4 September 2020

Layla Curtis is Key Note Speaker at the Drawing Conversations 4 symposium along with Professor Deanna Petherbridge and Professor Anita Taylor. The symposium, held at the University of Huddersfield, will discuss how drawing practices and processes enable engagements with sites of history and narrative. Organised by Dr. Simon Woolham, Professor Jill Journeaux, Katy Suggitt and Christian Skovgaard Petersen

26 – 28 March 2020

Terrain Vague takes its title from a key essay concerning urban spaces written in 1995 by Ignasi de Sola-Morales. This event, in the form of an exhibition and symposium at Slade School of Art, London, takes the essay as a starting point. Speakers include Layla Curtis and Graham Gussin. Organised by Graham Gussin.

28 February 2020, 7 – 9.30 pm

Layla Curtis is a speaker at Library Lates: Talking Maps – an evening of talks, tours and workshops exploring the Bodleian's world-renowned map collection. The event coincides with the final few days of the Talking Maps exhibition at Weston Library, University of Oxford, UK.

28 November - 4 December 2019

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Anna Crystal Stephens will take part in a 7-day Instagram Takeover titled Home Work. Stephens will look back on her varied domestic situations and the living strategies connected to them and reflect on her attempts to live cheaply and sustainably during periods of itinerant urban communal living and nomadic life on the water. #EdgeworkTakeover

1 – 28 November 2019

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Anorak – a solo show by Anna Chrystal Stephen's at Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloucestershire. This body of work is made in reaction to anxiety about environmental crisis and puts forward that learning survival skills and DIY processes can be an empowering step to gaining a greater understanding and respect of the natural world. Anorak was originally commissioned by SPACE.

28 October – 3 November 2019

To mark the launch of his new limited edition print Sound Mirror, Andy Day will take part in a week-long Instagram Takeover of @the_edgeworker. He will post images from his recent exploration of three Sound Mirrors (also known as Acoustic Mirrors or Listening Ears) on the English south coast. To view the takeover follow @the_edgeworker on Instagram and search #EdgeworkTakeover.

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7 – 20 October 2019

Nicky Hirst, Victoria J Dean and Iain Sarjeant are included in an exhibition featuring Another Place Press published artists curated for The Northern Eye International Photography Festival in Colwyn Bay, Wales. Other artists include Nicolas Blandin, Nicholas White, Amanda Harman, Amy Romer, Missy Prince, Marzena Skubatz, Al Brydon, Robert Darch and Magnus Åström.

4 October – 24 November 2019

Nicky Hirst will show a selection of paired images from her series Elemental Works 2012-19 as part of the Coventry Biennial 2019. To view Hirst's Instagram feed featuring her Elemental Works series please see: https://www.instagram.com/nickyhirst_elementalworks

26 September – 3 November 2019

Layla Curtis' moving image work Heatscapes is included in the international group exhibition Flow | Urban Ecologies at Phoenix Athens, Athens, Greece.  Other artists include Vasilis Gerodimos, Zoe Giabouldaki, Alex Hartley, Lily Hassioti, Monique Jansen, Soo Kim, Tania Kovats and Stefania Strouza.

The exhibition is co-curated by Tania Kovats and Christina Makri. 

21 September 2019

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Simone Kenyon will be taking part in a one-day Instagram Takeover of the @the_edgeworker. On the weekend of the 21st September, Kenyon and the dancers she collaborated with to make the performance Into The Mountain will return to the site of Glen Feshie in the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland. Kenyon will share images and texts live from Glen Feshie documenting some of the discussions that grow out of the weekend.

17 August 2019, 2 – 3pm

Alison Lloyd will lead Contouring: a slow micro navigation in Holyrood Park. Each walk of no more than 500m will endeavour to connect our immediate experiences of Holyrood Park with a detailed map of the area. The event is part of Day of Access, a collaborative project conceived by Alec Finlay. There will be a reading by Finlay and participants will also have the chance to explore his exhibition Day of Access at Travelling Gallery.

14 August – 6 December 2019

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This autumn, Travelling Gallery will act as the campaign bus touring Alec Finlay's project Day of Access across Scotland; presenting information and artworks and allowing a space for discussions. Themes of disability, access and ecological remediation are explored in Finlay’s poems and artwork. Visit the Travelling Gallery website for the full list of tour dates.

27 July 2019

Planning Matters, a programme of talks and events curated by Kestle Barton associate artist Paul Chaney, explores the complexity of issues arising around themes of low-impact development, land ownership, planning law, and sustainable urban planning in these times of housing crisis, societal collapse, mass extinction, and potential transformation. Contributors include Layla Curtis, Ian Nesbitt, London Fieldworks, and Jonathan Hoskins.

