Preview: Friday 26 June, 7-9pm.

Exhibition: 26 June – 26 September 2026

(summer closure 10 - 19 August)

Open Wed - Fri 12 - 6pm , Sat 12 - 5pm

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Le seuil accueillant, is a phrase extracted from a fleeting moment in reading Gaston Bachelard’s ‘The Poetics of Space’, which describes a threshold which is not imposed with intention to intimidate, nor exclude, but to ‘weave the sturdy web of intimacy’.

Cubitt’s home at Angel Mews has, for the preceding twenty five years, become a threshold through which artworks, artists, curators, communities, educators, and diverse publics have, variously; passed into and from; been welcomed to; transformed what they have found here; metamorphosed in and of themselves.

The intimacies developed within and through Cubitt do not end within these walls, but extend outwards to the many people and practices touched by the organisation's thirty five year history.

This threshold being hospitable is not a continuing, nor reliable fact; thresholds always hold the possibility of exclusion, difficulty, and conflict, and Angel Mews has been a space whereby Cubitt has gone through many institutional, interpersonal, social, and creative transformations.

This exhibition will exist in two parts – a display of materials drawn from Cubitt’s extensive archives, selected by Cubitt staff with former Goldsmith’s Archive Placement holder Jennifer Irving, and the exhibition of a new version of an existing work by artist Anne Tallentire.

This contribution will be a new version of Tallentire’s drawing series, ‘Setting Out’, which transports measurements of building’s floor plans to gallery architecture. By marking out the perimeters of various spaces with simple materials, Tallentire’s work here evokes the provisionality, sociality, and lived reality of shared spaces.

This version will represent the entirety of Cubitt’s Angel Mews site, including public, private, and studio spaces, with the use of modest materials;  neon builders line, screws, and paper tags.

This exhibition will be the last to be hosted in Cubitt’s current home as we continue efforts to find a long-term, sustainable home for the future – find out more about our efforts here. 

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Anne Tallentire (b. 1949, County Armagh, Northern Ireland) lives and works in London, UK. Her practice encompasses moving image, sculpture, installation, performance, and photography. Through visual and textual interrogation of everyday materials and structures, Tallentire’s work seeks to reveal systems that shape the built environment and the economics of labour. Her recent work has examined geographical dislocation and demarcation in relation to infrastructure. 

Recent solo exhibitions include measurement plan, Cromwell Place, London (2023); Material Distance, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2022); But this material…, The MAC, Belfast, Ireland (2021); As happens, Hollybush Gardens, London (2020); Plan (…), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (2019);

Her work is held in significant public collections, including Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Arts Council Collection, UK; Government Art Collection, UK; British Council Collection; Arts Council England Collection and Arts Council Ireland Collection. In 2018 Tallentire was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists; and in 2022, Tallentire was the recipient of a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award. She is Professor Emerita at Central Saint Martins, where she taught from the early 1990s to 2014.

Jennifer Irving (she/her) is an organiser, curator and writer, living and working in London. She is currently preoccupied with work, labour and economies of affect and exhaustion. Her curatorial practice centres on attention, working in ways that are collaborative, slow and site-specific.

Jennifer organises with the migrant-led women’s charity, Xenia, leading on delivery, governance and strategy. She is pursuing a Curating MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has curated programmes at Alice Black Gallery, Mimosa House and Cubitt Artists’ Gallery and Studios. She is writing slowly.