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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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Queering the Ghost

Queering the Ghost artwork
Queering the Ghost

19th July-29th July

A collective group show reimagining/reclaiming queer memories.
Derived from a conversation between friends that spanned queer kinship, queer love,
censorship and the complexities of placing the queered individual within a temporal
space, ‘Queering The Ghost,’ is an opening for desire and play to interlink/fester. We
invite you to enter this space to contemplate the perspective of a lost lover, mourn the
consequences of late stage capitalism on the body, and explore hidden histories of the
past. Is the ghost an absence of meaningful connections in a hyper-individualised,
hyper-independent, and commodified world? When corporate interests bleed into our
most intimate spaces, turning our Pride into PR events for corporations, corrupting our
calls to protest, where can we turn but to each other (or behind our shoulders as we exit
the underworld?) In an era where we are turned into nonverbal, obedient
human-machines, we all become the ghosts.
We invite you to honour, and remember the lived experiences of our queer ancestors, as
well as reclaim and reimagine histories that excluded queer narratives.

Preview date time: July 19th 6-9pm
Opening times: 12-6pm
Lewisham Art House

140 Lewisham Way
SE14 6PD, London

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Invasion of the Jellyfish


Invasion of the Jellyfish | Angela McMahon

From 25 May to 16 June 2024

Artist Angela McMahon creates a physical immersive installation composed of suspended and floor standing sculptures of fantastical sea creatures at Lewisham Arthouse.

By imagining the undersea world where pollution and climate change have created the ideal conditions for jellyfish to thrive, Angela McMahon’s use of collected and reclaimed materials draws on scientific research to highlight some of the key environmental issues that are changing our oceans. In this imagined world other species die out and mutant sea creatures evolved from plastic waste lurk lower down in the water column and on the seafloor.

The environmental issues highlighted by this bold work include:
•The effects of pollution from sewage, agricultural runoff, and industrial effluent
•The poisoning caused by plastic waste
•Ocean warming caused by climate change

Movement and illumination bring the sculptures to life. Like a living ecosystem the installation will grow and evolve throughout the exhibition with new creatures emerging each day as the artist continues to work and engage with visitors whilst the show is open.

McMahon says: “I hope to provide an accessible route for viewers to understand how human activity impacts the delicate balance of ocean ecosystems. I am keen to encourage public
engagement and invite local schools and community groups to come and immerse themselves in the installation.”

Key Dates:
25th May – 16th June 2024 (Wednesday to Sunday 12am-6pm)
Private View: Thursday 30th May 2024 (6pm-9pm)
World Ocean Day: Saturday 8th June
Finissage: Friday 14th June (6pm-9pm)

About the artist:
Angela McMahon trained as a Geologist and Hydrogeologist (BSc, MSc, PhD) and worked for many years in the environmental sector before embarking on a foundation course at Camberwell College and studying Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. Since then McMahon has participated in group shows, open studios, community events and festivals, undertaken commissions and initiated and organised both indoor and outdoor immersive experiences and installations in the public realm. Most recently, McMahon was selected as one of the artists launching the 2022 London Borough of Culture in Lewisham.

McMahon’s work is inspired by her passion for the natural world and explores the resources and materials of human consumption and the traces and imprints they leave on the environment, often contemplating a geological time scale. Drawing on her background in geology and environmental protection McMahon’s creative practice considers how our consumption is distanced from the natural resources used, the processes and materials of making and any thought for the impacts of disposal; the dichotomy of ‘stuff’ that is both useful
and toxic, beautiful and dangerous. McMahon’s works include drawing, sculpture and installation which make use of discarded and recycled materials including plastic, cardboard,
scrap metal and waste oil. These material choices reflect specific environmental issues and are inspired by the physicality of everyday things in our throwaway society and research into their geological and anthropological lifecycles. Through this approach, McMahon aspires to create work that is aesthetic and engaging but also thought-provoking and educational.

Contact: Angela McMahon
Telephone: 07977 901147
Email: angel@angelamcmahon.co.uk
Instagram:@angelamcmahonart
Website:www.angelamcmahon.net

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Two Strange Picnics


Two Strange Picnics | Insuk Kwon
8-21 May 2024

Now on: a captivating exhibition titled ‘Two Strange Picnics’ by Korean artist Insuk Kwon. This exhibition offers a comprehensive view of her works, encompassing chaotic early pieces reflecting her war-like daily life when she first moved to the UK eight years ago to recent pieces that express her isolated self within contrasting cultures. Visitors can expect to encounter unique pieces that transcend the boundaries between paintings and 3D miniatures.

In her artwork, Kwon skillfully portrays various objects, all of which hold personal significance to her and may resonate deeply with the British audience, in a format reminiscent of still life but with a touch of surrealism. While the scenes depicted in her works may capture everyday landscapes, there’s an underlying sense of peculiarity that is sure to intrigue viewers.

Kwon was born in and built her career as an artist in South Korea. Some of her works were recognised and shown in France and Italy. Now she is based in London. Her works particularly focus on small and trivial things from everyday life which are scattered on the stage, inspiring people to imagine the stories behind each of them.

Don’t miss this dazzling event, taking place at Lewisham Art House from the 8th to the 21st of May 2024.

Private View:
Wednesday 8th May | 6-9pm

Exhibition continues:
9th to 17th May | 10am-6pm
18th May | 12-6pm
19th to 20th May | 10am-6pm
21st May | 10am-2pm

Free entry
Step-free access

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ANTENNA

24th April 2024

The exhibition will be open daily 24 April and 7 May at The Lewisham Art House, between 12 noon-6pm.
The preview will be on 24 April, from 6 to 9pm, with live harp music by Shye Charles.

Palvinder Nangla’s upcoming exhibition at the Lewisham Art House will offer viewers an enchanting delight and an insight into how he expresses himself through embroidery art.

Inspired by the notion of the traditional theme of dowry, Antenna will be an exhibition of 40 antennas as if each of them were a piece of an Indian wedding dowry; the 20 days and 20 nights of a traditional wedding are expressed in the 40 pieces that are a delicate presentation of lunéville embroidery techniques.

Using embroidery he mastered in his studies in Paris, Palvinder enters a meditative state of mind, connecting with the fact that nothing is ever permanent, always in motion, moving back and forth, like the movements between positive and negative, or black and white. The pieces then become a focus for clarity and calm, like the items of a dowry, important, nostalgic, meaningful and grounding.

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One Step At A Time

21st March 2024

Opening: 21st of March, 6-9pm
Exhibition is open 21st of March – 1st of April 2024, 10-6pm daily (except for 25th & 27th of March, opens 12-6pm)
Artist Tour and Q&A: 30th of March, Midday & 3pm

In January 2022 Tom’s wife was hit by a lorry whilst cycling to teach medicine at a London university. The injuries she sustained were transformative.
One Step At A Time is an exhibition in response to this, made up of paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs connected by text. It tells the story of the incident and explores themes that have emerged in its aftermath; The experience of a body transformed, ideas around disability, and support during crisis.
“By showing these personal pieces I am able to tell a story which is universal in its message; that we all encounter unexpected and life changing events, and responding to them creatively is beneficial and important for our understanding and recovery.” Tom Berry
Physical Access: The Lewisham Arthouse has step free access, an accessible toilet and seating.

For Tom Berry’s Instagram click here or for his website click here

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Images to Develop

8th March 24

Private View 08/03/24 6-9pm
Exhibition 08/03/24 – 17/03/24, 12-6pm

Images to Develop is a retrospective exhibition, celebrating the artwork of Barry Cunningham. Working across collage, ceramics, drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and textiles, Barry’s practice was eclectic and expansive. From studying at St Martins in the early seventies until his death last year there are themes and motifs that repeat throughout his work; common or household materials; the abandoned/discarded; a fascination with texture; the use of the grid structure and its rupture; the memento mori. Barry used mediums and processes to both invoke their specific cultural associations and to contradict them utterly. Underpinning all of his work is a deeply felt sense of social justice and an irreverent sense of humour.

The exhibition’s title comes from one of the many files in Barry’s studio. An avid collector Barry gathered source material in much the same way as he collected records to DJ with. Found images from ‘alternative cultures’ such as early 70’s alternative theatre, dance, ‘encounter groups’ or 60’s communes. The images are digitally manipulated, drawn from and recycled, abstracted as much by the continual remixing of their context as the digital or physical processes they’ve undergone.

All the works in the exhibition are for sale with 100% of the proceeds being given to Barry’s chosen charity, Medecines Sans Frontieres.

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Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair

February 18th

February 18th

Come along to the inaugural Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair, an event bringing together Sticky Fingers’ friends, collaborators and allies for a fair celebrating feminist, queer, disabled-led and local interdisciplinary publishing.



Featuring Abstract Supply, Arcadia Missa, BitterSweet Review, Em-Dash, Emily Pope, Intellitrash, Montez Press, PageMasters, Ruth Beale, Sissy Anarchy, Think Big Read Library, Toothgrinder Press, plus over 35 different publishers on our communal table.



The Gallery at the Lewisham Arthouse has completely step-free access, with an accessible toilet and baby changing. We will be programming a quiet hour from 12–1pm and a quiet room available all day. KN95 masks will be supplied on the door, and we will be requesting that you wear one unless you are exempt.



More info at stickyfingers.cargo.site

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Poison On The Tree Stump: Do Not Lick!

13th January 2024

Exhibition open everyday:
Saturday 13th January – Sunday 21st January – 12 – 6pm
Private View:
Friday 12th January – 6 – 9pm

‘Poison On The Tree Stump: Do Not Lick!’ is Hazel Blair’s first solo exhibition, showcasing paintings created during the Lewisham Art House Graduate Award residency in 2023.
 
Over the course of the year Blair has been exploring dream-like narratives that express an intimate point of view and connectedness to her surroundings. This exploration of her personal histories, memory and nostalgia becomes a form of mythology – a speculative and imaginative space that creates fruitful gaps in these narratives that weave romance and dreaming with harsher realities of lived experience.

Hazel Blair is a Zambian and British multi-disciplinary emerging artist who was raised in the Middle East and is currently based in London. Working within the realms of painting, film, and performance. Blair’s work explores the intersections of Identity and cultural/historical narratives. As a way of seeking the nuances and dimensions to the interior lives of black women. She graduated from her BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2021 and is a member of ‘FloorFive’ collective. 

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Interlude

26th January 2024

Private View: Friday 26th January
Exhibition Open:
27th January – 4th February 2024

Interlude presents fourteen emerging artists in their final postgraduate year in sculpture at The Slade School of Art graduate.

The show is an exposition of artists on the brink, preparing to enter the wider art world, and all of its anxieties. Retaining the spirit of the experimental as exemplified atmosphere of the studio space, work in progress is in show, installation is playful, and correspondences are allowed to emerge.

There is no theme. These artists’ practices are connected by shared space, time, and discourse. They are a community, formed by an institution and its short fallings, intending to mark this specific moment in the lead up to degree show.

Artists and Instagram handles
Bella Bradford @bellamjbradford
Daya Belzer @dayabelzer
Eve Stotesbury @eve_stotesbury
Hansol Kim @studiosol_
Hyeejin Bae @hyeejinbae
Jack Kinsman @kinsman_imal
Madeleine Bender @madeleinebender
Man Mei To @manmeito @manmeito
Michael Bradshaw @mbradshaw_art
Natalya Marconini Falconer @natalyamfalc
Natasha Burton @natashasolangeburton
Rex Townrow @rextownrow
Signe E Pook @s.e.pook
Yeye @qiujianyeah

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A Fresh Start

6th December 2023

PV 8th December 6.30-9pm.

Exhibition open:
6th Dec 3-6pm
7th to 18th December 12-6pm
19th December 12-3pm

Ben Quail is an artist/printmaker who lives in Waveney, Suffolk.
This exhibition shows the breadth of his work, from printmaking to painting, growing trees from seed and decorated ceramics.
Ben’s printed works are linocuts, screen prints and intaglio, dry point and etching .
The themes are from nature via a visual drawn diary. He has always carried a sketch book
as he finds drawing is an ideal way of recording memory of the observed. These drawings are often translated into print format or abstracted into mixed media. This includes painting on canvas and paper using collage and acrylic paint and pen.
Recently Ben’s interest in ecology has taken him to new dimensions including landscape and tree planting.
Included in the exhibition is a scientific experiment in growing trees from seed in a Wilco’s mini greenhouse. He hopes to grow trees for a new Suffolk forest and hopes his enthusiasm for a love of natural growing landscapes will spread to urban environments.

All work is for sale.

Ben will be running a print workshop on Saturday 9th December from 1.30 – 3pm to make a seasonal greetings card. Suggested donation £5. All welcome but children must please be accompanied by an adult.

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Mittens Got Talent

26th November 2023

26 November – 3 December 2023

Moina Moin brings you Mittens Got Talent! An audio-visual exhibition of wearable sculpture inspired by haystack folklore, muddy bogs, fast food and amateur contemporary dance. Alongside her show will run a series of performative events that will physically bring Moina’s sculptures to life and will involve live audio responses to the unique acoustics of Lewisham Arthouse’s architecture. Expect experimental opera, pipes and chips.

Moina Moin (b.1998, Stroud, England) is a recent graduate of Goldsmiths Fine Art BA (2023), and an alumni of Open School East (2022) and the Drawing School (2017). Known for her exuberant and fun installations and performance pieces, featuring spikey ceramics, wearable sculptures, printed textiles and animations. Within her world building, Moina brings together casual public improvisations with immersive meticulous storytelling, often using found materials, friends and strangers, whose characteristics jump in the driver’s seat and keep her projects in an energetic state of play and the unknown.  

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All Watched Over By Machines of Tight Embrace

11 November 23

16 November 2023, 7-11pm

SCREENING, 7:30pm
melanie bonajo, Progress vs Regress, 2016, HD video, 54 min, courtesy the artist & AKINCI

PERFORMANCES
AZADI.mp3
bill daggs
Smarterchild

In her seminal 1984 essay, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’, Donna Haraway identifies the fallacy of technology as a neutral tool beholden to human mastery. She states: “we’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections—and it matters which ones get made and unmade” (Haraway, 1985, p.149). With this insight, Haraway frames the nuanced, mutually constitutive relationship human subjects inhabit with the technology that sustains their daily lives. This revelation underscores that any technology materialised from a present sociopolitical context is ultimately steeped in the prejudices that characterise the day. Rather than simply a set of safeguards against impending futures, technological innovation reveals itself as a mirror, reflecting our contemporary context and the systems that uphold it.

This exhibition delves into the complex interplay between emerging technologies and human existence. Rather than setting up a bifurcated genealogy of nature vs technology–the roar of technological progress in one corner, and a floundering natural world in the other–the works in this show confront the challenges and opportunities presented by these innovations. They delve into the joys and the perils of technology’s ability to connect our lives across geographies, glimpse into our social systems, rethink the materiality of the world around us, and challenge what we consider to be recognisable life. In doing so, this show aims to spark conversations about our place within an ever evolving landscape.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Arna Beth
David Blandy
Dian and Lucy
Ece Tan
Inés Miño Izquierdo
Issi Nanabeyin

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Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair

11 November 23

Date: 11th November 2023
11am – 5pm

Come along to the inaugural Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair, an event bringing together Sticky Fingers’ friends, collaborators and allies for a fair celebrating feminist, queer, disabled-led and local interdisciplinary publishing.

Featuring Em-Dash, Sissy Anarchy, Sold Out Publishing, Toothgrinder Press, Think Big Read Library, Intellitrash, Ruth Beale, Arcadia Missa, Abstract Supply, Montez Press, Emily Pope, PageMasters, BitterSweet Review & more!

The communal table will feature work by:
Antifragile Zine
Bleet!
Brewer Street Press
Carrion Press
Chloe Cooper
Digestive
Elena Thompson
Elliot (Xiao Zhang)
Elspeth Walker
Emma Crabtree
Erika Verlato / Départ pour l’Image
Ester Freider
Fuseless Fan
Hayley Jane Dawson
In Lucid Dreams We Dance
Iseol Hwang
Joseph Hewlett-Hall
K Walker
Lea Dippold
Léann Herlihy
Leo Wilder
Lydia Davies
Maisie Wills
Marzipan Press (Daniel Wilkinson)
Michelle Leano
Minimum Efficiency Press
NEON BOOK CLUB
Peas Press
Residency 11:11
RING art space
Ruoqi Zheng
Shelly Grotto
SICK magazine
Soul Miles / Lily McCraith
Svatopluk Ručka
Tangled Tongues / Lenguas Enredadas
The Elegists Collective
Tomara Garrod

The Gallery at the Lewisham Arthouse has completely step-free access, with an accessible toilet and baby changing.

We will be programming a quiet hour from 12–1pm. During this period there will be no music, and stallholders will not make small talk with you should you approach their table. We will also have a quiet space available all day, however please note the quiet space is up two flights of stairs with no step free access.

KN95 masks will be supplied on the door, and we will be requesting that you wear one unless you are exempt. Please note that during the fair Lewisham Arthouse will have other events happening in the building and its regular studio occupants coming and going, and so we can’t guarantee that in the communal areas of the building people will be wearing masks. We ask you to do a lateral flow test before coming if you are able, and if you are feeling unwell with Covid symptoms then please stay at home.

The Arthouse will be running a tea/coffee stand, and a donations bar.

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“I don’t know what I want, but I want it NOW!”

27 October 23

2nd – 12th November 2023
Private View 2 Nov 2023 Thu 6 – 8 pm
Opening hours: Thurs – Sun 12 to 17:00

Gallery: Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT)
6, Creekside, Deptford, London, SE8 4SA | Tel: 020 8694 8344


“I don’t know what I want, but I want it NOW!”
With the title from a quote by Vivian Stanshall, the exhibition explores themes of immediacy, urgency, compulsion and capitalism with works by artists from different global perspectives and moments in time.
About:
“I don’t know what I want, but I want it NOW!” presents an international, European exhibition of new and existing visual art, multimedia, sound and performance works that explore the interplay between the urgency in politically and environmentally precarious times.
Viewers are invited to embark on a thoughtful journey through the exhibition space and experience a cross-cultural dialogue with the artists’ works. From immersive videos to 2D and 3D works and sound, the concept or idea is to focus on the extreme conditions we currently live under, both economically and psychologically. At the same time, it explores what Buddhists call “hungry ghosts”, beings tormented by a desire that can never be satisfied.
This phrase is borrowed from a satire by Vivian Stanshall that eerily fits today’s distribution of deprivation and overconsumption.
All the works will respond to the title in its broadest sense, “I don’t know what I want, but I want it now!”
Curated and produced by Alma Tischlerwood
For further information contact almatisch@gmail.com

ARTISTS (25) :
Andrew Carmichael † (UK), Alan Dunn (UK), Brigitte Jurack (D), Bim Malcomson (UK), Alix Stadtbaeumer (D), Alma Tischlerwood (D/UK), Aoife Collins † (IRE),
Chris Marshall (UK), Cornelia Parker (UK), Cyril Lepetit (F/UK) Gordon Cheung (UK, Joanna Jones (UK), John Wood (UK), Kathy Kenny (CA), Luca Bosani (I), Leila Ziu (UK), Marcel Duchamp † (F/USA), Matthias Spiess (CH), Matthew Bamber (UK), Nicolas Deshayes (F), Robert Welch (UK), Rosemary Cronin (UK), Skall (F), Steve Hellier (UK), Yutaka Inagawa (JP)

Education programme/Performances @APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, SE8 4SA:
The exhibition also presents 1 performance and 2 public workshops that require no prior training or skills. These events invite creative participation and aim to develop the participant’s ability to look, listen and respond spontaneously to the world around us.

MEET ME AT.. is a performance that combines the worlds of visual art, performance and dance. Led by a visual artist and a choreographer, this project aims to develop a deeper understanding of how movement and art intersect and influence each other.

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Another Day Another Archetype

27 October 23

27 October – 5 November 2023
Private view: Friday, 27 October 6-9pm
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12-6pm

Are archetypes the fundamental essence of things? Do they represent something deeper that exists beyond our perception? Or are archetypes simply symbolic attempts to make things relatable? Are archetypal roles like ‘hero,’ ‘mother,’ and ‘introvert’ just narrow human constructs that don’t accurately capture the complexity of reality?

Perhaps archetypes serve as reference points in an infinite web of possibilities for understanding relationships. Do they take shape from a collective consciousness, manifesting individually and perceived differently, or are they too simplistic when compared to the intricacies of human existence? The things people like you buy, the cultural influences in your daily life – from clothing and food choices to beliefs and online identities – are all at once woven into your everyday existence and distinct qualities in their own right.

Can archetypes bend to us rather than us to them? Perhaps modern, and more flippant archetypes could develop, twist, and break old paradigms, or they may just be old ones with new faces.

Alfred Worrall – alfredworrall.com @__aelfraed__
Alfred’s work is currently based around eBay, finding curious objects, reflections of sellers, interestingly photographed objects and incidental backgrounds that offer voyeuristic views of people’s interiors; homes, shops and warehouses. The types of objects and lives seen obliquely are sometimes quintessential examples of periods of time, styles and fashions. Also, while searching eBay, an algorithmic type-casting, or essence extraction, happens where you, yourself, become an archetype, i.e. ‘someone like you’.

Eva Duerden – @eva.duerden
Eva is engaged in the creating and the exercising of tools and props, and understanding how we activate them as short hands, for what we hope to project of our internal world. Whether these objects are keys on a belt, shoes that make a distinctive sound, or our specific jacket, they work to communicate us through the associations and importance that we imbue them with. Signifiers that allow us to perform the ‘character’, paraphernalia that is a ‘tell’ to how we want to assert ourselves, or, what archetypes resonate with us.

Lijin Zhu – @zh.u.zhu
Lijin’s works attempt to ask about the inertia structure that is hidden in everyday details, and she substitutes the invisible direction of inertia into an image, the wind, letting this image shuttle between reality and conception. She uses video and installations to present the wind’s manifest form, power, trajectory, and so on, dialectically reflecting on the conditions under which directionality arises and the archetypes through which mutual identity occurs.

Lucy Robson – @lucymary__robson
Lucy’s work is interested in the competing and emerging definitions of femininity of our time. She draws on traditional painting methods, and filmic compositional devices, to explore archetypal female constructs, as shaped by popular culture compounded by social media.
Her work wishes to reclaim the frivolity and self-indulgence long-since associated with girlhood, without rushing to subvert or transform. The freeze-frame style of depiction, coupled with the dramatic crop, brings the viewer sharply to the moment. The motifs and hands amplify her gesture, and resist the subject’s assigned place as ‘bearer of meaning.’

Vincent Matuschka – vincentmatuschka.com @vincent.matuschka
Vincent is a mixed media artist. His works are new narratives about dismantling the known and challenging the unknown. All of this is mostly paired with humour and play. Vincent believes that the known is not inspiring, it is the unknown that changes the thinking. His work explores different ways of challenging awareness and consciousness in our behaviour and structures in our world. Archetypes can be instrumentalized to play with

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Black Cloth

6th September 2023

6th – 14th September 2023 / Wednesday – Sunday, 2 – 6PM.
Preview: 6th of September 6-9PM

Black Cloth is an exhibition in which visual artist Ana Mendes explores the hair market; a poetic threading together of all that it entails, from labour and marketing to feminism and language. For this installation, the artist visited hair stores around the world, photographed the terminology used in the sale of wigs and hair (such as “charming”, “sexy”, “sassy”) and embroidered the associated vocabulary, using hair extracted from the wigs, by hand, on black cloth. Black Cloth draws inspiration from Deptford, one of the oldest Afro-Caribbean communities, in London, where the artist used to live.

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Victoria

1 st – 10th of July 2023

Victoria is a documentary photography project that aims to capture and interpret the lives
of a group of late-teenagers living in a small town at the centre of England. It takes place in
the summer before the splintering of their circle and journals the final few weeks they have
together, constructing a hymn of all the anxiety, but also belonging which lace their
collective consciousness as they balance awkwardly on the verge of adulthood. While
offering a candid report of young life in the more remote parts of England, the work also
documents a spiritual and personal journey with the subjects at its centre as they are pulled
from what felt like a fugue of crushing liminality, into a necessary regression of sorts, an
untamed freedom facilitating their growth toward the next stages of life.
The work is presented as a series of chromogenic prints depicting a sequence of stories
underpinned by small happenings. Scenes that are delicate and understated but emanate
unique beauty. The world of these photographs becomes almost microcosmic to the real
world. Small moments, movements and details become signifiers for greater weights in life,
and in the subjects’ lives. Bound by a common thread of truth, momentary truth, these
fragments are lured out of the quiet moments of everyday and trapped in the fold where
time meets physicality.
Callum Hansen’s Instagram

Preview date: 1 st of July 6-9PM
Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
SE14 6PD

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Ludicrous Alchemy

16th – 25th June 2023

Ludicrous Alchemy
A lustful exhibition of fever-dream work from
Flora Bradwell and Jazmin Donaldson
PV: Thu 15 June 6-9pm
Open: 16-25 June, Wed-Sun, 12-6pm
Lewisham Art House
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6PD

Ludicrous Alchemy brings together artists Flora Bradwell and Jazmin Donaldson for a
salacious two hander exhibition. Animal hybrids cavort on acid green lawns, tiled floors
become enormous knickers swimming behind Victorian archways. Each artists’ work is
deeply rooted in dream worlds of their own making with a hallucinatory narrative quality.
The surreal visual stories exposed by Bradwell and Donaldson in their high octane
paintings are charged with symbolism and humour. Beneath the highly pigmented surface
lies a desire to subvert patriarchal norms and pick through multiplicities of meaning.
Bradwell’s work has a compulsion towards the carnivalesque, a vibrant trashy aesthetic
and the desire to playfully rub the fantastical against the everyday. Compositions of
frescoes, cult manifestoes and nursery rhymes are squeezed through a generously
grotesque filter to create dimly recognizable imagined worlds.
Donaldson is inspired by old fairy tales and myths where she re-uses already known motifs
in order to tell contemporary stories and concerns. Through different imagery she
examines themes of identity and perception while playing with the absurd. She is
specifically interested in what femininity can mean and the subjectivity of the female
psyche.
Ludicrous Alchemy nods towards the strange architecture that houses each artists’ stories
and invites the viewer to immerse them self in this playful multi sensory exhibition. We
can’t wait to invite you into our rollicking dream-scape.

Contact
www.florabradwell.com | @florabradwellart | flora@florabradwell.com
www.jazmindonaldson.com | @jazmindonaldson_art | yasdonaldson@gmail.com

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Counterpoint

2nd June 2023

2nd – 10th of June (Closed Monday-Tuesday), 12 – 6pm
Private view is Saturday 3rd 4-8pm

Counterpoint is an exhibition celebrating the joy of contrast and difference. Members of Lewisham Arthouse have each selected an artist, maker, performer or creative practitioner to exhibit with from outside of the cooperative. Someone whose work contradicts, contrasts or compliments their own in unexpected ways. The resulting show is a series of contrasting pairs, exploring the interplay of works brought together by their differences.

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Fragmented Parts, Mental Debris

28th April 2023

Private View: Friday 28th April 2023 (6-9pm)
Opening dates/times: 29th April – 6th May 2023, Wed-Sat (12-6pm)

‘Fragmented parts, mental debris’ brings together the three practices of Miles Lauterwasser (printmaker) Fergus Channon (painter) and Laura Porter (sculptor), who implement rigorous and labour-intensive processes that test the traditional frameworks of their chosen mediums. Challenging material, surface and structure as a point of reference, Porter, Channon and Lauterwasser examine personal perception of environment through their own bodily and material experiences.

Artists: Laura Porter, Miles Lauterwasser and Fergus Channon

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Perspectives

19th May 2023

Dates: 19 – 29 May 2023
Open: 12 -6pm (closed on Mondays)
Private View: 19th May 2023

Tova McKenzie-Bassant began using collage as a way to experiment with her early paintings.
She would tear her canvases apart and then attempt to put them back together again, to form something new. This dual process of destruction and creation mirrors her ongoing personal and artistic investigation of identity.

At Lewisham Arthouse, McKenzie-Bassant presents a selection of works from her series Perspectives. Starting as small collages made using images from magazines, books and her own photography, the final works are printed onto sheets of reflective aluminium which come to life when exposed to light. In one work, a tailor stands directly under a large moon, cloth and scissors in hand. As I walk in front of it, the reflection shifts suddenly, turning the bright full moon into a shadowy eclipse. The tailor wields their instrument in a powerful grip: sharp scissors, bite open and ready to participate in their own process of destruction and creation. The blank white cloth beside them seems to be a metaphor for the opportunity to shape and create new narratives, new ways of being and of being perceived. As a process, collage can reveal the fictions at play in the way that we construct the world around us: a way to remove and to embellish, to rearrange and create new realities. It’s hardly surprising therefore that over the last decade collage has emerged as a popular and incisive medium for so many artists of the African diaspora.

Like the majority of figures in Perspectives, the tailor’s face is covered in a roughly applied mask, this one made from yoghurt. McKenzie-Bassant’s use of white masks references Frantz Fanon’s seminal text Black Skin, White Masks and W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of ‘double- consciousness’ – that colonised and subjugated people see themselves through the eyes of their oppressors. Throughout the exhibition, McKenzie-Bassant’s own face appears behind each mask in a series of guises, the repetition creating an unsettling feeling. In one work, hands desperately grasp at faces and masks that slip towards the pavement taking on lives and expressions of their own. In another, she sports a small moustache and bowler hat in the style of Charlie Chaplin, an ironic nod to the performance of identity.

