Commission for DCA

 

COMMISSION
for the exhibition We Contain Multitudes, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2026

Brilliant start to the year with a studio visit from Beth Bate and Tiffany Boyle from DCA to discuss the Crip project, and a large-scale bindweed commission for the 2026 group exhibition, We Contain Multitudes.

The exhibition is part of a larger collaborative project between Collective, DCA and LUX Scoltand, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. It aims to create systemic change in the visual arts, tackling ableism in the sector and imagining a future in which disabled artists have increased access to opportunities, are visible, and their expertise and experiences are truly valued.

We Contain Multitudes, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Saturday 8 February—Sunday 23 March 2026

Curated by Tiffany Boyle, with artists Andrew Gannon, Daisy Lafarge, Jo Longhurst and Nnena Kalu.


 

Catalogue, George Stubbs & Contemporary Artists

 

Catalogue to accompany the exhibition Beneath the Surface: George Stubbs & Contemporary Artists, Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, July 30 – November 3, 2024

With an introduction by Sir Nicholas Penny on behalf of the Fitzwilliam trustees; an overview of George Stubbs by Caroline Krzesinska and Richard Hill; and texts by Kate Stoddart, curator of the contemporary works, and Victoria Ryves, Head of Culture and Engagement at Wentworth Woodhouse.

Artists: Sutapa Biswas, Tracey Emin, Jochem Hendricks, Kathleen Herbert, Jo Longhurst, Melanie Manchot, Ugo Rondinone, Geroge Stubbs, Mark Wallinger, Hugo Wilson.

Published by Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. ISBN 978-0-85101-705-1

 

Exhibition, Becoming Animal

Becoming Animal, Willesden Gallery
95 High Road, London NW10 2SF

Private View 7 August, 6–9pm

Artists: Masha Barks, Daria Ivans, Jo Longhurst, Tina Ribarits, Thomas Thwaites, Joanna Wierzbicka

Curated by Hazel Yiran Liu of Goldsmiths MFA Curating, the exhibition invites viewers to experience the dynamic process of becoming animal by presenting them with different perspectives and perceptions of animals through painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation.

Poster image: Jo Longhurst, Pelt, 2018 (detail)

 

Exhibition, Wentworth Woodhouse

 

Beneath the Surface: George Stubbs & Contemporary Artists
Curated by Kate Stoddart

Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham
July 30 – November 3, 2024

An exhibition to celebrate the 300th birthday of artist, George Stubbs, including works painted during Stubbs’ time at Wentworth Woodhouse in 1762. Shown in dialogue with contemporary artists, the exhibition goes ‘beneath the surface’, exploring Stubbs as a bold and curious artist, unpicking themes that remain relevant today. 

Artists: Sutapa Biswas, Tracey Emin, Jochem Hendricks, Kathleen Herbert, Jo Longhurst, Melanie Manchot, Ugo Rondinone, Geroge Stubbs, Mark Wallinger, Hugo Wilson.

Image credit: George Stubbs, Mares and Foals with an Unfigured Background, 1762. Private collection.

 

International Womens Day talk

Conversations about Gender and Disability

Online and in person event for International Womens Day, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, 27 March 2024, 1-2pm

Artist Jo Longhurst introduces her ongoing body of work Crip as a starting point for staff responses and discussion designed to foster dialogue and action concerning disability and gender inclusion. This session will bring together university staff and postgraduate students to create a platform that amplifies voices and lived experiences shaped by gender and disability. Significantly, the forum will identify the priorities and experiences of disabled staff members, setting the stage for action and awareness in preparation for the School of Medical Science’s next Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiative in 2025, which will focus on disability.

 

Inaugural Ben Cove Award

Ben Cove Award Winner

Ben Cove (1974 – 2016) was an integral part of the SPACE artist community and the London art scene, spending 10 years working in The Triangle building in Hackney from 2006 until his untimely death in 2016.

The Estate of Ben Cove and SPACE look forward to continuing to celebrate Ben’s artistic and personal legacy through the Ben Cove Award, the inaugural recipient Jo Longhurst announced to coincide with the close of Ben Cove in SPACE at SPACE Ilford, 2024. 

