Showroom Gallery

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The Showroom Gallery in Tower Hamlets, London. The peculiar trapezoid shape of the main gallery provides opportunities for diverse and unique installations by commissioned artists.

The Showroom Gallery in Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom is a small independent art gallery that has been publicly funded since 1989, and is situated on Bonner Road, near Cambridge Heath railway station. Since its opening, it has had three directors that have developed a rich history and network of artists that play a key part in contemporary art in the UK. The founding Director was David Thorpe who was succeeded by Kim Sweet under whom the gallery had its major impact with artists, critics and curators.

Throughout its history, the core exhibition policy of The Showroom has been to offer artists a first solo show in London, although recently this has matured into a policy of only commissioning individual artists to make new works for the space. For many years the gallery was somewhat remote and therefore distinct from other contemporary art spaces but the expansion of the London Art Scene in the late 1990s created a number of private and public galleries in the area causing Showroom to loose some of its distinctiveness. Core funding was originally provided by London Arts Board. When Showroom was passed as a client to Arts Council of England in 2001 this created an overprovision of visual art spaces in Tower Hamlets that in 2005 is under review.

Solo shows at The Showroom Gallery have been a starting point for many well known artists, including Mona Hatoum, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Starling, Christina Mackie, Jim Lambie, Claire Barclay and Eva Rothschild. Many of the artists who have had shows at the Showroom have gone onto be shortlisted or even win prestigious prizes such as the Turner Prize and Beck's Futures.

The Showroom also maintains a strong online presence, offering a wide range of archive materials for many of their exhibitions.

1 List of artists with shows at The Showroom Gallery
- 1.1 1990s
- 1.2 2000 onwards
2 External link

[edit] List of artists with shows at The Showroom Gallery

[edit] 1990s

Jim Lambie's 1999 installation 'Zobop' uses floor tape to reconfigure the shape of the building. In 2005 he went on to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize for a similar work.

Francis Cape - September 1993
Forced Entertainment, Hugo Glendinning & Will Waghorn - November 1993
Gerard Williams - February 1994
Gordana Stanisic - May 1994
Sam Taylor-Wood - June 1994
Adrian Schiess - October 1994
desperate optimists (Christine Molloy and Joseph Lawlor) - March 1995
Freddy Contreras/Ceal Floyer - April 1995
Simon Starling - June 1995
Bum Boy (Michael Atavar, Pascal Brannan and Robert Pacitti) - October 1995
Stephanie Smith/Edward Stewart - November 1995
Florence Paradeis - April 1996
Elizabeth Wright - June 1996
Andrew Mount - July 1996
Anya Gallaccio, Douglas Gibb, Denise Hawrysio, Georges Perec, Daniel Spoerri, Gera Urkom & John Wilkins - October 1996
Phillip Lai - February 1997
George Barber, Clio Barnard, Alan Currall, Tacita Dean, Matthew Higgs, Tina Keane, Michael Maziere, Gregor Muir, Michael O'Pray and Stephen Partridge - April 1997
Fergal Stapleton/Rebecca Warren - June 1997
Keith Coventry - October 1997
Pierre Bismuth - March 1998
Will Bradley, Chris Evans, Alan Michael, Joanne Tatham & Tom OSullivan, Hayley Tompkins, Cathy Wilkes - April 1998
Stephen Murphy - July 1998
Fortuyn/O'Brien - November 1998
Christina Mackie - March 1999
Jim Lambie - June 1999
Andrea Mason + Philippe Bradshaw - October 1999
Oliver Zwink - December 1999