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Somewhere Elsewhere

Somewhere Elsewhere

In the wake of the long, cold winter nights, Somewhere Elsewhere is a visual arts exhibition
about estrangement rooted within our global socio-environmental contexts. We invite you to delve
into our demonstration of grey matters through a range of art disciplines that respond to the
cacophonies of unstable occurrences happening today. This instability has fragmented our senses
and abandoned us in liberty to be Somewhere Elsewhere.
As we contemplate new meanings, we await to situate stray identities, take grasps of what wisdom
may be left, and advance through this blizzard towards a reconfigured self.

The show includes a series of live performances and live reading sessions.

PV Thursday 10 October 2024. 18.00-21.00 hrs
Show opening times:
Tues-Sun 11th-20th October 11-00-17.00 hrs
Saturday 12 October 13.00-17.00 hrs

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From The Ground Up

From The Ground Up | Critical Edge Collective

For their third upcoming show at Lewisham Arthouse, Critical Edge Collective perceives trust in information systems as eroded to the point that everything that we think we know must be set aside and new foundations for knowledge put in place.

Within this concept, the collective sets about building a new ‘library’ from the ground up, each artist bringing with them a small collection of research materials to share with the group that will act as the raw materials from which another artist will respond.

With the hope of encouraging collaboration and discussion with other artists and members of the public, the collective also encourages visitors to the show to make work in response, with resulting artworks being added to the show for some of its duration.

By making new works in response to the research of their peers, the collective undermines the individualism of the current art market and places its emphasis on trust, sharing, learning and enquiry. Through questioning their own working methods and challenging the rigidity of the group show hang, the collective demonstrates its commitment to remaining curious, critical and playful in the face of increasing polarisation and division in the post-truth era.

PV Thursday 10 October 2024. 18.00-21.00 hrs
Show opening times:
Tues-Sun 11th-20th October 11-00-17.00 hrs
Saturday 12 October 13.00-17.00 hrs

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Touch Glass

Touch Glass | Group Exhibition

Opening this September at Lewisham Arthouse, Touch Glass presents recent work and new commissions by Josh Wirz, Gabriela Avila Yiptong and Taro Qureshi in an exhibition organised and curated by Cameron McClellan.

Touch Glass’s title plays with the phrase “Touch Grass”, recently popularised as a playful insult online to encourage the target to go outside and regain touch with the natural world and their “common-sense” following too much time on social media. The exhibition instead encourages audiences to “lock in” with work exploring how technology mediates how we see the world and reflect on our place within it. Across the medium of photography, painting, performance and site-specific installation, the show addresses the “new normal” of the 2020s through a direct interrogation of ongoing crises around housing, artificial intelligence and social media content.

On the 24th of September, there will be a private view opening, open to all, with refreshments and a live activation of Josh Wirz’s “I’m Here, Soft & Haptic”, a new commission for the exhibition with Wirz appearing as a ghostly presence behind a two way mirror challenging audiences to look back. Vita Lerche will also present a live performance of “Scanner Backpack”, a project developed through her recent residency at Far Out East Gallery, documenting the world and visitors to the exhibition through the glass of the body-mounted scanner.

On Saturday the 5th of October, to mark the exhibition’s closing, R&DShow&Tell will invite artists and audience members alike to share the screen of their personal device and demonstrate how they conduct research and “waste time on the internet” in a guided question and answer session. There will also be a performance of “Filibuster” by Josh Wirz with the performer as a buttoned-up spokesperson reading from an autocue built on an endless automatically generated supply of corporate copywriting.

In addition, at 3pm on Sundays (29/9, 6/10), there will be a drop in guided tour of the exhibition and discussion led by the curator. Additional questions should be made to camcclellan8142@gmail.com

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Rosey Prince


From the City to the Sea
30 January to 3 February 2019
Private View Friday 1 February 7-10pm

Art house member Rosie Prince is showing her work at Deptford does art.

This solo exhibition features work that has been inspired by walks around and along the river Thames over marshes and tributaries out towards the Thames estuary and the Isle of Grain. This sparsely populated region between two rivers, the Thames and the Medway, has a complicated mix of industrial and literary history as well as being an important natural wetland area. So close to London it is always a knife’s edge away from major development and yet has not changed very much (apart from the odd power station or gas silo) in centuries.

I am drawn to this desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape and the uneasy relationship between the semi-rural and semi-industrial. These are the margins and edgelands the anonymous overlooked corners that are unremarkable and commonplace, so ordinary they are immediately familiar and recognisable.

Many of the prints I am showing have been exhibited before in various group shows and selected exhibitions but it is the first time they have been shown all together.

http://www.roseyprince.com

Deptford Does Art
28 Deptford High St
London SE8 4AF

open Wednesday and Thursday 12-7pm
Friday and Saturday 12-11pm
Sunday 12-4pm

http://www.deptforddoesart.com/


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Arthouse member Rosey Prince

Rosey Prince March 2018

Lewisham Art House member Rosey Prince has pieces of work in two exhibitions this March.

The Royal Watercolour society Contemporary watercolour competition showcases new talent and innovative approaches to water-based media on paper.
2-14 March 2018
11-6pm
Bankside Gallery 48 Hopton St, London SE1 9JH

Rosey Prince

The Royal Society of British Artists Open exhibition is sourced from member artists and through open submission, to produce works of the highest standard brought together in an eclectic mix of style and media.
21-31 March 2018
10-5pm
Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1

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The launch of the Adam Speaks treehouse

The Adam tree house
25th November 2017
In April 2017, Chris Alton received the Adam Speaks commission from the National Trust to develop and make new work responding to Robert Adam’s vision and designs at Croome Court. He ran workshops with St. Barnabas CofE First and Middle School, Writing West Midlands, Birmingham Institute of Theatre Arts and Kimichi Independent Secondary School. These workshops informed the final artwork.

Chris has created a new folly for the parklands of Croome Court. It takes the visual language of Adam and speaks it anew with playful intonation, riffing on the neo-classical architect’s style and applying it to the form of a treehouse. The work will be opened on 25th November 2017 and will remain at Croome Court until November 2018. It will be the site of an ongoing programme of workshops and events

25th November 2017
12:00-16:00
Croome Court, Worcester, WR8 9AZ

www.chrisalton.com
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/croome/projects/adam-speaks

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Noisy night

Noisy night
25th November 2017
Members Kerri Jefferis and Sophie Chapman are playing with their band Molejoy.

