IDEV / l'étrangère

13/06/2025

Pattern Cutters Part 1 at the Ragged School Museum in Mile End was the first of 4 one-week exhibitions curated by Jenni Lomax, Antoni Malinowski and Oona Grimes.

Transition – Transformation – Camouflage featured Saad Qureshi, alongside Oona Grimes, Avis Newman, Kathy Prendergast and Lara Smithson.

Part 2 Fabric - Fold - Time-flow, opens tomorrow with works by Liliane Lijn, Alice Channer, Antoni Malinowski, Alexandre da Cunha and Hélène Binet and a performance by Yong Min Cho at 4pm.

03/06/2025

This weekend sees the launch of Pattern Cutters at the Ragged School Museum in Mile End.

“Curated by Jenni Lomax, Antoni Malinowski and Oona Grimes, Pattern Cutters brings together a diverse mix of artists. Against the background of the Ragged School’s richly textured history, their use of fabric, threads, clothing, colour and form, begins to weave other stories - of memories of lives lived - of wear and tear - and of magic and the imagination.

Four week-long iterations produce a shift of emphasis by the different combinations of artists in each, where new alliances and dialogues are formed from their individual intentions, methods of making and use of materials.”

This Saturday 7 – Thursday 12 June, Saad Qureshi will be participating with three works from his Tanabana series.

The Tanabanas began as a creative dialogue during lockdown. Grounded in domesticity and a long family tradition in craft and needlework, they weave motifs from textiles, architecture and mythology into paper tapestries, drawing Qureshi’s practice as an artist with that of generations of makers before him.

Closing the festival, from 28 June – 6 July, Małgorzata Markiewicz is included in Mend - Masquerade – Reinvent.

Before that, come to I DE V / l’étrangère, where we have a presentation of Markiewicz’s Pinafores photographic series accompanying Su Richardson’s It’s In the Bag exhibition until 21 June 2025.

23/05/2025

23/05/2025

Thank you to Artur Wower Photography for these stunning images of Tatiana Wolska’s centrepiece installation in the staircase at Villa Gawrońskich.

NADA Villa Warsaw 2025 is open and free to visitors Friday - Sunday, 12 - 7pm.

Come and see us there, where Wolska’s Module sculptures are paired with her award-winning drawings.

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15/05/2025

NOW OPEN: To mark the opening of Su Richardson’s solo exhibition at Midlands Arts Centre, we are delighted to announce a show of new sculpture at I DE V / l’étrangère.

Celebrated for her mordant and funny use of crochet to address feminist issues, It’s In the Bag focuses on nutrition and the economics of home-making in an era where convenience foods and delivery apps have boomed to meet the needs of a time-poor labour force in search of comfort and ease… but at what cost? In light of recent discoveries in metabolic health and the microbiome popularised by the likes of Chris van Tulleken and Tim Spektor, the challenges of balancing work with home life have brought new dimensions of complexity into the already vexed question of what to have for dinner.

Richardson presents a menu of enticing and handy takeaway bags crammed with ultra-processed goodies ranging from hamburgers and sausage rolls, noodles and baltis, to psychedelic doughnuts and cute-as-pie cupcakes, rendered in bright cotton and metallic yarns. The works are a characteristically sly invitation to a bit of what you fancy, but with lists of ingredients to make you question your choices. Playfully, they point to a desolation behind empty calories and abundance, to the real trade-offs at play when fresh and unprocessed foods weigh more heavily on the wallet than their oven-ready alternatives.

Her work features in Tate’s Women In Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 (at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester until 1 June), and the Hayward’s Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood (at Dundee Contemporary Arts until 13 July).

Su Richardson: In Stitches is at the Midlands Arts Centre until 1 June 2025.

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Photography Stephen White & Co

07/05/2025

I DE V / l’étrangère is delighted to announce our participation in NADA Villa Warsaw from 22 – 25 May 2025, with a presentation of works by Tatiana Wolska.

We will also be introducing exhibiting artists from our first year’s programme in the gallery at 55 Riding House Street, Fitzrovia.

Get in touch. We look forward to seeing you there!

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NADA Villa Warsaw brings together a diverse selection of 49 international galleries and art spaces from 24 cities and 15 countries to present artists in a collaborative exhibition format, engaging the distinctive character of Villa Gawrońskich, a neo-baroque architectural landmark located in the heart of Warsaw.

Organized with Michał Kaczyński (Raster), Marta Kołakowska (LETO Gallery), and Joanna Witek-Lipka, the initiative builds on Raster’s series of Villa Projects, an art fair alternative first initiated in Warsaw in 2006, with iterations held in Iceland, Japan, and Canada.

View the full participant list at newartdealers.org/warsaw.

30/04/2025

Thanks to Ashleigh Kane for featuring Su Richardson’s In Stitches at MAC Birmingham in her Dazed Digital Art Shows to leave the house for in May 2025.

We look forward to welcoming Ashleigh and her group to I DE V / l’étrangère, and sharing our exhibition of new work by Su with them on 28 May!

30/04/2025

Tower of Now (2025) is a major new artwork created by artist Saad Qureshi for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.

Saad Qureshi was born in Pakistan, then moved with his family to Bradford at the age of eight. Living across cultures, he examines and celebrates his diversity of experience and belief systems – something he shares with thousands of British citizens, whose identities have been formed by the extraordinary variety of cultural experiences that life in the UK presents today.

Memory and place are central themes in the work of Saad Qureshi, who is fascinated by the process by which we identify or recall a location by its built environment. In particular, Qureshi is interested in how motifs such as columns and domes are common across the world yet find varied expression from region to region – locating a building in place and also, sometimes, in time. Migration and tourism compound this variety, influencing and subtly transforming their environments.

Tower of Now takes its architectural inspiration both from Bradford and from around the globe, including Gothic, Flemish, Roman and Chinese architecture, as well as from religious traditions spanning Judeo-Christian, Hindu, Islamic and Buddhist influences. It combines a world of visual cues and associations into an artwork that invites interpretation, while also evoking a sense of place beyond itself. Tower of Now presents a lexicon of places that you may recognise – but also in which you may lose yourself. Photography credit

06/04/2025

“When I returned to making work, I felt like I was catching up on all the things that had happened not just in my life, but in all women’s lives. During those intervening years between your thirties and seventies, so many things happen: from motherhood to menopause and conditions like endometriosis, to experiences related to loss and caring.” (Su Richardson).
Thank you Ruth Millington for your great review of Su Richardson’s solo exhibition, “In Stitches”, at MAC Birmingham, published in Birmingham Post.

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