Ali Glover
Lives and works in London, UK
b. 1993
Ali Glover’s site-based interventions explore how architectural infrastructures can influence behaviour and psychological patterns. He is interested in how forms of language—whether architectural, visual, or sonic—used during transitional moments can shift something from being overlooked to becoming visible. By borrowing elements from other structural forms, Glover creates markers in time, aiming to collapse them simultaneously. Glover looks to reference aspects of the gallery space where he is exhibiting, combining them poetically as a commentary on the constitutional aspects of an individual's mindset, highlighting the fragility of infrastructure and the intricacy of its construction, both physically and metaphorically.
Glover is also part of F.A.F Collective, which he formed with Henry Burns and Ruairi Fallon. Using the physical limitations of sites, as well as the materials contained within, F.A.F creates temporary, fantastical structures. They introduce absurd fictional sub-plots into the periphery of the city. The works exist in the realm of myth due to the inaccessibility of these locations; sightings are fleeting, with glimpses caught from places like the top deck of a bus or through the fence of a station platform. They had their first solo show at Staffordshire St Gallery in 2023.
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Born 1993 in West Midlands, UK
Lives and works in London, UK2019-2022
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London, UK2012-2015
BA Hons Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK2011-2012
Art and Design Foundation, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK -
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Solo exhibitions
2024
nothing concrete: Ali Glover, Curated by Kollektiv Collective, Inspection Pit, West Sussex, UK
All I Could See Through the Porthole was Glittering Dust, as F.A.F Collective, Split Gallery, London, UK
2023
Loose Teeth, Commonage Projects, London, UK
As a Child With a Matchstick Castle, as F.A.F Collective, Staffordshire Street Gallery, London, UKGroup exhibitions
2024
Construct, Cob Gallery, London, UK
2023
things fall apart; the centre cannot hold, curated by Kollektiv Collective, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, UK
‘some dust’ for A Place to Rest, Turmstraße, Berlin, Germany
Terminal Parlour, Split Gallery, London, UK
2022
Ghost Show: The Haunted House, Unit AG.1 Copeland Park, London, UK
2020
my horse ate your crocodile’s tooth and scratched its back on a metal slab, 43 Madron Street, London, UK
A Sight Of (Curated), Proposition Studios, London, UK
Building On The One Preceding, Set Alscot Road, London, UK
2019
Interdependence, Art Licks Weekend 2020, 23-25 Southwark St, London, UK
Trying 2 Deliver, Butchers Tears, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017
What Did You Expect, Pilotenküche Franz Flemmingstrasse, Leipzig, Germany,
Salon Similde Theraputics, Salon Similde, Leipzig, Germany
A Problem Halved is a Problem Solved, Lily Brooke Gallery, London, UK
2016
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Selected installation views
Installation view: Ali Glover: nothing concrete, curated by Kollektiv Collective, Inspection Pit, West Sussex, UK, 2024. Photo: Ben Westoby.
Installation view: Ali Glover: nothing concrete, curated by Kollektiv Collective, Inspection Pit, West Sussex, UK, 2024. Photo: Ben Westoby.
Installation view: Ali Glover: nothing concrete, curated by Kollektiv Collective, Inspection Pit, West Sussex, UK, 2024. Photo: Ben Westoby.
When the Seeping Starts (II), 2022-2024, suspended ceiling, laser engraved steel tile, steel wire and strip lights, site-specific installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Cob Gallery.
When the Seeping Starts (II), 2022-2024, (detail), suspended ceiling, laser engraved steel tile, steel wire and strip lights, site-specific installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Cob Gallery.
Installation view: things fall apart; the centre cannot hold, curated by Kollektiv Collective, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, UK, 2023. Courtesy of Kollektiv Collective and the artists. Photo: Studio Adamson.
Installation view: things fall apart; the centre cannot hold, curated by Kollektiv Collective, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, UK, 2023. Courtesy of Kollektiv Collective and the artists. Photo: Studio Adamson.
some dust, 2023, for A Place to Rest, Berlin, Germany, 2023.
some dust, 2023, for A Place to Rest, Berlin, Germany, 2023.
some dust, 2023, for A Place to Rest, Berlin, Germany, 2023.
F.A.F Collective, As a Child with a Matchstick Castle, Staffordshire St Gallery, London, UK, 2023. Photo: Ben Deakin.
F.A.F Collective, As a Child with a Matchstick Castle, Staffordshire St Gallery, London, UK, 2023. Photo: Ben Deakin.
F.A.F Collective, As a Child with a Matchstick Castle, Staffordshire St Gallery, London, UK, 2023. Photo: Ben Deakin.
F.A.F Collective, As a Child with a Matchstick Castle, Staffordshire St Gallery, London, UK, 2023. Photo: Ben Deakin.