Since devouring illustrated encyclopedias as a child, McKenzie-Bassant has retained a strong admiration for the old masters. In Perspectives, she reimagines celebrated paintings by artists including Jacques-Louis David and Caravaggio, shifting contexts to disrupt the familiar scenes. Playing on symbols of power found in portraits of the aristocracy, one work features a woman in a sumptuous red dress, an oversized hand holding a tiny globe. In another, a Narcissus figure gazes intently into a pool of water, but nothing is reflected back. It is simply a void filled with longing or emptiness; perhaps a wry comment on the search for self-identity. Several of the figures occupy wild landscapes or clamber through forests, searching for something lost or unobtainable. Art writer Jean Fisher, McKenzie-Bassant’s tutor at Goldsmiths, impressed on her that ‘process carries meaning’. In keeping with this idea, I see Perspectives as a visual exploration of the process to understand identity – a journey, it appears, with no fixed destination.

Debbie Meniru, Assistant Curator Hayward Gallery, April 2023

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There is Nothing New Under The Sun

7th April 2023

07 April – 17 April 2023
Opening: 07 April 2023, 6:00-9:00 pm
Exhibition open 08 April – 17 April 11 am – 6 pm

‘All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing. What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us….(Ecclesiastes 1:8 ) How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man (Jeremiah 31:22). But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swi destruction’ – (Peter 2:1).

‘Guns, sex, lies, videotape. But if I talk about God my record won’t get played, huh? Well if this take away from my spins. Which’ll probably take away from my ends. Then I hope this take away from my sins. And bring the day that I’m dreamin’ about. Next time I’m in the club, everybody screamin’ out’ – (Kanye West)

Dream it. Weak will become heroes and the stars aline. But I donʼt believe in shooting stars. I believe in shoes and cars. All I see is dollar signs. The same Man-Made image, the mind. There is nothing new under the sun. Shooting guns. Just dreaming my days away, into the bliss of darkness. Itʼs madness. Who will wake me up once and bring me back to reality? But in reality there is no place where I can stand. Just falling back into my fantasy world once again. Pray you catch me. I’m falling. I hope to be wake before I’m down. And then it hit me. I’m standing outside of heaven waiting for God to come and get me. Save me. Just gonna stand there and watch me burn? Well, that’s all right because I like the way it hurts. Should I fight, and beg for the rest of my life? Only as long as the wrong feels right. Iʼm on a flight. Have you ever popped champagne on a plane? To me, it sounds insane. But I close my eyes and imagine it once again.

What does it mean to be new, truly alive and real? What would you do if you could suddenly feel? Everything is still out of reach. The sameness of a copy of a copy and finally paste. It makes your vision blurred, head spin. Dreams of a better world on a carousel. They say fake it til you make it. Rich kids pretending to be poor, poor kids pretending to be rich. Please write my reality check. So fake it but never make it, until you become a wasted body. Until you become a Holy Being of Being Waste. Until you become a piece of art, something that deserves to be safe. You will be placed in the gallery to face your own faith. You must be a sinner to become a saint. False prophets. Man-Made image. Real and fake. Authentic self. Being fake. Death of truth and faith. Funeral. Wake me. Bury me. Excavate me. Everybody just please replicate me. Rest in peace. Sun is rising from the east. Wake and take my hand. Join me in No-Man’s land.

Artists: Claire Barrow, FengFeng, Liina Leo, Netti Nüganen, San Hani, Aaron Ratajczyk, Isaac De Reza, Johhan Rosenberg, Archie Taylor

The private view includes performances by Netti Nüganen, Johhan Rosenberg and Liina Leo.
Curated by Liina Leo
Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia

Aer the opening please join the exhibition aerparty ʻOnce the stars alignʼ including performances by Netti Nüganen, Johhan Rosenberg and Isaac De Reza. Music by San Hani x Metabora (live), Exmantera, mMega +more
Location: FXJ9+99 London Time: 09.00 pm-01.00 am, Ticket: £5

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Rites of Spring

16th March 2023

Thursday 16th March – Tuesday 28th March, 10am – 5pm
Private View Date: Thursday 16th March 7pm – 9pm

‘Winter is a time of relative ease. Come the Spring Equinox our larders become ghost houses, and the trees are still dreaming. There is nothing left but breathing bodies, hope and stories of seeds: seeds we must plant and plough for fruitlessly in all the weather we know, in the Spring.’

The Spring Equinox has traditionally been a time for considering the past, present, and the future; as such it has always made sense to human beings to witness this moment with festivals and rituals.
Following in this tradition, Rites of Spring is a group exhibition and arts event that seeks to muse upon, interrogate and mark the phenomenon of Spring. Each artist has been invited to bring their own personal interpretation of the themes and notions of the Springtime.
The event will coincide with the Spring Equinox (the first day of Spring) and the assembled works and performances will form what we hope will be a rite worthy of its season.
At a time of climate instability when the signs of the seasons have become, and are becoming increasingly vague, Rites of Spring asserts the role of artists in observing the passing of one season and the arrival of another.
Exhibition Open, March 16th – March 28th 10am – 5pm Private View and Performances: March 16th 7pm – 9pm

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Slug presents AS FRAGILE AS A BOMB

3rd March 2023

March 3rd 2023 18:00
until March 12th

Curated by Kenny Alexander Laurence and Lucia Russo Thomson in collaboration with Lewisham Arthouse

Featuring works by
Camilla De Siati
Alicia Gioia
Kenny Alexander Laurence
Alessandro Macciardi
Anie Maki
Rebecca Momoli
Marco Resta
Lucia Russo Thomson

The world as it presents itself is in a state of decay, having been steadily distorted and pushed to deviate from life in its most honest form. All that is left is mutated, contorted and trampled by its insalubrious context.
As the many institutions that enforce laws of exploitation for economic gain and many forms of intolerance and oppression to instate control vehemently reign, disobedience is the only prospect.
The shape of the future is in the hands of the young, in the hands of rebels, of individuals that in their contact with these mortifying forces choose to fight. Escaping the grip of the mechanics of the contemporary is a necessity. It arises the desire of breaking into a stampede with enough force to reshape the world.
Yet we are fragile but not like glass or a flower, like a bomb.
To uncover the libidinal component of this ubiquitous captivity the sexes explode as a reaction to the ankylosis enforced by the grid ever-present. Left is only the end of all things. It is the Judgment Day – ruled by Pluto – the planet of death and rebirth.
The revolution will be bound in flames of rebellion and this arson will not end in a standstill. A wildfire, as mortiferous as it may look and feel, always lays a fertile ground for new growth, it levels the field. Destruction and pain are definitive as ripping gestures that enact change. There lies an inherent trait of life that brings on healing and transformation, as individuals and collectives that exist and collide in the turbulent flow of the world are antifragile.
The Stoic belief of ekpyrosis, an apocalypse by fire that cleanses the universe, now appears as
relevant as ever. It is in the natural order of things to oxidize. It is to alchemically bind to the world and naturally become active agents of its destruction.
This is a call to action.
Let this world end in fire.
AS FRAGILE AS A BOMB contributes to a discourse that touches on cultural paradoxes, surrealist practices, critical fabulation, posthuman theories, and radical politics to unveil uncharted paths.
Through a visual narration ranging from sculptural installations, poetry, photographs, textiles and ceramics a system of demolition takes shape and ideology is shattered by empathy and critical thinking. The exhibition lives as a system of seditious acts of insurgence towards the mechanics of contemporary human society. The works of art – as bombshells – conjugate the urgency and desire for a new revolution through the artistic mediums.
It is a centrifugal exploration that starts from the condition of the self and one’s relationship to history and culture and ultimately projects outwards to unveil the geometries that shape human life and by association its contexts.
With a sense of urgency the exhibition suggests pondering on different ways of birthing a new world.

SLUG – Instagram: @slug_area – slugareainfo@gmail.com

Slug is the name that refers to the area outside of the printing and bleed areas of a page. As a collective endeavour Slug’s focus is to deconstruct the idea of the margin to encourage contamination. Slug aims to offer both a physical and virtual space where selected artist can merge their unique experiences to generate, create and exhibit work across borders. Community is fundamental to Slug’s ethos as a young artist collective.

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Something in Both Pockets

3rd December 2022

Anna Chrystal Stephens
Stretching the Harvest, 2021
Fresh from a small town garden (top) and preserved (bottom).
Green tomato + bean pickle, dandelion root coffee, nasturtium capers, dried calendula, nasturtium vinegar, tomato ketchup, fennel seeds, dandelion leaf sauce, fennel smoke stick and yarrow seeds.
(in front of a photograph of compost (pre-rotted) which contributed to it’s growth).

Inês Neto dos Santos and Anna Chrystal Stephens

Opening Sat 3 Dec, 3pm – 6pm, accompanied by Janine Nelson’s pop up café with homemade food.
Exhibition: 3 Dec – 18 Dec 2022 & 14 Jan – 21 Jan 2023, Wednesday – Sunday 12.00 – 18.00

Events
Sat 3 Dec, 14.00-15:00
Inês will host a yoghurt-making workshop alongside a collective reading of a “Fervent Manifesto” by Mercedes Villalba. Limited to 12 places. Bring a warm blanket or extra scarf.
Sign up here

Sunday 4 Dec, 14.00-16:00
Inês will host a Vegetable Fermentation workshop. Learn how to extend the life of your favourite vegetables or make your least favourite ones more tasty! Inês will share a basic method which you can use to ferment virtually anything in your pantry – an infinitely reusable, universal formula on how to preserve food using just salt and water. This session opens up space for participants to share and contribute with their own food preservation methods.
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something in both pockets is a two person exhibition that brings together a selection of work by artists Inês Neto dos Santos and Anna Chrystal Stephens to highlight the ways in which they use food as a material in their practices. Through the actions of foraging, gardening, drying, canning and fermenting they explore ways to gain a greater understanding and respect for the natural world and seek more regenerative ways of living. Collaboration and exchange are foundational in both of the artists’ practices. Social and caring gestures are brought into the gallery, highlighting the enmeshed relationships we have with one another and our surroundings.

By returning to ancient practices and using knowledge that has been handed down or passed along, stories are collected and cultures are preserved, in their multitude of meanings. something in both pockets offers space for coming together and reflecting on possibilities of abundance and self-sufficiency. In addition, the exhibition offers opportunities to share in these stories, learn practical methods and explore food’s potential for togetherness and empowerment.

Inês Neto dos Santos is a multi-disciplinary artist, born in Lisbon and based in London/Brussels. Her practice moves between performance, installation and social sculpture, investigating the socio-political implications of what we eat and how we come to eat it. In her work, she creates contexts and frameworks through which to explore collaboration, generosity, care and togetherness. In recent years, Inês has delved into the practical and metaphorical dimensions of fermentation, as a gateway into our enmeshed, multispecies existence. She co-directs arts collective The Gramounce with artists Nora Silva and Finn Thomson.

Anna Chrystal Stephens is based in London and South West UK.
She uses sculpture, action and photography to explore sustainable living strategies, self-sufficiency and the transition between nomadic and settled modes of survival. She investigates ancient practices like harvesting wild plants for food or medicine; learning about the edibility, uses and requirements of plants in order to viscerally understand rural and urban habitats. She is interested in small scale and integrated approaches to growing food as alternatives to industrialised horticulture. Her practice includes the gathering and dispersal of survival skills and craft processes through walks, discussions and workshops. She is also part of the artist group Vulpes Vulpes.

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Scratching the Surface: Stretch, Resonance and Resilience

25th February 2023

25th – 7th February 2023

Opening times
The research space will be open to the public to drop in from Sat 28th Jan to Sat 4th Feb, 11am – 5pm (Closed on Sunday)

Public event
Stretch, Resonance, Resilience: Join us for food, film, chats and weather permitting, a fire!
Sat 4th Feb, 4pm till late

For two weeks, Kneed: Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham, will be using the gallery at Lewisham Arthouse as a research space – to read, chat, discuss, draw, bring, take and exchange thoughts, ideas, practices, critiques and support. As a starting point, we will feel our way through this research process, using terms Stretch, Resonance and Resilience – inspired by Ruth Wilson Gilmore. We will be using these as a way of understanding the role research has in cutting through the arts and cultural landscape in the UK. Often built on oppressive and exploitative models these institutions continue to employ extractive strategies; from funding structures heavily reliant on sources which fund oil, war and apartheid, to the co-option of marginalised people and spaces for private interest and profit… and so on…and so on…

Sean Roy Parker writes in his essay Vague Decay Now, ‘I’m not staring at the art but through it, at the labour, materials, hierarchies and supply chain logistics that go into its production’ – how do we place attention back onto the economy that surrounds the artwork? The things we make, the places we exhibit in, their makers, participants and audiences, exist within an economy. How can we place our attention back onto these everyday items, relationships, moves of hand, and ships and sales that are the ‘cultural scaffolding holding contemporary art up’ but often forgotten. By placing our attention back onto these interconnected structures, can this research process be an opportunity for the scaffolding to slowly come back into the foreground.

Scratching the Surface: Stretch, Resonance, Resilience, is a framework through which we think about the economy of things that are making up the art and its context- the low-waged, racialised, plastic, extractive, mass produced, the public and the private bureaucracies that helped us get here. How can we learn from and imagine liberated models of making, being in relationship with, sharing, collaborating and being artists?

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Is that you Mr. Goat?

5th November 2022

Ash Appadu

Goldsmiths & Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Residency Outcome Exhibition

Exhibition: 5 – 26 November 2022, Wed – Sun 12.00 – 18.00
Opening Saturday 5 November, 18.00 – 21.00
DJs starting at 18.00 and Live puppetry and sound from 19.15

Live Events
Live sound and puppet performances
12 Nov, 19.15
19 Nov, 19.15
26 Nov, 13.15
Live Puppet performances
9 Nov, 13.15
16 Nov, 13.15

Ash Appadu’s practice incorporates collaborative puppetry, video and sound to create mixed media installations. Appadu builds fictional worlds to explore intersectionality. First appearing in Misadventures of Mr Goat (Goldsmiths degree exhibition) and now in Is that you Mr. Goat? (Lewisham Arthouse), the protagonist, Mr. Goat, is a creature who embodies an endless and fluid journey of change. Travelling beyond dry, desert-like worlds through to glitchy digital spaces, Mr. Goat has transformed from a small, mild mannered, puckish character to a ferocious and wild creature. Within the installation at Lewisham Arthouse, this 1.5-meter long collaboratively performed puppet responds to live and improvised soundscapes. Moving in a highly ritualised manner, the puppet performances build upon an endless search for release or comfort through metamorphosis.

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Poster Girls

6th October 2022

6th – 22nd October in our Gallery
Tuesday – Sunday 12 – 6pm

Poster Girls is a collection of new works by artist Rosemary Jane Cronin. Cronin’s work uses found objects relating to femininity and the female nude as a starting point, ranging from vintage playing cards, model cards, lipsticks and high heels to large bus-stop-sized posters deployed by the cosmetics and fashion industries. Exploring this world through carefully controlled chaos, materials are layered to subvert the male gaze and its commercial signifiers. Text is skewed, paint is spilled, roses are crushed and images torn. What was once expected doesn’t feel quite right, and instead we are left questioning the supposed innate sexuality of the female form, and how it has long been a commodity.

Pressing Times is a series of works made over the pandemic, where the artist placed flowers in vintage Vogue magazines, only to open them years later. Revisiting a favourite pastime of Victorian young ladies, in particular Emily Dickinson, Cronin uses the act to subvert the imagery and give it a new energy. Emily Dickinson’s words are echoed throughout the exhibition in a sound piece collaboration with Café Kaput’s Cate Brooks that samples spoken word from Rosemary Cronin’s vinyl collection including The Joan Collins Beauty and Exercise Record, Glenda Jackson reading Emily Dickinson and Anthology of Roses. The sound piece uses Cronin’s collection alongside Cate’s archive, pulled from context and reset in time and space, along with specially composed emotive electronic textures. For Cate, it is an exploration of her own femininity and sense of self – the staccato sounds of lipstick enclosures closing and high heeled shoes on hard surfaces punctuate the work, creating an immersive intrigue and a visceral reaction to Cronin’s powerful feminist imagery and sentiment.

A research-based practice for the artist explores the lack of female representation within the auto-destructive movement, and sees a return to previous destructive performances, with The Fabulous Faker Boys incorporating the destruction of a piano in the space. The muse rebels, and you might still get excited.

Rosemary Cronin is an artist, writer and lecturer with a research-based practice focusing on gender, psychoanalysis and subversion. The work is realised through film, performance, paint, print and sculpture. Cronin has exhibited at The Freud Museum, ICA London, National Portrait Gallery, Transition Gallery, South London Gallery and The Wallace Collection. Film piece ‘Reverie’ was selected by the Guggenheim Foundation as part of their Under the Same Sun season in 2016. In November 2022, Cronin launches The Freudian Cocktail Book at The Freud Museum.

@rosemaryjanecronin
www.rosemarycronin.co.uk

Cate Francesca Brooks is an artist, originally from Oxfordshire. She is predominantly known as electronic musician and producer, with a career that spans over two decades.
www.cafekaput.bandcamp.com
www.ghostbox.co.uk

Issey Scott is a writer, and occasional curator. Her writing has appeared in a range of publications and she has curated projects at South London Gallery, Anise Gallery, Museum of the Home and arebyte, producing exhibition texts for Luis De Jesus (Los Angeles), Castor Gallery and Wimbledon Space. She recently completed the MA Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she explored the cognitive dissonance of the healthy mind, the desirable body, and the visual language of happiness.

Events:

Life Drawing with the East London Stripper Collective, 20th October, 6 – 8.30pm

East London Strippers Collective are a bunch of feisty, feminist, fiercely independent strippers. They aim to shatter stereotypes and challenge stigma, whilst improving their own working conditions. They are bored of working in badly run strip clubs, being financially exploited and having very little say in how the venues are actually operated.

Life Drawing with ELSC first launched in 2013 as a natural progression from the age-old practice of hiring professional harlots and hussies as models for art. Our class is fast paced and often involves intense poses. We incorporate some more traditional life drawing with a couple 5, 10 and 15 minute poses. All our models are strippers or ex-strippers. We welcome newcomers and veterans alike.

Book via https://www.eastlondonstripperscollective.com/life-drawing

Finissage

Vinyl Performance, 21 October, 6-8pm.

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Worth the journey

19th August 2022

The Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Award Recipients of 2021 Kneed: Leonie Rousham and Ishwari Bhalera, would like to invite you to their group exhibition Worth the Journey taking place in the workshop space of Lewisham Arthouse on Friday 19th August, 6-9pm. The exhibition is curated by Phin Jennings and features work from artists Nima Shafiani, Morisha Moodley, Shayna Fonseka, Kneed: Leonie Rousham and Ishwari Bhalerao, Mark Sowden, Ula Taylor-Reilly and Ben Victor Waggett. 

As part of this, we will be hosting two guided walks around Deptford, led by Malcolm Bacchus and Ross McKendrick at 3pm and 5pm on Sunday, 21 August. These are free to attend and open to all, first come first serve.

The exhibition will be open from 20th-22nd August. 

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Who We Are

21st July 2022

Exhibition Preview: Thursday 21st July, 6 – 8pm, All Welcome
BSL Tour of Exhibition: Saturday 23rd July, 11am, FREE, no booking required
Touch Tour of Exhibition: Saturday 23rd July, 1pm, FREE, no booking required
Who We Are Exhibition Opening Times: Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th July, 11am – 6pm daily

We’re delighted to invite you to the exhibition ‘Who We Are’, presented by Deptford X and Liberty Festival at Lewisham Arthouse during Liberty Festival 2022.
‘Who We Are’ is an exhibition of multimedia art by London-based D/deaf and disabled artists that explore conceptually, abstractly or literally, ideas at the intersection of art, disability and inclusion. It is curated by an incredible panel of Lewisham-based young people – Precious Akindele, Morgan and Henny Shaw – with artworks selected by open call.

Liberty Festival is a free festival celebrating D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists as part of Lewisham London Borough of Culture 2022.

Accessibility: Lewisham Arthouse has step-free access and an accessible toilet. Malpas Road bus stop is 40 metres away from the entrance. Lewisham Arthouse is also 900 metres away from New Cross Gate train and overground station.

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LORI GOLDSTON, CHARLES HAYWARD, STEVE BLAKE

16th July 2022

Saturday 16th July – 7.30pm
£5 cash only, B.Y.O.B.

an evening of music from a different angle, pulling together sound worlds in a programme spanning traditional fiddle music, 21st century lo-fi song and open form improvisation, a special event for keeping things cool and interesting in high temperature cityscape.
https://www.lorigoldston.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDL6dJaTAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piFhVMJqx-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sAycmpr-3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFSveQ57Co8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6beaG3_Oq6o

Lori Goldston is an American cellist and composer. Accomplished in a wide variety of styles, including classical, world music, rock and free improvisation, she came to prominence as the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York. She was a member of Earth, the Black Cat Orchestra, and Spectratone International, and also performs solo
Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from  Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.

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Evan Parker

9th July 2022

Saturday 9th July 7.30pm £5

Tickets on the door – £5
B.Y.O.B.

Evan Parker has been at the centre of European free improvisation since its earliest developments in the late 60’s through to the present day. Constantly pushing his sound and technique forward, his music questions the act of listening and uses the acoustic space for both musical development and resonance. His music remains vital and curious, forging new collaborations and integrating electronics as central to his work. For this special one-time-only event Evan will be joined by Yoni Silver, Otto Willberg and Charles Hayward in a programme of solo and group performances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cjd-H7V2bI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24bh0ZR-eZY

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Puzzled: Piecing Together

10th June 2022

A project by Caroline Wilkinson

Monday 10th – Sunday 26th June 2022 – 12noon-6pm
Closed on Mondays

In spring 2020, artist Caroline Wilkinson embarked on what became a community venture, offering an engrossing distraction during the first Covid lockdown. Drawing on her personal collection of jigsaws, she distributed puzzles to 90-plus Lewisham neighbours, friends and others responding through a local Facebook noticeboard. She now has a total of more than 100 completed jigsaws. ‘I hoped that, by being engaged in this focused activity, people might experience an element of control and calm during a period of acute uncertainty, anxiety and mortality,’ Wilkinson explains.

The finished jigsaws will be displayed across the gallery from floor to ceiling. They show a range of generic photographic scenes, from cities and rural landscapes to cottages and kittens, covering a period that spans the 1970s to the 2000s. Each image is a record of its era, and this exhibition is also a reflection of our own recent times, bringing people together in an activity they were sharing, although they were physically apart and in isolation from others. 

Wilkinson, who studied at Edinburgh College of Art and University, has been a professional artist since 1975. She has used jigsaws for inspiration in the past; in 2011 she took park in the group exhibition ‘Archipelago’ at Southwark Park Galleries. Here Wilkinson combined fragmented images taken from different puzzles to create new, often enigmatic and poignant, artworks.

Visitors to the exhibition can enjoy being part of the project themselves by helping to piece together a large puzzle available on site.

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Aine O’Dwyer and Gina Southgate – two distinctive and innovative performances

4th June 2022

Saturday 4th June 2022 – 7.30pm
£5 on the door

Áine O’Dwyer is an Irish experimental musician, known for her live performances and recordings, which explore the aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment, time, audience, and structure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLr3b5GuQU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NooCL1bVw-U

Gina Southgate walks the line between visual art and live performance, building ambiguous and absurd sculptural assemblages live in front of our eyes in a hypnotic and compelling momentum. For this event she will be accompanied by musician and Arthouse member Charles Hayward

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The Garden

26th May 2022

Private View: 6-9pm Thursday 26/05/22

Exhibition Open: 12-6pm Thursday 26th May – Sunday 5th June (Closed Monday and Tuesday)

The Garden is the culmination of four years’ work, presenting a series of paintings and drawings all set in the yard space at the back of Lewisham Arthouse. Initially the focus was on capturing a moment and the setting was incidental. Working from video, my paintings are about trying to push the language of painting, embracing the realities of time and movement in an attempt to express the sensation of a specific situation, time or place. As the series progressed however, the setting has become increasingly important and the Arthouse yard itself became the primary subject.

In some respects the paintings are biographical, a highly personal account of the world around me. In another sense this body of work is a love letter to Lewisham Arthouse, a community I’ve been part of for 10 years and that this year celebrates its 30th anniversary. To me the Arthouse feels like an incredibly optimistic space, a cooperative that strives to operate an impossibly pure form of democracy. A community that works together to support each others need for creative space and creative practice. Within that the yard feels like the community’s collective memory. A depository of objects and artworks from previous members, furniture left in place from parties, different personalities left evident from various campaigns of care and neglect.

Tom Hemming graduated from the Byam Shaw School of Art in 2006, he joined the Lewisham Arthouse cooperative on June 1st 2012 and also works as a technician at the National Gallery.

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Postcard Drawing Quilt Workshop


Thursday 19th May

Image credit: Dan Weill

Exploring the idea of ‘home’ with artists Euphrosyne Andrews and Seungwon Jung

Date / Thursday 19th May
Time / 6:00 – 7:00pm
Venue / Lewisham Art House Workshop

Developing themes from their fantastic exhibition ‘Drifting Terrain’ at KCCUK, artists Euphrosyne Andrews and Seungwon Jung will lead a workshop at Lewisham Arthouse exploring the idea of ‘home’. All participants will be given a blank postcard to draw and write their ideas of ‘home’. At the end of the workshop there will be an open discussion, sharing ideas and making the postcards into a patchwork quilt.

Drifting Terrain is currently showing at KCCUK and presents new works from three Lewisham based artists, commissioned by the Korean Cultural Centre UK. Working in collaboration with Lewisham Arthouse the exhibition celebrates Lewisham’s designation as the London Borough of Culture 2022. The exhibition is rooted in a sense of place, firstly connecting the localities of Lewisham and the KCCUK on the Embankment but secondly in more subtle and complex ways representing different communities and cultural codes. For more information please visit: https://kccuk.org.uk/en/programmes/other-exhibition/drifting-terrain/

The workshop is free and open to everyone but we’re hoping families/young children can join us too.

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House of Do Your Own Thing

Saturday 7th May

Saturday 7 – Sunday 22 May
Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday* from 12pm – 6pm
Free entry
*closed to the public on Saturday 21 May

“The gallery has been taken over!”

Join the Feel Good Designers at Lewisham Arthouse this May to explore “They! Come help me do come” – The House of Do Your Own Thing. It’s a house full of art, music, videos, radio shows and performances. It’s coming to Lewisham Arthouse for the London Borough of Culture! Everyone is welcome.

“There will be decorations and artwork everywhere. We thought the more artwork the better! The more it will catch people’s eyes!”

Join us for some special events at Lewisham Arthouse as part of the House of Do Your Own Thing.

Saturday 7 May: Radio
12pm – 6pm
Join us in the gallery to take part in a House of Do Your Own Thing radio show, recorded live in the gallery!

Saturday 14 May: Gig
2pm – 4pm
Featuring performances from Electric Fire, Charles Hayward and Robyn Steward

The Feel Good Designers are a group of people who are supported by Heart n Soul to make things look and feel good. They met at Do Your Own Thing, Heart n Soul’s programme for young people with learning disabilities.

Heart n Soul info

First person
Heart n Soul is an award-winning creative arts company and charity. We believe in the power and talents of people with learning disabilities, providing opportunities for people to discover, develop and share this power and talent as widely as possible. We also have a lot of fun!

Third person
Heart n Soul is an award-winning creative arts company and charity that believes in the power and talents of people with learning disabilities, providing opportunities for people to discover, develop and share this power and talent as widely as possible. They also have a lot of fun!

www.heartnsoul.co.uk
Twitter/Instagram/Facebook: @heartnsoulart

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Diaspora – Hong Kong Nationhood Exhibition Opening

15th April 2022

Private View: 15th April, 2022 6- 9pm
Opening times: Wednesday 13th – Sunday 27th, 12 – 6pm

This exhibition aims to present the nationhood of Hong Kong, based on the way in which a common imaginary of nationhood has been developed through the lens of the arts. It involves 11 HK artists. This exhibition is created by HK people, curated by HK people, and produced by HK people.

It endeavours to:

Look at Hong Kong’s pro-democracy social movements from a holistic approach;
Create an open space for audience to give voice to their Hong Kong identities;
Serve as a documentation and archive in the chronicle of Hong Kong identity and nationhood.

Organiser:
@justitiahk

Artists:
@alastair_kwan
@annatwelve
@ricker_choi
@kaceywong
@polamchan
@janice_4_lam
@lumlilumlong
@gllh_art

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Love is Attention: Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy: SON

21st March 2022

Monday 21 March – Saturday 26 March

Duval Timothy and singer/songwriter Rosie Lowe present an immersive listening experience installation as part of Lewisham Borough of Culture’s We Are Lewisham programme. Entitled SON, the piece forms the soundtrack to an illustrated children’s book of the same name created in a unique collaboration between the two artists, suitable for all ages. This installation will take place in 20 minute intervals, with some low lighting and haze used.

