Uncommon Ground

Uncommon Ground
14th - 20th June 2008
Artists: Fio Adamson, Giselle Benavides, Chelsey Browne, Jackie Castellano, Fernando Cestari, Sara Cook, Jaki Cooper, Alex Ewerth, Pamela Furness, Tony Goddard, Josie Graff, Carolina Graterol, Tony Jarman, Yolande Kenny, Nikolay Kozin, Dominic Madden, 
Ute Panella, Caroline Pick, Agathe Roger, Annie Rouze Blanchet

 
Five years, that’s all they’ve got (in common) 

Uncommon Ground brings together in one show a mixed group of 20 
artists amongst whom is a woman born in the London blitz who found 
herself flying US troops to Vietnam, a hockey-playing radio-ham from 
Hamburg, a Venezuelan who shared a room with Fidel Castro, a shoe 
designer from Stuttgart, a TV Executive who teaches yoga, a Professor 
of Engineering and a Russian who worked for Mikhail Gorbachev…and 
more. 

Uncommon Ground features works of art at the Islington Arts Factory a 
converted church that has also been a gym - opposite the entrance 
to Holloway Prison. All the artists have responded to this extraordinary 
place - its history and location - in their own way, with different pieces 
of work that are as interesting and varied as their backgrounds. The 
wide range - from painting to photography to performance - includes 
an interactive piece tracking the journey each spectator and artist has 
made to the place, which will grow during the week of the show. 

The artists are in the fourth year of a five-year fine art degree at 
Central St Martin’s.