- Venue
- HS Projects
- Date
- Wednesday, May 14, 2025
06:00 PM - Address
- 12 Hammersmith Grove, London W6 7AP
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- HS Projects
With her sculptures Annie Trevorah conjures an alien species defined by adaptive features that safeguard survival in a precarious future. Her part human/ part plant hybrids have stood their ground in galleries, parks and gardens. Plant Power marks their propagation into the hustle and bustle of an office environment.
Groups of sensual cyborgs and symbiotic totems are huddled in opposite corners, exchanging water cooler stories under the watchful gaze of their mutant supervisors, whose predatory and fallible characteristics serve as reminders of the effects of climate change on all life-forms. Fusing organic and synthetic materials into intriguing monuments to human-plant interconnectivity, Trevorah merges eco-feminist theory with subtle humour to encourage reflection and reassurance.
On 14 May the artist will be in conversation with art historian and curator Jo Baring. – RSVP to [email protected]
Jo Baring is an art historian who is passionate about making art accessible to all. She is the Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art and a former Director of Christie’s UK.
Her popular podcast series Sculpting Lives was The Guardian’s ‘Podcast of the Week’ and was picked as a leading arts podcast by The Times, the Royal Academy and The Evening Standard. She is the editor of Revisiting Modern British Art which was called ‘a game-changer’ and writes for museums and national publications.
Baring was elected as the Frankland Visitor to Brasenose College, Oxford in 2023 and has given talks at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Tate, the Royal Academy and the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, amongst others. She has judged numerous art prizes, written and presented two films on artist Elisabeth Frink for Heni Talks and appeared on BBC One’s Fake or Fortune.
Completing her MA in Sculpture at the RCA in 2023, Annie Trevorah has been selected for prestigious exhibitions both nationally and internationally.
She had her first London solo show Symbiosis in February 2023,followed by Triffids, celebrating Chelsea Physic Garden’s 350th anniversary in October, and Nature is a Cyborg at ALICE BLACK Gallery in May 2024.
Public works include Memorial to a Memorial temporarily replacing Barbara Hepworth’s Single Form in Battersea Park, commissioned by Wandsworth Council in 2022, and this year’s ANANAS for Fulham Palace to commemorate the 50th anniversary of opening its house and gardens to the public, later taking up its place in Holland Parkas part of KCAW.
