AWITA X JW ANDERSON

COVERSLUT©

Grace Ndiritu curated by ZELDA

10th to the 17th October | Install Photography

For the AWITA x JW Anderson curatorial series ZELDA proposes an installation of a series of existing works produced by Grace Ndiritu through the COVERSLUT© project. The artist works with refugees, migrants and young artists to produce collections of hand printed ‘utilitarian’ clothing informed by an array of references including the constructivists, club culture, and alternative spiritual communities.

Set against a backdrop where textile and haberdashery shops have lined the streets, Soho’s clubs, shopfronts, cafes and bars are widely recognised as historical sites for collective action, breeding grounds for dissenting and queer expressions of political action and cultural output.

Visit the COVERSLUT© website for more information.

Grace Ndiritu (b.1982, Birmingham) is a British-Kenyan artist whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Works including The Ark: Center for Interdisciplinary Experimentation; COVERSLUT© fashion and economic project; and performance art series, Healing The Museum, have been shown around the world since 2012. Recently, her debut short film Black Beauty has been selected for prestigious film festivals including 72nd Berlinale in the Forum Expanded section (2022) and 32nd FIDMarseille (2021). Ndiritu has been featured in TIME magazine, Phaidon’s The 21st Century Art Book, BOMB magazine,, Art Monthly and Elephant magazine. Her work is housed in museum collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The British Council and The Modern Art Museum (Warsaw). Her writing has been published in her critical theory book  Dissent Without Modification (Bergen Kunsthall) in 2021; The Whitechapel Gallery in the Documents of Contemporary Art anthology series; Animal Shelter Journal, Semiotext(e) The MIT Press; Metropolis M; and The Oxford University Press. 

ZELDA is an artist-centred arts advisory with a holistic approach. They cover a range of curatorial and consultancy services for artists, collectors, and organisations. Founded in early 2020 by Kate Phillimore and Mary Cork as an alternative to traditional commercial art consultancy models by committing a percentage of the income they earn to develop a range of free and accessible professional development platforms for artists who are underrepresented in the visual arts due to race, disability, gender, socio-economic position and caring responsibilities.

Mary Cork is Co-Director at ZELDA and ARCADE, a gallery and platform for performances in London and Brussels. She has over 15 years of experience in both the commercial and not-for-profit contemporary art sectors, with specialisms in the artist development, curation and the commercial art market.

Kate Phillimore Co-Director at ZELDA and has extensive experience working across specialisms including public realm commissioning, publishing and collection consulting. Kate’s focus is commissioning artists working in socially engaged, public contexts.