Rosie Lowe is a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in London. She has released two albums to date; Control (2016) and YU (2019) and recently released a mixtape of self-produced demos entitled Now, You Know. Impossible to pin-down musically, Rosie has performed live with Sir Elton John, been sampled by Future & Juice WRLD and collaborated with rapper Jay Electronica and electronic artist Falty DL amongst many others.

Duval Timothy is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans painting, music, photography, sculpture, design, food, video and textiles. Currently based between London, UK and Freetown, Sierra Leone – Duval has released four albums to-date; Brown Loop (2016), Sen Am (2017), 2 Sim (2018) and Help (2020), all via Carrying Colour – his independent record label and lifestyle brand through which he seeks to explore colour both in the sense of chromatics and identity, themes that unify his creative practice.

Julianknxxx is an interdisciplinary poet, visual artist and filmmaker, born in Sierra Leone, now based in London.

Produced by the Albany in Association with FORM for We Are Lewisham

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Drifting Terrain – Korean Cultural Centre UK

17th March 2022

OFFSITE: Korean Cultural Centre UK
18 March – 21 May 2022
Private View: 17 March, 5.30 – 7.30pm, RSVP essential

The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) is pleased to present Drifting Terrain, an exhibition featuring recent and newly-commissioned works by UK-based artists, Euphrosyne Andrews, Nia Fekri and Seungwon Jung, running from 18 March – 21 May 2022. Both aligning with the UK’s cultural initiatives and celebrating Lewisham’s designation as the 2022 London Borough of Culture, the KCCUK has developed this exhibition in collaboration with Lewisham Arthouse, inviting three artists whose works span various medium to reimagine the ‘space’ and where we stand

Place matters here, as Drifting Terrain is firstly rooted on the geological sphere of these two localities – Lewisham and Embankment at large. Given the different locations of the KCCUK and Lewisham Arthouse, ultimately linked to representing different communities and cultural codes, the exhibition aims to over-lap each other’s boundary and space, to question the distinction of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, and to highlight the possibility of sharing the urban space and reconnecting through art.

By constantly blurring the boundaries and shifting our perceptions, these three artists bring their works and practices into the KCCUK as a way to redefine the space within a socio- political context.

Nia Fekri’s video work Mother’s Apricot Compote conveys, through the monologues of two women who are geographically separated, personal and familial memories tied to the experience of migration. By reciting their own stories, the two protagonists, through the apricot fruit preserved in sugar, form a solidarity based on yearning. The spaces they occupy transcend the barriers of physics and become a living, organic presence that is forever moving and drifting, that brings together people, and the past and the present.

Whilst Nia’s focus on the social and personal aspects of space, Euphrosyne Andrews in turn looks at the relationship between public space and private space. Inspired by the parks or industrial areas scattered across the UK and prevailed gentrification, her new works include a structure that overlays industrial materials with domestic patterns seen on curtains and carpets, and a site-specific installation mirroring the ornate facades of the architecture directly opposite. The works address how material associations can shape our interactions within the public realm, questioning the invisible power dynamic or hierarchy embedded into spaces.

Seungwon Jung takes on an even bigger lens to look into the relationship between human and the environment, and recreates time and space through textile and her craftmanship. The Digital Strata series is a work of tapestry whereby textile patterns are extracted from digital images of the strata. These geological layers represent the accumulated time of the earth over a vast period and the history of this space becomes a personal record through the artist’s labour and time taken to complete the weaving.

Through a wide range of materials and art-making practices, the exhibition aims to reposition our viewpoints of the understanding of the topography of where we are placed and where we belong.

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May We Know Them

5th March 2022

Dates: March 6-13, Saturdays & Sundays 12:00-18:00, Monday Closed, Tuesday-Friday 15:00-18:00
Private View: March 5, 18:00-21:00

Celebrate International Women’s Day with the Women of Brockley!

May We Know Them is a community project celebrating International Women’s Day by inviting the women of Brockley (and surrounding area) to create a portrait of a woman who inspires them!

Over 30 local women submitted portraits which will be printed as posters and displayed throughout the neighbourhood in the week leading up to International Women’s Day. Then all posters will be featured together in an exhibition at the Lewisham Arthouse.

Join us for the opening event Saturday March 5, from 18:00-21:00 at the Lewisham Arthouse. There will be a bar, creative activities, and posters for sale, so mark your calendars and invite your friends! The exhibit will continue March 6-13.

This project and event are organised by fabric, a local initiative that runs experiments in female creativity. For more information, search @fabricexperiments on Instagram or email fabricthemagazine@gmail.com

“To strong women: May we know them, may we raise them, may we be them!”

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The Greenness of the Green Fields Supernal

24th February 2022

Open: 24th-28th February 12-6 pm
Private View: 24th 6-9pm

The Greenness of the Green Fields Supernal is an exhibition of recent paintings by Gabriela Giroletti and Henry Tyrrell which explores their uses of ambiguous organic forms that recycle and mutate across their bodies of work. The title comes from a passage in Flann O’Brien’s surreal novel The Third Policeman where he describes the protagonist’s walk through a landscape of morphing hills and sky, where the properties of the objects encountered, like their colour and scale, break free and enter the mind in a pure state. Riffing off this theme, the exhibition uses Giroletti and Tyrrell’s paintings to construct a landscape-like journey meandering around horizon lines, zooming into details, dipping above and below ground. The array of different painting processes and types of gestures in their work are also brought into dialogue with one another.

Artists:
Gabriela Giroletti
Henry Tyrrell

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We Are Lewisham: Borough of culture 2022 Day 1

9th December 2021

Private View – 10/12/21 6-9pm
Opening 09/12/21 – 13/12/21 12-6pm

Springing from a chance viewing of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, 2020 is a twenty-piece embroidery collection by the award winning mixed media artist Palvinder Nangla. The twenty looks on display are a series of intricately constructed drawings of drag outfits, comprising a variety of textiles and materials that showcase Nangla’s skilful handwork. The collection examines gender from a British Asian viewpoint while also provoking a discussion about the use of drag and where it is heading.

‘I never had a TV, but last year I gave Netflix a try, and got introduced to this programme (Ru Paul’s Drag Race)… there’s a scene in it where a performer gets voted off and they look at themselves in a mirror and write something on it in lipstick, and I found that image so powerful that it gave me the impetus to go and do a collection.’

Showing in the UK for the first time Nangla’s creations have previously been exhibited in exclusive trade fairs in New York, Frankfurt and Beijing.

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Springing from a chance viewing of Ru Paul’s Drag Race

9th December 2021

Private View – 10/12/21 6-9pm
Opening 09/12/21 – 13/12/21 12-6pm

Springing from a chance viewing of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, 2020 is a twenty-piece embroidery collection by the award winning mixed media artist Palvinder Nangla. The twenty looks on display are a series of intricately constructed drawings of drag outfits, comprising a variety of textiles and materials that showcase Nangla’s skilful handwork. The collection examines gender from a British Asian viewpoint while also provoking a discussion about the use of drag and where it is heading.

‘I never had a TV, but last year I gave Netflix a try, and got introduced to this programme (Ru Paul’s Drag Race)… there’s a scene in it where a performer gets voted off and they look at themselves in a mirror and write something on it in lipstick, and I found that image so powerful that it gave me the impetus to go and do a collection.’

Showing in the UK for the first time Nangla’s creations have previously been exhibited in exclusive trade fairs in New York, Frankfurt and Beijing.

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Subject To Change: Art in the Time of the Pandemic

14th October 2021

Sarah Arsenault – Ce Chen – Sinde Cheung – Cathy Hayes – Caroline Ingham – Claudio Pestana – João Simões-Brown

15 – 25 October 2021
Private view: Thursday 14 October 2021, 6 – 9 PM

‘Subject to Change’ brings together the work of seven emerging international artists responding to our ever- changing political and physical environment where identities and the politics of memory keep being re- negotiated. With social and political volatility heightened, this exhibition by a group of Postgraduate alumni from Camberwell College of Arts pertinently questions the symbolic capital attached to established cultural myths, interrogates the on-going struggles in contemporary geopolitics and de-constructs the embodiment of gender and identity.

Much like the menu in a pub, where the artists came up with the premise for the exhibition, all life is subject to change, and this show is a reminder that nothing is set in stone – even public statues do not last forever. Power changes hands and simultaneously art provides us with the inspiration to challenge oppressive narratives. In this exhibition a multidisciplinary group of artists comes together to show a body of work that examines both the histories of art and contemporary socio-political discourses.

In this show one can feast on the marvel evoked by the eclectic presentation of painting and sculptural works. From Ingham’s ‘Enfleshing’ sculpture group of distorted embodiments suspended from wire hangers on a clothes rail, casting shadows on the surrounding walls, to Chen’s hovering paintings employing natural processes of oxidisation to depict the ephemeral elements of the Cornish landscape, the certainty of change is ever present – be it physical, social or political.

Whilst in her ‘Pieta’ paintings Hayes examines how feminine identity has been depicted throughout history and offers us a group of fluid figures in domestic settings, in ‘Fag Has an Audience’ Pestana invades the grand houses of the landed gentry and re-interprets the tradition of the interior portrait, populating the pictorial space with his Fag identity and references to landscape and social class.

Change is also evident in Cheung’s ‘Merry Christmas’, where a Christmas tree, which was set on fire in a luxury mall in Hong Kong in December 2019, unsettlingly represents democratic instability.

Simões-Brown presents us with ‘Instar’, a reference to the stages of development between moults of the arthropods, and Arsenault explores humanity’s vulnerability as a species in ‘Survival of the Fittest’, ‘Extant’, and ‘The Healing’ – both artists also examining the ever-constant presence of change.

For more information check out the Booklet or Press Release

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Living Room

30th September 2021

30th Sept – 11th October 2021
12-6pm

Private View
Thursday 30th September 2021
6-9pm

click here for the eventbrite

From the rooms we live and move through, to the changing light which nuances these spaces, Living Room is an exhibition of paintings by artist Tim Patrick focusing on a year painting a flat in Hackney. Working in situ at a large scale, Patrick’s paintings are rooted in the process of painting directly from life; where the quotidian and everyday aspects of the interiors closest to us are held as the focus of painting. The exhibition seeks to explore painting as an artefact of place – the work being as much a piece of the place itself, as an image of it.

tim@timpatrick.co.uk
www.timpatrick.co.uk
@timpatrickpainter

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Figure it Out by The Neulinge Collective

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16th September 2021

Curated by Chudamani Clowes and Divya Sharma

16th to 27th September
12 to 6 PM

Private View Saturday 18th September
6 to 9 PM

Click here for Private view Eventbrite

18th September
Performance. Chudamani Clowes and her troop will migrate from Vauxhall Station at 12 noon to Lewisham Art house. To highlight global migration.

The Neulinge Collective consists of four South Asian artists from Pakistan, Srilanka and India who are alumni of the Royal College of Art and the University of Arts London and have come together to critique the status quo with work that reflect issues of inequity we face today. Their art speaks of a sense of responsibility for the future, the power of dialogue as a way of binding people together in a world that is fragmenting before our very eyes.
Marium confronts orientalist notions of the ‘oppressed’ woman in Pakistan with her monumental figure paintings while Chudamani reflects on individual achievement of immigrants contributing to the success of Britain. Divya’s work is inspired by a quote from an ancient Tamil text about compassion and links this to the idea of care. She finds similarities between the conditions of the current pandemic and the conditions of the plague pandemic in the early 1900s in India. Maryam’s jewel like mixed media works are reflections of her experiments with textiles and their new age iterations from automated jacquard designs to digital designs on screen.

www.neulingecollective.com
@neulinge_collective2020
@chudamani1034
@mariumbob_studio
@maryamhinahasnainstudio
@divyasharmastudio

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Entanglements in Time

6th August 2021

Friday 6th – Sunday 15th August 2021 [12 – 6pm]
with an opening reception on 5 August 2021, 6–9pm
RSVP here

Entanglements in Time is an upcoming exhibition at Lewisham Arthouse showcasing UK-based artists Bart Hajduk, Christopher Taylor, Jasmin Märker, Kristina Pulejkova, Margo Trushina, Solveig Settemsdal and Yambe Tam, curated by Kristine Tan and Mariana Lemos.

Shown together for the first time, the works challenge anthropocentric markers of temporality by examining timelines that stretch far beyond the duration of human existence. Neither optimistic nor pessimistic, the artists explore multiple ways of viewing ecological relationships. It is by acknowledging how we cannot extricate ourselves from this ‘mesh’ that we can look at ecology as a whole and acknowledge how we are intimately entangled with every living and non-living thing in time.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Exhibitions Hub, Goldsmiths University of London.

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SPIRAL TRAP

15th July 2021

Thursday 15th – Sunday 25th July [12 – 6pm]
Drinks Reception – 23rd July 2021 [5 – 8pm]
click here for tickets

To someone a thought occurred – and it plunged their brain into a vortex of reoccurring notions following one another. The tinkling, fuzzy feeling of that spiral of thoughts giving birth to each other, endlessly multiplying, left them sitting uncomfortably for hours. The physical sensation of being externally trapped became blurred with internal fear.
Eternity moment seemed now like business as usual, almost good. That someone’s heart however felt heavy – a warning sign! Their chest indeed felt very tight…
Eventually the brain could not stop ruminating on it all. “Get me out of here, I’m so *vortexed*!” that someone shouted! To whom?

Artists:
Paula Turmina
Kate Lyddon
Adam Leach
Angela Maasalu

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Biggus Icarus – Graduate Award Show 2021 Rosie McGinn

2nd July 2021

Friday 2nd – Monday 12th July [12 – 6pm]
Preview Day : Saturday 10th July

On October 14, 2012 at 127,851 ft, Biggus Icarus whispered “I’m going home now” before stepping off a helium powered Rod Bell capsule and free falling to Planet Earth. On his descent from the edge of space, reaching speeds of 843mph he became the first human to break the sound barrier without the aid of engine power. After momentarily losing consciousness and spinning out of control he regained stability and with a parachute successfully landed on his feet in the New Mexican desert where he dropped to his knees and punched the sky.

‘Biggus Icarus’ is Rosie McGinn’s solo exhibition following an extended year-long graduate residency at Lewisham Arthouse.
The show will feature a large inflatable sculpture of a human free-falling from the stratosphere surrounded by a sequence of drawings and paintings that explore ‘A History of Human Flight.’
From a Benedictine Monk fixing wings to his hands and feet and jumping from the top of Malmesbury Abbey to a Serbian flight attendant surviving a plane crash to Icarus flying too close to the sun; this new watercolour series continues McGinn’s research into the human spirit of exploration.
Climbing higher, scratching that itch, reaching the furthest corners of our universe before turning on the last rung of the ladder, looking back down at the glowing lightbulb planet below and surrendering ourselves to the complete mercy of nature.

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Alternative Degree Show

17th June 2021

17-23 June

Over the past year, the pandemic and current political movements have illuminated the glaring inadequacies of arts institutions as spaces fit and able to engage in activities of decolonisation and critical anti-racism; demonstrating the need to re-imagine what a ‘degree show’ can be. In support for, and in protest of, the silence of our department on these urgent matters we want to re-imagine and re-define what a degree show can look like, how it can operate, and the ways in which it provides access to the local community. We are therefore choose to take this event outside of the educational institution and into the social/public environment.

The Alternative Degree Show manifests as an art trail across Lewisham Borough, including traditional art venues, public spaces, and community centres. It is a group project predicated on community building and the desire to allow art to breathe outside of the educational institution. It includes the dynamic and exciting work of graduating students on the BA Fine Art & History of Art programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

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Resolution/Revolution

23rd May 2021

Sunday 23rd – Saturday 29th May
Preview Day: Saturday 22nd May

Launching our exhibition program for 2021 and re-launching the project space after the lockdowns, uncertainty and prolonged closures of 2020, Resolution/Revolution celebrates the ongoing work and creative resolve of the Lewisham Arthouse artists.

Behind closed doors our studios have remained open and the 45 artists that make up the Lewisham Arthouse cooperative have kept working. This exhibition is a showcase of the range and diversity of our practices and a declaration of our commitment to restarting the public program, adapting however we can to provide engaging and exciting exhibitions to connect with the local community.

20% of the proceeds of all sales will be donated to Lewisham Food Bank

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Dear Brockley

4th June 2021


A local postcard project celebrating women, creativity and community 


Friday June 4 – Sunday June 13
Opening Times: Thursdays & Fridays 15:00-18:00, Saturdays & Sundays 12:00-18:00
Preview Day: Saturday June 5, 2021

Dear Brockley is a local postcard project celebrating women, creativity and community. Women of the South London neighbourhood of Brockley were invited to submit a postcard in response to the theme of WOMAN. 12 winners were printed and distributed to 2,000 households across Brockley on International Women’s Day 2021 – but all 45 beautiful, thoughtful submissions will be exhibited at the Lewisham Arthouse June 4-13.

Dear Brockley examines what it means to be a woman today and celebrates the diversity of perspectives, while showcasing the creative spirit of our community and doing what postcards do best – creating a sense of personal, human connection in a time when we’ve felt more isolated than ever. Postcards and artwork will be for sale with all profits going to Brockley-based charities.

If you want to celebrate female creativity and community, spread the word about the Dear Brockley exhibit at the Lewisham Arthouse June 4-13!

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Figure it Out!

4th February 2021

4th – 15th February 2021 from 12-6pm (Sunday 12-3pm)
Preview Day: Saturday 6th February from 12-6pm

The Neulinge Collective consists of five artists from Taiwan, Pakistan, Srilanka and India who have come together as a group to critique the status quo with work that reflect issues of injustice we face today. There is a sense of impatience with the legacy of colonialism and as artists they not only want to engage with this conversation but also provide solutions and allow glimmers of hope through their works. Marium confronts orientalist notions of the ‘oppressed’ woman in Pakistan with her monumental figure paintings while Chudamani reflects on individual achievement of immigrants contributing to the success of Britain today. Divya’s work confronts themes of regaining a mother tongue that was denied by imperialism. Yihsin explores her own state of mind dwelling on intimacy, loneliness and vulnerability Finally, Maryam’s beautiful jewel like mixed media works are reflections of her research and experiments with textiles and their new age iterations.

Artists Instagram: @chudamani1034 / @divyasharmastudio/ @mariumbo_studio / @white_chu_artist / @maryamhinahasnainstudio

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HANT

8th October 2020

Georgie Andrews | Joseph Clarke | Umut Gunduz | Rebecca Rayner

Curated by Anna Skutley

Opening: Thursday, October 8th, 6-9pm
Until: October 17th, 12-6pm

‘Hant’ is the idea of the vernacular; of the objects, materials and architectural structures that furnish our lives and urban centres. It is a frequentation, or the spirit that haunts a location. It is a spot often visited; an obsession. The collective work that makes up ‘Hant’ extracts elements from their origin and relocates them in a new space, opening a discussion around our conception of site. Through the abstraction of materials, forms, sound and language, it explores the different ways that artists create reference to place.
Georgie Andrews explores ideas of ‘hostile architecture and design’. Her sculptural work removes urban objects from their everyday context and re-situates them in the exhibition space. Alternatively, Umut Gunduz uses 3D models alongside textures, sounds and imagery appropriated from their real-life situs to construct his virtual worlds. Dealing with the inherent tensions between humans and material within these built environments, Joseph Clarke’s sculptural installations address the dichotomies of construction verses deconstruction and order verses chaos. Also working from the premise of the human convergence with materiality, Rebecca Rayner uses discarded and found materials to create ‘ambiguous landscapes’ that reference the human body. Her work focuses on themes of consumption, objectification and the abject.
By examining processes of movement as applied to inert forms, this exhibition looks at the effect a forced displacement from site has on our aesthetic experience with the material makeup of our daily world. ‘Hant’ speaks to a tension between territory, human-made structures, and the language we use to represent these. It asks what specific role vernacular components serve in this exchange.

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It’s not you, it’s me

24th September 2020

24.09.2020 – 04.10.2020
Private view: 24.09 from 18:00 – 21:00

Please pre book a free time slot for the private view via Eventbrite

It’s not you, it’s me is a show to mark the first anniversary of 226 Honeymoon, a group of seven recent graduates, who formerly co-ran a non-profit space in Peckham, between September and February.

Their tenancy at 226 Rye Lane ended at the close of February. Added pressures of varying working schedules, disparate individual practices and relocation to different cities and countries, meant the idea of the collectivism that 226 Honeymoon was formed upon was challenged, leaving a new space for a reassessment of its future intentions and position.

The show, It’s not you, it’s me, seeks to foreground seven individual practices via group-working, and looks at the role of communication, self-analysis and planning in the development beneficial relationships.

Kerri Cole
Lenard Giller
India Mello
Joseph Morrissey
Sian Newlove-Drew
Will Pegna
Harry Roberts

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Nature Encapsulated

16th September 2020

Weds 16th – Saturday 19th, 12 -6pm
Sunday 20th, 12 – 3pm
Private View Thursday 17th, 7 -9pm

Please pre book a free time slot via Eventbrite for the private view

Nature Encapsulated is a group show gathering artists, most of them based in South London, in the mission to explore the definition of wilderness. This definition is often very subjective as everyone has a different way of thinking about Nature, feeling,
seeing or experiencing it. We aim to explore the difficulty of defining wilderness in our current world and our ways to live within it. We want to bring an optimistic perspective on the preservation and utilisation of nature and hope to inspire and incite positiveness.
The exhibition will be a recognition of the crucial importance of wilderness left on earth, the power of nature on the mind, the possibilities of ethical utilisation of nature, and the positive impacts of protected areas on nature and the animal world.

Featuring work by:
Abi Aldridge-Apaza
Zerrin Asir
Tom Davies
Jono Ganz
Roanna Holmes-Frodsham
Miriam Luehrs
Caitlin Parks
Tom Scotcher
Jade They
Messua Wolff

Curated by:
Segolene Py

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Fabric 02

6th March 2020

Fabric is a magazine celebrating female creativity. This year for International Women’s Day, Fabric brought together 28 women from Brockley to share their stories, experiences and perspectives on being a woman. Join us for the Fabric launch event on Friday March 6 at 7pm and follow @fabricthemagazine for more information.

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Paradox Amusements

13th – 15th March 2020

Private view 12th March 2020 7 – 9pm
Opens 13th – 15th March 2020 12 – 6pm

In Paradox Amusements Birtles and Metcalfe deal with a day dream. This day dream encompasses extremities of escapism and obsessions with absurd fixations relating to holiday and play. Through performance, painting, photography and sculpture the artists challenge and darken escapist desires. Reoccurring motifs appear like holiday hallucinations. An inflated unicorn appears as an unsettling fluorescent monster, whilst an inflated dress is transformed into a drawing and brought to life by operatic singers. Metcalfe and Birtles unpack the surreal dream through interpretations from their ongoing research into the longing for escapism and performance catharsis.

www.hollybirtles.com

www.lucindametcalfe.com

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Purity, Danger, Dirty Re-arranger

5th – 16th December 2019

Zoë Mendelson at Lewisham Arthouse
Private view: 6 December 6:30 – 9:30 pm

Zoë Mendelson’s new work aligns with and critiques diagnostic criteria pathologising space. It also responds to Mary Douglas’ 1966 book on taboo and cleanliness, Purity and Danger. These are dirty archives – works in which schema are established via placement, but what is being stored presents a problem of either cleanliness or possible collapse. This exhibition connects the domestic and clinical, provoking dialogues around consumption, excess and hygiene – located within a configuration of overlapping drawing, animation, painting and objects – a library of potentially pathological elements.
A large wall-drawing, will take the run of the show to complete, a form of sullying and exertion – spatial ‘madness’ in itself – with an emptying and clearing process to follow.

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Folds

20th November – 1st December, 2019

Preview date time: Friday 22nd November 6 – 9 pm

Opening times: Wednesday – Saturday: 12pm – 6pm, Sunday: 12pm – 5pm

Folds is an exhibition curated by Chahine Fellahi, Gloria Bernal and Megan Garry-Evans featuring works of 13 international and UK based artists who have responded to the theme “folds.” The full line up will showcase a multimedia array of work which includes drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation and moving image.

Exhibiting artists: Nikki Alford, Andrea G Artz, Latifah Al-Said, Abbie Cairns, Kirsty Dixon, Luisa Maria Maccormack, Lina Laraki, Wiebke Leister, Freya Nash, Lisa Pettibone, May Rohrer, Ellen Sampson, Emily Scaife.

Folds are pleats of fabric, wrinkles in the skin or carefully folded strands of DNA in each of our cells. Folds are earthly or watery, creases in a landscape or ripples at the surface of the ocean. Folds bend straight lines, they provide texture to the smooth surface of appearance. Folds follow the curves of time, they testify to its passing and its opening to endless possibilities.

Using the notion of folds as a point of departure, this exhibition sets out to uncover the aesthetic, conceptual, ethical and sociopolitical implications of thinking through folds. Activating the interplay between surface and depth, inside and outside, exposure and concealment implicated in folds, this exhibition explores the multiple ways in which the concept can be mobilised as a tool to deconstruct binary oppositions. The diversity of the works presented in the exhibition reflect the various forms folds can take. These include bodily folds as seen in the visceral paintings of Freya Nash and sensual photography of May Rohrer, paper folds as presented in Andrea Artz’s installation and Wiebke Leister’s photo-collages, as well as folds of cloth as explored in the drawings of Luisa-Maria Maccormack and Lisa Pettibone’s kiln-formed glass sculpture.

The different interpretations of the theme will be deployed within the exhibition space, crystallising into an immersive topography. Resonances, echoes and dialogues will take place between the various perspectives provided by the artists, and folded within one another the works will form a dynamic ‘texturology.’

A series of events and activities will take place alongside the exhibition, including a drawing workshop organised in partnership with the London Drawing Group, a performance by Gen Doy and a reading group responding to the theme of the exhibition.

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Rain Wetting Thirst

15th – 17th November 2019

Luca Bosani, Jocelyn McGregor & Sheila Rennick
Curated by Séamus McCormack

15th – 17th November
PV: Thursday 14th November, 6-9pm

Rain Wetting Thirst, featuring artists Luca Bosani, Jocelyn McGregor & Sheila Rennick and curated by Séamus McCormack explores how taste, identities, aesthetics and class culture and made manifest through absurd images, fragmented forms and complex genders. It considers how disembodied bodies can be (re)presented, and how commodification through popular culture and particular contexts and stimuli can blur our individual sense of self. Caricature and satire are used by these artists to create conflicting identities, asking how sensations of desire and aversion can occupy the margins between intimacy, repulsion, fetish and fantasy. Various moments of awakening – erotic, alarming, frightening, arousing and liberating – question the fluid nature of identity. The three artists in the exhibition set up situations that aim to question how our desires, represented by fragrances, images, words and actions, might be satisfied but also remain unfulfilled, thirsty even.

Exhibition Events

Zine Making Workshop
Wednesday 13 November 6.30-9.30pm

Studio Novel designer Ashley Kinnard and artist Jocelyn McGregor will lead a zine-making workshop based on some of the themes in the exhibition with an introduction by curator Séamus McCormack. Materials and beers provided. Take home a free zine with you

To attend for free please book here

Private View
Thursday 14 November, 6-9pm. All welcome!

Join us for a drink to celebrate the opening of ‘Rain Wetting Thirst’, which will include a new performance developed by artist Luca Bosani and new works by Sheila Rennick and Jocelyn McGregor.

Artists’ Workshops
Friday 15 November 2-6pm

Experimenting with Performance: Rhythms is a participatory workshop led by artist Luca Bosani focusing on performance making and rhythm. Through the introduction to three primary elements – repetition, stillness and inconsistency – the participants are invited to experiment with different performance rhythms, in collaboration and individually.

Exhibition curator Séamus McCormack will lead an artist-led peer support workshop on ways of discussing and supporting practice. This participatory session consists of various exercises and will look at self-positioning, reflection and feedback on direction.

Aimed at emerging artists and students, it is advised that artists attend both sessions.

To attend for free please book here

Supported by:

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Artists’ and Curator’s Bio

Luca Bosani is an artist based in London. Solo exhibitions and performances include: ‘Too Early to Love You, Too Late to Kiss You’, Tate Britain, London, 2019; ‘Knaves of Radiance (paintings)’ Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall, London 2019; ‘Knaves of Radiance (Bolan edition)’, London, 2018; ‘Performing the unknown’, Hortensia gallery, KCC College, London, 2018. Group exhibitions include: ‘Singolar Tenzone II’, Kunstraum, London, 2019; ‘Score!’, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, 2019; ‘Singolar Tenzone’, OXO tower, London, 2018; ‘Knaves of Radiance (Bang Bang)’, Gallery 46, London, 2018; ‘Knaves of Radiance (The Bipotential stage)’, Subsidiary Projects, London, 2018; ‘Revolve Performance Art Festival’, Uppsala Konstmuseum, 2017; ‘Liberté d’action’, L’Amour, Paris, 2017; ‘Being alone together’, Crown Building, Liverpool, 2017. 