Emerging artist musicians will share their sounds on this cosy noisynight at Laines Organic Farm… Once again The Round Building, (known locally as ‘The Pumpkin Palace’) will host an evening of fun, food, fire and friends. Suggested donation entrance £2-£8/pay what you can.

Vegan food and drinks will be made using farm produce and sourced from a local brewery served from 5pm on a suggested donation basis.

25th November 2017
5pm-11pm

Music will begin at 6pm and run until 11pm.
F*CHOIR
MOLEJOY
CHARISMATIC MEGAFAUNA
AK PATTERSON
POPPY TIBBETS
DJANGO SPEARS O-M-B
LIAM GEARY BAULCH
JOE SAYERS

Last few trains back to London depart from Haywards Heath at 23.26/23.30/23.58.

Laines Organic Farm, Newbury Lane, Cuckfield, West Sussex, RH175AA.

Trains from Victoria/Clapham/Brighton to HAYWARDS HEATH > 30mins walking to Cuckfield Village > bus no.40 to Cuckfield High Street > roadrunners taxi 01444443300 is £5.50

Once you’ve reached Newbury Lane look and listen out for signs/lights/vegetables/The Round Building! Welcome!!

Facebook page for the event
Kerri Jefferis
Sophie Chapman


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The Bee’s Knees – Beecroft Garden Primary School exhibition

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13th – 16th September, 2017

Beecroft Garden School will be hosting an event at Lewisham Arthouse where all the art sold raises money for developing a special outside space and training for the children to revive Brockley’s tradition of bee-keeping!

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Special Preview to reserve art work:
Wednesday 13th September 10am – 5pm

Visitors to Beecroft Garden School enter a reception area that has been designed as an open plan gallery and library space that is filled with works by children working both collaboratively and individually.

“The fact that art work is framed and exhibited around the school with a professional level of care clearly indicates the value placed on pupils learning and outcomes, fostering respect and self – confidence amongst the children” (Charlie Salter, Co-chair of The National Society for Education in Art & Design (NSEAD) South East Region)

All the works in this exhibition will be for sale in order to raise money for developing a special outside space for the children that will revive the local area’s tradition of bee-keeping. Beefriendly plants, hives and sculptures will all feature. The exhibition has already gained the support of art critics, gallerists and even the occasional collector eager to get work early.

“It’s great to see a school that understands bringing to fore a child’s innate creative spirit is of paramount importance. Who knows…perhaps one day one of the children from Beecroft Garden Primary School will be showing in the Tate, building architectural icons or writing life-changing novels.” (Oliver Basciano, Editor, International, of ArtReview)

Putting the arts at the centre of a Primary School’s ethos is a bold thing to do – but that’s exactly what Beecroft Garden Primary School has been doing since the school re-opened in 2012.

“The way you have developed the children’s creative skills and techniques, working on large scale cross-curricular projects, while maintaining outstanding academic results and Ofsted judgements, is truly inspiring! I always use your school as an example when teachers tell me that they do not have time to do arts projects due to needing to raise standards in English and maths.” (Philippa Beagley, Arts Award Trainer, Advisor, Moderator)

Telephone:
0208 692 2762

Email:
admin@beecroftgarden.lewisham.sch.uk

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ME, MYSELF ’N’ YOU

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15th – 19th August, 2017

Zoe Richardson and Vanessa Omer’s exhibition “Me, Myself ’n’ You” provides an experience for the viewer that they will never forget. This experience is dependant on the after affect that will be created for the viewer, in how it’s possible for the self and one’s body to be constructed in fragments. The work proposed will be installations such as projections and audio pieces, as well as some prints.

The self, the mask and ideas of identity form the conceptual axis of Zoe Richardson’s practise. Working mostly in film and photography to explore these ideas, Richardson takes herself as the subject, and within this exposes vulnerabilities and anxiety. The self (herself) presented masked or unmasked, hidden or revealed creates a highly personal viewing experience, but one in which collective contemporary concerns about identity and self-image are raised. While the work can make for an uncomfortable and challenging watching, the viewer becoming implicated as a possible voyeur, they also captivate and hold ones attention, leaving a lasting image that can haunt.

Vanessa Omer’s practise displays a heavy interest in the anatomical body with the use of functions and movements. Her work often is presented as a sensory based experience that aims to mesmerise and physically ‘affect’ the viewer within the space. With this sensory experience and atmosphere it provokes the essence of the familiar but also alienation of the body. Omer displaces the viewer from the environment in which the work is exhibited.

Private view:
Thursday 17th August 2017
6-9 pm

Exhibition open:
15th – 19th August 2017
12-6 pm

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Alison Day: Reflection and Meditation

1 August – 31 August 2017

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Alison Day is a Fine Art Photographer and Botanical Artist. The series of images seen in this exhibition are selected from photographs taken along the Northumberland Coast several summers ago.
They are abstract landscapes that come about as a result of meditations and wandering along the shoreline. Originally grouped under the title ‘Surface Reflection’ which was intended as a double word play, relating to that which is on the surface and below. The notion of reality being objective and subjective thus can be seen at many levels. The images allow both a reflection in ones own image, which appears in some shape during the gaze. They also prompt a deeper dredging of memory and consideration of other images. The meditation comes through the act of allowing thoughts to emerge take shape and change state. Ultimately disappearing like clouds that break up in the wind. They are therefore to you the viewer that of your own creation acted out on a fluid arena.

The Duke, 125 Creek Road, SE8 3BU
Venue Opening Times: Mon – Thur Noon till 12 am
Saturday Noon – 2 am Sunday 11pm 12
1 August – 31st August 2017

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good good, double good

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20th – 23rd July, 2017

The web was meant to be our way out but has just become more corporate than the real. But what is real anymore anyway? The past is now the present. The press has always been biased but is BuzzFeed really that different than the Daily Mail or the Sun? And why is it now that we have the possibility to be free that we are locking ourselves up? We had a glimpse of hope but it’s far away now. Politics has become just another word for perception management. The definitions of truth and knowledge have changed within our lifetimes – but nobody can quite pin down their new meanings. Whistle blowers are becoming this generations rock-stars. But what does it all mean? Meme’s replace movements. Witchcraft over science. A collapsing façade. A coherent picture that doesn’t add up. Things are good good, double good. Or are they?

