From left to right: Pio Abad, image courtesy of the artist; Louise Giovanelli, image courtesy of the artist. Photo: Timon Benson & Alex Luc; Grace Ndiritu, image courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry, London. Photo: David Owens
Pio Abad
Pio Abad (b.1983, Manila) is an artist whose work is concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects. His wide-ranging body of work, mines alternative or repressed historical events and offers counternarratives that draw out threads of complicity between incidents, ideologies and people.
He has exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; 58th Carnegie International; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennial; Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Kadist, San Francisco; Oakville Galleries, Ontario; the 2nd Honolulu Biennial; 12th Gwangju Biennial; 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney and Gasworks, London. He was recently nominated for the 2024 Turner Prize.
Abad’s works are part of a number of important collections including Tate, UK; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hawai’i State Art Museum, Honolulu and Singapore Art Museum.
Louise Giovanelli
Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London) lives and works in Manchester. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with professor Amy Sillman in 2020, after having earned a Bachelor’s Degree (B.A. Hons, Fine Art) at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester in 2015.
Solo exhibitions include: Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield; Here on Earth, White Cube Hong Kong; Louise Giovanelli - Paintings 2019 - 2024, He Art Museum, Foshan; Soothsay, GRIMM, New York, NY; Always Different, Always the Same, Moon Grove, Manchester; Collection Spotlight: Louise Giovanelli, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool; As If, Almost, White Cube, London; Auto-da-fé, GRIMM, New York, NY; A Priori, GRIMM, Amsterdam; Aerial Silk, GRIMM, New York, NY; Louise Giovanelli, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; A Throw to the Side, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington.
She has also participated in many group exhibitions including Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, and her work can be found in the collections around the world including of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation; Asymmetry Art Foundation, Manchester Art Gallery Collection, MOCA, Los Angeles and The UK Government ArYuz Museum Shanghai among others.
Grace Ndiritu
Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) artist, born in 1982 in Birmingham. She lives and works in London. Concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world, Ndiritu works across film, painting, textiles, performance, and social practice.
Ndiritu won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in 2024 and the Jarman Film Award in 2022 for her films ‘Black Beauty’ and ‘Becoming Plant’. Recent solo exhibitions include; Labour, Kate MacGarry, London; The Healing Pavilion, Wellcome Collection, London; Healing The Museum, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium; Grace Ndiritu Reimagines the FOMU Collection, FOMU, Antwerp; Grace Ndiritu: An Absolute River, LUX, London; Ghent: How to Live Together, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium; The Ark, Bluecoat, Liverpool; A Return to Normalcy: Birth of a New Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.
Ndiritu’s The Blue Room was included in the 17th Lyon Biennale, Crossing the Water, at Musee d’art contemporian de Lyon. Recent group shows include Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-Chia and Friends, Kettles Yard, Cambridge; Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience, Migros Museum, Zurich; British Art Show 9 and more.
