Why Tiree? It's hard to convince people that a grey, rainy, windy, blowy island, freezing sea, is the place they would like to go every summer. But when they go, they understand.

SCHQ Electric presents TJ Wilcox’s 2017 video work Fergus. A portrait of the British chef and restaurateur Fergus Henderson, a close friend of Wilcox’s, the footage unfolds through a sequence of musings by Henderson; wandering through themes of love, illness, and gastronomic inspiration.

Mediating between documentary objectivity and the inner life of his subject, Fergus documents Henderson’s personal world as much as his professional career, revealing how the “fickle thing” of food has permeated every aspect of his life. His monologue is punctuated by rhapsodic descriptions of particular dishes, including the “little pile of bone marrow” that has become his signature, and “a cheek of pig’s head braised like an alligator in a swamp”.

The film shifts between recent footage shot in Tiree and London to snatches of older film of summer holidays on the island. Some of these ‘archival’ sequences are shot on Super-8 film: refracting their events through grainy and tremulous footage, as if viewed through the filter of memory and recollection.

Exhibition walkthrough

3 - 16 December 2020

24 Cork Street W1

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Exhibition walkthrough

1 Davies W1

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Exhibition walkthrough

62 Kingly Street, W1

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Exhibition walkthrough

4 - 29 November 2020

24 Cork Street W1

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Exhibition walkthrough

6 - 31 October 2020

24 Cork Street W1

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5 - 18 October 2020

Frieze Sculpture Park

Regent's Park NW1

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3 September - 31 October 2020

1 Davies Street W1

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In this video walkthrough Wilhelm Sasnal and art critic Adrian Searle discuss Sasnal’s latest body of work – the subject of his current solo exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street gallery.

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7 July - 8 Aug

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16 March - 7 May 2020
62 Kingly Street W1

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27 Feb -

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27 Feb - 1 Aug

© Sadie Coles HQ, London

31 January - 29 February 2020
62 Kingly Street W1

© Sadie Coles HQ, London

14 November - 20 December 2019
62 Kingly Street W1

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19 September - 2 November 2019

62 Kingly Street W1

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06 October 2019 - 02 February 2020

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© Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht

© Sadie Coles HQ, London

12 January - 23 February 2019

62 Kingly Street W1

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16 November 2018 - 26 January 2019

1 November - 15 December 2018

62 Kingly Street W1

692 productions 

© Sadie Coles HQ, London

13 September - 10 November 2018
1 Davies Street W1

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© Sadie Coles HQ, London

8 June - 18 August 2018

9 June - 24 August 2018

Sleep

18 April - 26 May 2018

62 Kingly Street W1

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18 April - 26 May 2018

62 Kingly Street W1

692 productions 

© Sadie Coles HQ, London

22 February - 7 April 2018

Ze & Per

22 February - 7 April 2018

62 Kingly Street W1

© Sadie Coles HQ, London

23 November 2017 - 10 February 2018

62 Kingly Street W1

© Sadie Coles HQ, London

13 January - 29 March 2018

1 Davies Street W1

692 productions 

© Sadie Coles HQ, London

Heimlich Manoeuvre

23 November 2017 - 10 February 2018

62 Kingly Street W1

© Sadie Coles HQ, London

Projects 106: Martine Syms is a new exhibition using video and performance to examine representations of blackness and its relationship to narrative, vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Explore the exhibition with the artist herself in this "How to See" tour.

© The Museum of Modern Art, 2017

American artist Martine Syms talks about her first UK institutional solo exhibition Fact & Trouble. The exhibition compiles original and found photography alongside images taken by her father, weaving together familial, cultural, and historical legacies. Fact & Trouble demonstrates Syms’s multifarious artistic practice which includes video, performance and writing as well as publishing through her imprint Dominica.

© Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2016

© Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2016

Culture Now: Uri Aran
2 September 2016

© Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

UK at the Venice Biennale, 2015
Filmed at the British Pavilion.

Commissioned by the British Council and produced by Julian Simmons.