Jocelyn McGregor is a sculptor based in Cumbria. Recent exhibitions include: Bloomberg New Contemporaries touring South London Gallery and the Liverpool Biennale (2018-19); ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’, The Art Foundation (TAF), Athens, 2018; ‘Mei Yahn Yu’ Kaitak Centre, Hong Kong, 2018; and ‘Risky Attachments’, curated by Like A Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, 2018. Recent awards include the CVAN NW Artist Bursary 2019, finalist for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2019; The Lee Alexander McQueen: Sarabande Foundation Emerging Artist Award 2017; and the Diabolique Scholarship for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies (UK) in 2016. www.jocelynmcgregor.com

Sheila Rennick is an Irish artist based in London. Recent exhibitions include ‘Pretty Fleshy Pain Things’, with Amanda Doran at Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2019; ‘Paper Cuts’, curated by Kris Day; Saatchi Gallery, 2018; ‘GIFT’, APT Studios Deptford, 2018; ‘Mrs Pig and the Ketchup’, with Adam Hennessy, Josh Berry, Paul Branca, Pierre Poumet Bordeaux 2018; ‘The Marmite Painting Prize, Block 336, Brixton, 2016; ‘Sausage Fest’, with Jemma Egan, curated by Séamus McCormack, Art Box Dublin, 2016.  Awards include: Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, 2011; Marmite Prize for Painting Runner Up, 2011. Her work is in the collections of Office of Public Works Dublin and Country Bank, NYC.

Séamus McCormack is a curator based in London. Curated projects include: ‘Scaffold’, Bomb Factory; ‘Rain Wetting Thirst’, Lewisham ArtHouse; ‘Jealous Wall’, Luan Gallery, Athlone; ‘SausageFest’, ArtBox, Dublin; ‘Traces’, IMMA, Dublin; ‘Roadkill’, IMMA, Dublin. Séamus was co-curator of both ‘Mobile Encounters’ and ‘Primal Architecture’, IMMA, Dublin. He currently works with New Contemporaries and was previously at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). He has written on the work of a wide range of artists, including Haroon Mirza, Leonora Carrington, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Sharits, Jonas Lund, Ulla Wiggen, Christopher Williams, Janine Davidson, Elaine Leader and Jennifer Brady. www.seamusmccormack.com

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Library Music

6 – 10 November, Wed – Sun 12 – 6pm
Private View: Thursday November 7, 6 – 9pm

Mark Beldan, Robin Dixon, Sam Douglas, David Edmond, Mandy Hudson, Rhys Trussler, Ben Walker
Library music is an exhibition about time, memory and place. Seven painters explore aspects of suburban, edgeland and rural landscapes, wandering from faded modernity and future ruins to idyllic villages, from eerie landscapes and spectral houses to utopian visions, bringing together different ideas of folklore, the unknown, the weird, as well as hazily recollected cultural memories.
The landscapes depicted may be mundane, featureless or interchangeable, yet there is often an atmosphere of realised or implied unease or suspense. They can seem familiar, reassuring, yet also unsettling or eerie. The notion that the familiar, the everyday, could carry something that remains hidden or somehow becomes significant, lies at the heart of much of the work.
Alongside the external landscape paintings, on a more interior level, are works that depict sites of creativity and alchemy with views of surrounding woodland, children on listless afternoons stuck in a perpetually unsettling 1970s, and shadowy depopulated spaces inhabited only by flowers.
Although each painter uses a different visual language, their paintings share a sense of something having been discovered – images lost and found during the painting process, and a way of using paint that calls attention to the medium itself, and an understated, quiet atmosphere. The idea of simplicity is fundamentally important to the work featured, and it’s very much at the root of what makes still visual imagery so powerful.

Mark Beldan (born Toronto, lives and works in London) studied at Queen’s University at Kingson, Canada (BFA, 1999) and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (MA in Fine Art, 2002). His paintings have been exhibited at Guest Projects in London, Rye Creative Centre in East Sussex, and MOSTYN in Llandudno. In 2017 and 2018 he was an artist-in-residence at Artscape Gibraltar Point in Toronto. He also hosts the Skelf Podcast, a quarterly series of audio interviews with other artists.
David Edmond was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He lives and works in London. His paintings have been shown in many UK exhibitions including – the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019 (selected by Jock McFadyen) – Creekside Open 2019, London (selected by Sacha Craddock) – Studio 1.1 Group Show London, 2019 – New Art Projects London, Group Show, 2018 – Columbia Threadneedle Prize, London, 2018. His work was published in Michael Petry’s book ‘Nature Morte’ Thames and Hudson.
He attended the Turps Banana full-time painting programme between 2014 and 2016. He graduated from the Royal College of Art with a MPhil in Printed Textile Design in 1995 and ran his own design business selling designs internationally.

Robin Dixon lives and works in London. He has exhibited in the UK and internationally.
Exhibitions include: The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London 2019, John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2014; MK Calling, Group Show, Milton Keynes Gallery 2013; Luna Park, Lion & Lamb Gallery, London 2012; Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London 2007;He studied at Maidstone College of Art (KIAD).

Sam Douglas has exhibited widely since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2007. Recent exhibitions include Contemporary British painting at Yantai Museum, China, We are Building a new world, Studio 1.1, London, The Turning world at Charlie Smith London, and Transpositions at St. Petersburg Museum of Nonconformist art. Solo exhibitions include Wayfarer at Carslaw St. Lukes, London, Remnants at the Royal Hibernian Gallery, Dublin, New paintings at The Cross Gallery, Dublin, and the Corn exchange gallery, Edinburgh. Competitions include The East London painting prize, The Threadneedle prize, The RA Summer Exhibition.. Residencies include Sumburgh head Lighthouse, Shetland Rost, Lofoten, Norway, NKD Dale, Norway, NCCA, Kronstadt, Russia, CCA Andratx, Majorca, Pushkinskaya-10, St. Petersburg, Russia, Pedra Sina, Funchal, Madeira, Brigus artist in residence, Newfoundland, Canada, Cill Rialaig, co. Kerry, Ireland, The Curfew Tower, Cushendall, co. Antrim, Ireland, and Burren college of art, co.Clare.
Mandy Hudson lives and works in London. She studied at Maidstone College of Art and has exhibited in group exhibitions in the UK and internationally; These include The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019, Re-Assemble, Collyer Bristow Gallery, 2019, The Marmite Painting Prize 2016; MK Calling, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; Souvenirs, Fieldgate at Angus Hughes, London; One day, Gallery Corridor, Reykjavik. and the Contemporary Art Society’s ART futures 2007 held at Bloomberg SPACE, London.
Rhys Trussler is a graduate from the acclaimed Turps Banana Studio Painting Programme (2015-17) and has a B.A. (hons) in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art (1998-2001). Recent exhibitions include Turps Summer Show, Art Space Bermondsey, London (2017), Running With The Wolves 35Blumen, Kreffeld, Germany (2017) and Helical Swirl, Studio 180, London (2016). His work is influenced by his interest in horror films, vintage Sci Fi novels and the Western Occult Revival of the early 20th century.
Ben Walker was born in Cheshire and lives and works in Kent. He is a painter with an interest in English landscape, folk horror , Factory Records and a distinct era of British culture and TV programmes and films – 1970s and 80s educational programmes for schools, childrens’ tv programmes and public information films. He studied at Sheffield Hallam University and Wimbledon School of Art. He has exhibited widely, including at Transition Gallery and Charlie Smith London, and in the Marmite Prize, and in 2012 won the Jack Goldsmith Painting Prize. He studied on the Turps Correspondence Course 2018-19, and has had work selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019.

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Davinia-Ann Robinson PRESENCE

29th October – 3rd November 2019

PRESENCE takes the form of an exhibition and two day drop-in collaborative studio session held at Lewisham Arthouse. Women of Colour are invited into a restorative and discursive space to share their experiences of being rendered visible/invisible and present/absent. Participants will co-create artwork in response to the emotional impacts of these experiences by impressing parts of their bodies or written text onto pre-rolled beds of clay. Robinson aims to provide a supportive space for Women of Colour to explore, disrupt and reclaim ownership of their gendered and racialised bodies within adverse cultural, social and political terrains.

In the project space, Robinson is exhibiting some of the outcomes from the first iteration of the collaborative studio session, PRESENCE, held at the ICA, London, in September. The exhibition is open to all.

Davinia-Ann Robinson’s practice explores the cultural politics of emotions and their implications for Black Female bodies in colonial spaces. She also works in art education at the South London Gallery and is one quarter of the SLG’s Heritage Team as well as working as an Artist Facilitator for Bow Arts. Robinson is an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant recipient and a 2018/2019 artist in residence at the Florence Trust.

Workshop
Women of Colour are invited to join artist Davinia-Ann Robinson to co-create work in clay while exploring and sharing emotional and bodily experiences of navigating colonial and gendered spaces. No prior experience with clay required. Assistance and materials provided.

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Why do it together when you can do it alone?

Why do it together when you can do it alone?

10th – 19th October, 2019

Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way, SE14 6PD

Exhibition Hours:
Thursday 10th – Saturday 19th, 12:00 – 18:00 daily
Closed on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th

Opening Night:
Thursday 10th 18:00 – 21:00

An exhibition that showcases the work of 18 artists and photographers who have been exploring collective ways of working in relation to their own practice. It borrows its title from a talk given by David Morris (editor of Afterall) and Grace Samboh (Indonesia-based curator) during the spring 2019 After School programme.

The exhibition can be perceived as the organic output of all participating artists, workshop leaders and organisers, having gone through a process of collectivity, and asks how it has influenced their work and how they work.

Stepping in and out of photography, installation, sculpture, text and video, the works in the exhibition also engage with a wide range of personal and collective interests, from questions of romance, ageing and desire, to collective assembling and storytelling and the relationship between body and image.

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Open Discussion:
Getting there: the Highs and Lows of the Journey
Friday 18th 17:00 – 19:00 followed by drinks until 20:30
Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way, SE14 6PD
(Free but booking essential via here)

A discussion focussing on the process of self-initiating and organising, especially in the first few years after graduating. We ask how such endeavours can bring one’s practice further. But also what are the struggles and challenges that are often encountered and how have people been managing them?

In the spirit of being open about the lows as well as the highs, the discussion will welcome input from everyone in the room, to exchange tactics, share wisdoms and combat the often felt feeling of isolation when we embark on the creative journey.

Contributors include Effie Paleologou (artist and educator), Sunil Shah (artist, curator and writer), and Jack Lewdjaw & Karanjit Panesar (artists, co-directors of east bristol contemporary).

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Exhibiting Artists:
Bayryam Bayryamali, Laura Blight, Jacqueline Ennis Cole, Sarah-Jane Field, Lucas Gabellini-Fava, Rachel Glass, Pamela Gomez, Eva Louisa Jonas, Dawoon Kim, Michaela Lahat, Rowan Lear, Debbie Naylor, Joshua Phillips, Loreal Prystaj, Marie Smith, Marie Sutter, Christel Pilkaer Thomsen, Joanna Wierzbicka.

Workshop Leaders:
Alejandra Carles-Tolrá, Hal Silver (Josh Bilton, Una Hamilton Helle) and Hemera Collective (Fangfei Chen, Jaime Davis, Kay Watson)

Programme Organisers:
Yuxin Jiang (artist, co-founder of pic.london)
Rakesh Mohindra (artist, educator, co-founder of pic.london)
Beverley Carruthers (photographer, course director of BA Photography, London College of Communication)

After School – Collective Strategies is a public programme consisting of a series of talks and workshops, running from May to June 2019, and culminating in a public group presentation in the autumn. Participants of the workshops and the group show are selected via an an open call.

A collaborative effort between pic.london and London College of Communication (University of the Arts London), the programme explores collective ways of working both conceptually and in action, and considers them as strategies that can be helpful to any kind of art workers, especially for early stage practitioners who often struggle in the extremely challenging period after graduating.

Full details see here

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Hold my hand

Hold my hand

1st-6th October 2019

Lewisham Arthouse is happy to present an exhibition of Graduate award recipient’s Sola Olulode.
Hold My Hand is Sola Olulode’s second solo exhibition following a year-long residency at Lewisham Arthouse. Over the course of the year, Olulode has been exploring the colour yellow – shifting away from blue as the dominant colour in her works – for an exciting new series. It marks the beginning of a series focusing on romance: these paintings are intimate scenes of dating and courtship. The figurative works are a queer love story following the ‘honeymoon period’ of a couple. Yellow becomes representative of the joy of falling in love, drawing from passionate love songs, music videos and film. This series comes from a dreamer’s desire for love to not be shrouded in politics, the figures living in their own bubble of sunshine. Fully embracing mixed media, the story is told using oil, acrylic, wax, oil bars, charcoal, oil pastels and ink.

1st-6th October 2019
12-6pm
Private view: 1st October 2019 6-9pm.

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham way
SE14 6PD
The exhibition is wheelchair accessible, if you have any other accessibility issue, please contact info@lewishamarthouse.org.uk.

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And in me too the wave rises

And in me too the wave rises

20th-28th September 2019

And in me too the wave rises investigates materiality in an attempt to expand notions of space, time, process and participation. The work identifies with touch and notions of ‘being in touch’ as vital to how we de-centre the locus of self in order to face our problematic relations with each other and with our planet. The works on show explore ideas around the nature of membranes, inner and outer-ness, states of emerging and disintegrating and the narrative of presence – offering a space in which materials become unstable and are subject to rupture and change.

Exhibiting Artists:
Emma Bang
Ella Balenky
Jasmine Pajdak
Chen Winner

Performances by:
Demelza Toy
Galit Criden

Dates and opening hours
Private View: 19 September 2019 6pm-9pm
Exhibition Dates: 20th – 28th September 12pm-6pm
(exhibition closed on 23rd and 24th September 2019)

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
SE15 3BJ
London

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Flock project

Flock Project
4th-15th September 2019

Flock Project is an installation of over 200 ceramic birds created by artist Julie Nelson and with people who have overcome adversity and are recovering from trauma. The birds represent the challenging individual migration journeys their makers have experienced as refugees and asylum seekers.

Birds are a metaphor for transcendence, connection and the universal need to congregate. With social prescribing now placed high on the political agenda, Flock Project serves as a positive response to current issues around mental health and recovery, encouraging group participation.

The exhibition at Lewisham Arthouse is the result of workshops held over a number of months, working with group members of the Grounding project, supported by the Maudsley Charity and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM). The project has offered an opportunity for creative expression and participation that also serves to inform the wider public about the subject of migration.

The workshops were assessed in collaboration with academics from UCL, and funded by a Grand Challenges grant to assess the wellbeing of Julie’s art workshops on those taking part.

The exhibition at Lewisham Art House will be the first time that Flock Project will have been shown altogether with birds by Julie, group members, the general public and other participating artists.

Focusing on birds as a subject for the installation has enabled the participants to express themselves in a subject that is ever present even in the city. The project has helped to connect participants with the environment, increase awareness of birds and the sometimes difficult journeys they make and to help us to engage with them.

Rita* is one of the group members who regularly attends The Grounding Project, and has been taking part in Flock. She suffers from arthritis, and enjoys working with the clay as it helped her to move her fingers. She spent a lot of time moulding out her bird and later she shared: “Playing with this clay takes me back to my childhood in Africa when we used to pull clay from the rocks and make pots and plates. It was a fun time.”
Daris* has a great interest in birds, having kept homing pigeons back in his country: “I used to have many of these as pets and I know how intelligent they are. I am really enjoying learning more about birds and working with the clay”.

Dr Humera Iqbal is a Lecturer in Psychology at University College London, and has been coordinating the research side of the project. She says: “Working on Flock with group members has been an incredibly fulfilling experience. We know from research that participating in cultural activities can help improve wellbeing and combat loneliness in individuals. It has been great to witness first-hand the healing power of clay. Our ceramic birds stand for a shared community and a sense of resilience; they have been able to battle the odds just like their makers.”

Julie Nelson comments: “The workshop has been a focus for people to think about the metaphor of birds and to engage with nature and the environment. We also encourage shared production so that a clay pinched head may attach to a press moulded body created by someone else in the group. Everyone has been very happy to collaborate and join in. The focus and concentration has been amazing. One interesting result of the project has been the diverse styles and forms of birds that have been made. When I’ve researched birds from Ethiopia, Syria and Iraq, for example, I can see where the inspiration comes from. I think that having a common goal of the exhibition has really helped.”

We will be holding a talk event on Thursday 12th September from 6.30-8pm at Lewisham Arthouse. Please join us for drinks and meet those involved.
Speakers include Dr Humera Iqbal, lecturer in Psychology at UCL, Dr Gemma Eke, Clinical Psychologist at the Maudesley, Helen Shearn Art and Wellbeing Strategist and artist Julie Nelson. We will also have involvement from members of the Grounding Project who will talk about their experiences.

www.flockproject.co.uk

Opening times:
Wednesday to Sunday 12-6pm

Lewisham Art House
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6PD

*Names have been changed to protect the anonymity of the participants.

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We each have our own landscape

We each have our own landscape

24th-28th July 2019

We Each Have Our Own Landscape reflects a personal element in landscape.
Each artist explores a sense of place as a metaphor for the exploration of the psyche.
Hypnotic waves that peak and fall in a repeating visual mantra, horizons that speak of
a future… almost fictional, landscape employed as a stage, nature anthropomorphised.

The title of this show references the idea of locating one’s self both within a present,
remembered or imagined landscape and also the emotional landscape we each inhabit.
We are primed by Romanticism; offering landscape as an opportunity to create a context
for oneself; it is at once a place and a visual representation of an emotional state.

Building on this romantic tradition of the sublime, there is an established trajectory
that considers the mind-scape. Kant established the idea that the connection
between nature and man, is man’s imagination. Landscape offers an orthodoxy
that is familiar, that instantly brings the viewer into the understanding that they
are participating in the work. The viewer summons a philosophical convention to the
reading of the work.

However living in the Anthropocene age we humans require too much of nature… we
imbue landscape with an artifice that it clearly can not support. Therefore we are all on
the verge of processing a shift in our relationship with nature.

For more information about the artists, please visit:
www.rebeccabradleyartist.com
www.emmacoop.com
www.louisamahony.com

24th—28th July 12—6pm
Private view: Wednesday 24th July 6—9pm

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
SE15 3BJ
London

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Departure Lounge

Departure lounge

18th – 21st July 2019

Location, landscape and setting can be experienced by the artist through observation, memory and imagination. There is an indelible connection between time and place, which the act of painting and drawing can attempt to access and interpret. During the making process distortions occur as the artist responds to the layering of paint, marks and colour. Place and image start to transform as they are remembered or imagined in the studio, inspired by notes, photos or studies drawn in a sketchbook. Departure Lounge explores the concept of place and environment through painting, print and drawing. Each artist responds to this theme differently, both in terms of their subject matter and artistic process.

Charlie Reed attempts to capture a specific moment, recording and documenting the changing topography of London. He explores the relationship between the cyclical natural world and the expanding and shifting environment of the city – focusing on London’s waterways. The flowing water of a river is a constant in the ever-changing environment it dissects.

Anthony Banks uses paint as both a means of encryption and description; camouflaging or disrupting his subjects, allowing them to hide in plain sight. Often using symbols of modernity or industrialisation as allegory, he plays with their assertions, displacing or reimagining these archetypes to create discordance. His paintings are deliberately slow in their production. During the gradual making process the façade of the painting becomes worn, imbued with a tangible history, a geological layering of paint.

For George Little, the idea of place and environment is examined through a research-based studio practice, looking at the interrelationship between Modernism and sites of eating and drinking. He explores how the archetypes and aesthetics within the dining experience collate with those of modernist ideals.

The three artists met whilst studying Fine Art Painting at Brighton University between 2007 and 2010 and have since studied at the Royal Drawing School and the Royal College of Art. Although they each use a different visual language, their paintings share certain aesthetic qualities. Departure Lounge creates a dialogue between the three artistic processes and explores how each painter has developed since working in close proximity ten years ago.

Instagram
@charliereedart
@themerchantbanker
@george_little_studio

18 – 21 July 2019
Open 12-6pm Thur, Fri, Sat
Open 12-4pm Sun
Private View Thursday 18 July, 6-9pm

Lewisham Arthouse,
140 Lewisham Way,
London, SE14 6PD

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An Art of Distance

‘Disrupting the Visual - An Art of Distance

5th-13rd July 2019

The Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London, are proud to present ‘Disrupting the Visual – An Art of Distance’ a degree show of multimodal experiments in visual anthropology. It explores the fluid boundary between art and anthropology and the importance of distance to perception. We understand distance as both proximity and as the abstracted space between ‘’anthropologists’’ and participants or ideas. Students’ topics traverse and engage with borders, the mobility of objects, and intimate lives, deploying distance to disrupt assumptions about near and far.

The image is a still of a video work by Pepe Bingham-Hall, The video is called “Drag it Out”

Show opens: 5th-13rd July 2019
weds-sun 12-6pm
saturday 13th 12-3pm
PV: 5th July 6-9pm

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
SE15 3BJ
London

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Render permanent

Render Permanent

14th-23rd June 2019

Translating objects and experiences through physical intervention, three artists question the limits and promises of permanence.

Legibility is challenged as boundaries and mediums are blurred. Time becomes malleable in their hands, their artworks acting as physical and temporal punctuation.

Zanny Mellor uses painting and photography to address themes of speed, light and time, in a sensory exploration of place.

Kasper Pincis plays with the contradictions inherent in trying to produce original pieces of work on copying equipment, and inhabiting a space somewhere between the heroic and the mundane.

Nick Scammell examines the frailty and impermanence of media, via surface and word.

Generating extended instants through repeated combinations and interventions, each artist adapts ageing technology to new ends.

Render Permanent
Friday 14th June – Sunday 23rd June 2019
PV Thursday 13th June 2019
Opening hours: Fri-Sun 12-6pm

zannymellor.com
kasperpincis.com
nickscammell.com

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Pears

Pears

May 31st – 8th June 2019

Like catching snippets of other people’s conversations in a crowded bar Pears is an exhibition made up of fractured dialogues. Each exhibiting member of the Arthouse cooperative has invited a guest artist to show alongside them. Each pair of works will be hung side by side, encouraging a dialogue between them and hopefully allowing new conversations to form across the room.

This is a group show with the emphasis on looking outward, an open and expanding conversation. By focusing on the connections between different artworks and artists we hope to promote the creative networks that underpin our community and emphasise the role of the Arthouse as a resource for bringing people together.
Dates: May 31st – 8th June 2019
Opening times: Wednesday – Sunday 12-6pm
Private view: Friday 7th June 7-9pm
Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6PD

Pear drawings by Sophie Chapman

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The sherbet house

The Sherbet House

May 15th-26th 2019

The Sherbet House originated in the kitchens of Ottoman palaces and is depicted in a Topkapi manuscript as a kiosk of concoctions being wheeled against a background of bands of intense colour. As an institution it travelled and eventually morphed into the London coffee-house, becoming less refined and more alcoholic as it went, but it remained synonymous with a refuge from the mundane with its richly-patterned textiles, multicoloured glass and nowadays, flashes of neon. Assimilating influences ancient and modern, from Havana to the Euphrates, Jennifer Harding and Stephen Jaques make paintings, constructions and prints which sublimate pattern and transcend the exotic, creating emblematic images of visual vibrancy.

Dates: May 15th – 26th 2019
Opening times: Wednesday – Sunday 12-6
Private view: Thursday, May 16th 6-9

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6PD

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Life & Beyond

Life & Beyond

May 8th-12th 2019

Private View: Tue, 7 May 6-9 PM

A group exhibition by Rachel McRae and Sarah Derat, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Stine Deja and Kristina Pulejkova.

Life and Beyond brings together artists whose work explores aspects of human/non-human life, death, emergence and loss through technology and digital culture.

Through film, interactive installation and sculpture, the exhibition and programme will be looking at how technology is shaping our perceptions of life and death. With the fast development of AI, our growing social media presence and the fast-paced progress made in bio technology, new, hybrid forms of existence make part of our daily lives.

Our troubled relationship with social media and big companies which own our data gets more complicated when we die, as we carry on living as digital ghosts online. With Artificial Intelligence, we are seeing a rise of ‘deepfakes’ (fake videos created using this technology). We are thinking weather AI will lead towards a new evolution of life. The food we consume is genetically modified, and a baby’s DNA in China has been edited, sparking ethical and moral concerns.

Life and Beyond will aim to dissect our relationship with these issues, looking at how human, non-human and extra-terrestrial life and consciousness are defined in an increasingly fluid world mediated through technology. The show will invite audiences to discuss the ethical and moral implications of these new-found states.

Life and Beyond is curated by Kristina Pulejkova.

You can download Digital&Dead, an AR application (Android) by artists Rachel McRae and Sarah Derat ahead of the exhibition here:

Event: Emergence
Friday, 10 May 6:30 – 8:30 PM.
You can book your tickets (donation) here.

An evening of artists’ film exploring the emergence of new lifeforms, ways of communication and ideas in the digital age.
Join for a screening of recent and new films by artists Jeremy Hutchison, Rowena Harris, Hazel Brill, Stine Deja, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Natalia Skobeeva, Milo Creese, Camille Barton, David Blandy, and Kristina Pulejkova.

Opening times
Wed – Sat 12-6 PM
Sun – 12 – 2 PM
Private View: Tue, 7 May 6-9 PM

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6PD

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by the way

by the way

14–24 March 2019

by the way

The group of seven artists (Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Tom Banks, Joost Gerritsen, Sam Hodge, Mark Sowden, Matthew Swift and Ana Vicente) and one writer (Mike Sims) showing at Lewisham Arthouse in March all make work that emerges from an engagement with the landscapes they inhabit and move through.

Often this engagement begins with an unexpected encounter that demands attention. It may be the sight of a single lit window in a darkened cul de sac, a gnarled piece of wood that assumes the shape of a figure, an abandoned frame that demands to be given a new life or a discarded piece of plastic that will be given the close attention of a precious stone.
These incidental encounters and others like them have opened up new ways of working for the artists showing together in by the way. Through the diverse media of photography, performance, poetry, sculpture, printmaking and painting they have shaped and grown work out of these encounters.

We use the phrase ‘by the way’ when we want to introduce a new topic, something we have just thought of but needs to be said. We may not be quite sure of its importance but will share it anyway. It is this spirit of the incidental, tangential, happened upon, and the new that informs the working practices of the artists in this show and gives energy to the group.

by the way is part of an ongoing project called Things That Are There.

14 – 24 March 2019
Private View 14 March 6-9pm
Closing Event 24 March 2pm
Open Thur-Sat 12-6, Sun 12-4

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6PD

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The rage room

Rage Room

26th-31st March 2019

THE RAGE ROOM is a week-long performance experiment to build, surrender and conquer the
rage within.

It was amidst the indomitable landscapes of Iceland that writer-performer Danielle Stagg began
her critical exploration of the Medea legend. Stark and powerful, the terrain forced Stagg to
question how nature can impact on the human experience – and vice versa.
Traditional approaches to the Medea story place revenge at its heart, but for Stagg, this wasn’t
enough. Upon returning to London she paired with fellow performer Laura Hopwood to begin
examining Medea’s inner world. This March, the duo, Holocene will present the most recent
iteration of this ongoing research, The Rage Room , at Lewisham Art House.
“Utilising this 3000 year-old narrative as a lens, we are exploring how one woman’s perceived
sense of injustice lead to the unveiling of her true power,” explains Hopwood. “Destructive as it
was, we propose it came from a deeper place than a mere spiteful response from ‘a woman
scorned’”.
“Ultimately, we are interested in exploring where the experience of rage comes from and how it
manifests in the world- especially for women,” adds Stagg. “The Medea we know was written,
performed and consumed exclusively by men in a deeply patriarchal society. This is what we
want to unpack and this is what The Rage Room is – a deconstruction of anger”.
In Holocene’s work, rage, much like the rocky plains of Iceland, bristles as a cold, raw thing,
rather than a momentary explosion.

The Rage Room is a week long presentation of ideas that invites visitors to explore their own
relationship to rage. The performers are in the space for the duration of the exhibition to
continue their exploration and facilitate the journey of others.

The Rage Room,
Tuesday 26th – Sunday 31st of March, 12-6pm everyday.
Late opening on Friday the 29th, 6-9pm.

Danielle Stagg – IG @helloholocene
Laura Hopwood – www.laurahopwood.com

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6PD

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Dark Night of the Soul

Dark night of the soul

22 February – 2 March 2019

Private view 21 February 6-9 pm

Featuring: Charlotte Edey, Emma Talbot and Gosia Walton curated by Martha May Ronson

A group exhibition of works by three female artists exploring themes surrounding the spiritual awakening process. The title of the exhibition Dark Night of the Soul refers to a poem written in the 16th century by mystic and poet, St John of the Cross. The poem describes the several stages one goes through during spiritual enlightenment: realisation, purgation, contemplation, ascension, and the feelings and emotions that arise along the journey.

Opening times
22 February – 2 March 2019
Wednesday 12-6pm
Thursday 12-6pm
Friday 12-6pm
Saturday 12-6pm

Proudly sponsored by Brockley Brewery

Lewisham Arthouse,
140 Lewisham Way,
London SE14 6PD.

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Worlds Apart

Words apart

30th Jan-10th Feb 2019.

