Open Call | Woman, Everyday Objects and Memory
Submit works engaging with the intersections of women, everyday objects, and memory across any medium for a group exhibition.
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- 9 days left
- Entry fee
- Free
- Award
- Social media promotion, exhibition listing on gallery website, and a critical exhibition text by a professional critic to be published on an established UK arts media platform
- Location
- Both Gallery, 323 Archway Rd, London N6 5AA, United Kingdom
- Exhibition window
- Aug 11, 2026 → Aug 23, 2026
About
Overview
Patina is an exhibition taking everyday objects as its starting point, exploring how women's experience—largely lived in domestic space, rarely entered into public record—finds its voice in matter. The exhibition brings together works that attend to the quiet accumulation of time and memory through objects, with a particular focus on feminist perspectives and underrepresented voices.
Key Dates
- Installation: 10 August (daytime before 17:00)
- Private View: 10 August, 18:00–20:00
- Exhibition runs: 11–23 August 2026
- Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00–17:00
- Deinstallation: 23 August (from 17:00)
About the Exhibition
Patina refers to the lustre that forms on the surface of an object through years of handling—a beauty that accumulates slowly, through long use. The exhibition explores how women's experience finds its voice in matter, taking everyday objects as archives that absorb time and hold memory.
Media & Subject
Works engaging with the intersections of women, everyday objects, and memory are sought across any medium including but not limited to moving image, installation, painting, sculpture, performance, sound, and text.
How to Apply
- Submission deadline: 31 July 2026
- No restrictions on number of works submitted
What Artists Receive
Selected artists will benefit from social media promotion across Instagram and ArtRabbit, an exhibition listing on the Both Gallery website, and a critical exhibition text by a professional critic to be published on an established UK arts media platform. A minimum of 400 visitors is anticipated, supported through media coverage, on-site outreach, and public engagement programming including workshops and events. Works will not be available for sale during the exhibition.
About the Venue
- Address: 323 Archway Rd, London N6 5AA
- Directors: Justine Hounam & Donna Poingdestre
About the Curators
Patina is curated by Xinxin Li and Liyuan Sun, two London-based independent curators whose practices share a sustained focus on feminist contemporary art and the experiences of women and non-binary individuals. Both hold postgraduate degrees from the University of Edinburgh and have collaborated on multiple exhibitions across London and Shanghai, including They Call Me Witch (The Crypt Gallery, London, 2025), Corpus: Her Embodied Archive (Three Rooms Gallery, London, 2025), and Matriarchal Myth: A Group Exhibition of Women Artists (Aolab Experimental Gallery, Shanghai, 2025).
- Award
- Social media promotion, exhibition listing on gallery website, and a critical exhibition text by a professional critic to be published on an established UK arts media platform
- Entry fee
- Free to enter
- Theme
- The exhibition explores how women's experience, largely lived in domestic space and rarely recorded in public history, finds its voice through everyday objects and memory. Works should engage with the intersections of women, everyday objects, and memory—attending to how ordinary things become archives that absorb time and hold what language cannot.
- Eligibility
- Artists based in or able to travel to London are strongly encouraged to apply; no other eligibility restrictions stated.
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