We are pleased to invite you to the launch of our summer exhibition HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery and Project Space.
Dates: 16 July – 30 August 2025
Stephen Lawrence Gallery and Project Space, 10 Stockwell Street, London SE10 9BD
Exhibition Launch: Tuesday July 15, 6-8pm
Exhibitors:
Beagles & Ramsay / Beverley Bennett / Veronique Chance / Sam Dargan / Ilana Harris-Babou / Maryam Jafri / Manual Labours / Chad McCail / Steven Ounanian / Mark Schroder / Grant Stevens / Pilvi Takala / Yvonne Todd / The Institute for New Feeling / Alan Warburton / Wellbeing Analysis Technologies Ltd.
Curated by Simon Willems, this exhibition brings together sixteen contemporary artists and artist collaborations from across the world who respond to, thematise and critique wellness narratives in organisational and work-related contexts. Drawing on a range of strategies and media, including film, video, performance, sculpture, painting, digital practice and installation, the show explores the different ways in which narratives of well-being facilitate neoliberal management policies and distract from structural questions in the workplace.
Symposium:
The exhibition is being held in conjunction with a two-day symposium, Rethinking Wellbeing through Art: How Artists Critique Wellness Narratives in the Workplace. The symposium runs 16-17 July at University of Greenwich,10 Stockwell Street . For more information and sign up, please see HERE.
More information about the exhibition can be found on the University of Greenwich Galleries website: HERE
The exhibition and symposium are jointly funded by the University of Reading and the University of Greenwich in conjunction with the British Academy. Led by Dr Simon Willems, both events are the culmination of his recent British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Reading.
image credit: Video still from Psychometrics Alan Warburton (2015)
Reading School of Art 