Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley present Rand/Goop, a new large–scale installation at Studio Voltaire, the artists’ first institutional exhibition in London.

For this new commission, the artists embed their works within an immersive environment for the first time, unspooling the narrative of the exhibition through a series of video sculptures, projections and wall–paintings.

This special two–day workshop is led by curator Helena Reckitt and artist Grace Ndiritu. (Un)Learning Habits of Care considers the contexts of curatorial and artistic practice, the museum, and alternative communities to explore practices of care and productive refusal.

Navigating these ideas through writing, reading, and role play, participants will generate proposals and frameworks that promote care, mutual aid, and collective political practices while rejecting extractivist attitudes that treat care and nature as free and inexhaustible resources. The workshop includes short mediation sessions.

Studio Voltaire is embarking on a £2.4 million capital project to expand and redevelop our current 975m² site, creating 42% more artists’ studios, renovated exhibition space and new public spaces including a dedicated learning space, public courtyard garden, café and the first–ever permanent House of Voltaire.This is the most ambitious transition in our 25–year history.

Studio Voltaire is pleased to announce the return of House of Voltaire, our celebrated temporary art and design store. House of Voltaire will open in the heart of Mayfair at 31 Cork Street from 26 September to 21 December 2019, just in time for Christmas shopping.