In partnership with Peer, Shoreditch Arts Club is honoured to present a curated selection of the gallery’s wonderful Editions, produced by several artists who have worked with them throughout their 28-year-long history.
Sam Porritt, Act Natural (2010) on view at Shoreditch Arts Club. Photography by Avery Moss-White.
Bridget Smith, Arden Estate Community Hall (2014), (2018) on view at Shoreditch Arts Club. Photography by Avery Moss-White.
Peer is a not-for-profit space for contemporary art located in the neighbourhood of Hoxton in East London. They place artists, young people and local communities at the heart of our internationally recognised programmes of exhibitions, commissions, talks and events, and workshops.
Peer’s programme is committed to being in dialogue with our local context, while maintaining a national and international reputation as one of London’s most experimental small spaces for contemporary art. Located in a converted shopfront in Arden Estate, Peer overlooks and maintains our green space, Khadija’s Garden.
Across its 28-year-long history, Peer have worked with artists including Chris Ofili, Mike Nelson, Bob & Roberta Smith, Mark Walinger, Stuart Brisley, Danh Vo, Fiona Banner, Jadé Fadojutimi, Lubna Chowdhary, Tanoa Sasraku, Iris Touliatou, Onyeka Igwe and Mohammed Z. Rahman, among many others.
Peer Editions are specially commissioned and donated by the artist to support Peer’s programmes. Through a special collaboration, Peer Director Ellen Greig to curate a selection of Editions to be on view at Shoreditch Arts Club. The Editions are purchasable, and directly supports Peer’s programme of events and creative development among local young people.
Marcus Cope
We Built a Wall, Together (1) & (2) (2023)
Giclée Print on Hanhemühle Photo Rag mounted to Aluminium, 25 x 25 cm, Signed and numbered, Edition of 12 + 2 AP’s. £400 each, £750 as a pair
London-based artist Marcus Cope’s Peer editions are based on original oil paintings on paper. Printed on Hanhemühle Photo Rag and mounted on Aluminium, the editions don’t require framing. Marcus had his first solo show in a public institution at Peer, Silver Linings, in 2022.
The editions comprise a combination of overlayed images depicting memories and places such as, two sides of a wall in Cyprus, a photo on a restaurant wall in Wiltshire, an unaccepted invitation and some just vandalism of a second-hand car dealership, alongside memories of happiness, anger, and loss.
Anthony McCall
Coupling (2006)
Somerset Photo Rag 300 gsm, 51.4 x 34.4 cm, signed and numbered, Edition of 75. £175 (unframed)
In 2006, as part of Peer’s programme, artist Anthony McCall exhibited Between You and I at the Round Chapel.
As part of this project, Anthony produced Coupling, a documentation of the project and a sketch of the projected light. Recently, in 2025, Anthony’s Peer commission was restaged at Tate Modern.
Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema, drawing, and performance, Antony is known for his innovative installations of light. In 1973, his seminal work Line Describing a Cone redefined the possibilities of sculpture.
Bridget Smith
Arden Estate Community Hall (2014), (2018)
Inkjet print on 300 gsm, Somerset paper, Edition of 25. £200 (unframed)
Bridget’s (b. 1966, Essex) Peer 2010 exhibition built on her work documenting ‘unpopulated’ space’s, focusing on space in TokomaruBay, a small town on the remote eastern cape of the North Island of New Zealand.
This edition she produced for Peer is of Arden Estate Community Hall as part of her ongoing series Society, Recording Clubs and Associations in London.
Bridget’s works with photography, video and site-specific installations to explore the relationship between the real and the imagined within social and architectural spaces. Her photographs often explore of certain kinds of self-contained spaces, such as a football pitch, a sound recording studio, a boxing ring, hobbyists’ clubs and societies, themed hotel bedrooms and locations in and around the city of Las Vegas.
Sam Porritt https://www.fraeulein-magazine.eu/till-the-cameras-do-us-part-oona-marries-the-surveillance-state/
Act Natural (2010)
Pigment ink on paper, 42 x 29.5 cm, Signed and numberedEdition of 40 unique drawings. £350 (framed)
Sam Porritt’s (b.1979, London) 2010 Peer exhibition, Heads and Faces explored the human head, physiognomy and the anthropomorphic potential of abstract form. This edition was part of this project.
Sam’s practice is characterised by an interest in conceptual and social issues, which he explores through the act of drawing. Drawing quickly became a daily practice through which Sam processed everyday observations, personal experiences and current events, as well as personal questions.
Tanoa Sasraku
Scholar's Rock (2023)
Inkjet print on Awagami Kozo Thin Natural Paper, 110 x 46 cm, Edition of 50 + 4 APs, Signed and numbered. 1 -20: £225 (unframed) *limited availability. 21 -40: £250 (unframed). 41 -50: £275 (unframed)
As part of Tanoa Sasraku’s (b. 1995, Plymouth) first solo exhibition in a London public gallery in 2023, Peer produced a new limited edition by the artist titled Scholar’s Rock (2022).
Tanoa’s Peer edition is a scanned detail from the Terratype series onto Awagami Kozo paper.
Focusing on a unique image of newsprint marked by Tanoa’s needle, tearing and embossing work, this edition is the only work in the artists series that was soaked in the bogs of Dartmoor, near to where she grew up, and the site of many formative experiences. Within the edition, blades of grass can be seen knotted into the weave of the fringed newsprint, showing evidence of its grounding within the landscape.
Joy Gerrard
Protest Crowd 1 and 2
Japanese ink on linen, 20.5 x 30 cm, Signed and dated on reverse. £400 each, £750 as a set
Joy Gerrard’s (b. Dublin 1971) series of 10 unique paintings for Peer editions based on elements from her new large canvases in Protest Crowd.
Joy makes Japanese ink drawings and paintings that investigate the physical and psychological relationships between humans and buildings.She archives and painstakingly recreates images of political demonstrations from around the world. These mass marches, sourced from the media, include Trump Resistance, Occupy movement, Arab Risings, Black Lives Matter, Women’s March amongst many more.
David Murphy
Ribbon (2019)
Hand-drawn Casein on paper, 14 x 19 cmEdition of 15 unique works. £225 (unframed)
David Murphy’s (b. London 1983) Peer edition, Ribbon, is a series of fifteen exquisite drawings, produced as part of his 2014 Peer exhibition, Certain Impacts.
David’s work explores the interplay between volume, light, space and line. The forms that inhabit his works often develop out of accumulations -discrete actions that embrace unpredictability within repetitive processes.
John Stezaker
Double Shadow (2013–18)
Digital Pigment, Print on Somerset Photo Satin paper, 300gsm, 50 x 40 cm, Edition of 50 + 5 Aps, signed and numbered. 1-20: £400 (Sold out) 21-40: £450. 41-50: £500
Double Shadow, (2013–18) by artist John Stezaker(b. 1949, Worcester) builds on his ongoing work that explores duality, both physical and metaphoric. The processes of splitting and doubling are used to reflect on the duplicitous figure of the uncanny, or the doppelgänger.
This edition was produced as part of Peer’s 20th Anniversary.
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