Collective exhibition of British and American artists: Chantal Joffe, Lee Mary Manning, Paul Noble, Georgina Starr, Richard Porter, Richard Clegg in Lille in September 2026
Diane Verspeeten & L.R. Phillips invite With the support of the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Hauts-de-France Chantal Joffe, Lee Mary Manning, Paul Noble, Georgina Starr, Richard Porter, Richard Clegg for the collective exhibition "CALLISTO" OPENING ON 26 SEPTEMBER 2026 FORGOTTEN FLOORS - ALBEDO KITCHEN 222 RUE LÉON GAMBETTA 59 000 LILLE A constellation of stars aligns with the fourth Galilean moon of Jupiter: the Big Dipper: Callisto. Inaugurated on the eve of the harvest full moon, the new exhibition "Callisto", as part of "Forgotten Floors" within the walls of Albedo Kitchen in Lille, showcases the children of the bear: Richard Clegg, Chantal Joffe, Lee Mary Manning, Paul Noble, Richard Porter and Georgina Starr. MORE INFO: Diane Verspeeten + 33 6 72 25 53 32 / [email protected] Chantal Joffe - British Painter Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe lives and works in London. She completed a preparatory course at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (now Camberwell College of Arts) in London (1987-1988) before earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Glasgow School of Art (1988-1991). She also holds a Master's degree from Royal College of Art and received the Wollaston Prize from the Royal Academy in 2006. Joffe has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as The Exchange, Penzance, United Kingdom (2025); The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2023-24); The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas, United States (2022); Koohouse Museum, Yangpyong, South Korea (2022); The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2021); The Foundling Museum, London, United Kingdom (2020); Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom (2020); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2018); The Lowry, Salford, United Kingdom (2018); Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (2018, 2017); National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik (2016); National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2015); Jewish Museum, New York, United States (2015); Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, United Kingdom (2015); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2014-2015)... Her works are part of numerous institutional and private collections, including those of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, United States; the Detroit Institute of Arts, United States; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom; the National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States. Joffe created a major public artwork for the Elizabeth Line in London, titled A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel, displayed at Whitechapel Elizabeth station. Joffe is a figurative artist who uses oil paint and pastel to create works of vastly different scales, based on direct observation or photographs. Lee Mary Manning - American photographer Lee Mary Manning (born 1972 in Alton, Illinois), photographer, proposes a method of attentive and compassionate observation through carefully arranged juxtapositions of 35mm analog prints. Taking familiar objects and scenes as her subject, Manning's photographs depict people, nature, the street and everything in between. Conceptualizing "attention as a life practice," the artist emphasizes the importance and significance of quiet moments and mundane things that may seem insignificant at first glance. For Manning, photography is an exercise in recording and collecting: prints are often paired with preserved memories, such as insect parts, a restaurant napkin or a plastic bag. Sharing these intimate archives of her lived experience relies on a genuine relationship of trust with the viewer, who will likewise be interested in observing the everyday. Even though the works function as archives, they do not document the artist's experiences in a particularly legible way. Manning's photographs flirt with a kind of poetic illegibility: everyday life, abstracted. To create her works, Manning uses basic analog cameras and works primarily with minilab prints that she can hold and move alongside one another, thus finding happy formal correspondences between images. This sequencing practice began with her website Unchanging Window, an online forum predating Instagram and Tumblr, launched in 2006 to share photos and cultural recommendations with friends. Paul Noble - British Draughtsman Paul Noble was born in 1963 in Dilston, England. He studied at Humberside College of Higher Education and Sunderland Polytechnic before settling in London in 1987. He was one of five founding members of the cooperative that created City Racing gallery in London, where his first exhibitions also took place. In 2000, Noble received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation prize and was selected for the Turner Prize in 2012. A painter, draughtsman and installation artist, Noble is best known for his drawings of sprawling imaginary urban landscapes, such as Nobson Newtown, a fictional metropolis depicted in a series of large graphite drawings that Noble obsessively developed over 15 years. His precise and detailed style has much in common with the aesthetic of architectural drawings: fine pencil lines carefully tracing the outlines of buildings, trees, horizons and even archaeological secrets buried underground. Upon closer inspection, one discovers sinister, symbolic and humorous details. Noble describes his practice as "urbanism as self-portrait," in which he acts as an omnipresent lord directing the extent and infrastructure of Nobson through his imagination and personal experience. Buildings often take the form of letters, spelling out place names and offering further clues about the personalities who might inhabit them. Carl's Villa (1997) is one example, depicting what appears to be a whimsical bachelor pad for the title character, complete with an outdoor billiard table, a veranda and a questionable collection of nude sculptures. Georgina Starr - British Artist Georgina Starr is a British artist best known for her video, sound and performative works. She came to prominence in the early 1990s with a series of complex works exploring fragile phenomena through audio, text and animated image. Focusing on female identity, memory, alchemy and cinema history, she creates multi-layered theatrical events, sculptural installations, films and fictions. Her works are described as "magically complex works that invite viewers to re-examine the self, the unconscious and their constantly evolving biographies through a shimmering and melancholic theatre of memory, mythology and fiction." Starr's works have been widely exhibited over the past 30 years in galleries and museums across the United Kingdom and abroad, from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and Tate Britain to the Kunsthalle in Zurich, including the Venice Biennale and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her latest film, Quarantine (43 minutes), was commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella (London), The Hunterian (Glasgow), Art Fund (Moving Image Fund), Glasgow International and Leeds Art Gallery. Her lecture-performance The Voices of Quarantine (Part 1), written and performed by the artist, was screened at Glasgow International and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, with live versions of the lecture presented at Goldsmiths College London, the School of Arts at the University of Westminster, Camberwell University of the Arts and recently in Belgium at Krieg Gallery as part of the Book Lovers Project in 2023. Starr was shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award. Her debut novel, The Discreet Dash, was published in September 2025 by JOAN Publishing. ...
Event from the official calendar of the City of Lille; venue: Albedo Kitchen; address: 222 rue léon gambetta, lille.
Source: Ville de Lille