Projects

In October 2025, we welcome Eelyn Lee for a month-long residency Primary. Lee was awarded the Primary Residency Prize, an award presented to an exceptional artist participating in the annual Open exhibition at the New Art Exchange. Lee was awarded the prize for her work Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸. 

Opening in the Autumn, Flat will feature work by Primary resident and member artists—Louisa Chambers, Craig Fisher, Lynn Fulton and Sam Metz—across Gallery 1 and 2, exploring the word ‘flat’ in two distinct contexts.

Small Mercies is the first solo show in England by Glasgow-based artist Matthew Arthur Williams. Spanning both galleries at Primary, the exhibition combines new printed media, sound and moving image.

Commissioned by Primary, Santiago Mostyn, a Stockholm-based artist, will present his first solo project in the UK, The Final Letters of Jackie Creft. The hope is to bring forward the legacy of the Grenada Revolution (1979–1983) as a template for imagining how radical forms of pedagogy and political self-determination can manifest in present-day Britain.

Swedish-Eritrean artists and choreographers Amina Seid Tahir & Adam Seid Tahir are undergoing a production residency in Studio A4. They will research and produce a new body of work for a major institutional solo exhibition opening at Botkyrka Konsthall in 2025, called to excavate the sun.

Nottingham-based artist Lynn Fulton’s production residency in Studio A4 will give her the time and space to make new work for an experimental group exhibition this Autumn.

Nare Mokgotho of MADEYOULOOK collective and artist Zethu Maseko came together at Primary in the Edjardini structure to have a conversation about their overlapping practices. The artists discuss how they understand the place of nature and land in their work.

Mummy Hood Nesting Forest is a site to get lost: a forest, a URL, and a new work of fiction by artist David Steans. The commission takes the form of a multipart story hosted online in its entirety via a bespoke website. A macabre story about storytelling, preparedness, and packable techwear, Mummy Hood Nesting Forest uses the provisional scenario of a hiker getting lost in the woods to conjure, recur, rewrite, and exhume.

Ejaradini is an art installation and garden created by South African artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK (Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho). The exhibition features archival images, plants, and text on the façade of Primary. Ejaradini reflects on Black urban gardening, land, and plant life in South Africa and Britain through visual and nature-based storytelling.

April - September 2022