Preview:
Thursday 20th July 2017
6-9 pm

Exhibition continues:
21st – 23rd July 2017
Open Friday to Sunday 12-6 pm

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and the ground gave way tenderly

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12th – 16th July, 2017

In 2015 artists Susan Beattie and Charlotte Law spent two weeks in semi-isolation on a petrified lava field at Fljótstunga, Iceland.
Now as we collectively slide through once unimaginable shifts they reconvene to collaborate on an exhibition of work inspired by that expansive landscape.
Lead by visions of the living dead love child of John Carpenter and Marilyn Monroe.
By material mythologising.
By tenderness.

Opening on the 12th of July with a performance at 8pm, this site specific installation featuring new works – made from earth, fire, objects, guitars – will be in-situ for five days.
Beyond the opening performances are scheduled for 2pm and 4pm each day, with a special extended set in collaboration with invited sound artists for the closing on Sunday 16th from 2pm-3pm.

www.susanbeattie.com
www.charlottewendylaw.net/

Preview:
Wednesday 12th July
6-9 pm

Exhibition open:
12th -16th July 2017
Open Wednesday to Saturday 12-6 pm
Sunday 12-4pm

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tempo process + grass

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27th – 6th August, 2017

tempo process + grass investigates the connections between spaces and processes. Exploring themes of colour, material, environment, artefact and documentation, Gabb’s continued interest in re-contextualising ‘conventional’ fine art painting practices, considers it within the experience of installation through performative actions.

Manoeuvring in and out of systems and processes, and in and out of fine art and rudimentary materials and methods, tempo process + grass seeks to invert traditional notions of formal abstraction and material contextualisation: The limits of process art are explored in the internal volume of Lewisham Arthouse which seeks to explore and fill the gallery space with a diverse composition of materials, tempered by identifiable references in pivotal points.

Jonathan’s recent work black + multiple 24, was selected by Alison Wilding for the APT Creekside Open 2017. He has been recipient of a number of highly-coveted and competitive awards, including the WW SOLO Award in 2012, and winner of the international 2014 Saatchi Art Colour Showdown competition. Following his first solo exhibition SYSTEM at the WW Gallery in January 2013, Jonathan’s second solo show at A Brooks Art Gallery in November 2013, entitled Opera Rose, was met with critical acclaim and listed in the top 5 shows to visit in Whitechapel Gallery’s First Thursdays. Jonathan has also had works exhibited at the Griffin Gallery, and at the Affordable Art Fair, London. He was nominated by AxisWeb in 2013 as one of ten contemporary artists to watch and invest in, confirming his status as one of the UK’s most exciting emerging artists.

Preview:
Friday 28th July 2017
6-9 pm

Exhibition open:
27th July – 6th August 2017
Open Monday to Sunday 12-6 pm
Sunday 6th August 12-4pm

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After Presents: The Precariat

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22nd June – 2nd July, 2017

The Precariat seeks to explore themes of risk and resistance through architectural form. Emerging artist Karen Mc Lean will present an installation that invites and reveals the darker harmonies of historical and contemporary occupation. Questioning the physical structures of everyday life, Mc Lean seeks to create a charged and highly distinct site, responding to the ever present fear of dispossession.

We hope to see you there!

Kind regards,


Julie Bentley & Nick Scammell
afterprojects.com

The Precariat Press Release

Karen will suspend twenty sugar houses, each made from a refined molasses solution that slowly transforms from solid to liquid throughout the course of the show. A multi-channel sound installation, evoking the toiled land, will accompany the transforming houses.


The Caribbean landscape is scattered with makeshift housing illustrative of creativity, tenacity, poverty and a landless peasantry. Using the material inheritance of Caribbean colonialism, Karen explores the historical forces that have kept this form alive into the present day. The Precariat aims to open a new dialogue between freedom and servitude.

About Karen Mc Lean

Karen Mc Lean grew up on the island of Trinidad shortly after the country had gained its independence as a colony from England. Growing up on a Post-Colonial island, her memories include the many barriers that restricted non-white people that had to be challenged and torn down, and the tumultuous event of the Black Power Revolution that was fuelled by the Civil Rights movement in the USA. The history of colonialism and its legacy continues to be the source of inspiration for her practice.

Karen moved to England in 2000 and embarked on a career change after working with the national airline of Trinidad and Tobago, BWIA, for 20 years. Mc Lean completed her BA (Hons) in Art and Design, at BCU in Bournville, Birmingham, followed by a Masters at Goldsmiths University, London. Karen has exhibited in Birmingham where she lives, regionally, and nationally, as well as in her home country.

karenmclean.co.uk

Opening night:
Thursday 22nd June 2017
6:30pm – 9pm

Exhibition continues:
23rd June – 2nd July 2017
Open: Wednesday -Sunday 12pm-6pm, and by appointment.


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A Sharp Intake of Breath

MA Painting interim a sharp intake of breath

7th – 11th June, 2017

Lulu Ao, Dalia Atteya, Emma Brassington, Lingyan Cao, Abir Mukerjee, Kim Onslow, Nikhil Patel, Mofan Xu, Fengrong Yu, Jayden Zhang and Zedan Zhang

The eleven artists in this Wimbledon College of Arts MA Painting interim exhibition are brought together through a mutual interest in painting’s enduring capacity for invention and reinvention. The exhibition is also testament to the group’s shared dialogues and ideas that centre on subjects such as the informal city, science fiction, body modification, ruins, the architecture of multinationals and anthropomorphism.

[ Press Release ]

This is the second interim exhibition presented by MA Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts at the Art House Project Space following ‘About Space’ April 2016.

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Opening night:
Wednesday 7th June 2017
6pm – 9pm

Exhibition continues:
8th – 11th June 2017, 12pm – 6pm

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Other Fiction

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2nd – 5th June, 2017

Other Fiction is an exhibition organised by three students currently enrolled on the MFA programme at Goldsmiths. The exhibition brings together three artists, that have diverse and wide ranging practices and methodologies, into the Lewisham Art House space, where they hope to create a dialogue between these different styles and approaches to their work.

The work is not unified by a mutual thematic narrative but rather address’s a multitude of different areas that overlap and have a shared concern about wider issues and subjects of interest such as place, memory, popular culture and alterity.

