ABOUT
Sluice - founded and run by artists and curators - assumes different forms in response to structural and environmental requirements in order to showcase artist and curator-led discourse, projects, collectives and galleries. Since 2011 Sluice has existed as a peripatetic expo, gallery, biennial, screening platform, publisher, symposium and residency.
Headquartered in London, Sluice seeks the local, trans-nationally, maintaining a critical stance in relation to both the institution and the market.
How should artist/curator-run galleries and projects manifest? What position can and should we occupy in relation to the broader arts ecology, to the commercial art world, to institutionalism? How can we advance emergent discourse on a local, national and international level?
Does participation equal collaboration? Does authorship become fluid in the artist/curator run context?
Is an exhibition an artwork? Is an organisation an artist? Sluice is a research project – which values questions over answers.
OPPORTUNITIES
Sluice works with artist and curator-led projects and galleries, collectives, collaborations and alternative platforms. Broadly defined, Sluice is concerned with artist-led culture. Roughly once a year Sluice will organise a large scale event either in the UK or elsewhere. On occasion we will work directly with artists but mostly our opportunities are only open to the above. All opportunities to participate in Sluice events are announced via our newsletters.
MAGAZINE
Sluice magazine exists to contextualise the artist-led as the primary site of art as praxis. Sluice broadly explores the impact of the societal and economic environment on the arts and vice versa. Within this framework each edition of the biannual magazine has a different thematic focus.
Sluice magazine is, on the whole, not written by professional writers but by artists, curators and on occasion, academics. If you're interested in writing for Sluice magazine subscribe to our newsletter or keep an eye out on our social media channels.
WHO
Sluice
Co-founder / Director / Karl England 
Co-founder / Education / Ben Street
Sluice Film
Directer / Sarah Wishart
Director / Karl England
Sluice Magazine
Publishing Director / Karl England
Editor / Tash Kahn
Publisher / Sluice
Magazine Design / Christian Küsters
Type Foundry / Colophon, London
Distribution / Central Books
© 2024
ISSN 2398-8398
EAN 9772398839005
Website:
COLLABORATORS
Sluice is comprised of a core team, a selection of informal advisors, the ever changing cast of participating galleries and projects, the artists that run those projects and the artists those projects work with, and finally all the people that have worked with Sluice over the years, these include:
Charlie Levine [2013-17] manager and curator
Paul Cole [2015 - 2018] production manager
Roos van Mierlo [2015-17] editor
Nicole Sansone [2013 & 2015] talks manager
James Horgan [2015 & 2017] production manager
Emma da Costa [2017] production assistant
Amy Kirkham [2013 & 2015] production assistant
Hamish McLain [2013] production assistant
May George [2013] production assistant
Jillian Roberts [2015] production assistant
James Randell [2015 & 2017] production assistant
Andre de Jong [2022] screens production
Arianwen England [2022] social media assistant + photographer
Tilly Hawkins [2024] sproduction assistant
Kane Crawford [2024] production assistant