Insert There

Insert There

Venue • Bath Spa University • Locksbrook Campus • BA1 3EL
Open 24 May to 7 June 2025 • Mon - Fri from 10am to 5pm • Sat - Sun from 10am to 4pm

Insert There has invited artists to imagine new contexts for their work by inserting it into unexpected or iconic locations—both real and fictional. Inspired by David Reed’s Two Bedrooms in San Francisco, where paintings inhabit scenes from Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and Mel Chin’s subversive In the Name of Place, which embedded artworks into the sets of Melrose Place, this exhibition explores how meaning shifts when art is placed outside conventional spaces.

Featuring over 70 works, Insert There repositions art into environments as diverse as the Moon, the White House, Kew Gardens, Red Square, the River Thames, and the Henry Moore Sculpture Park. Artists also intervene in pop culture and cinema, inserting their work into The Simpsons, Coronation Street, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more. These insertions provoke questions about authorship, visibility, and the politics of place. They also play with humour, critique, and disruption—challenging where art can exist, and how it interacts with the world around it.

Exhibiting artists:

Alexandra Savvo, Anaïs Chopart-Ratel, Andrew Stys aka UU, Arabel Lebrusan, Art JCB, Bryn Richards, Caren Peters-Horton, Ceris Dyfi Jones, Claudio Pestana, Daniélín, Dijun Sha, ELAWIATR, Emily Slinger, Fiona Campbell, Freya Williams, Gracie Begly, Graham Brooks, Grant Lambie, Izzy Bull, Jade Clarke, Jane Turner, Jean Stockwell, Kate Smith, Katie Carter, Laurence Sturla, Linda Pearl Izan, Magda Bond, Matilda Clarke, Oli Dutton, Olivia Mitchell, Paul Chinn, Paul Chisholm, Peta Lloyd, Precious Ozemoya, Rebecca Couzens, Roger Clarke, Ryan John, Salli Yule-Tsingas, Simon Periton, Steve Debruyn, Susie Lonie, Tajinder Dhami, Tom Walker