Débora Delmar

TRUST, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK, 2025

Stanley Picker Gallery

Images Courtesy of Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University London. Photography by Reece Straw.

Installation view

Intsallation view

Installation view

TRADERS GATE, 2025
Brief: A reproduction of architect Kenneth Wood’s original Picker House traders' gate, rescaled to the exhibition space entrance.
This work was made in collaboration with Kingston School of Art sculpture workshop head technicians.

WELCOME, 2025
Brief: Two protective shoe cover box dispensers, to be placed at the gallery entrance.

LIMITS, 2025

Brief: A collection of twenty-seven silver stanchions with blue velvet ropes, formerly part of the Picker House Gallery sculpture collection, acquired by the artist through negotiations to replace them with new, museum-standard minimalist barriers. Twenty-four stanchions are to be arranged to form a symmetrical enclosed structure within the gallery space, while the remaining three are to be placed in a corner of the gallery. Stanley Picker Gallery staff are to rearrange all stanchions in multiple configurations throughout the exhibition, in accordance with public health and safety regulations.

BAR CHART (LIVING), 2025
Brief: The gallery walls facing the building’s exterior are to be painted by gallery technicians using a colour palette and design derived from the original curtains of the Picker House Living Room, Master Bedroom, and Guest Bedroom.

BAR CHART (MASTER), 2025
Brief: The gallery walls facing the building’s exterior to be painted by gallery technicians using a colour palette and design derived from the original curtains of the Picker House Living Room, Master Bedroom, and Guest Bedroom.

BAR CHART (GUEST), 2025
Brief: The gallery walls facing the building’s exterior to be painted by gallery technicians using a colour palette and design derived from the original curtains of the Picker House Living Room, Master Bedroom, and Guest Bedroom.

TRUST, 2025
Brief: A folder containing the paperwork for an Express Trust created in the artist’s name, using grant income received from her Stanley Picker Fellowship (funded by the Stanley Picker Trust), to be placed within a lockable glass cabinet belonging to the institution.

TRUST, 2025 (detail)

CPFJ+4H Kingston upon Thames, 9:45am–5:31pm, 09.01.2025, 2025

Video (loop)

Video footage of various sections of a cast-concrete wall in their current location within the garden of Picker House, recorded using surveillance cameras between 9:45am and 5:31pm on 9 January 2025. Originally designed by architect Kenneth Wood to demarcate the ‘housekeeper’ and ‘master’ areas of the garden, the walls are documented over the course of a single day. The video is presented within the exhibition on a television monitor owned by the gallery and ordinarily used for CCTV.

PATRÓN, 2025
Brief: The plaque dedicated to “Stanley Picker, Patron on the Arts, 1913-1982” located at the entrance of the Stanley Picker Gallery to be included as one of the art works in the exhibition.

LIBRARY, 2025
Brief: A selection of books chosen by the artist from her personal collection and Kingston School of Art Library, available for consultation throughout the exhibition.

Stanley Picker House Off Season Tours 20.02.2025, 2025
Brief: A van to be hired to collect exhibition visitors and transport them to Stanley Picker House from Stanley Picker Gallery. The artist held two tours in collaboration with the house custodians on this date during Stanley Picker House's off season.