This synergy of diverse ideas and treatments is arranged and juxtaposed together in order to create a level of uniformity that also maintains the individual and unique characteristics of each work within a cohesive exhibition structure. The exhibition is made in the spirit of experimentation, it is without a fixed point of finality and showcases work that is open ended, adaptable and still in progress.

THE ARTISTS
PASCAL UNGERER works with a wide variety of media incorporating photography, painting, video, and sculpture in his art making process. He is primarily interested in themes based around social, geo-political or ecological issues.

JOE TWINN’S art practice spans a range of media, such as costume design, collage and painting but his primary concern is with the moving image. For the past two years he has been making short films, utilising lo-fi, D.I.Y special effects.

BYUNGCHAN KIM is a visual artist from South Korea who has recently relocated to London. He works in an interdisciplinary practice incorporating a wide variety of media. His work draws upon a range of diverse references from hip hop and popular culture to war, history, cultural appropriation and misinterpretation.

Opening night:
Friday 2nd June 2017
6pm

Exhibition continues:
2nd – 5th June 2017

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Silence Un-scene

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22nd – 28th May, 2017

Silence Un-scene brings together the works of four artists, each one using the slow concentrated processes of painting to give full attention to the everyday and overlooked. Re-evaluating the scenery and discovering the symbolic qualities, they attempt to still time, silence the chatter and hold on to that moment, to shape it and own it.

| Press Release |

| List of Works |

Hannah Brown
Nathan Eastwood
Marguerite Horner
Rob Reed

Private View
Friday 26th May 2017 6pm – 9pm

Exhibition runs:
22nd – 28th May 2017
Open daily 12 – 6 pm

Free entry
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What Happened Between?

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15th – 21st May, 2017

‘Between the secret interior and the public exterior, carrying items to trade: shared knowledge, a shoulder to cry on, insight, fun’ (Hannah Black)

We are Kerri Jefferis & Sophie Chapman and we have been lucky enough to hold the Graduate Studio Award at Lewisham Arthouse for the past year. We are sadly coming to the end of our tether, we mean tenure, and would love to invite you over one last time.

We would like to bring people together, to expose the unseen construction site, prop the supports and acknowledge overlaps, blind spots and differences. Support is usually ‘derided and discarded by authority and depoliticized by the mechanisms of it’ (Celine Condorelli/Gavin Wade) so we are especially OBSESSED with it. We want to take this time to appreciate what has happened, gather and share knowledge, references, materials, have the conversations that we haven’t yet had, and have a wee PARTY! It promises to be a bonanza.

‘In the spirit of coming together to take ourselves apart’ (Kyla Wazana Tompkins) throughout the week we will host the following:-

Monday 15th 6.30pm – 9pm : A SCREENING on social time, how we document & ask questions in/of it

Wednesday 17th 6.30pm – 9pm : A LETTER what writing, diaries & confessions do for history/theory/personhood

Friday 19th 7pm – 11pm : A GIG bringing bodies together to make noise! (unwieldy noise) shit-hot noise makers… NX Panther, Rainham Sheds, Molejoy and more TBC

Saturday 20th 1pm – 6pm : A HANGOUT & CHAT discussing what support structures allow for improvisation, intuition, sounding / listening, the particulars of shared endeavours & the complicated spaces between people – schedule TBA

‘Because they were listening to each other the room felt small’ (Chris Kraus)

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Townly Cooke Exhibition

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5th – 9th April 2017

Lewisham Arthouse Project Space will be hosting an exhibition of paintings by Townly Cooke (1949 – 2016), a long-standing member of the Lewisham Arthouse studios who sadly died in June last year.

Townly was a highly accomplished painter and photographer. His paintings, which meld figuration with elements of abstraction, explore the nature of representation in relation to the history of art, with special reference to his favourite art-historical era, Post-Impressionism.

The exhibition will present a selection of Townly’s last works, reflecting his preoccupations at the time of his untimely death. It will include the series of paintings Double Degas, a meditation on the 19th century French artist Townly particularly admired; Darkroom Tent, which poses questions about photography and reality; and on a more intimate scale, some sensitive drawings from his sketchbooks.

Townly Cooke was born in London and graduated from the Slade School of Art, Middlesex University and Goldsmith’s College.

His work has been exhibited widely including at the Serpentine Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, Cameraworks, Woodlands Art Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Lewisham Arthouse Gallery, the Celeste Art Prize in London, and at Photokina in Cologne.

Commissions have included the Tottenham Historical Society, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Apprentice Bargees, Smithfield Meat Market and Swan Upping for the Museum in Docklands.

www.townlycooke.com

Private View
Friday 7th April 2017
6-9 pm

Exhibition open:
5th – 9th April 2017
Open 12-6 pm

Free entry


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Less Navels, March! March!

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March 2017

Sophie Chapman and Kerri Jefferis have been invited to be The White Pube’s artists in residence for the month of March. During this time they will use TWP’s web platform as host, interface and instigator to test out, document and start conversations through a series of public interventions.

On a defined website page, the actions will appear sporadically alongside fragments, residue and reflections. Acts that ask for input, are transitory or locational will be announced prior to their undertaking. These notices will be posted on TWP’s twitter and consequently, engage both online and offline publics, participants, audiences, observers and individuals in their enactment.

The works will take a range of forms considering the physical, the sonic and the poetic in relation to affect, contagion, situations and embodiment. Some engage with aspects of homage, drawing clear desire lines to the past considering the pace and nature of social time; others, introspection, networks, difference and commonality. Each act in dialogue with the others will appear in a different form or context; as counter-information, confrontation, prompt, proposition or pretext.

Kerri and Sophie will take an experimental approach to the month, seeing it as ‘a play in many acts’ and ‘small gestures in specific places’ because, ‘the skin is faster than the word.’

Acts will be announced on The White Pube’s twitter.
March residency page here.

The White Pube is an art criticism website and research project ran by artists Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. They publish a new text each week – often exhibition reviews, though sometimes baby essays. In August (2016) TWP curated Zayn Malik Zindabad, an evening of artists moving image at Lewisham Arthouse which recently toured to the ICA, London.

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Take One Picture 2017 – Myatt Garden Primary School

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23rd February

Each Year the National Gallery promotes the use of a single painting for cross curricular teaching and learning through the Take One Picture Programme. This year’s picture is a fresco ‘Penelope with the Suitors’ about 1509.

All year groups at Myatt Garden Primary School focused for an entire week on the picture and subsequently all their learning and creative outpourings were inspired by ‘Penelope with the Suitors’.

