KEEM is a collaboration between artists Kate Elliott and Emma McGarry. It was established in 2011, as an exploration into the nature of collaboration. Through methodology, ongoing discussion and debate, KEEM produces work which continuously questions subjectivity, materiality and identity.


Friday, 12 July 2013

Exhibition and Q&A: Get The Message

On Wednesday 10th July, Emma McGarry from KEEM took part in a public discussion at Camden Arts Centre with artist Adam Walker, and Programme Director at Central Saint Martins Alex Schady. 
The discussion marked the opening of an exhibition of new works by students who have taken part in the Get The Message programme at Camden Arts Centre this past year.

 
Public discussion, 10 July, Camden Arts Centre - photo by Hydar Dewachi


 Students on the current Get the Message programme, Camden Arts Centre - photo by Hydar Dewachi

Get the Message is a collaborative project between young people with learning disabilities, artists and teachers, and is currently being run by artists Emma Mcgarry and Adam Walker.

Click here for further information. 

Get The Message
Exhibition Dates: 9-14 July
Camden Arts Centre Arkwright Road, London, NW3 6DG

Sunday, 7 July 2013

Limited Edition Prints

KEEM have released 3 images from the project A Chain of Wooded Mountains that can now be purchased as limited edition prints.

Each image is priced at £50 and is an edition of 50. Prints are signed and numbered on the reverse.

All proceeds go towards publishing KEEM's book A Chain of Wooded Mountains later this year.


To buy a print, or for any further information (inc. enquiries about having the work framed), please email us here

C-Type Photographic Print, 12x18"
Edition of 50, signed and numbered on reverse
£50.00

C-Type Photographic Print, 12x16"
Edition of 50, signed and numbered on reverse
£50.00

C-Type Photographic Print, 12x16"
Edition of 50, signed and numbered on reverse
£50.00

Sunday, 28 April 2013

A Chain of Wooded Mountains - Publication




KEEM's first publication A Chain of Wooded Mountains has arrived back from the printers, and includes a specially commissioned text by writer Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau.

We are now looking into various options, and meeting with different print companies, before we go ahead with producing a limited edition print-run of the book.

More information coming soon...

Monday, 4 March 2013

Forthcoming Publication


Following on from the exhibition A Chain of Wooded Mountains, which took place during Photomonth 2012, KEEM have begun work on their book of the same title. This will form the third and final stage of a lengthy process of discussion, interpretation and collaboration.

We are very excited to be working with writer Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, who will be producing a text to accompany the work.

The book will be published later this year.

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Bird On A Wire

In the process of editing A Chain of Wooded Mountains we were struck by these seven images, each of them different but all of the same scene. We question why this scene generated more photographs than any other in the series.


The sprawling cemeteries, and the black bird on the wire, stand out in front of us as we look down from the surrounding hills on a city that suffered the longest siege of any in the history of modern warfare.

Friday, 9 November 2012

A Chain of Wooded Mountains - installation photos

A Chain of Wooded Mountains at Long White Cloud Gallery, 151 Hackney Road, London, E2 8JL 
Exhibition dates: 1 November – 12 November

Click here for further information about the project.


This is a KEEM exhibition, featuring as part of Photomonth 2012

With many thanks to Eva Eicker and Karen McQuaid for their curatorial advice and assistance.   

Saturday, 3 November 2012

Private View: A Chain of Wooded Mountains

On Thursday 1 November the KEEM exhibition A Chain of Wooded Mountains opened at Long White Cloud Gallery as part of Photomonth 2012.  The exhibition continues until 12 November. Installation shots to follow...


Press Release: 
Last October KEEM travelled to the Balkans, taking 3 cameras and shooting 1237 photographs in 10 days. What happens when two people take the same trip, see the same things, and hold the same cameras? When does the memory of physically taking a photograph merge into the memory of the image produced? Through the amalgamation of two individuals' memories, boundaries start to blur, and lines start to cross over. 
 
There are common themes that run throughout the images, bringing elements of the individual practice of each of the KEEM artists to the forefront: the body, people in the landscape, architecture, the presence of two individuals, an intimate relationship.

Both members of KEEM have made a personal edit of 80 images from the original 1237 photographs. Here, they have selected a series of diptychs previously undisclosed to each other. The act of editing has taken on the same importance as the initial act of taking the photographs - opening up the first chance for conversation, comparison and influence.

Long White Cloud Gallery 151 Hackney Road, London, E2 8JL
Exhibition dates: 1 November – 12 November