Jungwon Jay Hur, Lucien Anderson, Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton, Rhett Leinster

The first iteration in a long form reciprocal exchange between Slugtown and Collective Ending, taking place over 2024-25. Exchange in this context, looks to the geographical, spatial and contextual and invites both organisations to form a dialogue between one another’s programming.

Collective Ending hosts Slugtown for their exhibition Our Teeth are Reefs, a group exhibition presenting work by Jungwon Jay Hur, Lucien Anderson, Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton and Rhett Leinster. As a provocation to the themes and dialogues formulated in the conception of Our Teeth are Reefs, Collective Ending programmes a finissage event with four artists whose practices expand on ideas of value and excavation, belonging and the slippery properties of materials.

In return, Slugtown will host Collective Ending in their Newcastle space in 2025. This exchange between like-minded artist-led organisations across the UK is rooted in the desire to learn from and create meaningful networks to encourage different forms of conversation around exhibition making and sharing of resources.

This builds upon Collective Ending’s Artist-led Critical Exchange Network of 2021, which focused on kick-starting networks that remove geographical barriers to dialogue and collaboration across the UK through a shared crit format. As well as Slugtown’s SlugClub, a regular workshop programme with the Shieldfield Youth Programme and after school clubs with various primary schools in the local area.