Visions Programme 1 led by Rosie Gibbens

4 Oct-9 Nov 2025

Overview

Rosie Gibben’s Programme 1 features new work by Gibbens alongside those by 38 other artists. Drawing on her interest in the absurd, the Gallery will be a smorgasbord of recorded performing bodies. Bodies pushing against their limits, becoming technologically augmented, morphing into the more-than-human or embracing the bizarre.

Witness bodies explore bizarre appendages (Blue Phoenix), gorge on sugary treats (Julieta Tetelbaum), express the anxieties of life in a digital world (Emily Sarten) and deploy the pedestrian in a quiet refusal to be overlooked (Rozina Pátkai). 

The Nave will be transformed into a Frankenstein-style lair of animatronic corporeal sculptures and videos. Encounter a vibrating face (Ivy Vo) and a choker of tongues (Alicia Radage) alongside films exploring themes of loneliness, desire, and intimacy in the digital age (Adam Cole), and the body as a site of resistance to productivity and perfectionism (Annie Edwards) to name just a few of the 38 works on display.

Selected from an international open call, Visions brings together artworks from across the globe, giving you a unique chance to discover different voices, ideas and perspectives through film and performance.  

Programme 1 Exhibiting Artists: Nicholas Blaidd, Johanna Bolton, Greig Burgoyne, Jemima Burill, Karen Byrne, Adam Cole, Colette Copeland, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, Annie Edwards, Iulia Federova, Beth Fox, Rosie Gibbens, Eleanor Green, Katy Howe, Bryan Konefsky, Richie Moment, Seona Myerscough, Daniel Oliver, Savvas Papasavva, Rozina Pátkai, Alex Pearl, Gregor Petrikovič, Blue Phoenix, Alicia Radage, Nik Ramage, Tammy Reynolds, Emily Sarten, Korallia Stergides, Alexis Zelda Stevens, Xinyue Tao, Julieta Tetelbaum, Mariia Timoshenko, Mariya Vasilyeva, Ivy Vo, Frances Willoughby, Jake Wood, Iris Lingyu Zhang and Yanzi Zou. 

Programme 1 will open with an evening of performance curated by Rosie Gibbens featuring: Tallulah Haddon, Chuting Lee, Laura Dee Milnes and Jennet Thomas.  

The exhibition will be accompanied by an events programme including live performances from Julian Alexander, Rosemary Cronin and Katie Houston. 

Established in 1999, Visions has exhibited artists including Oreet Ashery, Tacita Dean, Ori Gersht, Dryden Goodwin, Susan Hiller, Mikhail Karikis, Tina Keane, Lawrence Lek, Uriel Orlow, Hetain Patel, Heather Phillipson and Nye Thompson, many at the very early stages of their careers.

Visions offers an informed overview of the provocative and quick-changing mediums of moving image and performance, presenting works from across the world. Each Visions presents two exhibition and event programmes and invites lead artists to head and inspire each one.

Visions in the Nunnery Programme 1 is curated by Rosie Gibbens, artist and selector Tessa Garland, and Bow Arts. 

About Rosie Gibbens:

Rosie Gibbens makes performances, videos, sculptures and photographs that feature her body. Using absurd humour, she explores the slippery overlaps between identity, labour and consumer desire. She often makes sculptures that combine household gadgets with sewn body parts. These are brought to life through low-tech chain reactions in the performances/ films. Rosie playfully blends bodies with objects to unpack and question the prospective future body as it becomes increasingly ‘optimised’ by technological augmentation. The mindset behind her work is of a nonsensical product demonstration combined with a perverse children’s TV show. 

Solo exhibitions include Muta at Pippy Holdsworth Gallery, 2025 and Parabiosis at the Bomb Factory in 2024. In 2022 Gibbens was winner of the Ingram Prize, ‘Founders Choice’ award and undertook a Sarabande Residency funded by the Alexander McQueen Foundation.