SKIP Gallery

In 2017, London-based artists Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker re-conceived the idea of the exhibition space, presenting the London public with an ongoing series of collaborative, site-specific artworks housed in skips in public sites, bringing unexpected eruptions of art into the everyday urban landscape. Since setting up SKIP, Baker & Borowski have collaborated with some of the biggest names in contemporary art, including David Shrigley (Look At This, June 2017), Gavin Turk (Transubstantiation, November 2017), Richard Woods (Upgrade, June 2018) and Ben Eine, as well as ‘the world’s most artistic football club’ AS Velasca in Milan. In 2019,  the skip relocates to the Selfridges shop floor for the month-long series Like It Or Lump It. Part of the department store’s ambitious State of the Arts campaign, the exhibition features playful and thought-provoking interventions from Paul Kindersley and Maja Djordjevic, alongside Clare Pearce’s ‘Fitting Room Residency’ – a pop-culture-powered investigation of the boundaries between private and public.

Ultimately, SKIP gallery aims to become not merely a mobile exhibition space, but a continuous, transitioning artwork in itself, connecting artists around the world through an ongoing programme of collaboration.