Layla Curtis

5 May - 8 July 2012

Touring to Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, UK and RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Curated by Euan Gray

A Parliament of Lines will exhibit the work of fifteen contemporary Scottish artists (or those who have been through the Scottish education system), all of whom use drawing as an important element in their practice.

Artists: Charles Avery, Paul Chiappe, Layla Curtis, Nathalie De Briey, Moyna Flannigan, Luca Frei, Euan Gray, Sam Griffin, Marie Harnett, Callum Innes, Alan Johnston, Andrew MacKenzie, David Shrigley, Graeme Todd and Ainslie Yule.

11 February – 31 March 2012

Ten visual artists, one musician and three writers undertook residencies in the Antarctic between 2001 and 2009, under the auspices of the British Antarctic Survey, supported by Arts Council England. This exhibition will bring together for the first time art resulting from the various artistic investigations, offering an opportunity to reflect upon the very different subject matter, media and responses evident in the range of work produced. 

Contributors: Anne Brodie, Melanie Challenger, Layla Curtis, Chris Dobrowolski, Chris Drury, Simon Faithfull, Neville Gable, Keith Grant, Philip Hughes, John Kelly, Jon McGregor,  Jean McNeil, Craig Vear and David Wheeler

9 September - 31 October 2011

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Laurence Sterne's marbled page, which Sterne described as 'the motly emblem of my work', 169 artists and writers were invited to design the Emblem of their own work. Each contributor has generously donated the result to raise funds for the Laurence Sterne Trust.

Contributors include: Jordan Baseman, Quentin Blake, Russell Crotty, Layla Curtis, Alec Finlay, Andrew Kotting, Iain Sinclair, Alison Turnbull, Craig Vear, Mark Wallinger and Richard Wentworth

To view work in auction please visit: 
emblemofmywork169.blogspot.com

Related press: The Observer

11 May - 3 June 2011

Artists: Langlands & Bell, Catherine Bertola, Layla Curtis, Jeremy Deller, Lothar Gotz, Andrew Grassie and Eva Weinmayr

07 April - 18 May 2011

Silent Auction Event: 
18 May 2011, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Over 180 new drawings donated by established and emerging artists in support of the Drawing Room programme and its non-profit activities.

To view work in the auction, or to bid online, please visit: http://www.drawingroom.org.uk

1–11 March 2011

Touring to Trinity Contemporary, London, UK

Artists: Kate Atkin, James Brooks, Layla Curtis, Juliet Haysom and Emma McNally

19 January - 19 February

Curated by Stephen Bury

Roman Jakobson’s seminal essay of 1956, ‘Two types of language and two types of aphasic disturbance’, is the starting point for this exploration of artists’ books and artists’ multiples.

Artists: John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Victor Burgin, Neil Cummings and Marisya Lewandowska, Layla Curtis, Douglas Huebler, Kenny Hunter, Anselm Kiefer, Sol LeWitt, Peter Liversidge, Aleksandra Mir, Dieter Roth, Leanne Shapton, Jane Simpson, Sarah Staton, Daniel Spoerri, and Yoko Terauchi

1 - 29 May 2010

Works from the University of Warwick Art Collection

Artists include: Jane Blackman, Mary Fedden, Hamish Fulton, Fay Godwin, Simon Lewty, Richard Long, Marcel Mouly, Anne Redpath and George Shaw.

25 June - 10 July 2009

Touring to Trinity Contemporary New York, NY, USA

Curated by Jeremy Cooper

Artists include: James Brooks, Layla Curtis, Adam Dant, Jane Dixon, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Graham Gussin, Tim Head, Claude Heath, Louise Hopkins, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, David Musgrave, Kathy Prendergast, Frances Richardson, Gavin Turk, Alison Wilding and Simon Woolham 

Related catalogue: In Between the Lines: Recent British Drawings published by Trinity Contemporary

20 June - 24 October 2009

Artists include: Philip Allen, Layla Curtis, Penny Davis, Graham Dolphin, Gemma Holt, Bernard Leach, Roy Lichtenstein, Max Mosscrop, Eduardo Palozzi, Abigail Reynolds, Lucy Rie, Bridget Riley, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Conrad Shawcross, Robert Smithson, Alison Turnbull and Carey Young.

18 Feb - 2 May 2009

A Picture of You? is the first in a series of exhibitions at Museums Sheffield devoted to the exploration of identity and nationality through British art.

A Picture of You? is part of The Great British Art Debate, a four year collaboration with Tate Britain, Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service and Tyne & Wear Museums, exploring what it means to be British in the run up to the 2012 Olympics.

