87 Gallery Open Call

For the upcoming issue of TIMES to be published in October, we’re looking for submissions of work in any medium that explore the theme SHELTER.

We welcome all formats including photography, writing, video, audio, print, surface-based works, ceramics, sculpture, digital, textiles, net art, land art, or academic research.

This theme is broad and we’d love to see submissions that investigate any aspect of the following subjects:

home, refuge, retreat, dwellings, exile – displacement – migration, belonging(s), politics of housing, archaeology, interior – exterior, globalisation

Our Guest Editor for TIMES VII: Shelter is Jessica El Mal

Jessica El Mal is a British Moroccan artist, curator and writer working on themes of ecology, globalisation and migration (aka legacies of colonialism). She is interested in how creativity, community, and imagination can be operationalised for alternative world building. Currently, Jessica is curator at The Arab British Centre, founder and director of A.MAL Projects (an art and research initiative between North Africa and Europe) and is a PhD candidate at Leeds University.

IG: @jessica_elmal @a.mal_projects
www.elmalart.com www.amalcollective.space

About TIMES

TIMES is 87 Gallery’s round-up style online publication. Each issue invites you to respond to a theme. There is an open submission process — anyone, anywhere can submit work in any medium. Final selections will be featured here, as well as on the blog and across our social media.

How to Apply

Please send up to a maximum of 10 high resolution images, links to or files of your work to times@87gallery.co.uk. Please include your first and last name, the medium, and a few sentences about the work you are including. Once selections have been made, you will be contacted towards mid-September.

Questions?

We’re more than happy to chat about TIMES and to help answer any queries you might have. Just send an email to us at times@87gallery.co.uk.