Photography: Matthew Peers.
Book tickets
The New Rare presents Wishing Wells, 2023–2025 by Matthew Peers, accompanied by a conversation with artist Elizabeth Wright exploring publishing, exhibition making and curatorial practice through Peers’ work with WC2E9HA, a programme of exhibitions and events.
The conversation considers how artist relationships, selection and exhibition strategies have developed through the programme, alongside Peers’ ongoing interest in temporality, the poetic nature of sculpture, image circulation, printed matter and the movement of the artwork between document, edition and object.
The event marks the first public presentation of Wishing Wells, 2023–2025 and coincides with The New Rare Editions, an evolving platform for artist publications and editions.
To mark the launch, Studio Nicholson has produced a limited-edition T-shirt in support of the Wishing Wells project. Printed in an edition of 45, the T-shirts carry the coordinates of the places where the sculptures have been exhibited, or temporarily “lived,” transforming the works’ journey into a wearable record. The first 30 ticket holders will receive a complimentary T-shirt.
The conversation considers how artist relationships, selection and exhibition strategies have developed through the programme, alongside Peers’ ongoing interest in temporality, the poetic nature of sculpture, image circulation, printed matter and the movement of the artwork between document, edition and object.
The event marks the first public presentation of Wishing Wells, 2023–2025 and coincides with The New Rare Editions, an evolving platform for artist publications and editions.
To mark the launch, Studio Nicholson has produced a limited-edition T-shirt in support of the Wishing Wells project. Printed in an edition of 45, the T-shirts carry the coordinates of the places where the sculptures have been exhibited, or temporarily “lived,” transforming the works’ journey into a wearable record. The first 30 ticket holders will receive a complimentary T-shirt.
Bios
Matthew Peers is a London-based artist whose practice is rooted in sculpture and extends into exhibition-making, publishing and display. Working with found, repurposed and cast materials, he explores the shifting relationships between objects, images and the spaces that hold them. He runs WC2E9HA, an ongoing programme of art exhibitions, and has exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg; Croy Nielsen, Vienna; Wschód, Warsaw; and Tate St Ives. His recent publication, Wishing Wells / 2023–2025 / 2026, approaches the artist’s book as both an image archive and a portable sculpture.
Elizabeth Wright is an artist / copyist and Reader in Social Sculpture who lives and works in London. A line of her enquiry is how the intersection of digital and physical sculpture can be used as a space for democratic arts practice. Fostering an open model, working within both formal and informal learning environments she has co-researched with the collectives, Grounds to Play, Digital Markers and Reverso; realising projects with local and international communities of children, playworkers, schools and cultural institutions. Her work as an artist / copyist includes recent exhibitions: The National Art Center, Tokyo, Kyocera Museum of Art Kyoto City, Japan; Foundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain; Atelier Amden, Amden, Switzerland and Miró Foundatión, Barcelona, Spain. She has works in private and public collections, Tate and Arts Council UK.
The New Rare is a platform for rare art books, exhibition ephemera, printed matter and art-world objects, with a programme spanning publishing, exhibitions and art-book fairs. Its publishing arm, The New Rare Editions, begins with Matthew Peers’s Wishing Wells / 2023–2025 / 2026, its first artist book. Recent activity includes an exhibition at WC2E 9HA x Chequers / Gestures and participation in Biblioteka Art Book Fair at the Warburg Institute, Bound Art Book Fair and the New York Queer Zine Fair. In September 2026, The New Rare will participate in GLUE Book Fair at the ICA.
Book tickets
Thu, 17 Sep 2026
Upper Gallery
06:30 pm
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Photography: Matthew Peers
Photography: Matthew Peers
