KEEP ME POSTED

This show launches 67 Wilton Way, Hackney, E8, as a platform for a series of art exhibitions, performances, screenings and workshops celebrating the ‘post’ and exploring our postal heritage, directed and curated by Julia Royse. ‘POSTED’ is one of a series of projects funded by Hackney Council as part of its programme of support for town centres.

The GPO (General Post Office) used to be a powerful and important institution in Britain. In 1902 the postcard appeared and was hugely popular as a quick and cheap method of sending announcements and thoughts and coined the phrase ‘I’ll be post carding you’. Today there are many artists who use postcards, stamps, stationary and letters in their work as well as those that use the postal service as part of the creative process by either writing letters, or sending artworks by mail.

George Bernard Shaw once said, “The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post”. The exhibitions presented at POSTED will hopefully inspire people to put pen to paper again as well as reminding us of a time when communication was more personal and less generic.

KEEP ME POSTED will be an exhibition of newly commissioned and loaned artwork, in a variety of disciplines, by established and emerging artists including Andreas Blank, Claire Brewster, Jo Broughton, Oliver Clegg, Julie Cockburn, Adam Dix, Sean Dower, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Tom Gidley, Cate Halpin, Susie Hamilton, Rachel Howard, Duncan MacAskill, Polly Morgan, Harland Miller, Julia Riddiough, Liisa Roberts, Jane Simpson, James White, Rachel Whiteread and Miyo Yoshida.

KEEP ME POSTED is one of the events in CREATE10