Bodie Stanley are working under the collective This Cruel Temple. These artists have been collaborating on various projects over the past two years during their MA at Central Saint Martins, sharing overlapping interests in ritual and world-building.
Each artist within This Cruel Temple has a site-responsive, multi-disciplinary practice, encompassing
sculpture, installation, painting, tufting, ceramics, film, sound, and poetry. The collective's works transform from individual pieces into one iconographic world, through an act of fictioning, creating a space filled with portals to unwelcoming yet ludic realms.
The body, within these works, is often absent, iconographised, or decayed, but the site is brought to life through performance. Dada-ist group texts further unite the work, constructing an abstract mythology.
Read Laura Nicholson‘s essay Melancholy Futures on This Cruel Temple’s 2024 show This Cruel Temple here.
Group Shows
A Year Spent Grieving (Feb - April 2025)
METAHORROR (Jan 2025)
But we could be dining anywhere (Nov 2024)
This Cruel Temple (June 2024)
This Cruel Temple Fundraiser (May 2024)
Untitled (Feb 2024)
Group Works
Cardboard Box (2025)