Jupiter Walk
Lulu Bennett, Steph Huang, Jean-François Krebs, Madeleine Pledge and Anna Woodward
01 - 24 June 2023
[last lines]
Ripley: Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew - Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas - are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
[to Jonesy the cat]
Ripley: Come on, cat.
Across painting and sculpture, Bennett, Huang, Krebs, Pledge and Woodward contemplate space in relation to humanity. These objects, emblems of aspiration, ego, otherness, longing and fear, together form a collection of past-and-future totems. They constitute symbols of community, commodity, politics, Politics, and existence, and underline the bizarre reality of being so... human.
Anna Woodward (b. 1998) lives and works in London. She gained both her MA and BA Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School, in 2020 and 2022 respectively. She had her first solo exhibition, A Cloned Realm, at Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal, earlier this year. Selected group exhibitions include: Tomorrow, is Tomorrow, is Tomorrow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2023); Second Expression, The Split Gallery, London (2022); City and Guilds of London Art School MA Show, London (2022); I’ll Be Your Mirror, Boisdale of Bishopsgate (2022); and The Reality in Whytch You Create, Studio West, London.
Lulu Bennett (b. 1995) graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2017 and Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. Solo exhibitions include Alive in Actual Time, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2023); Ariel, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Tears Like Northern Rain, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020), Bloomsbury Festival Art Prize, Senate House Library, London (2019) and Louis Bennett: Three Paintings, The Storey Gallery, Lancaster (2017). Group exhibitions include Shortlist Exhibition East London Art Prize 2022, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK (2023); Untitled Miami Beach, Art Fair, Miami, USA (2022); Raising Boys, Black White Gallery, London (2022); Northern Deviants, Unit 3 Projects, London (2022); Enter Art Fair, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2021); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); Graduate Showcase, Saatchi Gallery, London (2020), and RCA/Slade Graduation Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020).
Jean-François Krebs studied landscape architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles, and horticulture in Ecole du Breuil in Paris. They were part of the Maumaus programme in Lisbon and did an exchange in Malmö Art Academy. They recently graduated from the MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London. In 2022 Krebs exhibited at Ugly Duck, IMT Gallery, Chisenhale Studios, Copeland Park, Goldsmiths St James Church (London), as well as Jeune Creation 72 and Galerie Jean-Collet (France). In 2021, they were part of the Fondation Martell residency, and exhibited at the Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain (France), Koraï Project Space (Cyprus), hArtslane Gallery and Access (London). Past solo shows include at Galerie du Granit (France), Umbigo magazine and Azan Space (Portugal). In 2023, they will exhibit at Dunkirk Triennale, and will take part in residencies in Cabana Georgina, Domaine de la Richardière, and Factatory (France). Krebs is a Fluxus Art Project 2023 laureate.
Madeleine Pledge (b. 1993, UK) lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA from the The Slade School of Fine Art in 2016. Selected solo and duo exhibitions include Weaponized Glamour, duo exhibition with Alice Channer, Case Study Project Space, London (2021; two-person exhibition with Alice Channer); Stretch, Flatland Projects, Hastings (2019); and Die Wohnung (The Dwelling), duo exhibition with Eva Gold, SET Project Space, London (2018). Selected group exhibitions include The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Between You and Me, San Mei Gallery, London (2022); On the Western Window Pane, Van Gogh House, London (2021); Like a Sieve, Kupfer, London (2020); The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Eastbourne (2019); Portrait (for a screenplay) of Beth Harmon, Tenderpixel, London (2017). In 2023, Pledge was a lead artist on the Camden Art Centre Transformative Futures programme. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award and was the recipient of a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award grant.
Steph Huang (b. 1990, Taiwan) is a London-based practitioner experimenting with sculpture, photography, moving image, sound and publishing. Selected solo exhibitions include: I Will See You When the Week Ends, Public Gallery, London (2023); Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Deep Shallow, Volt, Eastbourne (2022); and A Great Increase in Business Is on Its Way, Goldsmiths CCA, London (2022). Selected group exhibitions include: Short Term Pleasure, Long Term Pain, Public Gallery, London (2023); Look Mom No Hands 2: Sculpture After All, 9 French Place, London (2023); The Splendour of the Sun, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong (2023); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (2022); Between You and Me, San Mei Gallery, London (2022); Beuys Open Source, Belmacz, London (2021); I Missed My Prozac Dose, Filet, London (2020); Perpetual Shift, The Koppel Project, London (2019); and IMB, Belmacz, London (2019).
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