-art collecting with a conscience
-art collecting with a conscience
Purslane was founded in 2020 to shake up the status quo of the art market and promote a more socially conscious way of investing in art while supporting emerging artistic talent and raising awareness around philanthropic causes. The new gallery initiative is the gallery model of the future, disrupting and democratising the institutionalised art market by directing the majority of the proceeds to the artists and charitable organisations.
‘Sonder’ is a group exhibition of works by emerging and mid-career artists, which is fundraising for The Trussell Trust.
Sonder (noun) is the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own- populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and neuroses. “In a state of sonder, each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member, and an extra in overlapping stories.” The word reminds us to step outside of the era of the individual that contemporary culture finds us in and encourages empathy and a sense of exploration in the Other. Art in and of itself provides a fertile ground for experiencing an insight into the hidden interior realms that others inhabit.
Contributing artists: Naomi Boiko- Stapleton, Jacob Littlejohn, Gill Button, Yishi Chen, Mary West, Sassy Park, Rosalind Howdle, Maria Andrievskaya and Nooka Shepherd.
25% of all sales will be donated to The Trussell Trust, a UK based anti-poverty charity and community of food banks. At this time of year of feasting, family and gift giving it feels apt to support an organisation that ensures no one goes hungry.
Terra Keck is an image-maker and performer based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from The University of Hawaii at Mana and her BFA from Ball State University. She co-hosts the comedy-educational podcast "Witch Yes!," and is a founding member of the international artist collective GRRIC. You will find her work featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford American Arts as well as in permanent institutional collections in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Hawaii, and California. Her work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Spring Break Art Show curated by Field Projects and she will have her Mexico City debut this fall at Maia Contemporary Gallery.
Described by the editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic as "sonograms of a world ready to be born..and brimming the optimism of theosophical insight," Keck's work explores the ontology of our universe and consciousness through the metaphor of the UFO. Instead of siphoned through the language of militarism and conspiracy, the work approaches the UFO from the angle that our universe is, at its core, benevolent. The work is created by erasing layers of graphite and watercolor, a reductive process that alludes to the importance of what is left behind and the negative spaces in our cosmic story. Spiritually, the work is generated in response to the broad consensus that the future is canceled. When things feel so uncertain, what are earthlings supposed to do but look up and out at an opaque and glittering emptiness and dream of someone who traveled a thousand lightyears just to catch a glimpse of us?
25% of all sales will be donated to Terra’s chosen charity, The Hawai’i Arts Alliance.
‘If you lose your way’ is a solo presentation of works by Rose Electra Harris. In this body of work the artist celebrates her printmaking practice which is a central and guiding force within her larger artistic practice.
Rose originally trained as a printmaker before starting painting and finds the methodical, process driven aspect of printmaking to be a meditative, centring force. Whilst now, working predominantly as a painter, printmaking continues to inform her practice, whether it be through layering, texture or mark making. This body of work is made up of etching and mono prints, techniques which offer different qualities and parameters. “Etching is a very controlled technique where so many things can go wrong every step of the way. Sometimes these mistakes add to the work and that can be exciting. I love the intimacy of etching, it feels very private and personal. You work backwards when working on an etching plate which is not how I normally approach making work, but I really enjoy that it forces this change.” Whereas, “Mono-printing is less scale restrictive, with a lot more freedom. It feels very tactile, and you can be a lot more spontaneous when making the print. Every print is a one off so I am less precious when making work.”
Rose’s chosen charity is Doctors Without Borders or Medicines Sans Frontieres, an international humanitarian organisation providing medical care in more than 70 countries. Since 1971, Doctors Without Borders have been treating people caught in complex crises and chronic healthcare emergencies around the world.
25% of all sales will be donated to this cause.