26 July – 3 August 2019

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To mark Edgework's inclusion in the exhibition INTER-SECTION at Market Gallery, Huddersfield, we have invited artists Nicky Hirst & Matt Calderwood to take part in Call and Response a nine-day Instagram Takeover of @the_edgeworker. To follow the takeover please follow Edgework on Instagram 

26 July - 3 August 2019

Preview: 26 July, 5 – 7.30 pm

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INTER-SECTION explores and examines the processes and attitudes of artist-run initiatives. Contributors include Farbvision, Edgework,  David Kefford & Sarah Evans (Aid&Abet), Stephen Walter, Calum F Kerr & Reece Jones (TRESPASS), Simon Woolham & David Hancock (PAPER). Curated by Simon Woolham for Market Gallery, Queensgate Indoor Market, Huddersfield. 

Exhibition: 14 July – 8 September 2019

Artist talk: 13 July 3.30pm

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Nicky Hirst's solo exhibition at Phoenix Gallery, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS

5 July 2019 - 8 March 2020

Layla Curtis' manipulated map NewcastleGateshead is included in Talking Maps at Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Drawing on the Bodleian's collection of more than 1.3 million maps, this exhibition brings together a selection of ancient, pre-modern and contemporary maps from a range of cultures and in a variety of formats as well as showcasing fascinating imaginary, fictional and war maps.

29 June – 3 August 2019

Simon Woolham has co-curated group exhibition This Land is Our Land at PAPER, Unit 12, Mirabel Studios, 14-20 Mirabel Street, Manchester, M3 1PJ. The exhibition features work by Layla Curtis and John Angus as well as Reece Jones, Stephen Walter, Dale Holmes, Katy Suggit and Simon Woolham. (Image: John Angus) 

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July 2019 – July 2021

Day of Access is a collaborative project conceived by Alec Finlay which takes place over a two-year period. It considers place-awareness, access to nature, healing, illness and wounded nature and involves a travelling exhibition, workshops and events, a website and a publication.

1 May – 30 June 2019

Graham Gussin's Hotel Lullaby and Hotel Reverb are included in The Divergent Gaze – Pico do Refúgio, a Prospective Heritage at The Arquipélago Contemporary Art Center, São Miguel, Azores. The exhibition, curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez, brings together works by artists who have been part of the Artistic Residencies program at Pico do Refúgio.

Exhibition: 5 April – 18 May 2019

Artist talk: 6 April, 2pm

This exhibition brings together recent place-aware projects: gathering, a mapping of the Cairngorms in poems, essays, photographs, and maps; a wolf among men a man among wolves, detailing innovative woodland remediation; Wild City, a survey of wild nature in Glasgow; and Hutopianism, celebrating the hut and bothy movement. W OR M, 11 Castle Street, Aberdeen

Throughout 2019

In the latest of Collins' pixel-by-pixel works, a view of Boston Harbour and a view across Sheffield is transmitted live, via network cameras, to its partner location. In Five Hours Later, each image is constructed pixel-by-pixel over a five-hour time span – embedding quite literally the time difference between the two locations. Images from both locations can be viewed updating live at https://susan-collins.net/2010s/five-hours-later/ 

4 April 2019, 12 – 6pm

Susan Collins will discuss her 2002 commission for Tate Online, Tate in Space as part of Lives of Net Art – a workshop at Tate Modern exploring the possibilities the internet opened up for artists in the 1990s and 2000s, and how artists, curators and conservators are responding to the changing technologies and cultures of the internet. Tate Modern, Blavatnik Building, Level 5, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

29 March 2019, 11am

Anti-Brexit March. Join artists Simon Woolham and Stephen Walter as they retrace the steps of the 1932 Kinder Scout Mass Trespass. The walk takes place on 29 March 2019 – the date of the UK's scheduled departure from the EU. Meet at Bowden Bridge Car Park at 11am. 

4 March - 2 April 2019

Susan Collins will be artist-in-residence at Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU, Hong Kong. Collins will host an open studio from 12 – 2pm on Monday 1 April.

28 February – 30 March 2019

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Protest and Remembrance brings together four women artists, Miriam de Búrca, Joy Gerrard, Mary Griffiths and Barbara Walker, all of whom use drawing to examine elements of protest and/or remembrance through a range of subjects that include war, political demonstration, burial sites and lost industry. Alan Cristea Gallery, 3 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG

20 February – 26 March 2019

Layla Curtis, Joy Gerrard, Nicky Hirst and George Shaw are included in Drawing Biennial 2019 at Drawing Room, London. Culminating in an online auction in the exhibition’s final two weeks, all works are available to purchase from a starting bid of £300. Proceeds from the auction support Drawing Room’s programme.

16 February - 22 March 2019 

Launch: 23 February 2019, 6pm

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A two-person show of photographic works from Victoria J. Dean's series, The Illusion of Purpose, and Sharon Murphy's series, There Was A Child is at Siamsa Tire, Town Park, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. (Originally curated by Sarah McAvera at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast in 2018).

