FTHo

Private view: Saturday 16 May 2–8pm
Continues Sunday 17 May 12–6pm
(Or by appointment)

12 Mackintosh Lane E9 6AB

Athanasios Argianas is presenting new audio-visual work at Mackintosh Lane, developed as part of an ongoing residency at Flat Time House. Flat Time House will host a major exhibition of Argianas' work in winter 2026–27. 

With the support of The Elephant Trust

Flat Time House Director/Curator Gareth Bell-Jones will be presenting on as part of a six-part international virtual series spotlighting 20+ historic artist homes and studios, their programs, and the contemporary artists they support across the US and Europe. Presented by Historic Artists Homes (US) & Studios and Artist’s Studio Museum Network (UK).

The life and work of Barbara Steveni (1928–2020), who described herself as an artist–activist, embodied an archive and pioneered a diffused art practice that resists clear definition. Invisible threads interlink the various roles she played in the contexts within which she was situated and responding to. As with other women artists of her generation she combined childrearing and managing domestic chores with the production of work, and was frequently overshadowed by her male partner’s success. The importance of Steveni’s role in the Artist Placement Group (APG) was often marginalised by gender-inflected terms such as ‘honorary secretary’, her practice was rarely recognised as having a value in its own right. The exhibition I Find Myself intends to redress this imbalance and encompass her life’s work, drawing together her practice and her experimentation with materials, media and strategies across a career spanning more than seventy years.

I Find Myself, co-curated by Jo Melvin and FTHo Curator/Director Gareth Bell-Jones was first presented at Modern Art Oxford in 2025.

Flat Time House are pleased to announce that Elisabeth Del Prete will be undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD at Birmingham City University, working in partnership with Eastside Projects and FTHo to examine how the ideas and models developed by Artist Placement Group (APG) (1966-89) are both relevant today, and to future possibilities for the role of artists in society. 

Elisabeth’s research will evaluate contemporary experimental art projects, exploring how principles of regenerative design can generate new understandings of the impact of APG’s approach. Drawing on regenerative design as a method that acknowledges the interconnectedness and co-evolving nature of living systems (social, political, economic and natural), the research will ask how APG's motto “context is half the work” can be expanded upon to evaluate contemporary reworkings and inform future modes of creative practice.

In partnership with Flat Time House and Eastside Projects, Birmingham City University are looking for a candidate to undertake an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award on the subject of The Incidental Artist approach: contemporary reworkings of the methods and legacies of the Artist Placement Group 1966-1989 as part of the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnerships.

Flat Time House (FTHo) is working with Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, founded by artist couple Agness Buya and Lawrence Yombwe, in Livingstone, Zambia, as part of a British Council funded research project to support direct exchange between artists in the UK and Zambia. FTHo and Wayi Wayi support artists with socially engaged practices, and have a focus on engendering inter-generational exchange. Both organisations are currently building residency programmes with the aim of fostering international dialogue. Over the next six months, Wayi Wayi and FTHo will be learning more about each other’s unique context: looking at how artists in both countries work with sustainable materials; and also how artists in both countries work with non-art organisations to effect social change.

This Thing We Call Art is a project by trans-disciplinary artist Kelly Lloyd. Lloyd has been interviewing people in the arts about their livelihoods since 2017 – interviewing 85 people thus far. This archive is now available online at thisthingwecallart.com, and, in addition, Lloyd is sharing excerpts from a series of interviews via a new podcast with contributors including Gregory Bae, Gordon Hall, Nicole Morris, Leah Capaldi, Hilary Powell and Bella Milroy.

Art360 have made a short film introducing the John Latham Archive. This film marks the completion of an ambitious five year project making photographic material from the archive fully accessible for the first time.

These materials were digitised, catalogued and re-housed by Flat Time House archives assistant Sarah Millet, with funding by Art360 and additional support from the John Latham Foundation.

In addition to the John Latham archive, Flat Time House is home to a collection of John Latham artwork which until now has never been the subject of sustained investigation. A new research space for these items is currently being developed by AHRC funded researcher Sean Ketteringham to allow greater access to the materials by both education groups and artists. The cataloguing of the collection will build upon the experimental structure of the John Latham Archive. The creative archival methodologies we employ explore how cataloguing and storage processes relate to Latham’s ideas of knowledge and confusion, destruction, authority, community, and landscape.

Works by John Latham are included in EXTROSPECTION, curated by David Thorp at Pi Artworks, London. Also included are works from Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Barry Flanagan, Toby Tobias Kidd, Cally Spooner and Anne Tallentire.

Private View: Thursday 24 September 2020, 12–7pm

We are delighted that John Latham is included in the exhibition Memory Game at Villa Lontana, Rome.

Tauba Auerbach, Cyprien Gaillard, Susan Hiller, Thomas Hutton, John Latham, Charlotte Moth, Rosalind Nashashibi + Lucy Skaer, Olu Ogunnaike, Giorgio Orbi, Andrés Saenz De Sicilia + Emiddio Vasquez, Edoardo Servadio, Joëlle Tuerlinckx.

Opening hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11am—6pm or by appointment.