In this soup we swim

mudlarking Kingsgate Project Space is the gallery-cum-testing ground for projects supported by Kingsgate Workshops. Kingsgate Workshops is principally interesting in supporting artists at key stages in their career, most often recent graduates. We think, however, that supporting emerging artists is only interesting and valuable if it is done in conversation and exchange with established practice. Young artists do not leave the cosseted and protective studios of art schools to emerge blinking into a bright and silent nothing. No, they join a boisterous and polyglot swell of thinking, making, testing, showing, talking, erasing and re-making. mudhoney In this soup we swim is a small sample – a soupçon - of the rich and strange chorus of art making in London, Kent, Sussex and Devon. Works by Phyllida Barlow, Jeffery Camp, Gerard Hemsworth and others represent what is achieved by a long career in the studio. Varda Caivano, Jack Lavender, Paul Housley and others are the mid-career artists whose influence and inspiration is strongly felt in this year’s graduate shows. mud bath And into this throng are artists currently studying MAs at Camberwell and RCA as well as recent graduates from Slade, Goldsmiths, Leeds and Royal Drawing School.