8 February – 6 May 2019

A Corner of A Foreign Field – a solo exhibition of work by George Shaw at the Holburne Museum, Bath. This major retrospective covers Shaw's career from 1996 to the present, including some new works never shown in the UK. Organized by the Yale Center for British Art in collaboration with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Holburne Museum.

7 February 2019, 7 – 8.30pm, 

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Nicky Hirst's work is included in The Word is Art by Michael Petry published by Thames & Hudson. Hirst will be signing copies of the book at The Review Bookstore, 131 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4QY

17 January – 28 February 2019

Lucinda Grange's solo exhibition City Cross-Section is on display at Lyle O Reitzel Gallery, 139 Eldridge Street, New York City, NY 10002 USA. 

13 December 2018 – 15 January 2019

Lucinda Grange's solo exhibition Without Permission is on display at The Other Gallery, New York City, USA

8 November 2018, 7pm 

Clare Qualmann & Claire Hind will give a performative lecture and discuss their latest book Ways to Wander the Gallery at its launch at Tate Modern. The publication was created following a series of workshops carried out at Tate in 2017 and is available from Edgework. For more information see Tate Events.

28 October 2018, 1 – 2pm 

The launch of the upcoming publication Wild City will take place at

The Hidden Gardens 25A Albert Dr, Glasgow, G41 2PE. With readings by Alec Finlay, Dee Heddon (The Walking Library), and Ken Cockburn. Wild City is available from Edgework.

26 October – 24 November 2018

A solo exhibition by Graham Gussin featuring work made at the abandoned Hotel Monte Palace, on São Miguel Island in the Azores during a residency in 2017. Fonseca Macedo Contemporary Art, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores. Read Gussin's Edgework Journal entry about making work at Hotel Monte Palace. 

21 October – 24 November 2018

A solo exhibition by Joy Gerrard including of drawings, large cut paper installations, paintings and a film. Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford Ireland. ​

12 October 2018, 6.30 – 8pm 

Gathering, a place-aware mapping of the Cairngorms in poems, essays, photographs and maps. With photographs by Hannah Devereux, Mhairi Law, Guy Moreton and James Dyas Davidson, and contributions by Gill Russell. Launch at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh EH3 5AQ

10 – 29 October 2018

This exhibition celebrates the completion of the Wild City project – a collaboration between artist Alec Finlay, The Walking Library (Dee Heddon & Misha Myers), and poet Ken Cockburn. Featuring new risograph prints by Alec Finlay alongside a collection of books Walking Library for a Wild City by The Walking Library. Govanhill Baths, 99 Calder Street, Glasgow G42 7RA 

21 Sept, 28 Sept, 5 October 2018

Edgework is delighted to be taking over the a-n The Artists Information Company's Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/anartistsinfo/ for three consecutive Fridays starting 21 September. Follow @anartistsinfo or #AnEdgeworkTakeover to see our posts.

13 – 17 September 2018

Edgework is delighted to announce that Clare Qualmann will be taking part in an #InstagramTakeover of @the_edgeworker from 13 – 17 September. During a visit to New York, Qualmann will produce a new set of images as part of her ongoing body of work Perambulator. #EdgeworkTakeover

10 September – 10 October 2018

Jennie Savage will undertake a month-long artist residency in the English village where she grew up in order to take an exploratory journey into a place she knows 'intimately, but also not at all'. As her research unfolds, Savage will send updates from the field for a new series of Instagram posts: #EdgeworkFieldNotes

8 – 23 September 2018

Lee Maelzer and Susan Collins are both in the group exhibition COLLABORATORS 5 'The Hand of the Artist' at The Old Telephone Exchange, Kennings Way, Kennington SE11 4EF. The exhibition, curated by Roaming Room, features 35 artists working across a variety of media.

8 September – 24 October 2018

Lee Maelzer's work is included in In the City – an exhibition curated by Trevor Burgess, which brings together the work of nine established painters responding to the urban environment. The exhibition travels to the Stephen Lawrence Gallery from East Gallery, Norwich University of Art. Stephen Lawrence Gallery, 10 Stockwell Street, London SE10 9BD

6 – 29 September 2018

Perambulator Walk: 11:30 am, 15 September 2018

Clare Qualmann's ongoing work Perambulator is included in the group exhibition Saunter, Trek, Escort, Parade (S.T.E.P), at Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Queens, NY 11101 United States. Qualmann will also lead a Perambulator Walk which invites stroller users to walk together en masse around the Long Island City neighbourhood, collectively surveying its challenges.

20 – 26 August 2018

Edgework is delighted to announce that Nicky Hirst will be taking part in a 7-day Edgework #InstagramTakeover. For the duration of the takeover, Hirst will post images to the @the_edgeworker Instagram account continuing her ongoing #causeandeffect63 series. She will focus on photographs taken in south-east London.

