Motherland
Tuesday 5th March 2024 | 100 Bishopsgate
‘Found’, 2018 by Jodie Carey. ‘Beyond the Matrix’ Exhibition at 100 Bishopsgate.
BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES X AWITA: ‘BEYOND THE MATRIX’
A panel of three professionals spoke about their experiences developing and balancing a career and motherhood.
Nancy Durrant, Editor at the Evening Standard, moderated the conversation between artist Jodie Carey and two business professionals, Prue Freeman, Director of Daisy Green Collection, and Kate Hart, CEO at EC Business Improvement District.
The event launched the partnership between Brookfield Properties and AWITA, with the first installation of works by Jodie Carey at the 'Beyond the Matrix' exhibition. A partnership platforming the work and labour of female creatives.
Photography by PA Media.
Jodie Carey: 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 practice adopts culturally universal, age-old artistic methods of creation, often evoking ritualistic or primitive traditions. By revisiting these techniques, her oeuvre emphasises the relationship between object-making and commemoration while also looking to the physical world as a repository of material memory, silently registering the passage of time.
Carey (b. 1981) studied at Goldsmiths College, completing an MA in Sculpture at The Royal College of Art in 2007. Solo exhibitions include Guard, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2024 - forthcoming); Common Thread, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK (2020); Sea, The Foundling Museum, London, UK (2018); Stand, St Cyprian’s Clarence Gate, London, UK (2018); Dark Night by Daylight, Hå Gamle Prestegård, Nærbø, Norway (2014); Shroud, The Veterinary Anatomical Theatre, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (2013); Solomon’s Knot, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK (2012) and Somewhere, Nowhere, Pump House Gallery, London, UK (2011). Group exhibitions include Mother Art Prize, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (2023); Frieze Sculpture, The Regent’s Park, London, UK (2019); Sweep – Landskip, Kinokino, Sandnes, Norway (2018); Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2016); The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2015); Women to Watch 2015, UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, London, UK (2015) and Freud and Eros: Love, Lust and Longing, Freud Museum, London, UK (2014). Jodie Carey lives and works in London, UK.
Eve Miller, Curator of ‘Jodie Carey: Beyond the Matrix’, (b. 1995) holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art (2020), following a BA (Hons) in Painting and Printmaking from Glasgow School of Art (2017). She is currently the Sales Coordinator and Assistant to Directors at Edel Assanti. Prior to this, she held positions at Gagosian and White Cube, working across collections and exhibitions.