FTHo

Friday 20 March 7.23–9.51pm

Durational work and spatial intervention with Clichee Toupee, Depletion, Mun Sing (1.5 x performance) & TLC23

This piece is developed by Katie Shannon in collaboration with the artists involved in response to her recent residency period at Flat Time House and research into O-structure* supported by the Chelsea Arts Club Trust 2025–26.

This event is free and unticketed, starting at 19:23 sharp, at some point thereafter the doors will be locked. Please support (if you can) the continuation of the artists in precarity's activities by bringing a cash donation. Property owners will be charged. Ear protection may be advised.

Flat Time House's current artist-in-residence is Søren Rye. Søren will spend his time at FTHo working in the studio and exploring the archive, while continuing ongoing research at the Warburg Institute on the relationship between artworks and their photographic reproduction. He is particularly interested in what photographic documentation cannot convey, and how this absence creates space for projection and narrative. Søren will move between the Warburg Institute and Flat Time House, both organisations sharing a commitment to experimentation, though they work with knowledge through different traditions.

The life and work of Barbara Steveni (1928–2020), who described herself as an artist–activist, embodied an archive and pioneered a diffused art practice that resists clear definition. Invisible threads interlink the various roles she played in the contexts within which she was situated and responding to. As with other women artists of her generation she combined childrearing and managing domestic chores with the production of work, and was frequently overshadowed by her male partner’s success. The importance of Steveni’s role in the Artist Placement Group (APG) was often marginalised by gender-inflected terms such as ‘honorary secretary’, her practice was rarely recognised as having a value in its own right. The exhibition I Find Myself intends to redress this imbalance and encompass her life’s work, drawing together her practice and her experimentation with materials, media and strategies across a career spanning more than seventy years.

I Find Myself, co-curated by Jo Melvin and FTHo Curator/Director Gareth Bell-Jones was first presented at Modern Art Oxford in 2025.