Artists include: Layla Curtis, Gillian Wearing, Hew Locke and Grayson Perry

26 November 2008 - 19 April 2009

Touring to Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Featuring 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world, the exhibition documents seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening that are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition.

Related publication: Actions: What You Can Do With the City

Further information: http://cca-actions.org/

30 October - 29 November 2008

Artists: James Brooks, Layla Curtis, Claude Heath, Maria Lalic and Jem Southam

25 July - 13 September 2008

Touring to The Collection, Lincoln, UK

Curated by Mel Brimfield

Comedians, artists and filmakers will come together this year at Edinburgh's Art and Fringe festivals to make content for a contemporary version of the Golden Record curated by Mel Brimfield in association with the Collective gallery, Pleasance Theatre, Go Faster Stripe and Battersea Arts Centre. 116 images will be produced by artists to correspond to a list originally compiled as ‘Images of Earth’ for The Golden Record by Carl Sagan and his team of NASA scientists.

13 June - 26 July 2008

SPACE celebrates its 40th birthday with an exhibition selected by Caroline Douglas, Head of Arts Council Collections.

6 - 12 March 2008

Curated by Jeni Walwin and Nicky Hurst

ARTfutures is a Contemporary Art Society project. Each year, the Contemporary Art Society handpicks work by approximately 100 artists to form an exhibition of work for sale.

Selected through a combination of exhaustive research including studio visits, ARTfutures offers a truly unrivalled opportunity to buy contemporary art, selected by the UK’s leading non-profit agency for independent advice on contemporary collecting.

19 January - 1 March 2008

Taking as a starting point the idea of landscape in a state of flux, each of the four artists in this exhibition seeks to articulate their own experiences and understanding of landscape through the medium of drawing.

Ranging in scale from the vast to the intimate, all of the drawings are beautifully executed and record each artist’s personal engagement with the landscape, whether real or imaginary.

Artists: Kate Atkin, Layla Curtis, Tania Kovats and Peter Macdonald

22nd November 2007 - 12th January 2008

Artists: Dylan Stone, Gedi Sibony, Layla Curtis, Michelle Dovey, Hannah Brown, Doug Fishbone, John Duncan, Jock Mooney

28 July - 22 September 2007

Artists: Leo Fitzmaurice, Katie Holten, Clare Iles, Camilla Brueton, David Batchelor, Layla Curtis, Sorrel Muggridge, Tim Machin, Chris Matthew, Jonathan Parsons, Richard Wentworth, Rachel Lowe, Juliana Capes and Laura Nanni

19 April - 09 May

Since 2003, over 500 established and emerging artists, from the UK and abroad, have donated a drawing made especially in support of The Drawing Room programme and its non-profit activities.

The drawings are exhibited for three weeks which culminates in a silent auction event on the last evening.

7 March - 12 March 2007

ARTfutures is a Contemporary Art Society project. Each year, the Contemporary Art Society handpicks work by approximately 100 artists to form an exhibition of work for sale.

Selected through a combination of exhaustive research including studio visits, ARTfutures offers a truly unrivalled opportunity to buy contemporary art, selected by the UK’s leading non-profit agency for independent advice on contemporary collecting.

8 February - 18 March 2007

Curated by Jon Bewley

Artists: Darren Banks, Catherine Bertola, Cath Campbell, Alex Charrington, Layla Curtis, Graham Dolphin, Peter J. Evans, Richard Forster, Kevin Mason and Karl Nattress

25 November 2006 – 4 March 2007

Artists were commissioned to make new work for this exhibition which forms part of the 2007 Sunderland Winter Festival.

Artists include: Mat Collishaw, Sarah Woodfine, Simon Woolham and Catherine Bertola

21 November 2006 - 20 January 2007

Touring to The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and Interface, Belfast, UK

This Will Not Happen Without You is an Arts Council England touring exhibition, curated by Richard Grayson

From the collective archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus+ 1977 - 2006

Related Publication: Ths Will Not Happen Without You

1 November 2006 - 11 February 2007

Twenty-five artists are represented in this illuminating display of works that reference some of the most historic events of the last 100 years.

Featured works include David Bomberg's evocative depiction of Canadian soldiers during WW1 and Pablo Picasso's Weeping Women 1936 which mourns the casualties of the Spanish Civil War.

Also on display is David Reeb's commentary on the Israeli-Palestine confict, Let's Have Another War 1997, and Chris Ofili's No Woman No Cry 1998 which was conceived as a touching tribute to the race-hate victim Stephen Lawrence.

