzis. Gelzis’ distinctive wall-based sculptures reference minimal abstraction, the method of displaying data in infographics and ideas of pareidolia. 'To dispelanxiety by understanding and internalizing its causes: this would seem to be one... Read more

Jack Burton: Pro-Social Fries
25 Jun - 1 Aug 2020 Castor is pleased to present Pro-Social Fries, Jack Burton’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Pro-Social Fries brings together a new body of work created over the past few months locked down in Brussels. Through sculpture, wallpaper, animation and wall-based works, Burton explores ideas of social identity and redistribution in... Read more

Barry Reigate: Drawings
30 Apr - 30 May 2020 ‘Then, as I set the burglar alarm, I realised that I could change the course of my life by a single action. To shut out the world, and solve all my difficulties at a stroke, I had the simplest of weapons - my own front door. I needed only to... Read more

Rafal Zajko: Resuscitation
14 Mar - 18 Apr 2020 Castor is pleased to present Resuscitation, Rafal Zajko’s second exhibition with the gallery. Resuscitation sees Zajko explore ventilation systems, prosthetics, Polish folklore and science fiction through performance and sculptural installation. Resuscitation is a form of artificial ventilation, through stimulating respiration in which a rescuer presses their mouth against that of... Read more

Habitual
1 Feb - 7 Mar 2020 Sara Anstis, Claire Baily, Jack Burton, Gareth Cadwallader, Lotti V Closs, Stevie Dix, Jemma Egan, Ben Jamie, Simon Linington, Alan Magee, Derek Mainella, Simon Mathers, Amanda Moström, Nick Paton, Sebastian Sochan, Willem Weismann, Jack West, Grace Woodcock, Rafal Zajko - I don’t think I contracted the bug through any singular,... Read more

Derek Mainella: Comfort Zone
23 Nov 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 Read more

Amanda Moström: Participating in a chair
28 Sep - 2 Nov 2019 Read more

Sarah Derat: She Who Loves Silence
21 Jun - 27 Jul 2019 Read more

Alan Magee: Data Dust, Dust Data
3 May - 8 Jun 2019 Read more

Lindsey Mendick: The Ex Files
15 Mar - 27 Apr 2019 Read more

Jack West: Last Man Standing
25 Jan - 2 Mar 2019 Read more

Tom Worsfold: Models
1 Dec 2018 - 19 Jan 2019 Read more

Miriam Naeh: Tall Tales, Tall Tails
27 Oct - 24 Nov 2018 Read more

Ben Jamie: Comfortably Dumb
7 Sep - 13 Oct 2018 Read more

Jutro
14 Jul - 4 Aug 2018 Read more

Rafal Zajko: Jaka praca dzis - takie nasze jutro
29 Jun - 4 Aug 2018 Read more

Claire Baily: Skeleton Key
18 May - 23 Jun 2018 Read more

Simon Linington: In From The Light
30 Mar - 5 May 2018 Read more

Amanda Moström: Doing it in the park, doing it after dark
9 Feb - 17 Mar 2018 Read more

Jonathan Trayte: SCHUSSBOOMER
2 Dec 2017 - 27 Jan 2018 Read more

Derek Mainella: It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
4 Oct - 18 Nov 2017 Read more

Alan Magee: Business As Usual
1 Oct 2017 Read more

Jack Burton: SOFT DIARY
8 - 30 Sep 2017 Read more

Mari Kolbeinson: Triangle Walks
7 Jul - 12 Aug 2017 Read more

Lotti V Closs: In Plain Sight
26 May - 1 Jul 2017 Read more

Jack West: Time and Attendance
7 Apr - 13 May 2017 Read more

Barry Reigate: Do Zombies Dance to Love in C Minor?
17 Feb - 25 Mar 2017 Read more

Steven Gee: Sandwiched
28 Jan 2017 Read more

Ben Jamie: Sense Data
18 Nov - 17 Dec 2016 Read more

Alan Magee: Some days I’m thinking, some days I’m dreaming
15 Oct - 12 Nov 2016 Read more

Claire Baily : Dream On
16 Sep - 8 Oct 2016 Read more

Sarah Bernhardt: like all your favourite entries from the urban dictionary in a font you hate
2 - 31 Aug 2016 Read more

Lily Hawkes : FLEX
8 - 30 Jul 2016 Read more

Peter Ainsworth: how arid it is / how fertile it is
3 - 25 Jun 2016 Read more

Amy and Oliver Thomas - Irvine: RROYA
30 Apr - 21 May 2016 Read more

Kate McMillan : Stones for Dancing, Stones for Dying
18 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 Read more

Oliver Tirre: I am so heavy
12 Feb - 5 Mar 2016 Read more

Derek Mainella : Infinity Poison
8 - 30 Jan 2016 Read more

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