NICKY DEELEY PING PING PING WEDNESDAY 10TH DEC - SATURDAY 24TH JAN 2009 PRIVATE VIEW - Thursday 11th Seventeen is proud to present new works by New Zealand born artist Nicky Deeley. The exhibition constitutes a series of totemically charged depictions of dead or dying creatures. The corpses of ornate coiled serpents, imagined velveteen marsupials sit alongside contemporary corporate mascots, a caricature sausage is captured in the ecstatic death-throes of its ritual sacrifice. Each of these forms a miniature death garden that sprouts foliage, {...}

WEDNESDAY 10TH SEP - SATURDAY 18TH OCT 2008 SEVENTEEN GALLERY John Samson (1946 - 2004) was an extraordinary British filmmaker. Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, as a teenager Samson moved to Paisley just outside of Glasgow where he remained for the formative years of his life. Resistant to the constraints of formal education, at 16 Samson left school and took on an apprenticeship in the Clyde shipyards learning precision tool making in an engineering firm. Samson quickly became involved as a spokesperson in {...}

PRIVATE VIEW - Thursday 11th Sep For SWEAT, Susan Collis' second solo exhibition at SEVENTEEN, the intense labour underpinning much of her detailed practice is laid bare before the viewer. In addition, a playful yet considered engagement with two distinct modes of production - the industrial and the hand made - runs throughout the exhibition. (more…)

EVENT NIGHT THURSDAY 19TH JUNE 6PM CUTUP GRAND HOTEL ABYSS & SCRATCH! BRITISH SCRATCH VIDEO (1983-1986) GORILLA TAPES / GOLDBACHER AND FLITCROFT GEORGE BARBER / THE DUVET BROTHERS 17 KINGSLAND ROAD LONDON E2 8AA www.seventeengallery.com