I am extremely proud of the children’s creativity and the whole schools energy and skill in delivering this project. The exhibition displays not only every child’s work in the school, but the excitement and enthusiasm of their learning.

Well done Myatt Garden!

Karen Vost
Art Specialist Teacher
Myatt Garden Primary School

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Action Time Vision

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8th – 19th March 2017

Action Time Vision is an immersive exhibition, that fuses installation, traditional representation and live performance. A.T.V. takes its inspiration from events that happened in the immediate area, over half a decade, starting 40 years ago. Some of these occurrences, like the Battle of Lewisham and the New Cross Fire, were of lasting national significance. However this show also celebrates more parochial phenomena, such as the lasting role of Deptford Street Market in promoting social cohesion.

A similar role has been played by the local independent music scene and that too will be a focus, with particular emphasis on the Sound System scene and Rock Against Racism. The largely moribund technology that was used to consume music and promote alternative ideas back then will also be explored. There will be opportunities play recorded media on vintage equipment and to produce mix tapes. Fanzines and other expressions of Cultures of Resistance will be celebrated too.

As a reflection of the importance of Rock against Racism concerts and Sound System dances to this cultural milieu, the Preview Night will feature a live show, at the venue, on 11th March. This will feature live bands, specialists DJs and an environment heavily dressed for the occasion. There will be a follow up event on the following weekend, at The Duke, featuring Tessa (The Slits) and Ras Danny Mosiah.

Contributing visual artists will include: Amanda Knight, Allison Phillips, Fret, Jim Cauty, Other World Arts and Yerman Wax.

Sonic contributors will include The Laura Trombone Band, Rebel Sister Sound, Tom Phobic, Waxy and The Ukadelics.

Local Historian Carol Pierre.

Live Club “Preview”
Saturday 11th March 2017

Exhibition open:
8th – 19th March 2017
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm

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Robert Hitzeman: StoneLicker Dessins

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25th January – 16th February 2017

Le Hic Brussels is pleased to present a new series of drawings by Robert Hitzeman from his StoneLickers series as well as his sculpture Sweet Dredge exhibited installed throughout the space. Le Hic will also host the publication Floor and Ceiling: 3rd Edition a Photo-zine dedicated to Robert’s Floor and Ceiling photographs and designed by Michal Kozlowski. Robert Hizeman’s work uses visual languages to subtly disrupt readings of interior and exterior in the body and the built environment, as well as examining the relationships between ideology and the physical conditions of space. The idea of the subtle abjection; a way of transgressing the viewer quietly, is a central theme to his work. He is interested in how a transgressive force can appear seductive benign or comical but still disturbing on another level: subverting traditional separations between attraction and repulsion. “Stonelickers” are a series that include several works relating to parasitic relationships, feeding or mating and their potential as a model for artistic production and cultural exchange. The drawings for this permutation of the series are based on images of the mouth and teeth of several species of Lamprey, a parasitic fish and several models of angle grinder bits used in stone and metal work. Lamprey comes from the latin lampetra, which translates roughly as “stone licker” (lambere “to lick” + petra “stone”). In sculpture, Robert’s work is made from assembling building materials gathered from a particular area; creating a link from that area’s history to a totemic object or artifact

that connects it to the present while questioning notions of location. “Sweet dredge” is another take on this idea, using animal remains gathered from the Thames at the site of a former meat processing plant and colorful rope. The area directly above the river now houses a rock climbing wall and gym built on the foundation of the meatpacking district. Robert is interested in linking the gym’s conception of the body as a malleable object to be conditioned or changed to the “processing” of animal remains into meat; both systems that attempt to alter the original into a state that conforms to a normative ideal.

The Exhibition will be open from 25th January until the 16th February 2017.

Get there: Le Hic Rue de Rodenbach 51, 1190 Brussels
Tram lines 3-4-51 stop Albert/Berkendaal
Bus 48 et 54 stop Albert Tram 92 stop Darwin
Opening times: Monday to Saturday 10 to 18:30

For Further information: info@lehic.be +32 465 594 216

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Lewisham Arthouse Open Studios 2017

Open Studios

30th September – 1st October, 2017

Explore over 30 studios, meet the artists, buy art at affordable prices or just have a look around. There will be an ‘I Spy’ children’s activity trail, café, guided studio tours and a programme of exciting live performances throughout the weekend. We’ll have a pop-up café and jerk chicken stall to keep you going, and a bar in the evening.

Deptford X Platform artist Sam Austen will be presenting his exhibition Run!! For The Present in our Project Space.

Sam Austen makes 16mm films that create new worlds and landscapes by filming objects he’s made in the studio, often floating or moving somehow through specially-made rigs, utilising a range of in-camera effects, superimpositions and mattes. The process is much like a collage yet allows an element of chance into its construction and tempo. He said of his work: ‘My interest is in looking and how humans see themselves, how the gaze is locked into our being, how the image in our mind with eyes open or closed is constant, and never really switches off.’

Lewisham Arthouse supports artists and arts-based learning through creative workspace and specialist facilities. We run an exhibition and events programmes of visual art and experimental music. This echoes the original intentions of the Carnegie library building we occupy – to enrich communities by nurturing their creativity.

Saturday 30th September 12-8 pm Sunday 1st October 12-6 pm

Free entry
Step-free access


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Objects In The Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear

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8th – 18th February 2017

A group show of new work by London based artists Clémentine Bedos, George Dunkerton, Hattie Godfrey, Liam Hughes, Grace Lee, Gabriel Mansfield, Cait Miskelly, Susie Pentelow and Sara Rodrigues.

In exploring particular conditions of fiction that favour narrative and experiment with the alternate, they question binary distinctions between reality and fiction, original and copy, interior and exterior. Through the use of image, object and sound, the works reveal the ways in which translation and plurality are always present in communication.

Funded by the Goldsmiths Annual Fund

Preview:
Friday 10th February 2017
5-8 pm

Exhibition open:
8th – 18th February 2017
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm

Free entry
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Tarmac

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17th – 23rd January 2017

Tarmac brings together a diverse collection of artists and mediums spanning across disciplines including painting, sculpture, film and photography.

This is the third independent exhibition for a collection of emerging artists currently studying Fine Art at UCA Farnham following the success of Chrome at The Lacey Contemporary Gallery and No Ordinary Disruption at The Flying Dutchman.

