My Own Private Utopia

An exhibition at Velorose Gallery, City of London by Year 02 Interiors

Dr Keith Winter

BA Interiors year 02 had the privilege of showing their Barbican Conservatory projects at Velorose Gallery in the City of London under the watchful eye of gallerist and architect David Rosenberg.

Velorose is an unusual space in that it has a pink carpet on the ceiling and also modular plywood walls that can be adapted to fit different presentations.

Student ambassadors Milena Torres and Aliyah Stewart worked hard to get the 22 x A2 pages printed and meticulously hung for the week of the show 04th-09th April.

The project challenged students to imagine a new bar, mezzanine, staircase and viewing platform in the Barbican Conservatory, to celebrate and delight in the gardens. An in-conversation was had between all students and year tutor Pol Gallagher at the Private View on 08th April. Year 03 Interior students also joined us and were not shy in their critical opinions of the work.

It was a celebration of collage, technical drawing, sketching and 3D softwares that culminated in a rewarding closure to the project and celebration of the possibilities that the Barbican gardens could afford the users.

Virtual + Physical Group Exhibition

April 28th - June 06th 2022

Based on a commissioned text by Gabriel Santamarina + curated by Yeah Totally Ltd

Touchdown at Way Out East Gallery, AVA Building, UEL, London, E16 2RD

Dr Keith Winter ran a book club during lockdown curated by Mexico-City-based writer and psychoanalyst Gabriel Santamarina. In summer 2021 I asked Gabriel to write a short text describing three sacred spaces, which he decided were; a 13th Century Mosque, a 9th Century Buddhist Temple and a cave. Yeah Totally Ltd then translated his text into a set of virtual interior spaces and invited 12 artists to show their works in it.

This was launched both virtually and with a physical touchdown on the April 28th at 5pm. The show ran until the 06th June. On the evening there was an informal artist Q&A in person and online at 7pm for artists from across the world. The virtual exhibition designed by Keith and Nayden was hosted on HUBS Mozilla and allowed anyone, anywhere, will be able to enter from any device and view the exciting work.

Artists: Daryl Brown, Manuela Johanna Covini, Nayden Hadzhiev, Jaimie Henthorn, Khaoula B. Karaweigh, Selecta LDN, Victor Perez-Rul, Parisa Oreizi, Johnston Sheard, Ayesha Singh + misael soto, Daniel Widrig + Keef Winter yhtotally.com is the experimental design studio of Dr Keith Winter and Nayden Hadzhiev who are both tutors on the BA (hons) Interior Design course at UEL.