Making Time

Making Time is a year-long programme that supports artists as they reflect on their own practice amidst an ever-growing awareness of environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change.

Participating artists are supported by a network of gallery and academic partners, each offering unique skills, facilities, and expertise to further develop their ideas for new material possibilities, environmental sustainability, and behavioural change.

The emergence of new ideas arising from encounters and conversations between university research and artistic practice highlights the importance of interdisciplinary knowledge and collaboration at this time of changing climate and intersecting crises.

The partners for the first year of the Making Time programme were Science Gallery London at King's College London, Brighton CCA at the University of Brighton and Radar at Loughborough University.

Read more about the artists and partners in the first year of the programme below.

Image: 'anything goes' by Abbas Zahedi, digitised drawing, 2014, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

Year One Artists

Dani Admiss

Dr Dani Admiss (she/her) is a British-Iranian independent curator and researcher based in Edinburgh. She uses social practices to develop projects, investigations and networks that bring together in-world experts with everyday people to voice their stories, and unlearn and reimagine narratives of science, technology and colonialism. Since 2020, she has worked on Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline, a project exploring and enacting just transition in the arts. Across 2022, a coalition of art workers, agitators, dream weavers, makars, and caregivers, co-created a bottom-up and open-source decarbonisation plan for art workers. As an outcome of this project she is currently working on the Sunlight Liberation Network, an honest, humble and humourful support and education group for climate justice and art workers. Admiss has curated projects across the UK, Europe and internationally including at the Barbican Centre, Somerset House, MAAT, Lisbon and Lisbon Architecture Triennale. She was a Stanley Picker Fellow (2020) with Stanley Picker Gallery and Kingston University. She wrote her PhD in Curatorial Practice and World- Making with an AHRC grant and is a visiting tutor at National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

FRAUD

FRAUD (Audrey Samson, she/her, and Francisco Gallardo, he/him) is a duo which develop modes of art-led enquiry that examine the extractive gaze of the management of raw materials. Through their practice, FRAUD cultivate critical spatial literacy and cosmology building. Somerset House Studios alumni, the duo has been awarded the State of Lower Saxony – HBK Braunschweig Fellowship (2020), the King’s College Cultural Institute Grant (2018), and has been commissioned by Contemporary Art Archipelago (2022), the Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), RADAR Loughborough (2020), and the Cockayne Foundation (2018). Audrey is a Senior Lecturer in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Francisco is an architect who was awarded the Wellcome Trust People Awards (2016) and authored ‘Talking Dirty’ published by Arts Catalyst (2016). He is a studio tutor in architecture at Loughborough University. The duo’s work is part of the permanent collections of the European Investment Bank Institute (LU) and the Art and Nature Center - Beulas Foundation (SP). FRAUD’s current investigations can be explored through the EURO⁠—VISION platform.

Rachel Pimm

Rachel Pimm (they/them) was born in Harare, 1984 and lives Northamptonshire, UK. They work across sculpture, text, photography, video and performance to explore environments and their materialities, biochemistries, histories and politics, with an interest in queer, feminist and post-colonial materialisms, natural histories and resource extraction, in addition to the potential of surfaces and matter to transform.

Pimm’s work has been featured in programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Jerwood Space, Chisenhale Gallery and The Royal Academy – all in London between 2014-20 – as well as internationally across Europe and the USA. Residencies include Loughborough University Chemical Engineering, Gurdon institute of Genetics at Cambridge University, Rabbit Island, Michigan, USA and was Whitechapel Gallery Writer in Residence 2019/20. They are currently lecturing at UAL and have a forthcoming commission with Arts Catalyst in 2021/22.

Abbas Zahedi

Abbas Zahedi (he/him) is a London based artist. In 2020, he was selected to be part of Artangel's grant and mentorship programme Thinking Time, and in 2023 he'll be taking part in Making Time, the year-long programme on material possibilities.

Abbas is known for his interdisciplinary blend of social practice, performance, installation, moving-image, institution-building, and writing. His practice emerged out of working with migrant and marginalised communities in the UK to explore the concept of neo-diaspora, and the ways in which personal and collective histories interweave.

His recent exhibitions and performances have taken place at South London Gallery, UK; Belmacz, London; Spike Island, Bristol; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Lethaby Gallery, London; clearview.ltd, London; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK; and 57th Venice Biennale, Italy.

Making Time: Volume One

Making Time: Volume One was produced to capture the development of ideas put forward by the artist participants of the first iteration of the Making Time programme.

Published in a limited print run in Summer 2024, the publication features contributions from each of the participating artists, a foreword by Mariam Zulfiqar and Jennifer Wong, and ‘Unlearning with Materials’ an essay by Ros Gray and Jol Thoms, leaders of the MA Art & Ecology programme at Goldsmiths, University of London.

A digital version of the publication is available as a free download. Click below to receive a link to your inbox where you can view or download the digital publication.