30 June – 28 July 2018

Launch: 29 June 2018, 6 – 9pm

Joy Gerrard's The North is Next is a work made specifically for a 16:9 billboard situated at Kingsgate Workshops and visible from the street and from Kilburn Grange Park. Full address: Kingsgate Workshops, 110 – 116 Kingsgate Road, London NW6 2JG.

9 June – 14 July 2018

For his solo exhibition The Mary Jane Paintings at Handel Street Projects, London, Graham Gussin presents a series of paintings all made using hashish. The new works explore further one Gussin's long-standing preoccupations: the relationships between the romantic tradition of landscape, utopian space and what we might call vision.

21 April – 13 June 2018

Miranda Whall, wearing a sheep fleece and covered in lightweight, waterproof video cameras, crawled 5.5 miles through the Welsh Cambrian uplands. As a kind of cyborg sheep/human, she attempted to document, experience and understand the mountain, its inhabitants, and its matter. The resulting work Crossed Paths is currently showing at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown.

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20 June 2018,  6 – 8 pm

As part of the Living Maps 'Cultural Cartographies' series, Layla Curtis will discuss the research, inspiration and processes behind two of her recent works: Trespass (2015) and The Thames (from London Bridge, Arizona to Sheerness, Canada) (2013). The talk will take place in The Nash Lecture Theatre, Kings College London. Click here for more information and to book tickets.

18 May 2018, 10.30am – 6pm

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Layla Curtis will speak at Claire Reddleman's book launch of Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art as part of the forthcoming Arrivals and Departures Symposium at London College of Communication. Curtis, whose work Antipodes is discussed in the book, will give a short talk about her mobile phone app Trespass. 

4 May & 10 May 2018

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Edgework is delighted to announce that Alison Lloyd will be joining us for our first ever Instagram Takeover. Lloyd will post images live from Ronksley Moor, Derbyshire on Friday 4th May, then again from Ridgewalk Moor on Thursday 10th May. To see Lloyd's live feed, follow @the_edgworker on Instagram and check for updates to our profile on 4 & 10 May. #EdgeworkTakeover

4 May – 17 June 2018

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Layla Curtis' work will be included in Another Spring, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter. The exhibition reflects on the current trends and broader developments of nationalist impulses in Western society, where the debated question of citizenship, the foundation for identity and political governance is tied to ultranationalist concerns and increased measures to regulate and control the movement of people across borders.

23 April – 9 May 2018

Peter Cusack will carry out a field trip to Kyrgyzstan as part of a project bringing together artists, anthropologists and scientists to research changes in the uses and environment of the Syr Darya river. The resulting recordings, images and research will become part of Cusack's long running work concerning the disappearance and re-appearance of the Aral Sea, one of the major human-created environmental catastrophes of the 20th century.

22 April 2018, 11am – 5pm

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Andy Day will take part in the Royal Academy Arts' forthcoming symposium Experiencing Architecture, exploring the dynamic and reciprocal nature of architectural experience. He will present his recent body of work Former – a series of photographs made in collaboration with parkour athletes from Serbia and Croatia, examining collective memory, the monument, the ruin and the live site.

20 April – 26 May 2018

Elemental Works will be Nicky Hirst's second solo exhibition at Domo Baal, London. The exhibition will focus on Hirst's archive of found and paired pages, an ongoing project begun in 2012.  

6 – 14 April 2018

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Simon Woolham's work will be included in the forthcoming inaugural exhibition Place, Space, Action at Market Gallery, Huddersfield. 

23 March – 17 June 2018

Layla Curtis' Message in a Bottle from Ramsgate to the Chatham Islands will be included in Powerful Tides: 400 years of Chatham and the Sea – an exhibition that celebrates artists inspired by The Dockyard, and links the site back to the waterways and the sea to which it was once intrinsically connected.

21 March – 18 April 2018

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Lee Maelzer will undertake an artist's residency at SOL Atelier, Nicosia, Cyprus, supported by Girne American University. During her month’s stay in Nicosia she will be continuing her research into derelict buildings – exploring and photographing local buildings as subjects for new work. Work created during her residency will be exhibited at SOL on 17 April.

​Wild City | Fiadh-Bhaile is a collaboration between artist Alec Finlay, The Walking Library (Dee Heddon & Misha Myers), and poet Ken Cockburn. This program of participative walks, public readings and workshops will explore wild nature in the city of Glasgow, map new walks and imagine re-wilded streets. Alec Finlay will encourage place-awareness through the exploration of place-names, translations and community maps, and create a new publication.

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January 2018

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Gerrard recently installed huge permanent wall-prints of three of her Protest Paintings as part of her Facebook Air Commission And the Ground Shook. The largest of the three walls shows an amalgam of images of the Women’s marches from Chicago and Montpellier in January 2017.