JAMSHAC artists’ collective presents:
　
Worlds Apart
　
Lewisham Arthouse’s latest show, Worlds Apart, may make you smile in the face of chaos, catastrophe and midwinter gloom.
　
In a gallery packed with innovative new work, ten members of JAMSHAC offer a collection of installations, textiles and paintings that explore a range of contemporary themes, concerns and passions.
　
Critiques of the ever-strengthening powers that be, utopia/dystopia, as well as reflections on the challenges facing our ecosystems – sit alongside a love of nature and a 21st century take on Rossetti. All these topics are explored in wry, quirky and thought -provoking ways.

It’s a show that definitely offers a different spin on the world today.

Weds 30th Jan – Sun 10th Feb 2019.
12-6pm
Private View: Thurs 31st Jan, 6-9pm.

Lewisham Arthouse,
140 Lewisham Way,
London SE14 6PD.

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A Thousand Configurations

25th-28th January 2019

Echoing Walter Benjamin’s vision of existential possibilities within urban utopias, ‘A Thousand Configurations’ presents the beginnings of a barely envisaged creative formation and the final conclusion of fully realised works. At Lewisham Arthouse, four current students from the MA Drawing course at Wimbledon College of Arts will display new work that considers “what will have been wanted”, monumentalizing the notions of memory and emotional experience, archaeological traces and fleeting biological imprints. Diverse in the content and processes of their respective practices, Silvia de Giorgi, Lucy George, Hannah Gormley and Denise Poote each grapple with notions of process, possibility and memory whether archaeological, biological or experiential.

ARTIST INFO:

SILVIA DE GIORGI
Silvia De Giorgi’s drawing practice explores the relationship between landscapes and memory. Her photographic works often reflect on her personal connection to the natural surroundings of her home region in the Italian Alps, and the memories associated with it. Her strong interest in landscape, archaeology and prehistoric art recently led her to a research trip to rock art sites in Norway and Sweden. Returning to the UK, Silvia created a series of monumental drawings that reflect her onsite collaborations with archaeologists as they worked to conserve ancient artefacts.

LUCY GEORGE
Increasingly concerned by the environmental impact of humans on wildlife, Lucy George uses 2D and 3D line drawings to map how insect behaviour can convey visual information about the decrease in the population of pollinators. Using Ethiopian book binding techniques, she has been working to create a sacred book of the pollinators and, drawing on knotting skills acquired as a climber, she creates welded 3D installations that map the flight paths of bees and other pollinators.

HANNAH GORMLEY
Hannah Gormley’s drawings combine self-portraiture and portraits which challenge and consider the concept of ‘confessional art’. Using coloured pencils, these works focus on the intentional revelation of the private self, revealing specific and often unseen moments of fraught emotional experience embodied within the nude form. By positioning these bodies within hidden domestic interiors, Gormley permits a voyeuristic view into environments’ that questions the extent to which artworks created in this way claim an emotional veracity for the content as a defining feature—regardless of whether or not these ‘confessions’ are constructed or performative.

DENISE POOTE
Denise Poote examines how the embodied experience of drawing relates to the artefact or residue produced in the action/performance of drawing. Her aim is to better understand how the experience of drawing creates a form of shared knowledge with between the maker and her audience. Combining an eclectic mix of printmaking, DIY robotics and video, Denise’s practice attempts to understand the complexities of experience involved in both the making and viewing of art.

Lewisham Arthouse,
140 Lewisham Way,
 London SE14 6PD
Private View: Thursday 24th January 2019, 6-9pm
Opening Times: Thursday 24th January to Saturday 27th January 2019, 12pm-6pm
Sunday 28th January 12pm-4pm.

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Raiders of the lost art

Raiders of the lost art

6th-9th December 2018

A group of Camberwell College of Arts graduates including: Savannah Grieve, Alia Hamaoui, Simon Handy, Lowri Heckler, Isabel Mills and Gwenllian Spink, have come together to show a collection of new works. These artists share an interest in functions, mechanisms, lost history and cultural appropriation, which collectively creates the feeling a navigating through an ancient tomb.

Savannah Grieve (b. 1996, London, UK) graduated from Camberwell College of Arts (2018). Recent group shows include ‘FLOCK 2018’ at GX gallery, London. Her current work reflects her time spent in Florence after being awarded the Cedric Morris Foundation Travel award. Grieve’s work has recently been acquired by the UAL collection.

Alia Hamaoui (b.1996, Albi, France) graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2018. She was recently awarded a residency and solo show at Peckham Artist Run. Recent group exhibitions include, ‘Extended Call’ at Subsidiary Projects and ‘The World Tour Inauguration’ at Fivehundredthousand Gallery, Art Licks Weekend. Hamaoui’s work has been acquired by the UAL collection. Her work is currently on show at Hannah Barry Gallery.

Simon Handy (b.1996, Gloucestershire, UK) is a Painting graduate from Camberwell College of Arts. Recent exhibitions include the ‘Orbit UK Graduate Show’ where Simon was selected to exhibit his robotic sculptures at the OXO Tower, Southbank; and ‘Act Natural’, a group exhibition at APT Gallery. In 2017 Simon was awarded the Mead Scholarship which aided the development of his technical practice.

Lowri Heckler (b. 1996, Carmarthen, Wales) is a recent graduate of Camberwell College of Arts (2018). Her work is focused on re-configuring an objects original function and its design. This is achieved by unpicking and re- building the object until it takes on a new form. Heckler’s recently exhibited in a group show at the Flying Dutchman, Camberwell.

Isabel Mills (b.1995, Brighton, UK), is a 2018 Camberwell College of Arts graduate. Group shows include ‘Act Natural’ at APT Gallery in London. Her latest work considers taste, materials and arbitrary objects as well as recent time spent in Vietnam and Japan.

Gwenllian Spink (b. 1996, Hong Kong) graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2018. Recent group shows include ‘Marginalia’, Leiepark, Ghent, ‘Xhibit’, Bermondsey Project Space, London, and ‘Act Natural’, APT Gallery, London. She recently won the Vanguard Court Studio Prize, and upcoming shows include the Elephant x Griffin Art Prize, London and UKYA City Takeover, Nottingham.

Lewisham Arthouse,
140 Lewisham Way,
London SE14 6PD
6th – 9th December 2018 open 12 – 6pm
Private view Wednesday
5th December 6-9pm

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This Instead of That

This Instead of That

28th November-2nd December 2018

This Instead of That

Alexandra Baraitser / Trevor Burgess
Julie Fountain / Olha Pryymak

Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way,
London SE14 6PD
28th November – 2nd December 2018 open 12 – 6pm
Private view Wednesday 28th November 6 – 9pm

This Instead of That is a show about artistic exchange – what happens to both representation and reality when artists get together to re-evaluate their ideas and influences through dialogue with one another. It looks at the processes and practices of artistic exchange, and focuses on the interchanges that are established when similar passions collide and how these are expressed in the tactile, haptic process of making physical artworks.

The mutual sharing of ideas about a portfolio of work that is not your own, is deeply rooted in fine art practice. Essentially this quid pro quo movement of critical exchange has been around for centuries. For example, Matisse immersed himself in the work of others, quoting imagery from his friends and contemporaries, even going into debt to buy work from those painters he admired, thereby sustaining an ongoing dialogue with their work. Discussion about the work of colleagues and contemporaries remains a central strand in fine art training, and is often sustained beyond the confines of art school through informal networks, collaborations, social art practices, shared studios, and other innovative modes of exchange.

For the creation of this exhibition, the artists involved paired up, presenting each other with ideas or questions about the other’s work, the response to which was then commissioned for the exhibition.

It is easy, in a world so dominated by the visual, to customize new ideas to fit what we already know. However, like Matisse, the contemporary artist will make a conversion of an idea that has the transformative effect of changing its core meaning. The artists here have shown how embracing new ideas from other artists about their own work can divert work in a new direction, transforming artistic development and allowing for extended collective discussion and understanding.

Curated by Alexandra Baraitser. For more information contact alex@alexandrab.org.uk

Film links:
See a This Instead of That film documenting Olha Pryymak and Julie Fountain’s collaboration here.
Watch Julie Fountain’s films including In Between here.

Artists:
Alexandra Baraitser www.alexandrab.org.uk Instagram: @abaraitser
Trevor Burgess www.trevorburgess.co.uk Instagram: @trevorburgesspaintings
Olha Pryymak http://opryymak.com/ Instagram: @olha_pryymak
Julie Fountain http://julie-fountain.squarespace.com/ Instagram @jf101_art

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Syntax error

syntax error

21st-25th November 2018

syntax error
Merav Shinn Ben-Alon, Stefanie Gerstmayr, Byungchan Kim, Rolf-Maria Krückels, Matthias Pabsch, Louisa Stylianidi

Curated by Katie Yook, Stefanie Gerstmayr, and Rolf-Maria Krückels

PRIVATE VIEW + PUBLICATION LAUNCH: 20 November, 6-9pm
CLOSING EVENT WITH WORKSHOP, READINGS, PERFORMANCES: 24 November, 2-8pm
EXHIBITION HOURS: 21-25 November, 12-6pm

syntax error offers a space for experimenting with forms of communication. Through acts of speaking, translating, interpreting, and dialoguing, the artists share an interest in the transformativity of communication and how mistranslation can yield rifts in perception.

When attempting to render the unrenderable into words or images, meaning gets lost in white noise in a process that adds, alters or interprets the message. The abstraction of language and meta-codes attempt to show that which cannot find words.

The exhibition considers communication as a mechanism that is constantly reinventing itself. Given contemporary discussions around the influence of media, cultural appropriation and digital mediation, is it possible to create actual contact with the unknown? Are we still able to deal with doubt and are we patient enough to discover things not easily consumable?

Saturday, 24 November, 2-4pm
WORKSHOP: Merav Shinn Ben-Alon, “Drawing Stories and Telling Drawings”

This workshop is neither a writing workshop nor a drawing workshop; it is rather an exercise that is based on shifts between mediums—some writing exercises and some drawing exercises. The shift from drawing to writing bewilders the brain, which alternates from the right side to the left side, compelling an act of translation that generates an “error”.

The workshop is designated for artists from different disciplines, but can also be suitable for people who have no drawing or writing experience or people who have experience with other forms of media. The participants are requested to bring a notebook or a sketchbook and writing and drawing utensils.

Merav Shinn Ben-Alon is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Tel-Aviv with 25 years of experience teaching in art institutions and private programs. She works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, writing and installation.

Please email Katie at kyook001@gold.ac.uk to sign up.

Saturday, 24 November, 5-8pm
READINGS: Louisa Stylianidi and Alexa Barrett
PERFORMANCE:Rolf-Maria Krückels, “Drawing Machine London”

In line with the Greek definition of machine, Drawing Machine does not produce drawings autonomously. Instead, Drawing Machine becomes activated by two or more participants, creating a form of direct communication without words. The process creates a situation of vulnerability and contact in which people generate an image together which is not a representation, but rather a poetic manifestation of their encounter. Drawing Machine has travelled through Europe, Thailand and Israel and is premiering in London at Lewisham Arthouse on the occasion of syntax error.

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As__: travelling in the armchair

As_ travelling

25th-28th October 2018

Xueyu Liu
As__: Travelling in the armchair
25th October- 28th October
Private view 25th October 6-10pm.
Lewisham Arthouse,
140 Lewisham Way,
London SE14 6PD

Xueyu Liu, born in China, graduated from the University of Arts London, Chelsea College of
Arts, MA fine art. Through the lens of her unique visual logic, Xueyu Liu’s works provide us
new narratives to view the relation between everyday objects and the space of its
surrounding. By dissembling the objects and deconstructing the original purpose, she
creates a resonance between spatial perception and the subjective reconstruction with a
poetic sense. A sensuous narrative was formed by the loss of functionality and the found an
ineffable familiarity, which aims to bring the viewers to a surreal wonderland.

www.xueyuliu.com

This exhibition is the third part of:
As__: Rolling Exhibition of Asian Artists
Hao-Chun Hsieh, Ting Hsu, Xueyu Liu
Curated by Ruby Lau

As__: Rolling Exhibition of Asian Artists is a three-week exhibition that includes three Asian
artists’ solo show individually yet collectively. Through the lens of their artistic practices, this
exhibition aims to offer the viewers a multi-version of perceptual experience and the
cognition of self-identity in relation to the perception of the space in the context of living in a
foreign land.

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As __: shole

As__ Shole

11th-14th October 2018

Hao-Chun Hsieh
As__: Shole

11th October- 14th October
Private view: 11th October 6-10pm
Lewisham Arthouse,
140 Lewisham Way,
London SE14 6PD

Hao Chun Hsieh, born in Taiwan,1992. After graduated from Tunghai University, Fine art
department in 2015, he went to the University of Arts London, Chelsea College of Arts for
further study, and finished his master degree of fine art this year. Hsieh’s practices mostly
focus on the society and religion. By using drawing, videos and sounds, his works aim to
dialogue with the audience and explore the spiritual world of individuals and communities.
With a series of works looking at self-identity and self-exploration, A Peaceful Century
(2018) presents a religious environment that looks at the artist’s emotional conclusion
toward his two years of life in London. Hsieh transfers his thinking about the religion into
three basic elements: industry, nature and the symbol, which aims to invite the viewers
to his prayer room and learn about self-acceptance irreligiously.

www.hsiehandy.com

This exhibition is the first part of:
As__: Rolling Exhibition of Asian Artists
Hao-Chun Hsieh, Ting Hsu, Xueyu Liu
Curated by Ruby Lau

As__: Rolling Exhibition of Asian Artists is a three-week exhibition that includes three Asian
artists’ solo show individually yet collectively. Through the lens of their artistic practices, this
exhibition aims to offer the viewers a multi-version of perceptual experience and the
cognition of self-identity in relation to the perception of the space in the context of living in a
foreign land.

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As__: the blink of an eye

As_ blink

18th-21st October 2018

Ting Hsu
As__: The blink of an eye

18th October- 21st October
Private view: 18th October 6-10pm
Lewisham Arthouse,
140 Lewisham Way,
London SE14 6PD

Ting Hsu, born in Taiwan,1993. Recently graduated from the University of Arts London,
Chelsea College of Arts and honoured with a fine art master degree.
“What did you see when you blink? You don’t know because it happened too quickly. Maybe
it was a negative image, maybe you were dreaming.”
—- Robert Wilson
Deeply believe in photography is a continuous life experience, Hsu’s practices concentrate
on the relation of time, space and existence. Her ways of seeing photography is no longer a
conclusion or capitation of a single moment, but as the duration of perceiving, constructing
and deconstructing the light, space and time altogether.
www.hsutingstudio.com

This exhibition is the second part of:
As__: Rolling Exhibition of Asian Artists
Hao-Chun Hsieh, Ting Hsu, Xueyu Liu
Curated by Ruby Lau

As__: Rolling Exhibition of Asian Artists is a three-week exhibition that includes three Asian
artists’ solo show individually yet collectively. Through the lens of their artistic practices, this
exhibition aims to offer the viewers a multi-version of perceptual experience and the
cognition of self-identity in relation to the perception of the space in the context of living in a
foreign land.

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Ex Libris

ex-libris

22nd-30th September 2018

A group exhibition by members of Lewisham Arthouse, an artist led cooperative based in the old Deptford Library. Ex Libris looks to explore the local area both socially and geographically, our relationship to it and our context within it. This is an exhibition about varied histories and possible futures.

Alison Day
Anita Gwynn
Barry Cunningham
Fanny Aboulker
Fiona Smithers
Heather Steed
Joyce Jocelyne Saunders
Laura X Carle
Luigi Vanzan
Mark Nelson
Oliver Campbell
Raju Rage
Rosey Prince
Ruth Beale
Sara Willett
Sophie Chapman + Kerri Jefferis
Tom Hemming
Toby Rye
Victoria Smart

Opening: Sat 22 Sept 18:00 – 21:00

Opening weekend coincides with Open Studios Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd September 12:00 – 18:00.
With special performances and tours of the building.

Part of Deptford X and Open House London

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Make believe

Make believe

1st-9th September 2018

Make Believe

Saturday 1st September to Sunday 9th September 2018
Private view: Friday 31st August. 6 – 9pm
Opening Times: Weds – Sun, 12 – 6pm
@rothgill @clarkesville.art @lewishamarthouse www.lewishamarthouse.org.uk

Gill Roth and Andrew Clarke met at Maidstone College of Art in the 1980’s. They have lived in Lewisham for over 15 years, taking part in local Open Studios. This is their first joint exhibition.

Both Gill and Andrew make work that blurs the edge between abstraction and representation, where the observable world meets the environment of the imagination.

While drawing forms the core of Gill’s practice, Andrew’s figures emerge through a process of collaging and assemblage. Both work on paper in a way that embraces intuition, accident and play with recurring motifs hinting at inner bodily functions or states of mind.

Andrew makes collages and objects through the juxtaposition of drawings, prints and found material. By relinquishing elements of control and intentionality, new forms and ideas are allowed to emerge more freely. A line in one image continues into a line on another, overlapping shapes create unexpected negative space, a drawn mark reflects a found object. The figures and faces that emerge through these processes are often cut away from the rectangle in a way that ‘sculpturises’ the two-dimensional image and emphasizes the outside line. This has led to a move towards larger scale assemblages and three-dimensional work.

“As a printmaker I often prefer the bits that are left over in the process; the stencils, the plates and the happy accidents. It is often these unplanned images and objects that inform my next move.”

His use of cyanotype introduces the element of light through material that creates ‘X-rays’ of existing collages while also revealing previously unseen textural nuances. The process unifies the image into one colour shifting the focus from the original materials to line and form.

For Gill drawing is a starting point and an end in itself. She works on paper in a relatively large scale. There is nearly always a human presence in her work whether it’s the limbs of a life model or the limbs of a tree thrusting up into the sky.

“I often start with a ‘blind’ drawing. Not looking at what I’m drawing helps me not to think too much and often produces interesting accidents and an element of chaos.”

Gill is attracted to shapes that express movement or have an inner energy, vitality and surface tension. She uses and reuses organic shapes and universal motifs such heads, hands and feet. Tracing, flipping and repeating shapes in a process of organising and editing towards a finished piece.

Notes to editors
For more information and images please contact
Gill Roth on gillroth9@gmail.com
Andrew Clarke on clarkesville1@gmail.com

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One in four

One in four

14th-18th August 2018

From the 14th – 18th August, Lewisham Art House will be showcasing a joint exhibition by artists Laura Greenway and Carlie Simpkin, both recent graduates from University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. The show provides an intimate look into the lives of those affected by psychiatric disorders, and aims to start a much needed and essential conversation about mental illness. A staggering One in Four people suffer from a mental health problem in their lifetime, yet mental illness is still often regarded as a taboo subject that remains highly stigmatised – an issue that this unique and candid exhibition aims to tackle.

Performance based artist Laura Greenway, who was recently shortlisted for the Zealous Emerge Performance Prize, explores living life with severe OCD, anxiety and depression through a multidisciplinary approach to live art. Exploring themes including vulnerability, fragility and a pathological fear of intimacy, Greenway creates physical manifestations of her inner turmoil, utilising her body as tool of communication. Her work engages elements of movement and repetition combined with physical and mental endurance to produce thought provoking works that assist the viewer in understanding what life can be like for someone experiencing relentless mental breakdown.

Focusing on depression and anxiety, Carlie Simpkin, whose work has been exhibited across the UK, employs a variety of mediums to analyse life with mental illness. Often utilising a subtle, dark humour in her work, Simpkin’s clever use of metaphorical imagery creates an accessible and captivating look at the sombre subject. Through sophisticated juxtapositions, her work tackles the issues that surround living life with severe depression, immersing the viewer amongst a visual representation of her own daily struggles.

In addition to the displayed works, the show will also feature live art from Laura Greenway, with an exclusive performance taking place at the private view, which is to be held on the 14th August from 6-9pm. The exhibition is free to attend and most of the works on display will be for sale in order to raise money for mental health charity SANE, with 15% of all sales being donated to the organisation.

Raw, brave and sincere, the show endeavours to approach the subject of mental illness in new and distinct lights, allowing a glimpse into the life of two artists whose work revolves around first hand experience of devastating mental illness.

14th-18th August 2018
12-6pm

Private view
14th August 6-9pm

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6PD

@lewishamarthouse

www.lewishamarthouse.org.uk

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St. Nowhere

St. Nowhere

16th-29th July 2018

St. Nowhere gives us a space lost in time and purpose. It’s not important where these are located or if they are unidentified spaces. They are familiar and unfamiliar, between waking and reality.

With a playful pioneering spirit, these four artists’: Narbi Price, Rosey Prince, Rob Reed and Gill Rocca re-evaluate and repurpose the quiet humdrum of suburbia with the ingenuity and playfulness of explorers.

And their mission? To explore the common place, seek out the hidden havens and find a renewed meaning deep within.

Narbi Price
Rosey Prince
Rob Reed
Gill Rocca

Private View:
July 20, 6-9pm

Artists Panel Talk:
July 28, 7:30pm

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6PD

#stnowhere
@lewishamarthouse

www.lewishamarthouse.org.uk

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#thestudentbeings

#thestudentbeings

7th – 14th July 2018

#thestudentbeings

Community Digital Art From Eltham Hill School

Come and see the work of our young community digital artists. Featuring the meme posse from Eltham Hill School, Lewisham.

Celebrate with us on July 7th at a special opening event with live music, poetry, and art

Opening event:
Saturday 7th July 2018
3 – 8.30pm

Exhibition open:
7th – 14th July 2018
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12 – 6pm

Free entry
Step-free access

Lewisham Art House
140 Lewisham way
SE14 6PD

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Repetitive strain

Repetitive strain

23rd June- 3rd July 2018

Sometimes I’m looking down on it from above,

Other times it feels like I’m outside looking through a window, with nothing but my reflection separating me from the space on the inside.

