New Contemporaries – Live Show, London, Acme Gallery, London, 1976

New Contemporaries – Live Show, London, Acme Gallery, London, 1976

Above: Original Poster for the Exhibition featuring Elaine Shemilt’s photo installation “Constraint’ (1975)

Shemilt exhibited a number of works in the lower gallery as part of the 1976 New Contemporaries.

Works included the photo installations Constraint, and Art Into Protest, and the 16mm film, Protest, (B/W, 10.35 mins, silent) 16mm Film, 1976. The main image on the New Contemporaries Poster featured Constraint.

‘Constraint’
Photo Documentation of Performance and Video at New Contemporaries -Live Show ACME Gallery in Covent Garden, London
© 1976 Elaine Shemilt

‘Constraint’
Photo Documentation of Performance and Video at New Contemporaries -Live Show ACME Gallery in Covent Garden, London
© 1976 Elaine Shemilt

‘Constraint’
Photo Documentation of Performance and Video at New Contemporaries -Live Show ACME Gallery in Covent Garden, London
© 1976 Elaine Shemilt

‘Constraint’
Photo Documentation of Performance and Video at New Contemporaries -Live Show ACME Gallery in Covent Garden, London
© 1976 Elaine Shemilt

‘Constraint’
Photo Documentation of Performance and Video at New Contemporaries -Live Show ACME Gallery in Covent Garden, London
© 1976 Elaine Shemilt

‘Constraint’
Photo Documentation of Performance and Video at New Contemporaries -Live Show ACME Gallery in Covent Garden, London
© 1976 Elaine Shemilt

‘Constraint’
Photo Documentation of Performance and Video at New Contemporaries -Live Show ACME Gallery in Covent Garden, London
© 1976 Elaine Shemilt

‘Constraint’
Photo Documentation of Performance and Video at New Contemporaries -Live Show ACME Gallery in Covent Garden, London
© 1976 Elaine Shemilt

‘Constraint’
Photo Documentation of Performance and Video at New Contemporaries -Live Show ACME Gallery in Covent Garden, London
© 1976 Elaine Shemilt