Bloc Projects Members Show

Exhibition:

Bloc Projects Members Show with Victoria Sharples, Sally Barton, Heavy Water, Jack Lewdjaw, Marina Yoshinari. Guest selected by Mala Yamey.

We are delighted to present a cross-section of work by practitioners who are part of Bloc Projects’ Members Scheme. Our guest selector this year is Mala Yamey, who had this to say about her selection process:

It was an honour to be invited to be this year’s guest selector for the Bloc Projects Members Show. With the strength of all applications received, I had very difficult decisions to make but a very enjoyable task ahead. The works that I’ve selected all stood out to me for multiple different reasons thinking through ideas of play, fairy tales, human and non-human interactions, and research-led processes: from playful sculptural installations by Jack Lewdjaw and Victoria Sharples; fairy tale interpretations of industrial action by Sally Barton; intimate photographs by Marina Yoshinari; and innovative ways of decolonising collections by Heavy Water. The wide variety of the selected works exemplifies the breadth of talent within Bloc Projects’ Members Scheme.

Mala Yamey is an independent curator and writer. She has been working in commercial galleries, auction houses and the non-profit art world. She has a BA in History of Art at the University of Cambridge, an MA in History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. Most recently, she co-curated Sea Change at the Royal Docks in May 2023. Mala works as the Head of Programs for Art South Asia Project and Associate Curator for Invisible Dust; she is also a member of the Lazy Susans Curating Collective.