Do you remember what I said earlier?

~~~

Lewisham Arthouse is delighted to present Repetitive Strain, a new body of work by Kate Fahey. The exhibition is her first solo presentation in the UK and embodies an exploration of her on going practice based PhD research completed while undertaking Lewisham Arthouse’s Graduate Residency Program.

Working across the boundaries of various mediums including moving-image, sound, stills, sculpture, and installation, her practice explores our relationship with images through contemporary screen-based perspectives: aerial, satellite and elevated (drone’s eye) views, particularly in the technological hard and soft wares of encounter. Focusing on imagery predominantly appropriated from YouTube, her multidisciplinary fine art practice engages with the surface and materiality of the aerial image employing metafictional and subjective approaches to their habitual modes of spectatorship online.

PV: Saturday the 23rd June 6 – 9pm.
Dates: 24th June and 27th June – 1st July. 12–6pm daily or by appointment.
Lewisham Art House
140 Lewisham way
SE14 6PD

www.katefahey.co.uk

The open call for the next Graduate Studio Award will be made public this coming July – offering recent graduates a fantastic, free opportunity to develop their practice in a 200ft studio based within our artist-led cooperative in South East London. Towards the end of the period the awardee will be supported to mark the occasion showcasing a project, event or exhibition of their choosing in the Arthouse Gallery in 2019. Sign up to our mailing list and follow Arthouse social media to receive updates!

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62 hands

62 hands

13th June- 17th June 2018

62 Hands

Wimbledon MA Painting interim show

Lewisham Art House Project Space
140 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6PD
Exhibition open: 13-17th June,
Wed – Sun 12-6pm
Private view: Wednesday 13 June 6-9pm

31 painters
62 hands
Works no larger than 12”
The work of these emerging artists centres on ideas as diverse as the myths, histories and politics of the North Caucuses; the overlooked spaces of the tourist trail; the anti-history paintings of modern India; the colonial histories of the British landscape garden; ruined industrial spaces and liminal wastelands; plant/human hybrids; anthropomorphism and fictional beasts; geology and alchemy; the erotic imagery of the Golden Lotus and the female protagonists of contemporary fairy tales.

Artists: Shuaa Alrasheidi, Emma Brassington, Daumants Brunins, Jack Candy-Kemp, Sirius Chan, Gabriel Chaim, Yue Chen, Sean Coates, Luísa De Castro, Maria Del Pino Cornejo, Nik Cross, Oliver Dorrell, Amy Gaudion, Sara Grisewood, Denise Harrison, Nimmi Hutnik, Emilie Lam, Pandora Layton, Jiaman Li, Nicholas MacNeill, Maria Mohonea, Kundan Mondal, Lorraine Monk, Maria Olivarria, Matteo Orlandi, Anna Pogudz, Ben Pollock, Junnan Wu, Renyan Xie, Xinlei Zhao, Xiaoyu Zhang

This is the third interim exhibition presented by MA Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts at the Lewisham Art House Project Space following ‘A Sharp Intake of Breath’ 2017 and ‘About Space’ 2016.

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Please also join us for an MA Painting open studio event at Wimbledon to coincide with the BA/MFA Degree show private view on Thursday 14th June 6-9pm.

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Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist

6th June- 10th June 2018

Zeitgeist

A photographic exhibition by Foundation degree and BA (HONS) Photography students from North Kent College and The University of Greenwich.

The forthcoming exhibition is the students degree show, showing their own themed projects they worked on as their Final Major Projects for their BA (Hons) Degree, reflecting on their own unique style within photography.

https://www.artrabbit.com/events/zeitgeist-uog-end-of-year-show-2018

https://www.facebook.com/events/2053546434901105/

6th-10th June 2018
6th-9th June 12-6pm
10th June 12-4pm
Private view 7th June 6-9pm

Lewisham Art House
140 Lewisham way
SE14 6PD

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Eyeball Pleasers

Eyeball Pleasers

26th May- 3rd June 2018

A scattergun of creative outputs from 45 disparate artists – Lewisham Arthouse presents Eyeball Pleasers an exhibition of recent works by our current studio members, showcasing the output of our artist led cooperative. Based in a grade 2 listed Carnegie Library we’re inviting people to come and see who we are and what we do.

26th May-3rd June 2018
Opening times
Wed-Sun
12-6pm
Private view
Sat 2nd June 6-9pm

Lewisham Art House
140 Lewisham way
SE14 6PD
Contact projectspace@lewishamarthouse.org.uk

This event is part of
Brockley max

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When you travel in time, leave nothing behind.

When you travel in time, leave nothing behind

10th-20th May 2018

When you travel in time, leave nothing behind.

Lewisham Arthouse
Thursday 10th May 6-9pm PV only (not open during the day)
Friday 11th – Sunday 13th May 12noon – 6pm
Tuesday 15th – Sunday 20th May 12noon – 6pm

When you travel in time, leave nothing behind is a collaborative show with three emerging female artist.
Anna Hillbom, Amba Sayal Bennett and Emma Papworth share a deep interest in exploring intrinsic qualities of material and shape, in order to bring out a possible mystic through poetic, tactile means and a personal definition of logics.
In sculpture, drawing and installation, an urgency to decipher and re-think signifiers of authority becomes evident. Gestures from ancient art, classical architecture, modern cityscape and archaeological founds are canalized and obscured in order to question ideas of body, agency, canonic history-writing and a linear sense of time.
The works of the exhibition act as a collaborative installation between the artists where the agency of each artist at times is blurred, at times visible, in an attempt to question the relation of object and agency in the gallery space as well as in a broader context of history writing.

Emma Papworth (1993) Lives and works in Berlin, DE
Amba Sayal Bennett (1991) Lives and Works in London, UK
Anna Hillbom (1983) Lives and works in Umeå, SE

Artist Bio

Emma Papaworth received her BFA (First Class) 2015 at The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University. She has recently exhibited at Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, The Griffin Gallery London, Cypher Space Berlin, ASC Gallery London, Bank Space Gallery, London. In 2015 she received The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize, Baltic 39, Newcastle.

Amba Sayal-Bennett is an artist and PhD in Art Practice & Learning at Goldsmiths. She received her BFA from Oxford
University in 2012 and her MA in The History of Art from The Courtauld Institute in 2013. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery London, Parallel Vienna and Untitled San Francisco.

Anna Hillbom received her BFA and BA Artistic Research from Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam 2011 and her MFA at Umeå Academy of Fine Art 2015. She has recently exhibited her work at Kunstlerhaus Turn and Taxis Bregenz, Bildmuseet Umeå, Galleri Andersson Sandström Stockholm, Cypher Space Berlin and CLB Berlin, Umeå Konsthall, Udstillingstedet Q Copenhagen and Konstfrämjandet Umeå.

Contact person: Anna Hillbom
ahillbom@gmail.com
+46 76- 275 30 93

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Spaces of making

Spaces of making

11th May 2018

Space of making project launch

The Fringe and Underground Music Group at Goldsmiths launches a pamphlet/printed edition series entitled Spaces of Making.

Based broadly on themes of physical, digital, social and conceptual/ideological space, the first run of pamphlets features contributions from artists and musicians Charles Hayward, Marlo Delara, Sharon Gal and Richard Phoenix.

The launch event for the pamphlet series, co-hosted by The Lumen Lake, will be held from 19.30 on 11 May in the Lewisham Arthouse. Contributors will present their pamphlets, and there will be live sets from Lizzy Laurance, Grey Sea Over A Cold Sky and Scrounge.

High quality Riso-print copies of the pamphlets will be available on the night.

Entry is £5, £3 concessions.

11th May 2018
19.30-22h
Lewisham Art house
140 Lewisham way
SE14 6PD

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Salt Castles

Salt Catsle

27th April-6th May 2018

SALT CASTLES
Billy Crosby, Thomas Greig and Rebecca Guez
Lewisham Arthouse
27 April – 6 May
Open Tuesday – Sunday, 12-6pm
Opening: Thursday 26 April, 6-9pm

This exhibition brings together each of the artists recent work and puts into dialogue the emphatic materiality and physicality of production, that surrounds their works. With an interest in labour and gesture, as well as object investigation, materials are bitten, squashed, cut, pressed, squeezed, moulded, painted and printed, creating highly charged and affective outcomes.

Billy Crosby (b.1992, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) is a recent graduate of Painting at Camberwell College of Arts (2016). His recent group shows include ‘Changelings’, The Flying Dutchman, London, ‘Solopreneur’, Kingsgate Workshops, London and ‘The Marmite Prize for Painting’, Block 336, London/Ireland, 2016. Crosby’s first solo exhibition ‘Props’ took place at Camberwell Space, London, in September 2017, after his year long studio residency at Vanguard Court Studios, London. At Lewisham Arthouse, Billy presents a selection of new polystyrene works. Billy Crosby has exhibited in the UK and in Europe.

Thomas Greig (b.1994, Surrey, UK) is a recent graduate of Painting at Camberwell College of Arts (2016). His recent group shows include ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, Baltic 39, Newcastle and Block 336, London and ‘Any, more?’, Limbo Limbo, London. His first solo exhibition ‘Possessions’ took place in the back of a van, London, November 2017. At Lewisham Art House Thomas presents underpants, socks and bananas. Thomas Greig has exhibited across the UK.

Rebecca Guez (b.1994, West Sussex, UK) is a recent graduate of Painting at Camberwell College of Arts (2016). Her recent group shows include ‘The Kiss or Poison Boyfriend or Jesus’ Blood’, Kingsgate Workshops, London and ‘Cha Cha Chaffinch’, Ridgeway Road, London. Rebecca’s first solo exhibition ‘Gardening’ took place at Thames Side Studios Gallery, July 2017, which exhibited her first largest scale work, a 9 metre long stretched canvas. (Large Garden Painting, 2017, Oil on canvas, 287 x 900cm). At Lewisham Arthouse, Rebecca is exhibiting new works from her studio. Rebecca Guez has exhibited in the UK and in Europe and is held in a number of private collections.

www.billycrosby.com
www.thomasgreig.uk
www.rebeccaguez.co.uk

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In the space of elsewhere

In the space of elsewhere

11th-22nd April 2018

In the Space of Elsewhere brings together work by Lu Mei and Sara Willett that responds to the phenomenology of space. The exhibition does not just examine space in terms of cartological location and fixity, but also refers to the realm of poetic space – spaces that exist internally, in memory and imagination. Both artists have also created site-specific work, which responds to the scale of the exhibition space and the neo-classical architecture of the building. The exhibition is accompanied by a soundscape by composer John Lunn.

Lu Mei was born in Henan, China, and divides her time between New York and Beijing. Having studied traditional Chinese ink painting and calligraphy, her practice now combines this artistic inheritance with her contemporary
perspective. Drawn to what she terms the “pyramid” structure of the subconscious, she describes her work is an act of “reaching for the sky”, illustrating the road that connects humans to the rest of the universe. In the Space of Elsewhere is the first time her work has been shown in the UK.

In 2016, Sara Willett spent six weeks as an artist in residence in Being 3 Gallery, situated in an industrial area in North East Beijing. The work she produced whilst there, and since, draws on her experience of the physical environment, most specifically the days when the ever-present pollution was most visible. She became interested in the quality of light at these times, the shapes created when the sun’s rays struggled to break through the smog, or at night when the air became a neon infused haze. She also reflects on the sense of ‘otherness’, experienced when navigating a part of the city where the sight of a westerner was unexpected and unusual.

Exhibition Opening Times:
Wed – Sun 12 – 6pm
11th – 22nd April
Private View
Fri 13 April 6.30 – 9.30pm

Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way, SE14 6PD
www.lewishamarthouse.org.uk

Transport: New Cross, New Cross Gate
or Brockley stations

For more information and images please
contact info@sarawillett.com

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Retrospective Fusion ii

Retrospective Fusion ii

28th March-8th April 2018

An exhibition of work by Ben Quail
I am an artist printmaker and I work and live in Waveney, Suffolk.
This show consists of varied, colourful, bold and characterful paintings on canvas and linoprints, screenprints, and etchings.
Included is a collection from ‘a fairly natural history alphabet’, a book of linocuts published in 2013.

The theme of this show is eclectic but focuses on flora and fauna, landscape, seascape, and the essential enhanced green corridor scen-aria?

A conversation on Conservation has always been my interest.

Where do we go from ‘ere?

Private view:
Wednesday 28th March 2018
6-9 pm

Exhibition open:
28th March – 8th April 2018
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm

Lewisham Art House
140 Lewisham way
SE14 6PD, London

Free entry
Step-free access

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Conspiracies

Conspiracies

20th-25th March 2018

Five contemporary artists conspire within the confines of London’s Lewisham Arthouse, negotiating an agreement with the space through five different modes of making. This work takes the form of drawing, installation, sculpture and painting, creating, without a doubt, a certain amount of friction between one another. Through this friction and perhaps, too, this idea of overlapping, comes a sense of necessity, prompting the work to stand for itself, gaining its own rights within the context of this show.

What we invest into a practice, what this means, and how this is retained, carried and displayed, contribute to a slightly larger question which has been asked of the artists involved: ‘What is true to you?’ Whether this notion of truth plays a part in our contract with the work, or if it is merely a stopping off point, or just a claim – is it important?

Aria Kiani – http://ariakiani.wixsite.com/artwork
David Fines – https://davidfines.co.uk/
Daniel Soares – https://www.danielsoares.art/
Henry Pucknell – http://henrypucknell.com/
William Cotterill – http://www.williamcotterill.co.uk/works/

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20th March – 25th March
12am – 5pm
Private view: Friday 23rd March
7-10pm
Lewisham Art House
140 Lewisham way
SE14 6PD, London

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I’m Not in Your Dream or Imagination

I'm not in your dream or imagination

8th-18th March 2018

The struggle to locate a self when the self is fractured or misrepresented forms the core of this exhibition. I’m Not in Your Dream or Imagination, a multi-media exhibition aims to explore the experiences and cultural presentations around how the East-Asian groups, especially those newcomers, struggling to redefine themselves after misread in the western societies.

Chao-tze Liu uses printing images of the wall from British Museum and transforms Lewisham Project Space into a ‘ready-made-museum’. In reflection, Ting-Ting Cheng’s video work Ten Thousand Chinese Things (2015), the Blue Willow pattern tells the story of how the imaginations of the West from the 18th Century has still been commonly considered as a representation of China until today. Alongside, Soljee Ahn uses installation work in a compelling scale to amplify the feeling of a ‘stranger’ as herself – how a foreigner gazed upon in societies full of hierarchy preconceptions and stereotypes.

The history of museum cannot avoid the relationship to the history of colonization. Modern museology prolongs the exhibition as showing artefacts from the other cultures, where the objects are defined and presented by experts under the authorization by institutions. While approaching the presentation under museology as a metaphor, the viewers are encouraged to rethink about history and archaeology under museum discourse. Partly, it is about where and how the objects to be presented. In the highlight of the power of display, there are existences of misplace and ignorance; similarly, minority groups are easily misinterpreted or misrepresented in a society. Through this exhibition, we aim to ask one more fundamental question: how can East-Asian, in relation to the other minority groups in London, own its agency to defend and define a self in a multi-cultural society under the shadow of dominant culture?

8th – 18th March 2018

Private view Thursday 8th March, 7-9pm
Lewisham Arthouse
140 Lewisham Way,
New Cross SE14 6PD

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Myatt Garden

Myatt garden

23rd-24st February 2018
Every year Myatt Garden Primary School run the “Take One Picture Project” in conjunction with the National Gallery. The National Gallery release one painting from their collection for children to respond to creatively, to it’s themes, subject matter, historical context or composition. This years painting is ‘An experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump’ Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’ 1768. We then hold a ‘Take OnePicture Week’ in school and all our children’s learning and creative outpouring are inspired by this painting. We then show case the work in The Arthouse as a public exhibition.

We hope you are able to visit this exciting exhibition of young artists on Friday 23rd from 3.30pm till 5.30pm to Saturday 24th February 10am to 4pm.

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Leg up

Leg Up

9th – 18th February 2018
New Paintings by Emma Cousin.

In Leg Up London-based artist Emma Cousin (b. 1986) investigates the body as the site of
experience – examining what we can and cannot control in all aspects of daily life, and
questioning the meanings of mobility, both physical and social. Using the body as a metaphor,
and emphasising the role that the body plays in processing and defining our experiences,
Cousin’s paintings present a pantheon of women performing everyday gestures to address
notions of time, aging, strength, inertia and vulnerability.

Cousin’s darkly comic and irreverent parade of female characters are pulled and twisted into
impossible bodily contortions, balancing the weight of gravity with a lightness extending from
their mix-and-match body parts. Exploring concepts of freedom and identity, they inhabit
precarious situations and engage in awkward activities, such as urinating in a cup in the backseat of a speeding car (Peeing at 80), or teetering precariously on high heels while juggling groceries in Purchase. Running Scared depicts a wave of ‘hysterical women’ seeming to hold one another up as they launch themselves across the canvas, away from or towards we don’t know what. Nor do we know how dependable matters are underfoot, as Cousin’s figures act on
surfaces ranging from concrete to butter. Through the theme of mobility, Cousin balances
weight and agility to propose that a persistent psychological anxiety, experienced through the
body, is our frontline experience of the world.

Leg Up takes forward Cousin’s residency research project, Legwork, started at Wimbledon in
October 2016 and is supported by paintingresearch at Wimbledon College of Arts and Isabel
Bingley at Lewisham Arthouse Gallery. The work is accompanied by a text by Luce Garrigues and
Amy Mechowski. The results of the artist’s residency research project, Legwork will be published on 8 October in the form of a catalogue including contributions from over 30 artists.

Exhibition Open: 9th – 18th February 2018.
Wednesday to Sunday 12 – 6pm

Venue: Lewisham Arthouse. 140 Lewisham Way, SE14 6PD | Step-free access
Transport: New Cross, New Cross Gate or Brockley stations
Contact: For more information and images please contact: challisede@gmail.com
www.paintingresearch.net

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FLORILEGIUM – A gathering of flowers.

Florilegium

31th Jan-4th Feb 2018
An exhibition of drawing and monoprints by Anita Gwynn.

In medieval Latin a florilegium (plural florilegia) was a compilation of excerpts from other writings. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work. It was adapted from the Greek anthologia (ἀνθολογία) “anthology”, with the same etymological meaning.

My artistic practice helps me to look outside of my own life and to see the world. It helps me to relate to it with curiosity and to understand that I am part of it and not separate from it. Ecology and stewardship are important to me, and since my research as an artist, I have come to see that we do not exist in isolation, but as part of a whole. Without plants we wouldn’t survive.

Lewisham Arthouse 140 Lewisham Way, New Cross SE14 6PD

31th Jan-4th February 2018
Wednesday 31st January at 12-6, Thursday 12-6, Friday 12-6 and runs until Saturday 9 pm.
The private view is Saturday evening 7-9.

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Calcinatio

Calcinatio

16th-27th January 2018

Calcinatio

In this exhibition Yaroslaff Soltan explores the role of alchemical processes and the relationship between physical, spiritual and psychological transformation with reference to the works of Carl Gustav Jung, drawing on personal dreams, visions and emotions.
In a historical context, the first stage of the alchemical process was known as ‘calcinatio’, during which by the application of fire, crude material was refined to a subtle form.
Yaroslaff Soltan examines anger and frustration as the ‘fire’ in the alchemical process transforming psychological experience into approximately thirty sculptures, mainly represented in natural materials such as wood, fabric and thread for their organic, bodily qualities.
Alchemists would also record changes in the sound qualities of materials during the transformation process and Yaroslaff Soltan presents the audio equivalent of his sculptures in the form of a live performance by the Calcinatio Ensemble (Bernard Burns, Polly Hunt, Col Prosser and Eleanor Roberts of the London Bulgarian Choir). Four vocal pieces will be performed of Georgian, ancient Greek and Slavic origin.

About the artist

Yaroslaff Soltan was born and bred in Poland. He received formal art education at University of Folk Art Craftsmanship in Wzdow, Poland, Camberwell College of Art and the University of East London.
At present he is undertaking his Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London.
His imagination has been shaped by romanticism with its cult of folklore and of explorations of the dark side of soul, visual fascinations by archaeological artefacts and first of all by: Jungian psychology as well as religious studies of Mircea Eliade.
Yaroslaff Soltan lives and works in London.

yaroslaffsoltan.com

Private view:
Friday 19th January 2018
6pm – 9pm

Exhibition open:
16th – 27th January 2018
Monday – Sunday 12pm-6pm

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Granular /ɡranjʊlə/

10th-13th January 2018

MA Fine Art Students at UCA Farnham
MA Fine Art Students at UCA Farnham

MA Fine Art Students at UCA Farnham

Deborah Davies (Dd) * Chris Horner * Bianca Hendicott *
Mirta Imperatori * Nerys Joseph

Open 10 – 13 January, 12 – 6pm | Private view Friday 12 Jan, 6 – 9pm
Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6PD
Email: granularshow@gmail.com

The distinction within this group of artists is apparent. With their varying subject matter and methodologies, this show makes for an exciting exhibition, rich with ideas and concepts. The exhibition incorporates a diversity of multidisciplinary artwork. An array of mediums is combined, including photography, sculpture and installation.

Deborah Davies (Dd)
Dd’s work is a mixture of art and technology. Fascinated by conversation and feedback loops she combines electronics with textiles, wood and LEDs producing work that is both interactive and participatory.
www.dddavies.com

Chris Horner
Chris Horner graduated with a BA Honours in Fine Art from the UCA 2012 and is currently studying for his Masters in Fine Art. His work has been exhibited broadly most notably in May 2017 at the HLS Gallery for an International art show, and in September 2017 and an international arts festival in Venice, Italy.
www.chrishornerartist.strikingly.com

Bianca Hendicott
Bianca Hendicott explores conceptual platforms such as the sublime and the digital aura through iPhone, film, software, fabric and installation. The work explores how light can be such a ‘body’ that affects the soul metaphysically.
https://biancahendicott.com/

Mirta Imperatori
This work reclaims experiencing the world through taking photographs. In an age where humans are pushed to be constantly connected through digital media, we are not experiencing the world directly any longer. Imperatori is concerned how we are more isolated than we have ever been.

Nerys Joseph
Nerys Joseph is revisiting a place filled with memories as a photographic artist and documents what she sees. Curiously still, this is a place that has barely changed in four decades and is somewhat frozen in time: like a living photograph, breathing you in and exhaling you out.
https://nerysjjoseph.wixsite.com/nerysjoseph

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Snake oil

Snake oil

30th August – 9th September 2017

An exhibition of work by Tom Wilmott and Neill Clements

Snake Oil brings together a group of works which stand on the belief that painting is at its most compelling when it addresses the specific strengths of the medium.

Wilmott and Clements share an interest in the fundamental qualities of painting; for each artist the medium is not a vehicle chosen to best deliver a message, it is itself the project.

Their work puts the unique abilities of the medium front and centre. Painting is first and foremost visual, and it is at its most convincing when engaged with in this way. Colour, form, space, texture, contrast, transparency, opacity, scale; these are the keystones of effective painting.

Presented here are physical objects borne of individual’s intent, this is not art meant to compete with sloganeering, rather it presents an alternative to it. There is no attempt to illustrate some extraneous topical concern; no explicit message.

Constructions of wood, cloth and pigment exist on their own terms, created out of an engagement with painting’s essential processes and from a passion for the medium and its history. In some ways this is an old fashioned approach, art for art’s sake. But nowadays in a climate where, more than ever, culture is being experienced at arm’s length choosing to involve yourself in physical, material concerns (such as those thrown up by the discipline of painting) looks like a sensible undertaking. We live in a soundbite world where much of the visual material encountered is designed to shout. We receive our ideas filtered and packaged; coloured by a promoter’s bias. Visual art is too often the servant of obscure ideas, virtuous or otherwise.

These works make a case for something different, something plain speaking and unmediated. Work created through an interest in materials and how they come together, through a belief that painting still offers something unique; a worthwhile pursuit for an individual but also as an entity that can be meaningfully engaged with by an audience.

Preview:
Thursday 31st August 2017
6.30-8 pm

Exhibition open:
30th August – 9th September 2017
12-6 pm

Free entry
Step-free access

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The Bee’s Knees – Beecroft Garden Primary School exhibition

Beecroft Art fundraiser - Bees Knees-18

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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FREE MOVEMENT OF CULTURE

Sophie and Kerri

13-14 September 2017
Creative Unions: Free Movement of Culture

Lewisham Arthouse Project Space, 140 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6PD
14:00 – 22:00 (13 September); 10:00 – 13:00 (14 September)

Borders are a concept and a reality that restrict and permit people in different measure. Physical, social, psychological, they hold slow and they hold fast.

Creative Unions: Free Movement of Culture is a two day international artist gathering where the only desire is to make space to ask questions and share different forms of knowledge about what is proximate to us now; culturally, socially, historically, geographically, personally and politically. And it invites you. In fact, it invites you plus one.

CUFMC is a platform and exchange where individuals occupy space/s, sound and listen. It welcomes self-defining recent graduates to produce, provoke and participate in a convivial space where discussion around cooperation and cultural agency foreground any objects, images or situations we might create.

CUFMC is an open forum for sharing and debate rooted in the experience of cultural producers as active, global citizens with common insights, intentions and senses that unite; even when interpretations are undecided or conflicted.

The hosts, (Sophie Chapman and Kerri Jefferis, Paul Haywood and Basia Sliwinska) actively welcome marginalised voices and those interested in maintaining and extending cultural freedoms beyond the reach of political institutions.

CUFMC asks you to:

Bring a friend, colleague, family member or associate based in/from another country than you. You can bring them: in person, through social media, on the other end of a phone, through collaboratively produced content, an effigy or any objects you want to bring or any other way you can think of that might represent them in the space.

Plan something to share. Such as: a game, a rant, a movement, a song, a story, an image, an art, an object, a recipe etc. It could be something you want to say, or to try out with others. It should be something that allows you and others to gain knowledge or experience and bring you into contact with new ideas, concepts, realities etc – responding to the ideas raised in the blurb. You can specify what this is in the registration form.

Be available 13/14 September, 14.00-22.00 and 10.00-13.00 respectively.

Deadline:
Participants are asked to register before 5th of September for the event via an online form here:

13 and 14 September, 2017
14:00 – 22:00 (13 September); 10:00 – 13:00 (14 September)

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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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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

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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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Knots

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27th April – 14th May 2017
‘[The] simple act of tying a knot is an adventure in unlimited space … an excursion that is limited only by the scope of our own imagery and the length of the rope makers coil.’

Clifford Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots

From 27th April to 14th May, Lewisham Art House will present KNOTS, an exhibition of new work by Shiree Allen, Nancy Edwards, Jo Evans and Liz Workman.

Knots are everywhere in our daily life, often overlooked but always invaluable. Working in print, photography, sculpture and works on paper, each artist has responded to the theme of knots: the literal (tangled, connected, binding, tension, repetition); the psychological and emotional (stomach knots, ‘certain knot of peace’, tying the knot); and the mythological (Gordian knots, Heraldic knots). A collaborative sculpture forms the centre piece of the exhibition.

Shiree Allen’s work is inspired by the tall ship building and the debris of the past that can be found on the banks of the Thames. She contrasts this with the industrialisation of modern London; the tangle of buildings, railways, road and river that can still be seen from high above. Creating intriguing and detailed prints of these aerial views, Allen combines the chaos of knotted roads and buildings with the nails, washers and pulleys, that remain long after the rope that made the ships has decayed.

Nancy Edwards focuses on the connections and constraints of relationships; how these ebb and flow over time, increasing in intensity, wavering as priorities change. Working with paper and thread her delicate and precise works use repetition, order and misplacement to explore the ways these ties are made, broken, strengthened and subverted. Tension sustains the fragile structures she constructs, whilst simultaneously testing their integrity.

For Jo Evans, a rope knot found washed up on the beach, provided the starting point for an exploration of the psychological and emotional associations of knots. She positions the ‘knot’ as a bind, a tangle, a problem to be solved and a metaphor for the process of art making. Through drawing and text-based works she considers the patterns of behaviour we are compelled to repeat.

Liz Workman’s photography looks at repetitive tasks unconsciously performed, mapping and recording these unseen routes taken in our everyday lives. In her work Spider she weaves a giant cobweb around her home while tidying to create something beautiful, fragile and temporary from a necessary but mundane routine.

Further information and images:

www.shireeallen.co.uk
www.nancyedwards.co.uk
www.joevansart.com
www.lizworkman.co.uk

Preview:
Friday 28th April 2017
6-9 pm

Exhibition continues:
27th April – 14th May 2017
Open Thursday to Sunday 12-6 pm

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John Berger Night: Ways of Seeing/Man with a Movie Camera

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27th April 2017

Lewisham Arthouse will be participating in the New Cross & Deptford 2017 Free Film Festival (21st – 30th April).

www.freefilmfestivals.org

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As a tribute to John Berger who died in January, we are screening episode one of his groundbreaking TV series Ways of Seeing from 1972.

Ways of Seeing helped to re-define our approach to culture and brought Walter Benjamin’s ideas of art in the age of mechanical reproduction to a wider audience. Berger describes how the camera changed the way we perceive reality and Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece uses every trick in the cinematic book to upend our perceptions to dizzying effect.

Dynamic, playful and sexy, Man with a Movie Camera helped to expand the language of cinema in ways that still seem fresh and exciting today.

Screening at 8:00pm
Free (No ticket required – First come first served)
Running Time 30 mins/80 mins


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Drawing Picasso: Life Drawing Workshop hosted by LDG

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Fri 14 April 2017

Join London Drawing Group as we return to our original home at Lewisham Arthouse for a whole day of Life-Drawing this Easter Friday!

With easels, materials and our wonderful model provided, we will be offering a tutored session inspired by Picasso’s Demoiselles D’avignon, focusing on the themes of human abstraction and the possibilities of how we deal with the human figure in drawing. Tutored by our three LDG artists, the day will begin with a series of short poses and exercises designed to get you to think differently about the way you naturally approach your drawing, building to longer sustained poses in the afternoon that will allow you to create a completed work.

At just £30 for the whole day’s drawing this is a real steal, and trust us, it will be a treat for everyone involved! Book quick – these tickets won’t hang about for long!

TICKETS:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drawing-picasso-life-drawing-workshop-at-lewisham-arthouse-tickets-33431957886

DATE AND TIME

Fri 14 April 2017
11:00 – 17:00

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Prefix is ‘Post’

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21st – 25th March 2017

Prefix is ‘Post’ is the interim show of 2nd year BA fine art students from the University for the Creative Arts
‘As exciting as this is, imagine how exciting the collapse will be‘ Dave Hickey

With an abundance of information and a multi-layered reality – by which we refer to as the world around us – our response is to create within our own terms, taking a reviewing, self-inquiring and self asserting position.

The show places the artists both in the physical present and the anticipated future. We propose a timeless human condition in a world oversaturated with images and digital data, a world that has multiple surfaces.
Without the utopian or dystopian futures, what is left behind is a reality that is suspicious to images, in which we find ourselves drowning.

The show is a reflection of a diversity of practice, perspectives, political and cultural attitudes, with work ranging from painting, where painting becomes a sculptural medium, sculpture as image, the experience of the present under the form of performance, moving image, installation and photography.

Open:
21st – 25th March 2017
12-6pm

Preview:
23rd March 2017
6-8pm

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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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The Machine for Saying Sorry

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30th November – 3rd December 2017

‘The Machine For Saying Sorry’ is an installation work by four people from different practices and interests. In this sense it may appear to link art, design, technology and music. However, it was not driven by any pre-determined purpose, issue, crusade, or funding requirement. So, what might this artwork be ‘about’? Well, perhaps a clue is in the title, although art often defies meaningful description, or categorization.

Since the 1970s, while economic growth has been immense, more than half of the vertebrate animal population has been lost. Some experts believe that the human species itself may go the same way. At the same time, the hype surrounding developments in robotics, AI (artificial intelligence) and ‘Big Data’ is getting as much attention as global extinctions. We are very confused. While some welcome a technological revolution that will save us from the drudgery of work, others fear that robots will, in some fiendish way, enslave us all.

Recently, it has become fashionable for AI experts to claim that machines will become empathetic. But this reveals a failure to grasp the difference between living systems and machines. Similarly, we often hear calls for politicians to apologise. But how many people know that apologising and saying sorry have almost opposite meanings? The ancient Greek word ‘apologia’ (ἀπολογία’) referred to the public defence of a religious belief. This is very different from expressing heartfelt remorse (i.e. as in saying ‘sorry’). Never mind, we might still need someone (or some thing) to excuse us, once we’re gone…