The SPACE community is integral to the existence of this award. It was this community of friends and fellow artists who instigated a collection in Ben’s name, with the specific aim of enabling artists to further their careers by removing some of the financial constraints. To acknowledge the support of this community, the first recipient of the Ben Cove Award will be a current SPACE Studio artist. Ben’s family have specified the awarded artist to identify as having a disability, including neurodiversity.

The selection panel consisted of the Cove family, SPACE Head of Artist Development Karen Davies, and Joanne Bushnell, Director of Aspex Gallery.

award announcment


 

Fundraiser, Postcards for Palestine

Fundraiser

Longhurst donates postcards to the Postcards for Palestine fundraising initiative set up by artist Peter Watkins. Donated works will be for sale at a flat rate of €20/£20

Berlinskej Model, Prague, 12th December 6pm - 9pm

Claire de Rouen Books, London, 14th - 16th December

Opening event 14th December 6pm - 9pm

There will be a list of exhibiting artists, but the authors of the artworks will only be revealed upon purchase. All proceeds will go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and the UN Relief and Works Agency.

www.postcardsforpalestine.com


 

Studio Voltaire Online Resource

Lisa Slominski in conversation with Jo Longhurst, August 30 2023

A subtitled recording is now available on the Studio Voltaire Resources page. Watch writer and curator Lisa Slominski as she leads an in-conversation with artist Jo Longhurst about her ongoing body of work 'Crip'.⁠
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Following a screening of 'Here, Now' (2023) the pair discussed Longhurst’s research, the act of working collectively and her work’s relationship to the theory of ‘crip time’. ⁠
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View recording

 

Lisa Slominski in conversation with Jo Longhurst

Lisa Slominski in conversation with Jo Longhurst
ONLINE August 30 2023, 6.30–7.30 pm BST

Writer and curator Lisa Slominski leads an in-conversation with artist Jo Longhurst about her ongoing body of work Crip.

Following a screening of Here, Now (2023) the pair will discuss Longhurst’s research, the act of working collectively and her work’s relationship to the theory of ‘crip time’. The theory, which lies at the intersection of feminist, disability, and queer studies, elaborates how the disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill encounter time and space differently from able-bodied or minded persons.

Here, Now is a new moving image work developed alongside the formation of unseen collective, a group of eight women and non-binary identifying artists living with unseen disabilities and conditions.

The experiences shared through one-to-one discussions, online presentations and group meetings informed and activated Longhurst’s research. The collective members are a central feature of the film.

The event will take place online, via zoom. The in-conversation will be pre-recorded, and provided with subtitling.

Attendees will be emailed a link to participate prior to the event.

Free, all welcome. Booking essential

 

Dialogues, Artists from the Hyman Collection

JO LONGHURST in CONVERSATION with LUCY SOUTTER

Dialogues — Artists from the Hyman Collection, Tuesday 6th June 2023, 6pm BST

Westminster Photography Forum, Wood Lecture Theatre, Univesity of Westminster, Ground Floor, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

Lucy Soutter is an artist, critic, art historian, and Reader at the University of Westminster. Her research focuses on questions of value and meaning in contemporary art and photography. Her book Why Art Photography?, first published in 2013, is now in its second edition. Her key research interests consider ambiguity, objectivity, fiction, authenticity and contemporary photography’s overlap with other art forms and activities within an expanded field of practice.

www.britishphotography.org

University of Westminster CREAM


 

Print Sale, Centre for British Photography

Fundraiser for the Centre for British Photography

Longhurst donates a print from the series A dangerous insinuation to the Centre for British Photography which opens in London, January 2023.

Priced at £70 in an open edition, the prints will be available to purchase from 17 November – 19 December 2022. Funds raised will go towards the Centre and the Hyman Foundation’s support of photographers in Britain, through commissions, grants, acquisitions and sales.

