Muddy Yard

23/02/2018

A group show about the very real feelings we experience offline when interacting online. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Chemically love ❤️ is the same online as it is offline. We get that dopamine hit and what we perceive as artificial, is physical and real. Should we be worried about potential addiction? We are getting physical, chemical reactions, and it does feel good, so does it even matter? Is URL love becoming a facsimile of IRL love? 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
With work by Andrew Ford / Alex McNamee / Anya Kashina / Beth Goodall / Dawn Parsonage / Ellie Pratt / Emily Simpson /
Giovanna Petrocchi / Hannah Dinz / Isabelle Zhizhi Southwood / Isobel Atacus / Jake Caleb / James Lincoln / Jamie Stiby Harris / Josh Way / Katarzyna Feiglewicz / Liadain Evans /
Madeleine Pledge / Maria de la O Garrido / Miki Holloway /
Nick Granata and Mattina Hiwaizi / Oliver Durcan /
Rebecca Bellantoni / Woz

16/01/2018

🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌚🌒🌓🌔 pics of MOONLIGHTING - an anonymous group show about the work people create outside of their general art practise and daily work life. THANK YOU to everyone who took part it’s the biggest group show we’ve had so far!

04/12/2017

Sangar was an exhibition of sculptures created by BASK during their residency at Muddy Yard. The sculptures were drawn from the overlaying angel's the surrounding estate made at sunset.

28/11/2017

To accompany the exhibition Sangar, by BASK, at Muddy Yard. Artist Jake Caleb led a drawing tour of Streatham at sundown.

17/11/2017

First the bad news, was an installation and performance that James Randell worked on during his time on the Muddy Yard residency. The work consisted of a performance and a set, built for the false prophet Johnny Loose.

26/10/2017

Documentation of Alex McNamees solo show at Muddy Yard. The title of the show is taken from an interview of Susan Sontag where she states “but the very nature of thinking is but … or either”.

16/10/2017

A PAY-AS-U-FEEL workshop run by Sean Roy Parker (PEFA projects). We learnt how to make a basic pickle liquor to preserve our leftover fruit and veg. Save money and reduce food waste!

02/10/2017

Documentation of our cross city collaboration with The Icing Room on the Victoria Line. From Brixton to Walthamstow and back again. Thank you to all who took part, including all of you travellers who we don't know! Ellie Pratt Isabelle Zhizhi Southwood Isobel Atacus George Morris Joshua Leon everyone at The icing room ###

15/09/2017

We did a Jools Holland like night at Muddy Yard called LIVE AT MUDDY YARD - here's episode 2 with the mighty Screaming Peaches the mighty Flyte and the mighty Grace Lightman special thank yous to the mighty Robert McNamee and the fighty Katie Craik

Filmed @ Screaming Peaches HQ Muddy Yard Shot and edited by Rob McNamee and Alex McNamee Sound and mixing by Hugh Fielding

24/08/2017

Muddy Yard's second artist in residence was George Morris. Here are some images of his brand spanking new solo show, called Codes of Conduct.

07/08/2017

Backchannel at Muddy Yard, 2017

Backchannel is the result of Muddy Yards first artist in residence - Lily Hawkes. Working in the space for a month she created a new body of work which she showed along side paintings by Ellie Pratt.

Backchannel : A sound or gesture made to give continuity to a conversation by a person who is listening to another.

07/08/2017

Chris Alton // Leah Clements // Mike Ditchburn // Lily Hawkes // Holly Hendry // Alex McNamee // Isabelle Southwood // Jamie Stiby Harris // Chris Taylor.

Sake will include new work by the above artists based in and making work around London. These artists are at a stage in their art making where they may see forks in the road appearing or pressures that weren’t felt before looming – it is getting increasingly harder to make art in London. It leads to an extremely important question of why we do what we do? Is the need to make art something innate, where the process is a necessity for the maker and becomes their purpose?
A greater sense of purpose makes you live longer, sleep better and have better s*x. Purpose gives life meaning. So are the activities we conduct with purpose self-serving? Is art our self-prescribed purpose pill?

Photography by Joshua Harrison Whitelaw