Biography
England & Co. was founded in 1987 by Jane England and held its initial exhibition in April 1988 in its first gallery space in Notting Hill. In 1999, the gallery expanded and moved around the corner to an architect-designed space on Westbourne Grove until 2012 when the gallery began a three-year residency in Great Portland Street, Central London, which allowed the gallery to incorporate more film screenings, performance and installation into its programme. England & Co. has established itself as an independent and individual gallery that reflects its eclectic, historically aware, research-based curatorial approach. It represents a number of contemporary artists and holds a stock of 20th and 21st century artworks. It has published exhibition catalogues and editions of prints and multiples. In recent years the gallery has become known for exploring artists’ use of photography as both medium and method for documentation, particularly in relation to performance. They arealso committed to working with artists’ archives and researching and curating retrospective exhibitions., reappraisinf artists from the British and international avant-garde of the 1930s through to the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Artists theyt have exhibited have included Paule Vézelay; Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña; founder Situationist Ralph Rumney; kinetic sculptor Liliane Lijn; 1950s action-painter William Green; performance and installation artist Stuart Brisley; and influential forerunner in British multi-media art, film-maker Tina Keane . More recent post-war art history has been explored in Signals: 1964-66; The Exploding Galaxy/99 Balls Pond Road; Screen Practice and The Neo Naturists.
