BIOGRAPHIES
Sophie Cundale (b. 1987) is an artist living and
working in London. Previous work has been commissioned by Serpentine
Galleries and the South London Gallery; screened at Temporary Gallery,
Cologne, Spike Island, Bristol, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand,
Catalyst Arts, AMINI festival, Belfast, VCD festival, Beijing and
Innsbruck Biennale, Austria; and hosted on vdrome.org. The Near Room at
the South London Gallery is her first major solo exhibition, and travels
in October 2020 to Bonington Gallery, Nottingham.
Penny Goring (b. 1962) lives and works in London and graduated in
1994 from Kingston School of Art in London with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art
(Painting). Goring makes drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, and
poems that access recurring personal trauma visions, and by layering
these with grief, anxiety, imagination and rage, the subsequent invented
mythologies become explorations of the contemporary state of emergency -
where violence is commonplace, structural, intimate, where loss of
freedoms is forgotten or keenly lamented, and there is no rescue or
escape. Goring has exhibited at, amongst others, ICA, London; Tate, St.
Ives; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; South London Gallery and Arcadia
Missa, London.