Living History Flash Interactive

16 September 2006 - 28 January 2007

Curated by Deborah Robinson

The New Art Gallery Walsall purchased 22 contemporary artworks through the Contemporary Art Society‘s Special Collections Scheme including works by Martin Creed, Layla Curtis, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Laura Ford, Hew Locke, Mike Nelson, Nina Saunders, Yoshihiro Suda, Gavin Turk, Richard Woods and Toby Ziegler.

The national initiative which enabled fifteen galleries throughout England to build up collections of contemporary work was celebrated at The New Art Gallery Walsall with the launch of the exhibition Passionate Collectors: Public and Private. 

A supporting publication New Art on View, co-published by The New Art Gallery Walsall examined the role of museums in collecting contemporary art and featured contributions from Sheila MacGregor, Sir Nicholas Serota and the gallery’s Director Stephen Snoddy.

Artists: Jordan Baseman, Monica Bonvicini, Patty Carroll, May Cornet, Martin Creed, Dorothy Cross, Layla Curtis, Robert Dawson, Ming de Nasty, Rita Donagh, Richard Forster, John Fullwood, Anya Gallaccio, Mona Hatoum, Geoffery Ireland, Rob Kesseler, Jochen Klein, Hew Locke, Christian Marclay, Hannah Maybank, Paul McCarthy, Heather and Ivan Morrison, Cornelia parker, Paula Rego, Jane Simpson, Yoshihiro Suda, Gavin Turk, Julian Walker, Mo Wilson.  

21 August 2006 - 14 January 2007

25 March - 18 June 2006

Hayward Gallery touring exhibition touring to: Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, UK; The Lowry, Salford, UK; The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK

Curated by Jeni Walwin & Henry Krokatsi

Artists include: Anna Barriball, Ian Breakwell, Layla Curtis, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Rebecca Horn, Mona Hatoum, Claude Heath, Tim Knowles, Tania Kovats, Henry Krokatsis, Richard Long, Cornelia Parker, Steven Pippin, Keith Tyson and Mark Wallinger.

Related publication: You'll Never Know: Drawing & Random Interference

Further information: southbankcentre

8 March - 21 April 2006

Curated by Eamonn Maxwell

Nine artists whose practice deals with contemporary responses to landscapes and environments: Layla Curtis, Mimei Thompson, Paul Jackson, Tamsin Morse, Clodagh Emoe, Lee Maelzer, Andrew Grassie, Rut Blees Luxemburg

Related review: Rebecca Geldard, Territory, Time Out

20 January 2006 - tbc

Organised and curated by students of The Courtauld Institute, the exhibition, Culture Bound considers issues of cultural identity.

Works explore the structures that mediate our experience, examining how culture is formed by language and communication.

The exhibition includes works by Gavin Turk, Stephen Gill, Zenib Sedira, Shezad Dawood, Layla Curtis and Grayson Perry.

Further information: Courtauld Institute

1 October 2005 - 8 January 2006

Curated by Ed Allington

Artists include: Hannah Collins, Dan Graham, Arman, Marc Quinn, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Hacke, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Euan Uglow, John McCraken, John de Andrea, Ernest Trova, Eduardo Paolozzi, Lucy Gunning, Hew Locke, John Issacs and Mark Hosking

Related publications: Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom

1 - 6 September 2005

Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer as a universal medium for implementing and designing their creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society.

The competition is organized by the Ars Electronica Linz GmbH and ORF’s Upper Austria Regional Studio in collaboration with the OK Center for Contemporary Art and the Brucknerhaus Linz, and the prizes are awarded during the Ars Electronica Festival each year.

The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important awards for creativity and pioneering spirit in the field of digital media.

17 June - July 2005

The opening programme to officially launch the space will include work by international and UK artists Steina Vasulka, Nina Katchadourian, Ivan and Heather Morison, Adele Prince, Layla Curtis, Calum Sterling, Kate Pemberton and John Hammersley. A selection of work to reflect the range of artists and projects Vivid works with.

The event is part of Arts Council’s Architecture week.

