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IF I HAD A DREAM IT WOULD BE A GOOD DREAM
01.03.26 > 26.04.26
The Gallery of Everything, together with artists Paul Noble & Georgina Starr, present IF I HAD A DREAM IT WOULD BE A GOOD DREAM: the first joint exhibition of drawings, sculptures, films, performances, readings and events, by the award-winning British artists.
Inspired by and dedicated to James Starr (1941 - 2025), the posthumous author of the show’s title, IF I HAD A DREAM IT WOULD BE A GOOD DREAM conjures ghosts, stains, miracles, dust, remnants, melodies, eavesdropping, pressing monsters, lonely laments, re-animations and eternal dancers, all set across two floors of a former barber’s shop on Chiltern Street, W1.
Paul Noble is a contemporary artist known for his monumental graphite ode to urban planning: Nobson Newtown (1998).
Noble’s meticulous practice is both satirical and devotional, and draws from a diverse range of sources, including ancient Chinese scrolls, 18th century pornography and brick walls. Paul Noble was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2012.
Noble’s work has been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, Collections include Tate Britain (London) and Museum of Modern Art (New York).
Georgina Starr, is a multi-disciplinary artist working across video, sound, performance and installation. Her theatrically layered works combine audio, text and moving image and explore female identity, memory, alchemy and film history. Recent projects include Moment Memory Monument (2017) and Quarantaine (2021), as well as her debut novel, The Discreet Dash (2025).
Starr,’s work has been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, Collections include Tate Britain (London) and Museum of Modern Art (New York).
Join artists Paul Noble & Georgina Starr at The Gallery of Everything for an afternoon of acoustic reveries and recitals.
This live performance event forms an electrifying aural accompaniment to the exhibition IF I HAD A DREAM IT WOULD BE A GOOD DREAM. Bringing together works by Alison Knowles (A House of Dust, 1967), Charles Dodge (Synthesized Voices, 1976), Rolf Wallin (Scratch, 1991) AND Fritz Welch.
In 1967 the Fluxus artist Alison Knowles (1933-2025) together with electronic composer and music theorist James Tenney (1934-2006), developed The House of Dust, a four-line poem structure using the programming language Fortran. Each stanza contains 4 randomly generated lines in the format of: “A House” (material), “Situation” (place), “A Light Source” and “Inhabitants”. Knowles envisaged that this House of Dust could take on infinite materializations. The poem, printed across 20 sheets of dot-matrix paper, will be performed live by the Everything Ensemble: a chorus comprising of special guests and the gallery audience. This will be a unique vocal celebration of the iconic Knowles who passed away in October last year aged 92.
In 1976 the American composer Charles Dodge, a leading innovator of computer music, was given a series of poems by his friend the poet Mark Strand (1934-2014). The poems: The Story of Our Lives and In Celebration were transformed by Dodge into synthesized voice compositions: “music created out of the nature of speech itself”. The ‘songs’ were developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for Research in Synthetic Speech and Speech Communication. A special selection of works from the Synthesized Voices LP will punctuate the afternoon.
In 1991 the Norwegian musician Rolf Wallin composed Scratch, a solo piece for performer and balloon. The work will be performed live by Thomas Haines, award winning British percussionist, composer and Régent de Crousticopraxie of The London Institute of Pataphysics.
It’s 2026. Fritz Welch artist, musician, vocal hell raiser, founding member of Asparagus Piss Raindrop and Peeesseye will perform a specially created piece—right now in the present and for your ears only!
The performances will begin at 3.30pm prompt.
Drinks will be served.
Please RSVP as space is limited.
WHAT HOUSE OF DUST: Live performance event
WHERE The Gallery of Everything
4 Chiltern Street, London W1 [ map ]
WHEN 3 - 6pm, Sunday 22nd March 2026
RSVP ge@gallevery.com
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