“To arrive at the new, the imagination must be unbound, that is, without judgement, essentially lawless, free to transgress. The judgement of taste kills the soul of beauty, binds the Lawless Imagination and leaves the object inanimate. But, left to its wild and unbounded nature, Lawless Imagination springs adroitly to the New and catches it in it’s bloody teeth, grinning…”*

We’re excited to invite you all to our next Group Show ‘Lawless Imagination’. This multidisciplinary show from international artists opens on the 30th November until 9th December, 11am - 6pm daily.

Join us for two events throughout this show:

An evening of performance, poetry and spoken word on Saturday 2nd December, 6pm - 9pm.

Our closing finissage on Saturday 9th December 6pm - 9pm.  Come meet the artists and listen to live jazz in our winter garden.

RuptureXIBIT provides artists with the opportunity to show experimental work, in an environment that allows you to take risks and push the boundaries of your practice in search of the New.

* Excerpts of writing by Kate Howe “in response to a Wild Parlour Philosophy Collective meeting in which we revisited Deleuze: Kant’s Critical Philosophy, alongside Jean-Luc Nancy’s Sense of the World.”

POST SHOW:

Last night saw the closing event for our group show ‘Lawless Imagination’. It was an incredible evening, full of music, performance and great conversation between a whole bunch of  artists and art lovers who came from across the nation to celebrate with us.

We kicked off the evening with live performance from Lili Murphy-Johnson, her appropriately titled ‘Welcome Mat’ offering a surprising greeting to our visitors. This was followed by Charlie Betts in a live primal drawing performance entitled ‘the Sound of Becoming Visible,’ poetry by the fireside from Aleksandra Durman who read ‘My Painted Poems’ and Robin Vaughan-Williams reading a selection of poems from their collection ‘How to Fix a Human’.

From 7pm, everyone enjoyed cozy refreshments including mulled wine and mince pies as the wonderful Mood Indigo Trio played live Jazz in our Winter Garden. With drawing, painting, sculpture and installation to be found around every surprising corner of the studio. Our RuptureVision underground cinema added a new dimensions (we had the opportunity to borrow the basement!) showing 14 films.

Performances resumed in the front gallery amongst Kate Howe’s growing installation ‘Instructions to the other from the Mother’. Rose Arbuthnott read a selection of poems and Olivia England read their recent writing' ‘Performative discomfort whilst performing woman’. Kate Howe closed the evening by performing, within and in response to, their installation, a Butoh dance ‘Fidelity loss inevitable’ to Nick Parkin’s ‘Island of Dust’.

The band continued and we partied for the rest of the evening, celebrating the collective triumph that was Lawless Imagination.