artists & participants
press release
I’M Ten is a benefit auction and exhibition of over 150 emerging and established artists, brought together to celebrate IMT Gallery’s 10 year anniversary. All artworks will be auctioned off on Paddle8 at a starting price of £50 from the 17th of September – 2nd October 2015.
We are grateful to our I’M Ten nominators for their thoughtful artist selections. They include: Oreet Ashery (Artist), Stuart Brisley (Artist), Mark Doyle (Independent Art Consultant), Elisabetta Fabrizi (Curator, Tyneside Cinema), Kenneth Goldsmith (Poet and Founding Editor of UbuWeb), Sean Griffiths (Architect and Founder of FAT), Kelly Large (Public Programme Curator, Zabludowicz Collection), Ana Ventura Miranda (Director, Arte Institute) and Aura Satz (Artist).
We’d also like to extend our gratitude to the I’M Ten selectors for their carefully considered artwork highlights. They include: George Barker, (independent curator and founder of George and Jørgen gallery), Daniel Giacopelli (producer and presenter at Monocle 24, London UK), Nathaniel Pitt (Director of Division of Labour, Worcester/London UK), Ben Street (art historian and writer), Katharine K. Zarrella (fashion journalist, critic, and Senior Editor of V Magazine and VMAN). Selectors highlights are viewable on I’M Ten’s Paddle8 auction website.
Since its opening as a non-profit gallery, IMT Gallery has built a reputation for its innovative site-specific installations as well as its championing of sound art and of artists working across media. The sale of works in I’M Ten, all of which have been kindly donated by participating artists, raises funds to continue to support IMT Gallery’s ambitious public and curatorial programming, as well as towards building new resources for supporting artists.