Tarmac touches upon themes such as cinema, the everyday, the existential, process and perception which all ultimately exist under the umbrella of exploring our reality. The work throughout this show plays with the idea of disrupting and altering that which already exists, whether it be a surface, object or idea; opening viewers up to the possibility that the way we view the world could be wrong, overturning established ideals and conclusions.

www.facebook.com/events/1069716976484435/
www.emergingartistsuk.co.uk/exhibitions.html

Preview:
Monday 16th January 2017
6-9 pm

Exhibition continues:
17th – 23rd January 2017
11am – 4pm

Free entry
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11th – 15th January

Etienne de Villiers, Julia Noble and Marion Piper present drawings and paintings on paper and canvas which continue the conversation between these three artists about the nature and practice of perception and production.

An accompanying text by Paul Carey-Kent, ‘Grid Play’, discusses the artists’ methods and motivations for the works exhibited.

The artists will be present throughout the exhibition period.

Etienne de Villiers
www.etienne-devilliers.com

Julia Noble
www.noblejulia.com

Marion Piper
www.marionpiper.com

Preview:
Wednesday 11th January
6-9 pm

Exhibition continues:
11th – 15th January
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm

Free entry
Step-free access


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Kerri Jefferis and Sophie Chapman: Of The Hand That Point Out, Of Fingers That See

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16th-18th December 2016
Preview: Friday 16th December 2016, 7pm, gig from 8pm
Saturday 17th December 2016, 12-5pm and Sunday 18th December 2016, 12-4pm

“Maybe I have written to see; to have what I never would have had; so that having would be the privilege not of the takes and encloses, of the gullet, of the gut; but of the hand that points out, of fingers that see, that design, from the tips of the fingers that transcribe by the sweet dictates of vision. From the point of view of the soul’s eye: the eye of a womansoul.” – Helene Cixous

We have to live in the future. Anyone practicing politics that goes against the current socio-economic nightmare* is practicing the future. They live in the future, by desire and by necessity. We have to start somewhere. We have to start with the micro.

So what are the gestures of our collective desired future? If language isn’t working for us, can we use our bodies? How can we communicate trust and solidarity to one another through our bodily language? How can we include contradiction within our gestures? Attempt to cover the distance that is perceived and experienced of difference? Include complexity? Seepage and slippage? Overflowing subjectivity? A sense of humour?

Gestures are conceived through metaphor. Bodies signifying, expressing. Therefore we cannot decontextualise movement and we are unwilling to separate discourse and materiality, language and embodiment. Bodies give permission. They alternate power. They co-author. They use shared and marginalised history. They follow desire lines. They identify with the past and with the present. They assemble. They have to unlearn. They change.

“There is a body wherever there is resistance. But their potential to speak is waiting to be mined.” – Zsuzsanna Soboslay Moore

Of The Hand That Points Out, Of Fingers That See will be a collection of works in progress by Sophie Chapman, Kerri Jefferis and others.

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Rosey Prince: Shifting States

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29th November – 11th December 2016

Richard Brayshaw, Deborah Burnstone, Janety Curly Cannon, Robert Fitzmaurice, Nick Hazzard, Maria Lena hedberg, Stephanie Herbert, Alison Lumb, Maureen Nathan, Rosey Prince, Ann Simberg, Sally Tyrie, Erika Wengenroth, Edward Winters

Lewisham Arthouse Studio Member Rosey Prince is taking part in the group show Shifting States.

“The condition of liminality is a state of transition, of suspension on the threshold between one place, time or state of mind and another. It involves ambiguity, uncertainty and the dissolution of order, identities and outcomes thrown into doubt, speaking of borderlands, faultlines and indeterminate places… The exhibition features print, photography, film, installation and sculpture.”

Rosey Prince’s work in the exhibition, which includes mezzotints, drypoint and painting, has been inspired by a series of walks along the Thames estuary, and continues her interest in the transience of place. The marshes and the river remain constant yet shifting against monumental structures such as power stations and pylons which temporarily dominate the horizon, until demolished or left to ruin allowing the landscape to reinvent itself. These images focus on the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of the estuary and the uneasy relationship between the semi-rural and the semi-industrial.

Exhibition Dates: 29th November – 11th December 2016
Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG
www.espaciogallery.com

Tube: Liverpool St station, Bethnal Green Station
Overground: Shoreditch High St
Buses 8, 388

Open Tuesday-Saturday, 1-7pm, Sunday 1-5pm
Closed Mondays

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Soft Wax – Winner of the Arthouse Award

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We are pleased to announce Soft Wax as the winner of the Lewisham Arthouse Award for the Deptford X Fringe 2016.
The Soft Wax collective were selected by an anonymous panel of Arthouse members for their site specific, multi-media piece ‘Punky Reggae Party‘, staged over 2 venues and focusing on key events in local history and the life of our community. The outcome was an inspiring and immersive work and we look forward to seeing what Soft Wax will produce for their two week takeover of the Arthouse Project Space in March 2017, 6th to 20th.

Soft Wax is a loose collective led by Steve Wax. The main focus of their diverse output is cultures of resistance, taking inspiration from the popular music that embodies them. Alongside their project for Deptford X, Soft Wax recently staged an installation at The Museum of Club Culture in Hull for the Freedom Festival 2016 and Steve Wax has been at the helm of some of the UK’s best dub and reggae nights.

For more information regarding their forthcoming programme for the Arthouse please join our mailing list or keep an eye on the website.

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Winter Fair 2016 – Stall Bookings

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Saturday 10th December 2016, 11am-6pm

The ever popular Lewisham Arthouse Winter Fair is back. Festive decor finely executed by our talented members, festive food and mulled wine, festive tunes, warm welcome and a selection of fine arts and crafts stalls to tempt the happy Christmas shopper.

Stalls available to book by artisans, purveyors of fine hand made foods, designer/makers/artists and crafts people. Stall cost £25 with table or £20 without table.

To book a stall please contact winterfair@lewishamarthouse.org.uk

All stalls are now fully booked. Thank you for your submissions.


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Sara Willett: City Kaleidoscope

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22nd October – 5th November 2016

At the end of a five week residency in Beijing at the invitation of Being 3 Gallery, Lewisham Arthouse Studio Member Sara Willett presented a solo show of paintings, drawings, sculpture and installation entitled City Kaleidoscope. View images here: www.sarawillett.com

Being 3 Gallery, Caochangdi, Beijing, China
22nd October – 5th November 2016

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Works by Rob Reed featuring in NOA 2016

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27th October – 4th November 2016

National Open Art is bringing its 20th Exhibition to the heart of the City this autumn.

