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Cubitt Artists is a British artist-run
art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...
, artist studios and
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, founded in 1991. Cubitt was first located in Goods Way in London's Kings Cross area, moved to Cubitt Street (from which it takes its current name), later to Caledonia Street, and is now located at Angel.


Cubitt Gallery

The Cubitt Gallery is funded by
Arts Council England Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three s ...
allowing it to offer the 18-month Cubitt Curatorial Fellowship to emerging curators (previously named the Curatorial Bursary from 2001 to 2015). Past Cubitt curators are: * Polly Staple (July 2001 – January 2003) * Emily Pethick (March 2003 – August 2004) * David Bussel (September 2004 – February 2006) * Tom Morton (April 2006 – August 2007) * Bart van der Heide (October 2007 – March 2009) * Michelle Cotton (April 2009 – November 2010) * Fiona Parry (December 2010 – May 2012) * Jamie Stevens (June 2012 – December 2013) * Fatima Hellberg (January 2014 – June 2015) * Morgan Quaintance (July 2015 – December 2016) * Louise Shelly (July 2018 – December 2019) The current recipients of the fellowship are Languid Hands, composed of DJ, filmmaker and curator Rabz Lansiquot and facilitator and live art practitioner Imani Robinson (2020 to present). The Cubitt Gallery has displayed work from a wide range of notable artists, including
Adam Chodzko Adam Chodzko (born 1965) is a contemporary British artist, exhibiting internationally. His practice uses a wide range of media, including video, installation, photography, drawing, and performance. Early life and education Adam Chodzko was bo ...
, Aleksandra Mir, Allen Ruppersberg, Angela Bulloch,
Billy Childish Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has le ...
, Boris Groys (''Thinking in Loop'', 2008), Carol Bove, Cathy Wilkes, David Robbins, Florian Hecker,
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, Gustav Metzger (''Eichmann and the Angel'', 2005), Harun Farocki,
Henri Chopin Henri Chopin (18 June 1922 – 3 January 2008) was a French avant-garde poet and musician. Life Henri Chopin was born in Paris, 18 June 1922, one of three brothers, and the son of an accountant. Both his siblings died during the war. One was sh ...
, Ida Applebroog, Jack Goldstein, Jimmy Robert (''Figure de Style'', 2008), Kenneth Anger, Marjetica Potrč, Matthew Day Jackson,
Paul Noble Paul Noble (born 1963) is a British visual artist. Life and career Noble studied at Humberside College of Higher Education (1983–1986) and Sunderland Polytechnic (1982–1983), before moving to London in 1987. He was one of the five foun ...
, Tacita Dean,
Willem de Rooij Willem de Rooij (born 1969 in Beverwijk, Netherlands) is an artist and educator working in a variety of media, including film and installation. He investigates the production, contextualization and interpretation of images. Appropriations and collab ...
("Birds", 2009) and Tris Vonna Michell (''Tall Tales and Short Stories'', 2007), Ajamu (''Archival Sensoria'', 2020), R.I.P Germain (''Dead Yard'', 2020) and Camara Taylor (a ''rant! a reel!'', 2021). To support the ongoing artistic programme of the Gallery, a limited edition set titled the ''Cubitt Print Box'' was offered for sale in 2000. This is a set of twenty works produced by contemporary artists Alex Katz (''Dark Eyes'', 2000), Ceal Floyer (''Etching (at 45 rpm)'', 2000), Chris Ofili (''no title'', 2000), Elizabeth Wright (''Snowball'', 2000), Gareth Jones (''Diamond'', 2000),
Giorgio Sadotti Giorgio Sadotti (born 1955 in Manchester, UK) is a conceptual artist based in London. In 1993, Sadotti exhibited at City Racing, and in 1996 participated in a group show organised by City Racing at Bricks and Kicks in Vienna run by Muntean and ...
(''Don't Look'', 2000), Hilary Lloyd (''Shopfront'', 2000), James Pyman (''On the Sound'', 2000), Jane Simpson (''Sunset Still Life'', 2000), Jochen Klein (''Untitled'', 2000), Martin Creed (''Work No. 233'', 2000), Matthew Higgs (''Despair'', 2000), Paul McCarthy (''Dog'', 2000), Paul Noble (''Playframe'', 2000), Peter Doig (''Echo Lake'', 2000), Peter Pommerer (''Giraffe with Blue Coloured Eyes'', 2000), Piotr Uklański (''no title'', 2000), Scott King (''Joy Division, The Moonlight Club, 4 April 1980, West Hampstead, London, England'', 2000), Tacita Dean (''Aerial View of Teignmouth Electron, Cayman Brac 16th of September 1998'', 2000) and
Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photog ...
(''Faltenwurf (Cubitt Edition)'', 2000).


Cubitt Studios

Cubitt Studios provides central London studio space for up to 30 artists at any given time. Former notable members of Cubitt include Chris Ofili, Dinos and Jake Chapman, Matthew Higgs and
Peter Doig Peter Doig ( ; born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting ''White Canoe'' sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction rec ...
.


Cubitt education

In 2007 Cubitt started an ambitious education programme and employed a part-time education co-ordinator.


See also

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UK artist-run initiatives An artist-run space or artist-run centre (Canada) is a gallery or other facility operated or directed by artists, frequently circumventing the structures of public art centers, museums, or commercial galleries and allowing for a more experimental ...
* Artist-run space * Art group


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