Beyond the Matrix: A Sculptural Exhibition by Jodie Carey, Supported by the Association of Women in the Arts

Curated by Eve Miller and supported by Brookfield Properties x AWITA (Association of Women in the Arts)

This sculptural exhibition is on view from March - September 2024, and free and open to all, Monday through Friday from 9am-6pm.

100 Bishopsgate provides a new context for three series of installations by British artist, Jodie Carey: Stand (2017), Found (2018), and Untitled (a woven tapestry). At once industrial and abstract, the monumental sculptures from the series Stand (2017) were made from the earth casts of timber pulled from the eaves of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Carey buried lengths of salvaged wood in the soil, lifting them out to form rudimentary moulds. Into these imprints she pours plaster which, once solidified and excavated, bear remnants of the soil, stones and plant roots absorbed during this process.

Large-scale urns from the series Found (2018), commissioned by the Foundling Museum, were made by submerging giant rolls of hessian fabric into the ground. A large freestanding work on a frame is made from strips of fabric dipped in plaster, woven and coloured with small brush marks of chalk and pencil across each, revealing the wear and tear of labour and the passage of time by mark making.

These works in the new environment of 100 Bishopsgate invite viewers into a contemplative dialogue with the materials and processes employed. Over the past decade, Jodie Carey has explored the universal human urge to make an impression on our surroundings. Through site-responsive sculptural installations, Carey’s work adopts culturally universal, age-old artistic methods of creation, often evoking ritualistic or primitive traditions. Her work emphasizes the relationship between object making and commemoration, whilst also looking to the physical world as a repository of material memory.

READ: Press coverage of the exhibition in Art Plugged.

LISTEN TO: The Activated Connects Podcast: Episode One - Motherland x AWITA

MOTHERLAND

To mark International Women’s Day and celebrate the installation by Jodie Carey, Brookfield Properties hosted a panel talk on balancing parenthood and career. A discussion with Artist Jodie Carey, Prue Freeman, founder of Daisy Green Food and Kate Hart, Chief Executive of the EC Business Improvement District, Primera. Mediated by Nancy Durrant the Culture Editor and a weekly columnist at the Evening Standard.

Introduction by Sigrid Kirk, the Co-Founder and Curator of AWITA and Saff Williams, Curatorial Director of Brookfield Properties Europe.

While we celebrate IWD International Women’s Day the unvarnished truth is that it’s still hard to build a career in the art, creative or business world that is compatible with parenting. How important are the allegiances and friendships we encounter as mothers? Is surviving enough? What practical protocols could be hard wired into our companies and organizations to help artists and workers who are parents?