Curated by Robin Muir, following his hugely successful curation of the National Portrait Gallery’s Vogue 100 earlier this year, this free admission exhibition at Mercers’ Hall features 160 selected paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, wall hung installations, digital art pieces and short films.

The artworks have been selected by an expert panel, including Robin Muir and Royal Academician David Remfry, from thousands of pieces by the very best professional and amateur artists working today in the UK and Ireland.

More than £50,000 worth of prizes will be awarded to 35 artists, including for the hotly anticipated Best Emerging Artist and Best Young Artist, when Lord Mervyn Davies opens the exhibition on Thursday, 27 October.

Winners of the children’s competition, judged by Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell, will also be announced when the exhibition opens.

Mercers’ Hall
Ironmonger Lane
London EC2V 8HE

27th October – 4th November 2016

Opening times

October | Thu 27th & Fri 28th | 10am – 3pm
Sat 29th & Sun 30th | 10am – 4pm
Mon 31st | 10am – 6pm
November | Tue 1st & Wed 2nd | 10am – 6pm
Thu 3rd | 10am – 5.30pm Fri 4 | 10am – 6pm

Free Admission

All exhibition and shortlisted works are available on the online Galleries.
Please contact us if you would like to purchase works from any of our artists.
We are in constant touch with all our artists who will readily undertake commissions.

By Underground:
Bank Station on the Central, Northern, Waterloo & City and DLR
Exit to Princes Street
Walk west on Mansion House St towards St Mildred’s Ct (125 ft)
Continue onto Poultry (338 ft)
Turn right onto Old Jewry (177 ft)
Enter from Cheapside or Gresham street
Total about 3 minutes

By Bus:
Routes 8, 25 and 242 travel along Poultry
Routes 11, 21, 23, 26, 43, 76, 141 and 388 travel past Bank station.

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Guided tours of Lewisham Arthouse

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1st & 2nd October 2016

As part of Deptford X Visual Arts Festival we are giving guided tours of the building and selected artists’ studios. With the benefit of an Arthouse guide, have a look around the 3 floors of the building including our open access dark room, the kiln, chat to artists in their studios and have a look at their work.

The tours are scheduled at the same times on both Saturday and Sunday 1st and 2nd October:

1pm
3pm
5pm

No need to book! Please note we are sorry you will not be able to look around the building without an Arthouse guide.

For more info on Deptford X see www.deptfordx.org

In addition to the tours of the building, in the gallery we are hosting a month long residency, Acts of Translation a programme of free workshops, talks and exhibitions by The London Drawing Group.

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Lewisham Arthouse Award

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Lewisham Arthouse is proud to announce the Lewisham Arthouse Award, as part of the Deptford X Fringe Awards.

A panel made up of members of the Arthouse cooperative will be selecting an exhibition from this year’s Deptford X Fringe programme to be given a two week show in our project space in spring 2017. Throughout the festival our anonymous panel will be visiting the Fringe projects, looking for the most ambitious, outstanding and original work.

The selected artist(s) will be given full use of our Project Space for two weeks along with promotional support from Lewisham Arthouse and Deptford X.


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Phil Ashcroft: Finissage, Fallout

Phil Ashcroft, Qwazars, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200cm, work in progress, July 2016. Photo: Tom Horak

Thursday 1st September 2016, 6.30-8.30pm
CANAL, 60 De Beauvoir Crescent, London N1 5SB

A final chance to visit Lewisham Arthouse studio holder Phil Ashcroft’s solo exhibition Fallout at CANAL for the finissage on First Thursday 1st September 2016.

The finissage for Fallout will include new work completed during his live painting sessions at CANAL over the summer plus the launch of Monkphat’s new Obelisk EP (Gamma Proforma) with cover artwork by Phil. Monkphat and Phil Ashcroft have worked together on previous Gamma Proforma releases and he recently painted live alongside Monkphat’s set at MATA at The Social, London. ‘Obelisk’ will be free to download via Gamma Proforma on the night. For more on Monkphat go to soundcloud.com/monkphat

Refreshments will be served.

www.whitechapelgallery.org/first-thursdays/exhibitions/fallout/

http://www.canalprojects.info/

http://www.philashcroft.com/


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The White Pube presents: Zayn Malik Zindabad

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26th August 2016, 7-9pm

A screening of moving image art by artists. Also happen 2 b young and in the South Asian Diaspora.

The White Pube is tired of white people, white walls, and white wine. So for one night only, we are hosting brown people, white walls and chai. Come and view work by brown artists in a real vacuum, where brown-ness is banal, where you can view the art without the white-iarchy lookin over ur shoulder, askin if they can eat ur Other.

The screening will be held in the Education Space in Lewisham Arthouse.

Screening starts at 7:30pm
There is limited seating so RSVP is essential.

Hosted by Zarina Muhammad & Gabrielle de la Puente @ The White Pube
& Sophie Chapman and Kerri Jefferis.

Cover Photo is a screenshot from work by Sabella D’Souza ♥

ARTISTS INCLUDE:

Somnath Bhatt
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Himali Singh Soin
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@atomtime

Anisa Jackson
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Sabella D’Souza
instagram.com/goannowhere

Seema Mattu
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Ilavenil Jayapalan
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Rathai Manivannan
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Katy Jalili
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Hassan E Vawda
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and the White Pube’s very own
Zarina Muhammad


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Chris Alton: Under the Shade I Flourish

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March 2016

The non-uk domiciled billionaire Michael Ashcroft is a controversial figure, notable for “opaque tax practices” and “operating in the dark”. Whilst serving as a member of the House of Lords, he remained a non-dom despite promises that he would become domiciled in the UK for tax purposes.

In the mid-1960s Ashcroft briefly managed “an unknown rhythm and blues band” called Trident. Under the Shade I Flourish (2015-2016) imagines that he continued to do so. However, this is not a direct speculation upon another possible timeline. Incorporating feedback from the life Ashcroft did lead, Chris Alton engages in a cartographic process that involves the cross-pollination of both fact and fiction.

