WW is a not-for-profit artists' run project space in a converted Victorian terraced house in Hackney, East London.
WW's Debra Wilson and Chiara Williams are both practising and exhibiting artists and have also curated a number of successful exhibitions, on and off-site,
including a collateral event at the 53rd Venice Biennale and featured several times in TimeOut First Thursdays Top 5 exhibitions.
The duo has been invited to give talks and participate in conferences on curating at the IUAV university, Venice
(Starting from Venice: The Biennale Collateral Events), Sheffield Hallam University (Symposium – Another Way), University of East London (Key Note speakers for UEL Creative Arts Industries Event Series)
); has offered one-to-one curatorship and arts management advice at Futurising (University of the Arts London); and been the subject of a thesis on contemporary art audiences (Audiences of Contemporary art: A Cross-Cultural Reception Analysis, Mireille Haddad, Università degli Studi di Firenze).
In June 2010 WW launched Surgery, bookable one-to-one sessions for anyone needing tailored professional development advice or consultation...more details
"The gallery sits within an elegant, Victorian terraced house, overlooking the green fields of Hackney Downs. Its quiet domestic setting is deceptive however, for since its opening in September 2008 it has been running a series of fearless and ambitious shows, featuring an eclectic array of work that runs from the beautiful and ornate to the grotesque and unsettling. Breaking away from the tendency of their East End counterparts to show work with a dry and introspective concern with theory, concept and the politics of the art industry, WW looks outward by staging shows centered around wider social and cultural themes. The result is often dark, frequently humorous and at once democratic and challenging. WW’s curators make full and imaginative use of the unique architecture of the space, which is flooded with natural daylight from both the front and back. More than just a sterile display case, the gallery is a hub of creative energy, where both works and visitors spill out on to the street and into the back garden at openings, and which has so far borne witness to everything
from music and performance to pagan feasting." Sophie Dodds
