Shelf is a small gallery space on a shelf in our house in Cambridgeshire. The gallery is situated above our record collection and below our book shelves and is run by me,  Gudrun Filipska and my daughter Sigi. We specialise in showing diminutive and site specific works and curate a running programme of tiny exhibitions.

Shelf makes a statement about the difficulty in obtaining and affording a ‘traditional gallery space’ as well as raising issues around the tensions between domestic and ‘professional’ spaces and the implicit assumption within the industry that these spheres remain separate.

It also addresses the difficulties in conducting an artistic or curatorial practice within a ‘home’ setting and the challenge artists/gallery owners who are parents also face.

The shelf gallery was started as part of my Artists residency in motherhood in 2016.

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