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Gen Memory
artist . curator . composer . writer
Not quite there @connective.impulse
Gen has been curating visual art experiences since 2016 and has a passion for bringing others together to create, work towards a common goal, and engage in conversations through art.
Gen's most ambitious curation project to date is Not quite there, 2022, which brought together ten diverse visual art/photography/video/sound artists and was presented over two gallery spaces. This project was co-curated and developed in collaboration with emerging interdisciplinary visual artist Vicky Satchwell, whose ongoing body of work with the uncanny textile surrogate doll was the inspiration.
Eight of the original Not quite there artists went on to form the collective Connective Impulse in April 2023, and in March-April 2024, staged their first exhibition together at Logan Art Gallery.
Not quite there, March-April 2024, Logan Art Gallery
Nick Ashby, Sharna Barker, Leah Emery, Timothy Fairless, Gen Memory, Vicky Satchwell, Joe Swepson and Leisa Turner.
Curated by Gen Memory.
Artwork credit: Vicky Satchwell, Sharna Barker, Gen Memory and Joe Swepson. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Vicky Satchwell, Sharna Barker, Gen Memory and Leisa Turner. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Nick Ashby, Vicky Satchwell and Gen Memory. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Gen Memory, Not quite there (body parts), participatory art project. Photo credit: Gen Memory
Artwork credit: Joe Swepson, The Weight. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Leah Emery. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Timothy Fairless, Sharna Barker and Joe Swepson. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Leisa Turner. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Leisa Turner, Swan Song (detail). Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Leisa Turner, Doll House IV. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Vicky Satchwell, Semco series. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Nick Ashby, Vicky Satchwell and Gen Memory. Photo credit: Christina Lowry
Artwork credit: Joe Swepson and Timothy Fairless. Photo credit: Timothy Fairless
Not quite there, November-December 2022, Grey Street and Project Galleries
Working across a diversity of media including textiles, installation, sculpture, photography, video, sound, and painting, the artists in this group show are collectively preoccupied with the body. Some bodies are clothed, others not. Some are implied, but absent – whose clothes are these, whose shoes? Some are whole, some are broken, while others have been meticulously repaired. Some are static, some are in flux. Some are real, others mere simulacra. These bodies and their traces, disconcerted in their surroundings, are re-viewed with new eyes. Disjunctive and disquieting. Uncomfortable.
This exhibition explores the strangeness of being in a body and the sense of the uncanny that sometimes emerges when seeking to represent the body and its vestiges in the contemporary landscape – landscape being defined as anywhere the body finds itself. The bodies in Not quite there challenge the gallery visitor to engage in an interactive and immersive installation experience that intrigues the senses. Seen and unseen – present yet absent.
Nick Ashby, Sharna Barker, Leah Emery, Timothy Fairless, Jacinta Giles, Genevieve Memory, Vicky Satchwell, Joe Swepson, Leisa Turner and Henri van Noordenburg. Curated by Genevieve Memory and Vicky Satchwell.
Grey Street Gallery
Artwork credits: Nick Ashby, Sharna Barker, Genevieve Memory and Vicky Satchwell
Artwork credits: Nick Ashby, Leah Emery, Genevieve Memory, Vicky Satchwell and Henri van Noordenburg
Artwork credits: Leah Emery, Genevieve Memory, Joe Swepson and Henri van Noordenburg
Artwork credits: Leah Emery and Vicky Satchwell
Project Gallery
Artwork credits: Jacinta Giles and Joe Swepson
Artwork credits: Joe Swepson and Timothy Fairless
Artwork credits: Leah Emery, Leisa Turner, Vicky Satchwell, Genevieve Memory, Nick Ashby and Jacinta Giles
Artwork credits: Sharna Barker, Genevieve Memory and Vicky Satchwell
Artwork credits: Vicky Satchwell, Sharna Barker and Joe Swepson
Artwork credits: Joe Swepson, Timothy Fairless, Vicky Satchwell, Genevieve Memory and Sharna Barker
Artwork credits: Genevieve Memory, Leisa Turner, Nick Ashby and Jacinta Giles
Artwork credits: Vicky Satchwell
Artwork credits: Leah Emery, Leisa Turner and Vicky Satchwell
Artwork credits: Genevieve Memory, Leisa Turner and Nick Ashby
Artwork credits: Nick Ashby and Genevieve Memory
Artwork credits: Nick Ashby, Jacinta Giles, Genevieve Memory and Leisa Turner
Photo credits: Louis Lim
"Beautifully curated... I want to sit down in that chair and eat one of those cakes!" Russell Craig
"This is quite the achievement!" Pamela See
"The installation is so well done, you don't even notice it." Bill Platz
"Fantastic!" Sam Cranstoun
"Really well curated." Jacinta Giles
"It's very political." Sophie, Danish tourist
"Really cohesive - looks like a hive mind at work." Dan
"I think this is the best show I've ever seen at QCA!" Jen
Video credit: Timothy Fairless
Sound credit: Timothy Fairless and Genevieve Memory, Not quite there, 2022, sound composition, 15:15
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