Cor Blimey Arts

1995-1998

In 1995, I co-founded Cor Blimey Arts, based at the Catherine Grove Studios, Greenwich, again with Margaret Higginson, Gillian Best-Powell, and Richard Langford, again as a trustee.

Like the Art House before it, Cor Blimey engaged in a busy schedule of events that included open studios, group shows, solo exhibitions and community activities.

This period marked the beginning of my curatorial work: I designed and installed The Sunday Show for Jen Donnelly, designed Cameron Walker’s The Thirty-Nine Steps exhibition, and curated the Cor Blimey group shows: Good Kids (10-11 June 1995) and Identikit (31 May 1996). This culminated in LondonBrussels (4-6 September 1996) where I was co-organiser and curator for an exhibition of thirty artists at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Other group exhibitions were: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes… (2-3, December, 1995), First Day Cover (27- 28 July, 1996) – this group show of Catherine Grove artists was part of The Whitechapel Open, Wish You Were Here (11, 12, 13 July, 1997) and the aptly named Closing Down Sale. (16-17 October 1998) – the last hurrah of Cor Blimey at Catherine Grove before the developers moved in.