Photographers participating in the sale are Heather Agyepong, Frederic Aranda, Sian Bonnell, Tessa Bunney, The Caravan Gallery, Natasha Caruana, Edmund Clark, Robert Darch, Sian Davey, John Davies, Lottie Davies, Craig Easton, Jillian Edelstein, Mark Edwards, Anna Fox, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Ken Grant, Brian Griffin, Sunil Gupta, Judy Harrison, Paul Hart, Paul Hill, Jane Hilton, Tom Hunter, David Hurn, Dafydd Jones, Karen Knorr, Barry Lewis, Jenny Lewis, Jo Longhurst, Tom Lovelace, Sarah Maple, Celine Marchbank, Colin McPherson, Daniel Meadows, Carolyn Mendelsohn, David Moore, Jim Mortram, Cheryl Newman, Laura Pannack, Martin Parr, Polly Penrose, Charlie Phillips, Paul Reas, Simon Roberts, Michelle Sank, Helen Sear, Paul Seawright, Andy Sewell, Jem Southam, Homer Sykes, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Paloma Tendero, Jon Tonks, Bindi Vora and Donovan Wylie.

www.britishphotography.org.


 

3sat, TierART:Hunde

 

TV DOCUMENTARY
TierART:Hunde, 3sat, August 16 2022

One of a 5 part series of programmes on human animal relations as depicted in art.

Including artists David Capra, Amit Elkayam, Jochem Hendricks, David Hockney, Jo Longhurst, Pablo Picasso, David Shrigley, Andy Warhol, William Wegmann and Christopher Wool.

A Kobalt production directed by Katrin Sandmann.

 

New Commission for Hapax

 

MAGAZINE
Hapax: Commissioning and Publishing New Photography. Issue No 2, Summer 2022

Hapax is created by commissioning international lens-based artists, writers and curators who are keen to test new ideas which depart from their previously established creative practice.

For her artist pages, A Dangerous Insinuation, Jo introduces her recent engagement with the notion of crip time - a theory, at the intersection of feminist, disability, and queer studies which elaborates how the disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill experience time (and space) differently to able-bodied/ minded people. Her pages include her own photographs of bindweed - an undesirable, marginalised plant, which grows in an anticlockwise direction - and a reproduction of Portrait of a Patient, a salt print from 1855 by Dr H. W. Diamond, a psychiatrist, and co-founder of the Royal Photographic Society, London.

Issue 2 also includes newly commissioned works by artists Alice Duncan, Gaia Cambiaggi, Sana Ginwalla and Yvette Monahan, and new curations from Eva Eicker considering the work of Bieke Depoorter, Emil Lombardo, and Zora J. Murff and Rana Young; and Isabella Seniuta curating images from the archive of James Barnor.

The magazine is published in print format and the content is not showcased online.

ISSN: 2754-2882

 

Animals book

 

BOOK
Animals: Photographs that make you think, Henry Carroll, Abrams Image, New York, 2021

This immersive ecosystem of images and ideas considers how human physicality shapes our appreciation for some animals and repulsion for others; it exposes the politicized conventions of natural history and explores animals as personal, cultural and spiritual symbols.

ISBN: 978-1-4197-5146-2

 

BowWowWow

 

PATRON SCHEME
BowWowWow is an art patron scheme which offers bespoke canine portraits by Jo Longhurst.

For a fixed donation patrons receive a unique, custom-made portrait of their dog, produced to exhibition standard. The portraits are inspired by Longhurst’s body of work The Refusal, which explores the intimate relationship between human and dog.

A brochure with further details is available from bowwowwow@jolonghurst.com

 

Fifty Years of Art, The Hiscox Collection

 
 

CATALOGUE
Fifty Years of Art: The Hiscox Collection 1970–2020, published by Hiscox/Whitechapel Gallery

Global insurer Hiscox have been collecting modern and contemporary art for fifty years, and their significant collection comprises 1000 works by international artists at the forefront of contemporary practice. Including work by Etel Adnan, Nan Goldin, David Hockney, Joan Miró, Eduardo Paolozzi and Pablo Picasso, the collection will be on public view for the first time in two consecutive displays at Whitechapel Gallery: the first curated by British painter Gary Hume (b.1962) and the second by Berlin-based Venezualean artist Sol Calero (b.1982 ).

This comprehensive catalogue explores Hume and Calero’s selections with texts by both artists as well as images of the works exhibited. The book also serves as a reader of the last fifty years of contemporary art. Selected works from the Hiscox Collection appear alongside a timeline of the collection and a brand new interview between Whitechapel Gallery Director, Iwona Blazwick, and founder of the Hiscox Collection, Robert Hiscox.

The Hiscox Collection, includes two of Longhurst’s works; Vincent and I know What You’re Thinking .

ISBN  978-0-85488-287-8

 
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