Collaborators:

John Lunn composer
Tischlerwood artist
Sara Willett artist
John Wood curator
Private View on Thursday 30th November at 6.00pm, when the Machine will give its debut ‘performance’.

Preview:
Thursday 30th November 2017
6-9 pm

Exhibition open:
30th November – 3rd December 2017
Open 12-6 pm

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Urban Photo Village @UrbanPhotoFest – Cartographies

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10-15 November 2017
Urban Photo Village @UrbanPhotoFest – Cartographies is an exhibition in the Urban Photo Village at UrbanPhotoFest, an annual photographic arts festival focusing on cities and urban spaces. The Urban Photo Village showcases the work of established and emerging artists, in eleven venues located within walking distance of each other, in and around Deptford. An area with a strong sense of community and neighbourhood, Deptford it is another example of London’s ever-changing social landscape. In addition, the village — with its intensive programme of workshops and seminars — creates an active space to encourage discussion, participation and creativity, involving local communities, artists, researchers and people interested in contemporary urban life.

UrbanPhotoFest

UrbanPhotoFest will take place from 10-15 November 2017 and the theme is Cartographies. The festival aims to provide an engaging and culturally relevant programme that reflects on visual approaches to contemporary urban life and the image of the city. The programme of events includes the Urban Encounters conference, exhibitions, seminars, workshops, urban walks and portfolio reviews; all of which are overseen by a steering group of lens-media artists and urban researchers. The festival collaborates with a number of international arts and academic institutions, established and emerging artists, urban theorists and researchers. Together their work addresses critical urbanism within its varied and diverse forms, and explores how photography plays an important role in opening up debates about urban change, voice and the condition of the city.

10-15 November 2017
Open daily 12–6pm
Private view: Monday 13 November 2017, 6-9pm

www.urbanphotofest.org
Twitter / Facebook @UrbanPhotoFest
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DISTURBED, HACKED, REASSEMBLED

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12 October – 5 November 2017

DISTURBED, HACKED, REASSEMBLED
12 October – 5 November 2017, Wed-Sun 12-6pm
Opening: 11 October 2017, 7-10pm
Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way, SE14 6PD

LISA CARLETTA
KEIKEN
SUZANNAH PETTIGREW
TABITA REZAIRE
 
Disturbed, Hacked, Reassembled explores how artists today are employing technology to stage, interrogate and celebrate the digital female body. Disturbed, hacked, and reassembled, the body is being experienced in new ways digitally and virtually.
 
Central to feminist critiques of sex and gender, the body is the site of visual difference and it is through the body that difference is experienced and lived. The development of technology and the inception of the Internet have opened up online spaces and virtual worlds that are inhabited by interactive avatars, orbiting 3D body parts and user generated identities. Disturbed, Hacked, Reassembled reflects on these developments and our enduring fascination with the posthuman. Are new technologies helpful for our understanding of gender or do they perpetuate traditional concepts of masculinity and femininity? Are subject and object fixed positions or can they be challenged by embodying the virtual? What do new imaging technologies mean for the representational and the real? By exploring a range of subjects including 3D digital modelling, the virtual body, the dissemination of the female image and digital healing, the project asks, what are the limits and freedoms of the digital body?
 
The exhibition presents new and existing works by three artists and an artist collective spanning moving image, virtual reality, animation and video installation. ‘Paradise Found’ (2017) by Lisa Carletta uses 3D scanning technology and animation to explore the disintegration and reconstruction of identity, the body and the digital self. She presents a digital avatar of herself which resists the body image ideals that are advanced online in 3D CGI image libraries. The reality of representation is also explored in Suzannah Pettigrew’s ‘IC€Y’ (2017), a four channel video installation that explores the fragility of social currency. Hierarchical systems and iconographies of the female experience are investigated and dissected using footage sourced online. Content is reassembled and assigned new forms, the video of a video of a video, information on information on information. Keiken present ‘Silicone_Animism | The Birth of Mother Digital’ (2017), an interactive installation where the cybersoul contracts in the interuterus. VR, video and sound trace the birth of the digital, a giant networked space fused with human interaction and technology. Advancements in technology are also investigated in ‘Sugar Walls Teardom (Homage To Dark Labia)’ (2016) by Tabita Rezaire. The work explores the contributions of black women’s wombs to the advancement of modern medical science and technology. The work attempts to heal exploited and abused female bodies and celebrate womb technology through an account of coercive anatomic politics. 

Disturbed, Hacked, Reassembled also plays host to a programme of performance, discussion and workshops. Speakers from a range of backgrounds will exchange ideas surrounding the posthuman, the cyborg, digital eroticism, feminist digital art practices and the augmented body, as well as the gender gap in the world of technology, female representation online and the importance of digital exchange. Workshops led by artists and tech professionals give participants an opportunity to use the latest technology to reassemble, recreate, repurpose or resist their own ideas around gender, race, sexuality and the body.

By presenting these works together, alongside a programme of performance, discussion and workshops, Disturbed, Hacked, Reassembled demonstrates how the site of the female body, in a digital era, continues to pose important questions around commodification, gender binaries, representation, sexuality and race. As the discourse surrounding these subjects continues to develop, the project creates a space for reflection, a platform to disturb, hack and reassemble existing conditions and newfound knowledge.

Disturbed, Hacked, Reassembled is curated by DRIVE-THRU with thanks to Lewisham Arthouse.

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Performance Special!

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We are super excited to have four performances/lectures over the course of the Open Studios weekend on 30 September to 1 October.

Please meet in the foyer and we will take you to the location of the performance.

Saturday 30th 1pm
We have the very talented Kerri Jefferis and Sophie Chapman, last year’s graduate studio award winners and they now have a membership with us. The two artists will embark on Behavioural Training for Astronauts for Earthlings. They describe it as ‘ an experiential situation, hosted on our dear planet, aimed at outer space. It introduces and prepares rookies to new notions not often present on earth such as; supporting others, avoiding or negotiating high risk environments, elements of self care and hygiene as well as vital space skills such as communicating across cultural differences.’

Saturday 30th 6.30pm
We have the debut performance of 4 Brown Girls Who Write – please join us in the garden for a reading of poetry by 4 brown girls, who er… write!

Saturday 30th 7pm
A live performance by Heart of Steel, a South-East London based steel band who will be there to warm us up before the garden party in the evening, where we will have music and jerk chicken being served!

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Sunday 1 October 2pm
We have Chris Alton delivering a short performative lecture in his ground floor studio, on 1960s rhythm ‘n’ blues band Trident, drawing on the blog of Ben Ford. Trident were popular in Central America and the Caribbean from the mid-60s through to late-80s, when they vanished under mysterious circumstances. Ford’s blog traces their story and investigates their disappearance.

Sunday 1 October 3pm
Ruth Beale will do a reading from FFWD the Revolution (2014) which charts the the history of the Lewisham Arthouse building, the uses of each space, and the political ambitions of its occupants. Combining new writing and archive material, the work encounters presence and absence, ambition and legacy, from the Carnegie endowment to 75 years of public library service, from a brief occupation in the early 90s as a venue for raves to community protest, and the last 20 years’ tenure as an artists’ studio cooperative.

Combined with timed tours at 2pm and 4pm each day by artists to the artists where you are free to ask questions and explore the building!

Hope you can join us!

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Deptford X Festival 2017 presents Run!! For The Present

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23rd September – 1st October 2017

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.’

Sam Austen was nominated for Platform 2017 by writer and curator Attilia Fattori Franchini.

DEPTFORD X FESTIVAL 2017

Founded in 1998 as an artist-led project rooted in Deptford’s creative communities, Deptford X has grown to become one of the UK’s leading festivals of contemporary art. From 22 September to 01 October, we present a series of ambitious commissioned artworks within Deptford’s varied public spaces, as well as presenting the work of a wider community of mostly local artists through the Deptford X Fringe.

Preview:
Friday 22nd September 2017
6-9 pm

Exhibition continues:
23rd September – 1st October 2017
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm
SLAM Friday 29th open till 8.30pm

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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

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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

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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.

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www.emergingartistsuk.co.uk/exhibitions.html

Preview:
Monday 16th January 2017
6-9 pm

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

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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

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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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London Road: The ballad of RAY + JULIE

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23rd November – 4th December 2016
Preview: Friday 25th November 2016, 6-8pm

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Exhibition featuring new film and 7” single that celebrate the RAY + JULIE sculpture, once listed by The Guardian as one of Britain’s Top Ten Secret Public Artworks.

In 2009, The Guardian’s Top Ten Secret Public Artworks of Britain included the familiar names of Moore, Hepworth, Cragg, Mach, and Muñoz. Number five on this list was the work entitled RAY + JULIE on London Road in Liverpool. Created by artists Alan Dunn and Brigitte Jurack in 1995 it has remained as a homage to the long faded graffiti on the back wall: RAY + JULIE. Intended to last only six months, RAY + JULIE has since become a symbol of the ebb and flow of urban regeneration in the North. Two minutes from Liverpool’s main Lime Street station, RAY + JULIE has inspired poems, CD covers, photographs, theatre pieces, films, short stories, sound works and billboards. As for London Road’s two original residents, nobody knows who RAY + JULIE were, but these artworks bring them to life.  

The ballad of RAY + JULIE, commissioned by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatre to mark twenty years of the RAY + JULIE sculpture is produced and directed by Nick Bagnall and features an original soundtrack by Philip Jeck, winner of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers.

Tim Brunsden’s film of the event will be screened in the exhibition, along with the release of a limited edition 7” single by Dunn, Heslop & Young entitled LONDON ROAD. 

The exhibition is supported by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatre and Leeds Beckett University.
 
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23rd November – 4th December 
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6pm except Sunday 4th December 2016, 12-4pm

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Abolish Trout

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19th and 20th November 2016, 10am – 4pm
Preview: Friday 18th November 2016, 6-9pm

Craig Coulthard / Peter Donaldson / David Maclean

Abolish Trout is a group show of new work by three Scottish artists, all living and working in London. Originally graduating together from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002, these three friends present new work consisting of sculpture, ceramics, textiles and painting. Taking its title from a doctored piece of anti-immigrant graffiti; (originally reading ‘Polish Out’) Abolish Trout is an opportunity for the artists to exhibit their similarly subtle, humorous and thoughtful creative interventions to a new audience.

Craig Coulthard (b. Rinteln, West Germany, 1981) lives and works in London. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art, and was a co-founder of The Embassy gallery in Edinburgh in 2003. His work has been exhibited at Atelier Hoherweg Dusseldorf, Ingleby Gallery Edinburgh, Camden Arts Centre London and Collective Edinburgh. Recent shows in include The Drummer & The Drone as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival and Generation:TG on the Travelling Gallery. In 2009 Coulthard was awarded the £460,000 Scottish Commission for Artists’ Taking the Lead, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. His work, Forest Pitch, completed in 2012, saw the construction of a full-size football pitch in the middle of a spruce forest. He also writes and records music as Randan Discotheque.

Peter Donaldson (b. Edinburgh, 1980) lives and works in London. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art, and the Royal Academy Schools, where he is currently a sculpture tutor. He was recently selected for the East London Painting Prize and the ArtWorks Open. His work has been shown at TAP Southend; the Royal Academy of Arts; Modern Art Oxford; the ICA; Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo; and Museo Civico di Rovereto, Trento, Italy. He was awarded the Deutsche Bank Award for Fine Art in 2010.

David Maclean (b. Perth, 1980) lives and works in London. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art and in 2003 co-founded the Edinburgh gallery The Embassy. He moved to London to study at Chelsea College of Arts where he formed the music group Django Django in 2007. The band have gone on to record two albums, tour internationally, and in 2012 were nominated for the Mercury Music Award. Maclean often directs music videos and designs record sleeves for Django Django. Recently he has recorded an album with Damon Albarn’s Africa Express in Mali and this year worked on KT Tunstall’s latest album ‘Kin’. In 2014 he founded his own record label, Kick and Clap. He has recently collaborated with artists such as Haroon Mirza and George Henry Longly, and has scored music for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Film Four feature, Slow West.

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Urban Memories

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3rd – 12th November 2016
Preview: Friday 4th November 2016, 6 – 8pm
Open daily, Monday to Sunday 12-6pm

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UPA (Urban Photographers Association) Annual Exhibition

The organisers of the 2016 International UrbanPhotoFest (UPF) are delighted to present Urban Memories, the annual collective show of the Urban Photographers Association (UPA).

The exhibition shows the selected work of 14 UPA members responding to the Festival theme of Photography, Memory and Archive. Cities are living archives and rediscovering their visual history is fundamental to the development of urban photographic practices. Nothing is cast in stone and only interpreted as heritage; the past is illusive and uncanny. How do historical photographs visualise and politicise daily life in order to commemorate and generate specific social histories, public memories, landscapes and pictorial archives? Cities are not merely architectural metaphors; they are mobile, evolving entities projecting memories deep into the social life of urban dwellers. In what way can urban photography break down social stereotypes and offer alternative ocular archives of cities? Urban Memories tries to answer these questions through a variety of selected visual projects.

Caroline Knowles, Urban sociologist and Goldsmiths professor, says:
“In their entries to this exhibition the artists raise important questions about how we might think about memory; about how memories manifest themselves in cities and in people’s lives; and about the complex multi-layered relationships memory, cities and people might have with photography. In a mix of found images – whose photographers and their preoccupations must be imagined – and newly created images that dialogue in off-beat ways with people, places and circumstances, the artists in this exhibition show us that multiple truths – not the truth – are in contention in the ways in which we apprehend and remember the individual and collective realities which are significant for us.” (UPV catalogue, p. 5)
Exhibiting artists: Peter Coles, Diego Ferrari, Michael Frank, Gill Golding, Paul Halliday, Tanya Houghton, Rebecca Locke, Bas Losekoot, David Kendall, David Colm Killeen, Luc Pauwels, Galit Seligmann, Gesche Würfel and Kyler Zeleny.

For further information, please visit: 
www.urbanphotofest.org
www.urbanphotographers.org
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Workshops:
UPA portfolio review, Tuesday 8th November 2016, 11.00-13.00

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Freddie Thomas presents Well Proud

Freddie Thomas presents Well Proud

29th – 30th October 2016
Preview: Friday 28th October 2016, 6-9pm

London being Freddie’s hometown she feels very passionate about it and its ever-evolving changing face. Once a place where everyone could afford to live, it is now a place made for the rich, investing in the rich and kicking out the poor. With house prices rising and rising, people are struggling to live on this little island called London. Once a place where council estates were prominent and communities were generations old, it has now turned into a transient place, people coming and going. The young white middle classes, doing their four years in London and then moving on to affordable places to live. Is this place once built on history and tradition turning into one big airport?

Through the use of banners, textile paintings and script, Freddie discusses London, the fabric of society. With every stitch sewn, with every button sewn on, you can feel her passion hovering behind you like a ghost that will not go away. So immerse yourself in the material, feel its presence because she may not be able to afford to live here anymore but she certainly won’t go away.

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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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Curatorial Open 2016 – The London Drawing Group

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19th September – 16th October 2016

Lewisham Arthouse is an artist-led cooperative formed in 1992. In April Lewisham Arthouse invited proposals from artist(s)/curator(s) interested in working with us beyond traditional forms of exhibition making.

The London Drawing Group were selected to curate a month long public programme of events aiming to help people engage in the playful, unpredictable nature of making art and promote the joy of drawing through a series of free workshops, talks, walks and exhibitions.

Coinciding with Deptford X art festival and The London Drawing Group will present their programme within the wider context of the festival.

“We believe that when we copy or imitate the work of another artist, we are participating in an act of translation: learning through doing. Taking our starting points from those that have come before us allows us to translate timeless ideas into our own visual language. Through this act of translation, we learn as much about ourselves as artist as we do about our subjects, our processes, and what it is about the work that engages us.”

Their first week of workshops will take as their starting point images from their initial exhibition; with the guidance of artists and tutors the participating group will be encouraged to make art in response to these images, beginning the act of artistic translation. The artworks created in the first workshop will form the basis of our second workshop and continue throughout the month, creating a new series made by members of the community, encouraging and forging links between one group of artists and the next. The workshops will comprise a diverse range of teaching methods and draw from both our collective art history and contemporary art-making techniques, ranging from sculpture, collage and traditional life drawing to live music-scores, performances, film and animation. The work created throughout the residency by members of the community in response to our three exhibitions will be showcased in a final Community Exhibition.

Week 1: Luisa-Maria MacCormack
Exhibition opening Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Week 2: Lucy McGeown
Exhibition opening Friday 30th September 2016
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Week 3: Frances Stanfield
Exhibition opening Friday 7th October 2016
www.francesstanfield.com

For further details on the London Drawing Group residency click here (pdf).

About The London Drawing Group:
The London Drawing Group is a collective of three contemporary artists living and practising in London. Although our practices are individually varied and diverse, we are brought together by our shared love of and passion for drawing, and our experiences of being taught by
a huge range of practising artists at the Royal Drawing School Central.

To contact London Drawing Group email londondrawinggroup@gmail.com
www.londondrawinggroup.com

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One One Seven | Ghost House Gone House

One One Seven Ghost House Gone House

16th – 18th September 2016

A double bill theatre and music event by Kyoto-based theatre group BRDG and Deptford-based music duo RABBIT touring Stroud, New Cross and Kyoto. Both pieces are based around an old Victorian house which used to exist at 117 Lewisham Way and the family which used to live there.

117 – one one seven 
This is a play based on interviews with a British woman who has been living in Kyoto since 1989. It introduces her life and her old house at 117 Lewisham Way, which used to exist in New Cross. During the play, the recorded voices of interviews are played and Japanese actors interpret them into Japanese and English. As the play unfolds, this act of ‘interpreting’ transforms into ‘acting’. The memory of New Cross travelled overseas with her and now will be re-told to the people in UK as the story of ‘an outsider’.

Directed by Keiko Yamaguchi. Performed by Bridget Scott, Hiromi Demura and Tatsunori Imamura, with sound technician Toru Koda.

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Two simultaneous films documenting 117 Lewisham Way, a Victorian villa and lost local landmark in the year prior to its demolition. The films were shot by David Aylward (drums and percussion) and Tom Scott-Kendrick (reeds, strings and electronics) who will also provide a live soundtrack including field recordings made at 117 Lewisham Way. 

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Keiko Yamaguchi (director, actor) and Kano Kawanabe (co-ordinator) founded BRDG in 2011 creating works under the theme of Foreigners in Kyoto.
423 (Shitsumi) Art Project based in rural area in Kyoto produce workshops and events for children and local people. http://423art.org 
117 – one one seven are performers Bridget Scott, Hiromi Demura and Tatsunori Imamura with sound operator Toru Koda.  

RABBIT
RABBIT are Tom Scott-Kendrick (reeds, samplers etc) and David Aylward (drums, percussion etc). They have played together since the mid 80’s, a contemporary, experimental urban folk music, merging and mutating genres in an on-going dialogue of sound and music. For further information go to http://117ukyoto2016.tumblr.com/ or email bridge.ing11@gmail.com 

Dates:
Friday 16th September 2016, 8pm
Saturday 17th September 2016, 8pm* 
Sunday 18th September 2016, 3pm

*On Saturday 17th there will be a special appearance by Nick Doyne Ditmas and Adam Bohman playing with Tom Scott-Kendrick.

Price:
£7.50 adv / £8 door (£5 concessions )
Reservation: http://117ukyoto2016.tumblr.com/ticket

Supported by The Daiwa Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation with special support from Bred in the Bone, Rose Bruford College and Lewisham Arthouse.

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Interventions

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31st August – 11th September 2016
Preview: Friday 2nd September 2016, 6-9pm

Frederic Anderson, Andrea Coltman, Daniel Curtis, Antony Dixon, Cara Jean Flynn, Sarah Hawley, Jacquelyn Hodges, Benjamin Martin, Tom Waring

The nine artists in this exhibition explore the idea of interventions within the gallery space. Their individual practices, through a variety of different languages and media, are very diverse, yet the artists search to reveal a dialogue, a connection and thread. The group are interested in the relationships between how their works create a visual discourse and how by placing their works within a common space the interventions of their works create yet another layer and language. These artists are searching for hidden dynamics that create new understandings, correlations and connections.

Frederic Anderson’s drawings inhabit the space between figuration and abstraction, between how we believe things to be and how they actually appear – the space in which, under persistent observation, things begin to fall apart.

Andrea Coltman’s paintings muse over societal issues, she regards herself as a social observer. Andrea paints what she sees, the ordinary and expected. Through crosshatchings of realism and abstraction in her paintings Andrea interrogates empathy, space and place exploring how we communicate and interact.

Daniel Curtis’ practice is driven by form. Through composition he explores tensions and relationships between found and low status objects. In recent work Curtis has searched out subtle elements of character or history in these objects and uses that to charge his compositions with a peculiar presence.

Antony Dixon explores the inherent qualities of materials and things. He collects and references fragments of human activity by taking imprints, making casts, assembling and re-assembling. Interested in the linguistic interface between materials and things, Antony describes his activity as “archaeological in nature, exploratory yet rooted in history.
Cara Jean Flynn creates prints, video, sculptures and installations using a combination of natural and man-made materials. Flynn’s work focuses on our relationship with the natural world. She is particularly concerned with our control of the natural environment and our perceived dualistic thinking of ourselves, separated and elevated above it.

Sarah Hawley’s collages have the ability to bring order out of chaos as well as integrate various patterns, colours, designs and materials from different origins that together can create a uni ed composition. This mimics a multicultural society, where a diverse group of individuals of many cultures co-exist within a community.

Jacquelyn Hodges’ subject is in painting and sculpture and where they intersect. She works in a range of mediums because her interest is to take her subject and nd new methods of intersection. Jacquelyn assembles materials that may seem like they have nothing to do with each other but looks to nd the tension and overlap.

Identity is the central axis of Benjamin Martin’s practice, around which revolves notions of childhood, gender and the artificial. Benjamin is interested in how the social and political shape us from an early age and in how the landscapes that surround us create both physical and psychological scars. What shapes us?

Tom Waring’s paintings explore an imagined world where the boundaries between the present and future have disappeared. Projections of the now, into the future, create a fertile ground for exploring our present condition in our real world of unrivalled capitalism and ecological decline.

Preview: Friday 2nd September 2016, 6-9pm
Exhibition open:
31st August – 11th September 2016
Wednesday to Sunday 12-6pm

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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
anisajackson.com

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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Doppelgänger

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Doppelgänger

17th – 28th August 2016

Alan Dunn & Peter Suchin, Mark Fairnington, Charles Gray, Charlie Godet Thomas, Susie Green, Sharon Hall, Brigitte Jurack, Bernadette O’Toole, Catherine Parsonage, James Quin, Alma Tischler Wood, Roxy Walsh, Flora Whiteley, Godbold & Wood

Doppelgänger asks the same taxing question that has set alight the heroes of the greatest writers including Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, E.T.A Hoffman, Heine, Kipling and Wilde: Could there be, through the duplication of the self, the double or the shadow, a different self, a co-equivalent of the human soul?
 
Doppelgänger focuses on this idea of the double as method and methodology of the artwork, the second work as the reflection, shadow or double of the first. In these artworks, the doubling occurs through the process of observation and making and not by means of mechanical or digital reproduction.
 
As Jean Paul states through his tragic hero Roquairol’s in Titan: ‘Then I saw you, and wanted to become your You – but that won’t work, for I cannot go back; but you can go on ahead, one of these days you become my Self’. (Titan: A Romance, Volume 2 page 83)
 
The exhibition is guest curated by Brigitte Jurack (Manchester/Liverpool) and Founder of Alternator Studio. She is also Head of Sculpture/Time-Based Arts at Manchester School of Art and Co-Founder of the artist’s collective Foreign Investment.

For further details, including appointments outside the regular opening hours call 07789 123 735 or email b.jurack@mmu.ac.uk

Introduction: 17th August 2016, 5.30pm by Brigitte Jurack
Finissage: Thursday 25th August 2016, 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 17th – 28th August 2016
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm

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Oliver Campbell: Good God

Oliver Campbell, Scene from the Bacchae, 189 x 120cm, 2016

10th – 14th August 2016, 10-6pm
Preview: 9th August 2016, 6-9pm

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Good God is the first solo exhibition by Oliver Campbell (b.1981).

Drawing on tropes from classical literature and rhetoric, this exhibition of paintings and other objects takes seriously the absurdity of some of our most imaginative beliefs, and explores their relation to our everyday experience.

Symposium: Thursday 11th August 2016, 7.30-9pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Good God there will be a full Greek Symposium: an ancient drinking party with entertainment and discussion. There will be wine and a non-alcoholic alternative, entertainment, and three related topics posed for discussion. To reserve your couch please RSVP to: info@lewishamarthouse.org.uk

Artist Talk: Sunday 14th August 2016, 2-3pm
Oliver Campbell in conversation with Dr Brian Murray from Kings College London.

To download exhibition invitation as a pdf click here

Exhibition continues:
10th – 14th August 2016, 10-6pm, or by appointment.

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Marion Phillini Invites You to Join Collaboration In Progress

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22nd July – 29th July 2016
Preview: Friday 22nd July 2016, 6-9pm

Marion Phillini takes over Lewisham Arthouse and invites you to join Collaboration In Progress.

Amongst the Phillini debris of past installations, multiple screens and a familiar washing line, discover the results of an experimental Marion workshop with Wimbledon MFA Students. Testing the boundaries of collaboration, their work will join Marion Phillini’s exhibition/ installation/ performance/ studio for one week.

Marion Phillini will use the space for production of new work during exhibition opening times. Working on site, Phillini will shift and re-modulate the installation of works in response to viewers’ reactions/ interactions.

More info about Marion Phillini at www.marionphillini.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007018519118
Twitter: @marionphillini

Exhibition continues:
22nd July – 29th July 2016
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6pm

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How the Hares are Dying: Private Stocktaking

How the Hares are Dying

15th – 17th July 2016
How the Hares are Dying: Private Stocktaking
Work in progress by Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne

The founders and core creative team of Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne are Magdalena Tuka and Anita Wach, two very different performing artists from backgrounds in theatre and dance respectively, who were inspired in 2013 to unite under a name appropriated from the 1968 Joseph Beuys’ artwork to represent the creative combination of opposites.

Through its various mixes of new dramaturgy, contemporary dance, and multimedia experimentation, the work of Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne (JJJNNN) may be located within the notion of a postdramatic theatre. The narrative of a JJJNNN show is never that of a linear cause-and-effect system of events but one open to fragmentation and deconstruction. Fiction is employed as a device for the performer-devisors to confront personal material, though the strategies used to achieve such confrontations are not set in stone but built anew in relation to the content being dealt with. While the initiator of each project may ultimately retain an authorial final word, JJJNNN encourages the idea of a performer’s autonomy and every performance is very much the result of a true collaboration.

From the outset one of the group’s key modus operandi has been the development of co-operations with and support of other international organisations and individual artists. Over the last three years of showing work a network of ongoing connections has evolved throughout Poland and the UK as well as in Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Works presented by JJJNNN have received various funding including Polish Ministry of Culture, Visegrad Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Dance Festival in Gdansk 2013; Threecity Dance Cooperation, Body/Mind Foundation, Maat Festival.

‘There were men and women, children and old people, teenagers and babies, rich people, and poor people, black men and white women, white men and black women, Orientals and Arabs, men in brown, and grey and blue and green, women in red and white and yellow and pink, children in sneakers, children in shoes, children in cowboy boots, fat people and thin people, tall people and short people, each one different from all others, each one irreducibly himself…’ City of Glass Paul Auster                                    
How the Hares are Dying: Private Stocktaking is about: war (past, future and now) and identity smeared in the muddy memory’s landscapes, about mnemonic and reaching out to the cellars of that memory to recall girls from grey pre-stressed concrete housing estates, about a sense of destroying everything around and weakness of the will and about the power of drawing by the Great Architect. It’s a combination of different theatre strategies, a stubborn and unstable search for the meaning of the events on stage, giving up and start from the beginning again and again. 

Click here for a link to the teaser

Work is devised and performed by Magdalena Tuka and Anita Wach, sound and video by Myles Stawman. Work combines video, live video, sound and live acts.
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Performances:
Friday 15th – 17th July 2016
7-8pm

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Children’s Art Sale from Beecroft Garden Primary School‏

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6th – 9th July 2016
Preview: Wednesday 6th July 7-9 pm
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An exhibition and sale of work by children from the school.

An event 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. 

Putting art 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.
 
Visitors to the 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 children at the school are always encouraged to talk about art and culture and to understand how the arts can be used to explore the world around them.
 
The National Society for Education in Art and Design Survey Report 2015-16 reported that 89% of primary state school teachers felt that time allocated to art and design fell before key stages 2 National Curriculum tests. Almost half of key stage 1 teachers thought that time allocated for art and design had decreased in general.
 
It is with this context in mind, that the exhibition of works by Beecroft Primary School’s children can show what can happen when art is given a key place in a primary school’s ethos. The school’s specialist art teacher, Dilys Finlay, has worked with children to make drawings, paintings, textiles photography and sculpture that are inspired by art movements such as Aboriginal painting or ideas such as Paul Klee’s notion that drawing was “taking a line for a walk”.
 
All the works in the 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. Bee-friendly 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. 
 
Oliver Basciano, Editor (International) of ArtReview said: “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.”
 
Preview: Wednesday 6th July 7-9 pm

Exhibition open:
6th July, 10am -5pm
7th – 9th July, 10am – 6pm

Free entry
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Fracture: Rory Biddulph | Kate Hubbell

24th June – 1st July 2016
Preview: Friday 24th June 2016, 6-9pm

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Rory Biddulph | Kate Hubbell