Working through simultaneous satire and celebration, Alton invokes seemingly incongruous juxtapositions, as a means of visualising the power structures in which we are all embedded – narrativising something that is too complex to be immediately comprehendible. The extrapolated band becomes a vehicle to explore the the very real exploitation of post-colonial countries as tax havens.

Alton’s recent exhibitions include; Outdancing Formations, Edith-Russ-Haus (2015), MEIL, Chisenhale Studios (2015) and each other, Wysing Arts Centre (Open Weekend) (2015). He was recently awarded; the Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists of the Sparda Bank 2015 and the Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Studio Award 2015.

Exhibition dates: 12th March – 3rd April 2016 (Saturday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm) at Xero, Kline and Coma
Preview: Friday 11th March 2016, 7– 9pm

For more information go to: www.xero-kline-coma.com

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Alma Tischler Wood: Liverpool Provocations

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Wednesday 20th January 2016

Alma is one of a number of artists to have participated in Alan Dunn’s FOUR WORDS. Alan Dunn, artist/curator, presented FOUR WORDS The Media Wall on 20th January 2016 outside Lime Street in Liverpool as part of: Liverpool Provocations: A series of artistic interruptions
Between 3 and 4pm the adverts will stop and the giant screen will host an alternative stream of provocative, 10 second animations of just four words each.

Alan Dunn, a Liverpool Art Prize 2012 nominee, has collaborated on or appropriated existing texts from 108 individuals, from world-famous artist (Gerhard Richter) to lesser known contributors (Captain Pengelly, a retired seafarer).

Each set of FOUR WORDS will act as a counterpoint to the sales season and the invisible pressures of this time of year, with ruminations on value, money and exchange.

This was followed by an evening event at the Small Cinema where the animations were screened again.

The other contributors include Gerhard Richter, Douglas Coupland, Shaista Aziz, Pavel Büchler, Fiona Banner, Levitt & Dubner (‘Freakonomics’), David Shrigley, retired seafarer Captain Pengelly, Hala Al-Alaiwat and ex-Liverpool FC striker David Fairclough, Hala Al-Alaiwat, Sean Ashton, Clarisse Aubert, Chris Bishop, Jessie Brennan, Billy Cancel, Jayne Casey Roger, Cliffe-Thompson, Ade Blackburn, Zak Dunn, Nina Edge and Jack Ehlen.

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Sheena Patel: Cologne’s Gold + Beton

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Friday 15th January – Monday 8th February 2016

Sheena Patel’s 16 minute performance film, NOW BREATHE. is being exhibited as part of a group show on female identity at Cologne’s Gold + Beton, in conjunction with Bradford’s FUSE Arts Space. Exquisite Corpse​ explores female form, self-image and stereotypes from the perspective of eleven female artists. Through video, painting, performance and illustration, the exhibition also considers the potential of contemporary technology as a tool to examine female self­ identity and evaluates the impact that it has upon constructs of ‘femininity’.

Internationally acclaimed visual and performance artist Poppy Jackson ​explores the female body as an autonomous zone, and has produced a new performance work commissioned by Fuse Art Space; she will also be exhibiting a series of paintings. Based in Toronto, Rupi Kaur​​ found notoriety as the poet who critiqued Instagram earlier this year with her “period.” ​​series – these photographs feature in the show. Delicate and charged illustrations from Sue Williams ​draw the viewer into a world of provocative sexual politics. The exhibition also includes work by artists from Austria, Russia, UK and US including Anastasia Vepreva​, Evelin Stermitz, Faith Holland, Julia Kim Smith, Kate Durbin, ​Lacie Garnes, Sarah Faraday​ and Sheena Patel​.

“The internet poses significant problems in female representation, from pornography to the use of female form in advertising and notably the use of sexually violent language as a form of censorship and aggression towards female expression”, comments the exhibition’s curator Sarah Faraday​. “Exquisite Corpse presents an array of female artists using both online and material forms for creativity, empowerment, and subversion, whilst reclaiming control of the representation of their bodies”

The exhibition has been covered by The Independent and Dazed Digital

Gold + Beton
Cologne, Germany

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SNORKEL and RAF & O

Live Performance
8th December 2012

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Taken from One Long Conundrum EP which also features remixes of the album Stop Machine from the likes of Sculpture, Crewdson, Robert Logan and Rome Pays Off. Available at www.slowfoot.co.uk

SNORKEL

An avant-whatever collective exploring the nether regions between the groove and free improvisation; sub-aquatic observations of dub, jazz, afro-beat, krautrock and electronica.

Snorkel was formed some ten years ago by drummer Frank Byng in order to explore and develop strategies for improvisation using flexible line-ups. Taking their methodology from legendary bands like Can, Soft Machine and This Heat, they like to play unrehearsed extended sets in non standard venues. Snorkel acts as an experimental workshop for Slowfoot. Ideas and material generated through improvisation often finds its way into other recording projects.

The current line-up uses drums, guitar, trombone, analog and digital synths, vocals and various cheap samplers/drummachines/electronics to create their sound, generating loops from which the tracks are built. Their intense polyrhythmic grooves pull in influences from jazz to african, rock to drum’n’bass, and drag them into a new context. The creative exuberance of the band is rooted in the joy of psychedelic repetition and the states reached when playing continuously and synchroniously; their sonic palette is informed by dub and electronica – live instruments pushed and pulled through effects filters, sculpting in real time a polymorphously perverse and unruly soundscape.

RAF AND O

Raf and O are Raf Mantelli and Richard Smith. The two piece band from South East London deliver a vortex of live electronics, acoustic instruments and fragile, magnetic, strange lullabies married to a pop spirit.

Press have described them as ‘Indietronic delicacy’ (Mixmag), ‘Emotively intense’ (Subba Cultcha) ‘Bewitching’ (Raveline Germany), delivering ‘Really excellently knitted experimental and cinematographic world’ (De-Bug Germany) whilst ‘They display outright pop mastery’ (Flux Magazine).

Raf and O have released 3 records on Geo including their debut album ‘A Giant In The Snow’ and a ten inch vinyl to UK/ European acclaim, have extensively collaborated with Gagarin, are writing tracks with Robert Logan on a separate project and have supported amongst others Alabama 3, Rothko, Nedry and the legendary Faust.

Their new full length second album is due for release in 2013 – many of the tracks have been performed live in 2012 with an exciting live set up comprising a hybrid of electro/ acoustic drums, self-made triggers, pads, samplers, vocals, synths and acoustic guitar.

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