17 March - 3 June 2005

Curated by Philippe Piguet

Artists: Dieter Appelt, Carole Benzaken, Wout Berger, Olivier Blanckart, Louise Bourgeois, Angela Bulloch, Maggie Cardelùs, Philippe Cognée, Layla Curtis, Wim Delvoye, Eric Duyckaerts, Oliver Herring, Jenny Holzer, James Alexander Hopkins, Guy Limone, Loriot et Mélia, Jennifer et Kevin McCoy, Steve Miller, Jack Pierson, Rona Pondick, Denis Pondruel, Markus Raetz, Gwen Rouvillois, Sandy Skoglund

Related publication: Collection 2

Further information: Fondation d'Art Contemporain

6 October - 6 December 2004

Curated by Michel Poitevin

Artists include: Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Hannah Collins, Layla Curtis, Liam Gillick, Nan Goldin, Rodney Graham, Thomas Hirshorn, John Isaacs, Thomas Schutte, Cindy Sherman, Roman Signer, Keith Tyson and Mark Wallinger

Related Publication: De Leur Temps:  
Collections Privees Francais

Further information: creativtv (French)

8 - 17 September 2004

Curated by Neill Kidgell

Artists: Divyesh Bhanderi, Layla Curtis, Karin Dolk, Lee Edwards, Olivia Fletcha, Haruhi Hayashi, Neill Kidgell, Andrew Mania, Sam Porritt, Neal Rock, James Russell.

19 June - 4 July 2004

An East Kent event of film, video and temporary interventions extending from Whitstable to Margate

Artists include: Pascal Baes, Miriam Backstrom, Vanessa Beecroft, Ergin Cavusoglu, Colin Cook, Leo Copers, Marion Coutts, Layla Curtis, Jeremy Deller, Nooshin Farhid, Nicolas Floc'h, Michel Francois, Douglas Gordon, Vincent Goudreau, Sebastien Gouy, Graham Gussin, Paul Hazelton, Ken Kobland, Aglaia Konrad, Charlotte Moth, Alison Murray, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Pitz, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, Roman Signer, Robert Suermondt, Kerry Tribe, Heimo Zobernig

Related publication: Whitstable Biennale

27 March - 8 May 2004

Curated by Sacha Craddock, Graham Gussin, Stephen Hepworth and David Risley

The show includes over 100 artists and examines the way collage has been used to explore a vast range of ideas from formal exercises in colour, material and form to the creation of surreal spaces and the expression of political ideals

4 August - 26 October 2003
Pavilhao Lucas Nogueira Garcez-Oca 5

4 August - 21 September 2003
Instituto Tomie Ohtake

Curated by Joanne Bernstein & Catherine Kinley

Related publication: A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960 - 2003

4 - 11 March 2003

Touring to Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Curated by Adam Carr

Artists include: Dave Beech, Pierre Bismuth, David Burrows, Nick Crowe, Layla Curtis, Rachel Goodyear, James Ireland, Laurence Lane, Jim Lambe, Kit Lawrence, Paul McDevitt, Jonathan Parsons, Mark Titchner and Toby Ziegler

23 May - 14 September 2003

Curated by Mike Dawson

This show has several major debuts for Manchester; this will be the first time Toby Paterson has exhibited here, Toby was last years Beck Futures winner and currently has a major solo show at the CCA in Glasgow. Layla Curtis will show her highly acclaimed map collages (which feature in the Tate Modern permanent collection) and the internationally acclaimed Maltase artist Norbert Francis Attard has made a site-considered work for the show entitled: ‘House of Cards’.

6 May - 7 June 2003

In association with England & Co. 

Artists include: Jane Bush, Jonathan Callan, Layla Curtis, Matilda Downs, Alberto Dunman, Tracey Emin, Simon Faithfull, Susan Hiller, Langlands & Bell, Satomi Matoba, Alastair Mackie, Cornelia Parker, Kathy Prendergast, Joe Scotland and Jugoslav Vlahovic

16 March - 11 May 2003

Curated by Philippe Piguet

Artists: Alighiero e Boetti, Tony Cragg, Layla Curtis, Gilbert & George, Rebecca Horn, Guy Limone, Loriot & Melia, Ana Mendieta, Joachim Mogarra, Francois Morellet, Tony Oursler, Arnulf Rainer, Georges Rousse, Gwen Rouvillois, Sandy Skoglund, Jessica Stockholder, Baltazar Torres

Related publication: Regards croises, Collection Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon

11 September - 2 November 2002

Commissions in response to a three-year body of academic research by the Urban Memory in Manchester team at Manchester University's School of Art History and Archaeology. 

Artists: Sarah Carne, Adam Chodzko, Nathan Coley, Layla Curtis, Lubaina Himid and Sarah Waring.

Related publication: Fabrications

2 - 26 September 2002

Touring to: The Jerwood Space, London, UK; mac, Birmingham, UK; Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK; EICH Gallery, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull, UK; The Promenade Gallery, The Lowry, Salford, UK

Selectors: Marco Livingston, Cornelia Parker, Mariana Warner

Related publications: The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002

24 July - 7 September 2002

Where are we? Location:UK illustrates where we are, from a point on a map, to a cultural identity. Drawing together artists from across the social, racial and cultural map of the UK, this exhibition examines the relationships we have with the places and locations in which we live.

Artists include: BANK, Richard Billingham, Adam Chodzco, Layla Curtis, Tom Hunter, Peter Kennard, Andrew Lewis, Sarah Lucas, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Hannah Maybank, Hannah Starkey, Christopher Stewart, George Shaw, Alia Syed, Mark Wallinger

Curated by Graham Parker and Dave Beech

Related review: Martin Vincent, Oncethemostpopulatedplaceonearth, Art Monthly

21 June - 27 September 2002

15 - 22 January 2002

Curated by Paul E Stolper and Jason Brown

Further information: cabgallery.com

Curated by David Blamey

Exhibition following the publication of Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues on Location and Mobility, edited by David Blamey

7 December 2001 - 13 January 2002

This is the first chance to see new additions to New Art Gallery Walsall's permanent collection, including gifts from the Contemporary Art Society and the Saatchi Collection.

Artists include: Jordon Baseman, Layla Curtis, Philip King, Marysia Lewandowska, Ian McLean, Henry Moore, Marcus Taylor and Richard Wentworth.

9 November 2001 - 9 September 2003

Artists include: Philip Akkerman, Sally Barker, Brian Dawn Chalkley, Layla Curtis, Peter Fischli, Richard Galpin, Jochen Gerz, John Golding, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Andrew Grassie, Alexis Harding, Peter Harris, Susan Hiller, Dan Holdsworth, Thomas Huber, Richard Long, Simon Morley, Joao Penalva, Grayson Perry, Gavin Turk, Jeff Wall and Richard Wentworth

Related publication: Looking With/Out

19 May - 30 June 2001

Artists: LEO, Layla Curtis, James Ireland, Helen Maurer and Elizabeth Wright

14 July - 1 September 2001

Artists include: Jonathan Callan, Layla Curtis, Peter Greenaway, Graham Gussin, Susan Hiller, Langlands & Bell, Cornelia Parker and Kathy Prendergast

Related publication: The Map is Not the Territory

8 December 2000 - 27 January 2001

Selectors: Tomoko Takahashi, James Rielly, Charles Esche and Martin Barlow

Artists include: Matt Calderwood, Lee Campbell, Marcus Coats, Layla Curtis, Shona Illingworth, Rosalind Nashashibi, Johnathan Rabagliati, Graham Seaton and Simon Woolham

11 October - 28 October 2000

Curated by Paul McDevitt and Declan Clarke

Artists include: Annika Strom, Anna Barriball, Bank, Bob and Roberta Smith, Dave Beech, Jane McDevitt, Jeremy Deller, Keith Wilson, Luke Oxley, Mark Wallinger, Matthew Higgs, Michael Archer, Richard Clegg, Sean Parfitt and Vic Reeves

11 August - 1 October 2000

Artists: Tim Bacon, Patrick Coleman, Michael Curran, Layla Curtis, Jane Gang, Erik Hanson and Marc Jennings

12 May - 18 June 2000

Artists: Nayland Blake, Calum Colvin, Layla Curtis, Robert Davies, Kate Davis, Ashley Elliot, Till Exit, Jang Gang, Michael Ginsborg, David Godbold, Andrew Grassie, John Greenwood, Oliver Herring, Paul Huxley, Bill Jacobson, Marc Jennings, Melanie Manchot and Mark Wright

Related publication: Fusion

19 November 1999 onwards

Curated by Simon Morrissey

Artists: Anna Barriball, Martin Boyce, Christopher Bucklow, Layla Curtis, Sarah Dobai, On Kawara, Michael Kruger, Rachel Lowe, Mike Nelson, Joao Penalva, mike Ricketts, Simon Starling, Richard Wilson

24 September - 7 November 1999

Touring to Milch, London, UK

Selectors: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Keith Tyson, Susan Hiller

Artists: Athanasios Argianas, Charlie Birch, David Blandy, Cleo Broda, K.R. Buxey, Louise Camrass, Kentaro Chiba, Ben Cook, Richard Cuerden, Andrew Currie, Layla Curtis, Jane Fox, Clare Gasson, Jana Haldrich, David Harding, Julie Henry, Ian Kiaer, Natasha Kidd, Nick Laessing, Kenny Macleod, Stefanie Marshall, Tim Meara, Nathaniel Mellors, Luke Oxley, Katie Pratt, Peter Richards, Gaylie Runciman, D.J. Simpson, Louise Spence, Jayne Stokes, Francis Summers, Julian Walker, Nicole Wermers

Related publication: Newcontemporaries99