Curated by Xenia Langlois

The theme of the exhibition comes from the artists’ combined interest in portraying the effects of social and cultural identification through analogy and absurdity.

Both artists are graduates from the Slade School of Fine Art and have exhibited widely. Rory Biddulph was recently shortlisted for the Adrian Carruthers Award and the Clifford Chance Printmaking Purchase Prize, he was also included in the XL Catlin Art Guide and is a current finalist in the XL Catlin Art Prize. Kate Hubbell has attended numerous residencies including being resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Oxbow School of Art and Artist Residencies. She was also recently shortlisted for the Red Mansion Art Prize and the Sarabande Scholarship.

Rory Biddulph is known for depicting strange, carnivalesque characters using layered print alongside painted imagery. Stemming from a kind of urban gut, Biddulph depicts a crude and elaborate present. In his work iconography, ideology, the spectacle and the social become subject to reproach, plunged into visions of fantasy, metaphor and excess.

Kate Hubbell orchestrates experiences of empathy and connectivity through immersive installations, video and objects. She employs a wide range of materials, including synthetic hair, gelatin, food and makeup to analyse the tensions and anxieties manifested within the dichotomies of comfort and unease.

Xenia Langlois, curator, comments: ‘Fracture is an exhibition in which the taxonomies, ideologies and the habitual infrastructures of contemporary life become subjected to play, depravity, fancy and farce, questioning the role of the self in what is depicted as an arcane, tumultuous time.’

Please see the following websites for more information on the artists and their work.

www.rorybiddulph.com       
www.katiehubbell.com

Exhibition continues:
25th June – 1st July 2016
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6pm

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The Overview Effect

The Overview Effect

8th – 19th June 2016
Preview: Thursday 9th June 2016, 6-9pm
Artist Talk in Conversation with writer Anna McNay: Saturday 18th June 2016, 3pm

Henrietta Armstrong, Miranda Boulton, Fiona Grady, Hayley Harrison, Katya Kvasova

This group exhibition borrows its title The Overview Effect from a term used by Astronauts; described as a cognitive shift experienced when viewing the planets vulnerability and beauty from afar. An altered perspective is the emphasis for each of the artists, this is evident in their method of making the work, or in the work itself, acting as a lens of distortion.

Each artist works with multiples, repetitive marks and processes to obscure and disorientate. This disorientation shifts our relationship with the subject matter, the familiar becoming unfamiliar. This unfamiliarity is also a disclosure from which a new perspective is revealed to the viewer.

For several of the artists perspective is altered within the process of making the work; for Henrietta Armstrong this involves a reconfiguration of familiar structures into alternative architectures and patterned symmetries. Whilst in Miranda Boulton’s work shifted perspective is something that happens cognitively, through memory, and through the reinterpretation of that memory; Hayley Harrison’s half sculptural, half painted works demand a vast oversight of society through its debris. Fiona Grady’s installations are a lens in themselves, asking the viewer to adjust their perspective there and then, within the gallery space. Finally, Katya Kvasova’s work turns this altered perspective both inwards and outwards. Her paintings are a translucent surface or lens between inner and outer worlds.

There is a contradiction here, the singularity of the Overview and those astronauts’ perspectives of the planet – a single view of a single world – compared to the myriad of perspectives exhibited here. Yet the desire is shared, that of a cognitive shift rooted in perspective. The process is also similar – each artist is discovering methods of stepping back from what you know, to see their world anew.

Open: Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm

Accompanying publication available with introductory essay by Anna McNay

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“it was quick but fun”, speed selected by Jeremy Deller

27th May – 5th June 2016
Preview Friday 27th May 2016, 6-9 pm

“it was quick but fun”, speed selected by Jeremy Deller

We are very pleased to present an exhibition of work by 29 Lewisham Art House studio members selected by Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller. Visiting each studio in turn, a piece of work was selected for the show without the studio artist being present.

Opening night:
Friday 27th May 2016, 6-9 pm
As part of South London Art Map Last Fridays as well as the opening of Brockley Max Arts Festival.

Exhibition continues:
28th May – 5th June 2016
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm
Free entry
Step-free access

Open Studios
Saturday 4th June 2016, 12-8 pm
Sunday 5th June 2016, 12-6 pm

[toggle]Image credit: Image courtesy Lewisham Art House, 2016[/toggle]

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Chris Alton: the man who moved too far, too fast

Chris Alton, Under The Shade I Flourish, 2016

17th – 22nd May 2016
Open 12-6pm
Preview: Wednesday 18th May 2016, 6-9pm

“1963: An unknown rhythm ‘n’ blues band called Trident* play at various jazz clubs in London and the home counties. The group come under the management of Michael Ashcroft, a business graduate from Mid-Essex Polytechnic, who sees them play at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, Surrey.”

During the mid-1960s, a rhythm ‘n’ blues band called Trident were briefly managed by the non-uk domiciled billionaire, Michael Ashcroft. Ashcroft is a controversial figure, notable for; “opaque tax practices”, “operating in the dark” and his use of “shell companies”. This exhibition imagines that he continued to manage Trident, incorporating feedback from his life into their narrative.

Trident become a vehicle to discuss the exploitation of post-colonial countries as tax havens. Fictitious tours see them zigzag haphazardly between venues, mimicking financial graphs; song lyrics repurpose Latin mottos and tax terminology; and posters advertise performances in notorious centres of tax avoidance (including Belize, where Ashcroft resides).

Chris Alton’s recent exhibitions include; Welcome, Trident; International Stars, THE DOOR (curated by Rice + Toye), London (2016); Under the Shade I Flourish, xero, kline & coma, London (2016); Outdancing Formations, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg (2015); and each other, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire (2015). Alton was recently awarded; the Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists of the Sparda Bank 2015; the Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Studio Award 2015; and the Collyer Bristow Graduate Award 2014. He was included in the Catlin Guide 2015.

www.chrisalton.com
www.benford1956.wordpress.com

*Dirty Politics, Dirty Times, Michael Ashcroft, 2005

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MOVENZE: London Fragments of a Journey

MOVENZE: "London Fragments of a Journey"

27th April – 15th May 2016
Preview: Friday 29th April 2016, 6-9pm

Maurizio Trentin – Arte Contraddittoria

Movenze: London Fragments of a Journey has its beginnings in the everyday voyage of a London bus. Using a meditative process, frames from this journey have been transformed by the artist into careful reflections that express aspects of the surrounding reality.
 
Informed by interests in perception, gestalt, phenomenology and mathematics Maurizio Trentin describes his vision through twenty fragments in a study of the sensitive.

www.artecontradd.it

Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6pm
Free entry
Step-free access

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Lausch II

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Thursday 7th April 2016, 8pm
Doors 8pm, Start 8.30pm
Entry £5
Bring your own drinks
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LAUSCH II presents an eclectic mix of experimental live performances within the scope of sonic improvisation, drawn from the prevailing London scene. This time we have noise, voice, bells and whispers – electronics, sax and silences with Iris Garrelfs, Artur Vidal + Grundik Kasyansky and Khaled Kaddal.

LAUSCH is a series of performances and events exploring new sounds and experiences. Expect an array of exciting artists and venues, hand picked by Adam Jaro and Rahel Kraft.

Iris Garrelfs
Iris Garrelfs is an artist working on the cusp of music, art and sociology. Her practice includes fixed media, installation, improvised voice performance and has been included in major institutions worldwide, for example Tate Britain, National Gallery, Visiones Sonores Mexico, Liverpool Bienale, MC Gallery New York. Elsewhere she is the commissioning editor of the online journal Reflections on Process in Sound and the co-curator and director of Sprawl, a London based experimental music organisation. Iris has a PhD in Sound Art from University of the Arts London where she also works as a researcher and lecturer.
irisgarrelfs.com

Artur Vidal + Grundik Kasyansky
Artur Vidal is a Spanish-born saxophone player and sound artist who grew up in Paris and currently resides in London. As such, he has performed in Europe, Asia and America. His work is interested in the possibilities of improvisation from the perspective of its implications within the social field. As an active member of the improvised music scene, he has been playing and recording with musicians who include Eddie Prévost, Phil Durrant, Jennifer Allum, Roger Turner and Sébastien Branche, with whom he makes up the improvising saxophone duo ‘Relentless’. He has currently completed an MA in Sound Arts and started in 2013 an MPhil research at London College of Communication about improvisation, the practice of listening and the notion of silence.’
www.arturvidal.com

Grundik Kasyansky (b. 1974, Moscow) is a London-based artist and electronic musician who works in experimental improvisation, live installation, audio collage, and designs sound for dance, theatre and film. He wrote poetry before switching to electronic music and it deeply influenced his current practice. grundik.tumblr.com

Khaled Kaddal
Khaled Kaddal is an Egyptian musician/sound artist. His work embraces sound/music and mixed medias to create installations and performances. his music/sonic practices are scoping on the social and the political structures, through the exploration of the varieties of Sonic phenomena. Interested in finding new intersection between disciplines, he collaborated in performances, choreography, films and mixed media projects. www.khaledkaddal.com

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We Need To Talk About Heaven

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Friday 25th March 2016

Fusebox invited a diverse range of artists, to talk about heaven, in all of its shapes and forms. Which heaven are you fighting for? Which heaven are you hoping for? What is heaven anyway? Working through media spanning video art, performance and installation, each artist will consider different notions of heaven; deconstructing, challenging and building heaven(s) today. Fusebox curate thematic nights of newly commissioned work from emerging artists, who may not have had the chance to exhibit. Fusebox are committed to showing work from numerous disciplines, creating new connections between artists and audiences.

Selected Artists

Wilf Speller
We’ll be screening a new video work by Wilf Speller. Wilf’s work looks at the politics and ethics of contemporary image culture. Most recently he exhibited in Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed, The Photographer’s Gallery’s annual showcase for emerging talent.
wilfspeller.co.uk

Jasmine Lee
Jasmine Lee’s work sits at a nexus between artist as performer and artist as delegator, bringing audiences together and facilitating their roles as performers through emotional and surreal experiences, as she herself disappears. She is a resident artist at the Roundhouse.

Sara Zaltash
Sara Zaltash is a Bristol-based live artist, known for large-scale interactive projects exploring culture, spirituality and our future. Her recent One Day: Day One crowdsourced questions and answers about the possible outcomes of climate change and notions of sustainability and resilience. She is a research fellow at the Schumacher Institute. sarazaltash.com

Ralph Pritchard
Ralph is making a new three-part single channel video piece exploring heaven variously through text, performance and cinematography. Increasingly Ralph’s work responds to concepts with a multi-faceted approach – playing with storytelling using multiple aesthetic perspectives. Ralph has recently screened at the ICA in London and the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. ralphpritchardfilms.com

Sheaf & Barley
Sheaf & Barley make charms and instructions to change the present through ritual and magic, for everyone to use. For Heaven they will present a new charm, exploring our wishes for a new future. sheafandbarley.co.uk

Gloria Dawson
Gloria is a writer of plays, performance, essay and poetry based in Leeds. She is also a geography researcher with an interest in precarious housing, retail and gentrification. Her main ‘artistic’ interests are the relationship between political organising and lived experience, the politics of death, urban transformation and history. Recently she has been on attachment to West Yorkshire Playhouse developing an original performance around the persistence of bodies and graves in a changing city. She blogs at trespassingassemblies.tumblr.com

To watch event documentation on You Tube click here

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nonfictional, Winters/Lane/Spinelli, The Bell Agency

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Saturday 19th March 2016, 8pm
Two new projects offering distinct and unique sound worlds, and one game structure composition, never the same twice.

nonfictional are Maggie Turner (Voice), David Hunger (Guitar), Ravi Low-Beer (Percussion) and Nick Doyne-Ditmas (Double bass, trumpet). nonfictional are currently engaged in deconstructing the song format via improvisation and psychodrama. Each performance is a vivisecion. Nothing is faked.
https://www.facebook.com/nonfictionalmusic

Winters/Lane/Spinelli
Portia Winters; voice Arnold Lane: percussion
Emmanuel Spinelli: electronics and objects
This is a development of a duo of Winters’ vocal improvisations with Lane’s acoustic/electronic percussion mix, combining pure improv with song and spoken word. Tonight they are joined by
Emmanuel Spinelli on electronics and objects.
http://portiawinters.weebly.com/
https://emmalorienspinelli.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/howard.lane.9

A simple game structure for 3 or more players, The Bell Agency opens out into a mesmerising slow motion sound world. Somewhere between performance and unfolding, tonight’s realisation, led by Charles Hayward, depends on cluster maths and hive mind and the unique details to be witnessed.

Entry £5 doors 8pm
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The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths
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16th – 27th March 2016
Preview: Friday 18th March, 6-9pm

Open Wednesday – Sunday, 12-6pm

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Curated by Russell Terry

Brigitte Parusel, Caterina Lewis, Cedric Christie, Charley Peters, Italia Rossi, Jack Otway, Lucy Harker, Ludovica Gioscia, Paul Robinson, Roland Hicks, Rowena Boshier, Russell Terry, Ryan Terry, Sarah Longworth-West, Simon Liddiment, Tom Hemming, Trevor Simmons

“Destiny takes pleasure in repetitions, variations, symmetries” – Jorge Luis Borges

This collection of work by seventeen artists, showing diverse and unique methods and interests, is waiting for an infinite tapestry of connections to be woven across it. 

The title of this show is borrowed from Jorge Luis Borges. The Garden of Forking Paths is a beguiling story about an impossible book that is also a labyrinth. Borges was famous for condensing complex, paradoxical ideas into incredibly short fiction, much of it expressing his attraction and/or frustration with the “muse of impossibility”. He considered the composition of huge books “an impoverishing extravagance” and chose instead to maintain the ambiguity and potential perfection of his ideas, by writing commentaries on imaginary books. Even with such a solution, the inevitable failure to realise an idea before it transforms into a new one, keeps us starting afresh. Our ideas occur so much faster than the process of realising them. From the first step out of imaginary space, they have to contend with unforeseen practicalities and suffer the inconvenience of existing unambiguously. By the time we finish/abandon them, influenced by manual discovery, they are rarely the same idea. Looking back over our finished/abandoned works, we often see that each one contains the seeds and reflections of so many others, made and unmade.
 
To download press release click here (pdf)

To download invitation card click here (pdf)

https://www.facebook.com/events/930696066977477/

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School Of The Damned: End Of Year

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Exhibition Dates: 4th – 13th March 2016
Open daily, 12-6pm
Preview: Friday 4th March, 6.30-9pm

ZOE ANSPACH | ROBERT CARTER | MELANIE COLES | MICHAEL CROWE | PENELOPE DIAZ | JACK FISHER |
VICTORIA FORNIELES | ROBERT FUNG | KYLE GALLOWAY | JAKE KENT | KATE MAHONY | PHILLIP REEVES |
ANASTASIA SHIN | REBECCA TOWNROW | MATT WELCH | MITT WHEELDON | ELISE WORTLEY

Class Of 2016 Manifesto:

The School of the Damned is a free postgraduate art course run by, and for, its students. It provides participants with the critical space to develop and reassess their art practice. We operate without money, without a bank account, without financial obligation. SOTD runs a labour exchange programme with a growing number of guest artists, spaces and lecturers. It exists to promote access to free education as a fundamental right and stand in opposition to the current system of higher education. The student body share roles and the responsibility to aid each other’s education as well as the development of the programme. As SOTD moves into its fourth year its students hope that this network of advocates will continue to grow, allowing the protest to continue into the future.

End of Year will host the work of this year’s 17 students, whose energetic and diverse practices have developed from their involvement in SOTD. Over the past year the class of 2016 have exhibited together extensively, End of Year is their final show and a culmination of their work on the course together. This “degree show” style exhibition echoes the institution in a way that demands SOTD is recognised as a working alternative and demonstrates that this collection of artists can work together to run a school, collectively organise exhibitions and programme events that are outward facing and inclusive. As in the above manifesto, this is something Class of 2016 will pass on to a new cohort of students/ artists.

Continuing the School of the Damned ethos, this year’s final degree show will be hosted by Lewisham Art House. Members of Lewisham Art House share their time, equipment and knowledge with wider communities on a non-profit basis. Besides renting space, each studio member commits at least 5 hours per month in support of the organisation’s wider programmes. There will be talk and discussion with SOTD and guests on Saturday 13th March at 7PM speakers to be confirmed check fbook/website for updates all are welcome to attend.

Click here to download Press Release as a pdf

For more information on School Of The Damned please visit:
schoolofthedamned.com or email schoolofthedamned15@gmail.com

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Myatt Garden School Presents

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25th – 27th February 2016

Come and enjoy the Myatt Garden School Children’s artwork at their Take One Picture Exhibition.

Opening Times:

Thursday 25th February, 3.30 – 5.30pm
Friday 26th February, 3.30 – 5.30pm
Saturday 27th February 10.00am – 3.00pm

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Experimentation

Saturday 13th February 2016

AMPERSAND
London based improvisers of industrial ambient noise, Ampersand are an improvisational sound ensemble who have performed across Europe over the last nine years. They produce an experience of sound to envelop the audience in the act of the moment and the art of the moment. This uniquely pan-generational group utilises found objects, engineered metal, deconstructed traditional instruments and audio toys.

Ampersand performances are always improvised, they arise thus from the moment, the place, the atmosphere, the occurrences of that day. The sound, and the experience of that sound, are imposed on all the senses, to share with the audience a charged and superlayered emotional state. Ampersand are Brian Bushell, Joseph Oldfield, Stephen Oldfield and Paul Wells.

http://www.ampersand.tv/

NGUYEN TRI MAI
Nguyen Tri Mai is a Franco Vietnamese dance artist. For the last 20 years, she has drawn her inspiration from the waters, back and fro between Brittany coasts, salt marshes and the river, pools and canals of the East End of London. Mixing her Butoh dancing spirit with her passion for improvising with live music, Mai loves to express her intense movements in the moment, bring light to a space with her explosiveness. Mai has collaborated with musicians, film makers and photographers and specializes in site- specific and outdoor performances. 

VJ FLICKERING LIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/user/VJflickeringlight 

WELTAUSSTELLUNG
WeltAusstellung is a situational alliance of noise-makers, visual artists, improvisers and composers of the absurd, based in Düsseldorf and Berlin: Peter Issig, Anja Lautermann, Uwe Möllhusen, Thilo Schölpen – they work in the field of sound-action, sound-installation, radio-art, music-theatre and soundtrack-ism. They wring unsettled ideas from a wide range of sound-sources of their own invention, varying their approach in order to experiment with a range of methods and standards.“We play each sound object that passes the test of significance: from massage tools to Styrofoam, from selfmade electronics to piano. We are not interested in the latest sound technology but in the raw and direct signal…which is the basic principle of absurd composition. Absurd composition tends to be doomed to failure and delivers an unexpected twist. Our ambition is to transgress from the internal motivation (of the composition) to the point of failure.”

http://welt-ausstellung.de/about/about/

Doors 7.30pm
Start 8 – 11pm
£5 Entry
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LAUSCH

LAUSCH

Thursday 4th February 2016

LAUSCH is a series of performances and events to explore new sounds and experiences. 

Expect an array of exciting artists and venues, hand picked by Adam Jaro and Rahel Kraft. This evening brings together five artists/musician to share their interest in sound and voice. The Los Angeles based musicians Archie Carey and Odeya Nini will open up the evening with two solo works that encounter durations, resonance and pure expression.

The Deptford based sound artist David Bloor will perform ‘Care Work’ with a self-made artificial intelligence followed by a duo performance by David Toop and Rahel Kraft. 

Archie Carey, Bassoon – SOLO
Odeya Nini, Voice, Movement – A SOLO VOICE
David Bloor, Sounds – CARE WORK
David Toop, guit, objects  + Rahel Kraft, voice, electronics – DUO

Doors 8pm    
Start 8.30pm
£5 Entry
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‘What Fresh Hell Is This?’

Wednesday 27th January 2016
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A Launch Event For The Happy Hypocrite, Issue 8

Edited by Sophia Al-Maria

Film, discussion and reading from www.a-d-g-z.com,
Sophia Al-Maria, Mika Mino-Paluello from PLATFORM, and Fresh Hell contributor Alex Borkowski.

18.30 – A film, streaming live from www.a-d-g-z.com where it runs continuously twenty-four hours a day, depicts characters surveyed remotely, their actions followed, scrutinised and abandoned as they unfold over a sprawl of a desert town. With no clear markers of beginning or end, the work can be encountered multiple times; each meeting a discreet moment of engagement with its disordered storyline.

19.00 – An introduction to ‘Fresh Hell’ by The Happy Hypocrite founder Maria Fusco, and by issue 8 guest editor Sophia Al-Maria, followed by a talk with Mika Minio-Paluello of Platform London on art, oil and power and how oil-sponsored galleries like Tate can break with business as usual and our colonial legacy. PLATFORMLONDON.ORG

20.00 – ‘Vital Plastics’, a reading from The Happy Hypocrite – Fresh Hell by the writer Alex Borkowski.

On 27th January The Happy Hypocrite – Fresh Hell, Issue 8, and a new limited edition print by Sophia Al-Maria will be available at a special price.

The Happy Hypocrite, founded by Maria Fusco, is published by Book Works annually with a new guest editor. Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life.

RSVP via Eventbrite here

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Gagarin, Warren Schoenbright, Lofe

Saturday 28th November 2015

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“There’s nobody quite like Graham Dowdall aka Gagarin“ Boiler Room TV 2015

Graham ‘Dids’ Dowdall aka GAGARIN has been making music on the edges of the musical galaxy for many years in many guises. As Gagarin he works alone crafting instrumental electronica that doesn’t adhere to any particular scene or style and draws on influences ranging from contemporary classical to techno and every point in between and beyond. The music is atmospheric, melodic and sometimes beaty characterised by a combination of field recordings, gorgeous synth melodies, tough abstract beats and a sophisticated yet accessible approach to composition. Gagarin has released several albums on his own Geo imprint as well as contributing tracks and remixes to a large number of compilations and releases by other acts. His latest album Aoticp was released in Summer 2015 and follows the much acclaimed Biophilia in 2011.

As well as Gagarin, Dids is also a member of avant rock legends Pere Ubu for whom he provides digital synthesis, keys and samples , a duo Roshi feat. Pars Radio with Iranian songstress Roshi who create what has been described as “ Welsh-Iranian folktronica “, another duo Low Bias with Rothko leader Mark Beazley and is an occasional member of world beat pioneers Suns of Arqa. He has also released a cassette Outside Broadcast in his given name Graham Dowdall for Touch’s cassette imprint Tapeworm.

www.gagarin.org.uk
https://www.facebook.com/pages/GAGARIN/81533059428

WARREN SCHOENBRIGHT is a band, not a person. Their new Ep, (Out of Bounds) Eaten by the Forest, brings live drums and electronics together with minimal acoustic instrumentation to create a disturbing and arresting sound palette. By turns confrontational and meditative, the mercurial textures retain a sense of flow through continual reference to noise, drone and modern improvised idioms.’
https://soundcloud.com/nil-nil-3/1-fucking-torrentialdelirium
https://ukscumscene.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/live-review-crowhurst-feat-caina-conjurer-and-warren-schoenbright-at-the-unicorn-camden-2092015/

LOFE: Driving beats, driven words. jewel carriageway chords. Keyboard plus Ableton (Nik the Deks), Bass (Elwell) and Voice (Zolan Quobble). It’s got that biodynamic, organic whole grain texture and that lively lambic yeasty rhythm. It hits 260°C, when it’s baking.

Doors 8-11pm
Entry £5
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Lewisham Arthouse Winter Fair

Saturday 12th December 2015, 11am – 6pm

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We’re hosting our popular Winter Fair again, featuring an array of original artworks, hand made crafts and seasonal gifts. There’ll be something to fit all sizes of pocket, whether you’re a discerning Christmas shopper or art lover.

We’ll be featuring lots of local talent including our studio artists, producers of Mosaic, felted goods, linocut prints, ceramics and much more.

Come join in the yuletide joyousness, warm your cockles with a seasonal beverage and a mince pie! And if that isn’t enough jingle all the way to the vibrations of our resident DJ.
Welcome One and All!
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For press enquiries contact winterfair@lewishamarthouse.org.uk

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Phil Ashcroft: Cave Paintings

30th October – 1st November 2015

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A pop-up weekend presentation of new and recent paintings by Lewisham Arthouse studio artist Phil Ashcroft. Combining influences from abstract expressionism, British landscape painting, Japanese woodcuts, and graphic street art, Ashcroft integrates gestural, emotive abstraction with flattened out ‘80s style art deco and graffiti influences to present a vision of environmental, financial and political threat, a world of semi-surreal settings, cartoon-like motifs and the detritus of the modernist ideals of the past.
The Cave Paintings series of works developed in the artist’s London studio following a speedboat trip around Ramsey Island in Pembrokeshire, Wales in 2014.



Preview: Friday 30th October 2015, 6pm – late
Preview sounds from DJ Monkphat (Gamma Proforma)

For further information email info@philashcroft.com


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Once More with Feeling(s)

23rd October 2015

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Once More with Feeling(s) was an evening of artist’s performance and video, focusing on cover versions.

The cover version opts for rhythm over algorithm, coarse over smooth. By refreshing dormant tracks with renewed urgency (be it political, emotional or otherwise) the cover becomes a vehicle, delivering ideas through a familiar (if corrupted) form. Whether a pastiche or homage, the tangible authenticity of the cover version resides in the merging of art and life, consumer and producer, audience and author. The dissolution of these binaries opens up formerly homeostatic systems. They become permeable – susceptible to new ideas, new interpretations and new mistakes. This permeability can even retrospectively change the original.

Whilst contemporary pop produces track after track of homogenous hits, the cover is an opportunity for subversion. It is a chance to riff on and compartmentalise the perfection of pop – a chance to dent or scuff surfaces buffed with too much polish. Instead of proliferating imagery that warps how onlookers believe that they should look and engage with each other, the cover sidelines flashy golden grills, abdominal augmentations and swollen silicon buttocks.

It becomes a means for messing with systemic issues, acting as a form through which people can express themselves more fully and in a plethora of ways, which the culture industry fails to accommodate for. Instead of a singular way of existing being pushed or embossed on the mind, there is a redux. The cover is an answer or repost that resists unidirectionality. To cover is to create a dialogue – a feedback loop that resists being told what to think and how to behave. It is a radical rupture, which asserts that there is more than one way to be, to sing and to feel.

So let’s have it…once more with feeling(s).

Curated by Chris Alton and Rachel Hill

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Open Studios 2015

Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th October 2015

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We’re open again with a bumper selection of ocular delights…

Wander around a warren of studios, buy artwork from source, window shop or simply enjoy the grandeur of a beautiful Edwardian building. Artists will be exploring the touchy-feely side of architecture in group exhibition Caesura et Vide Supra. Intrigued? Feel welcome to stimulate your cerebral bits, by participating in the related discussion. Add a dollop of family fun activities – a pop-up café by GCDA providing scrumptious handmade sweets and savouries + bar and DJ’s on opening night…

Friday 2nd October 2015, 6-10pm
Saturday 3rd October 2015, 12-6pm
Sunday 4th October 2015, 12-6pm

A Public Discussion: Haptic Thinking and Architecture
Saturday 3rd October from 4pm

Part of Deptford X and ArtLicks Weekend Festival 

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Caesura et Vide Supra

25th September – 11th October 2015

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Lewis Betts, Jolanta Rejs, Anna Salamon, Frank Kent, Stephen Cooper and Bernice Donszelmann

Curated by Lewis Betts and Stephen Cooper

A group show exploring haptic thinking in relation to the architecture of Lewisham ArtHouse coinciding with Deptford X Festival, Art Licks Weekend and Lewisham Arthouse Open Studios. 

Caesura et Vide Supra brings together new work by artists exploring what the Finnish theorist Juhani Pallasmaa describes as ‘tactile ingredients in our otherwise ocular experience of architecture’.  

Exhibiting artists employ playful attitudes towards media-relevant genealogies of viewing and display, re-defining possibilities for the material object-hood of painting and printmaking in relation to architecture. Their new work responds to the characteristic architectural features and scale of the imposing Edwardian Carnegie building of Lewisham Arthouse,originally erected to house a library.  

PUBLIC EVENT  
‘Haptic Thinking and Architecture’ 
Saturday 3rd October 2015, from 4pm.  
A Public Touring Discussion In Situ: ‘Haptic Thinking and Architecture’. 
Touring around the space, the exhibiting artists will lead a public discussion concerning Haptic Thinking in relation to Architecture.  
Also part of the ArtLicks Weekend Festival. 

Private View: Thursday 1st October 2015, 6pm-9pm

Opening Times:
Friday 25th September 2015, 6-9pm (SLAM Fridays)
26th-29th September, 2-4 October and 7-11 October 2015, 11am-6pm

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Imprints

24th-28th June 2015

Imprints is an exhibition of prints by participants in the Printing without a Press workshop at Lewisham Arthouse. With a focus on monoprinting, but including other forms of relief printing, press free printing encourages great creativity and a remarkable diversity in the work produced.

The exhibition includes experienced artists as well as beginners, some who have been attending the workshop since it began nearly 15 years ago and others who have just started but all the prints demonstrate the exciting possibilities of press-free printing. The work in the exhibition includes a range of printmaking media including monoprints, lino, woodcuts and relief printing but all have been printed by hand.

Artists include: Emma Jo Bairstow, Andrew Cieciala, Lucy Cooper, Hadjira Elkadi, Dick Graham, Anita Gwynn, Craig Hilton, Michelle James, John Jukes Johnson, Joanna Lewis, Rachel Pank, Sarah Perkins, Rosey Prince, Victoria Smart, Heather Steed, Reuben Thurnhill, Eleanor Watson, Robin Stannard, Florence Youngs, Milly Youngs

For more info about the exhibition and Printing without Press workshops please contact
Rosey Prince rosey_prints@hotmail.com

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Luke Burton: Singspiel

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Lewisham Arthouse presents Singspiel, a solo exhibition by Luke Burton that is the culmination of his year-long residency. 

Singspiel will present a rabble of sculptures and drawings, corralled together amidst a sonic landscape, which in turn acts as a stage infused with songs and enunciations. The sound work for the exhibition will develop Burton’s ongoing interest in voice- as an embodied form of direct expression through abstract sound; as used in communication, language and and poetics; as a musical instrument.

Traditionally, a singspiel was a German-language musical play that often had comic and folk elements. It was characterized by having a light tone and containing dialogue interspersed with popular songs, exemplified in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and later developing into the dominant form of German Romantic opera. Taking the singspiel’s historical slide in form from folk, to classical, to Romantic modes as an exhibitionary thematic, the congregated works seek to productively collapse song and play in its broadest conceptions, with a lightness of touch befitting its form, but in all seriousness.

Luke Burton lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include Linking, Linking Arms, National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Filigree Endings, Bosse and Baum, London (both 2015); Tenderpixel’s Tenderflix, ICA, London; Athens Video Art Festival, Technopolis Musuem, Athens (both 2014); The Uneventful Day, Carroll/Fletcher, London, A Dense Glitter of Alternatives, Vitrine, London and Love/Architecture, Turner Contemporary, Margate (all 2013).

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Alex Tyrrell: Memories We Made in the Computer Age

5th – 16th August 2015

Alex Tyrrell Memories We Made in the Computer Age

Curated by Rebecca Edwards

For his exhibition at Lewisham Arthouse, Alex Tyrrell presents Memories We Made in the Computer Age, a multichannel sound sculpture introducing music from the debut album of the same name.

The work seeks to challenge normative approaches to composition and live performance by presenting the music in the form of an immersive, spacial sound environment, utilising directional speakers and natural acoustic reflections. Emancipated from the concerns of orchestration and harmonic arrangement: Alex’s work problematises the relationship between timbre and space, challenging the listener to explore the physicality of the composition, while homogenising the relationship between sound and materiality.

The installation will also serve as a public launch for the album Memories We Made in the Computer Age, giving listeners the opportunity to experience the work in its intended immersive realisation.

Alex Tyrrell is an artist and composer from London. Recent performances/exhibitions include: 10 Empty Boxes (The Vaults Gallery), Computer Music (Progkunstfestivalen, Oslo) and Improvised Series (The Park Studios, Wembley).

More information: becc.edwards@gmail.com

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Housewives, Charles Hayward (begin anywhere), Adam Bohman & Tom Scott, Tom Moodyhousewives

Saturday 6th June 2015

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HOUSEWIVES: surly monochrome slowly ascending into a maelstrom of rage and density, an intensity both political, psychological and illogical. Here’s a video for their song Almost Anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=werG8DL-T_w

ADAM BOHMAN & TOM SCOTT: Adam plays the stuff we ignore, toast racks, clothes pegs, styrofoam, upholstery springs, you name it; Tom plays reeds, sampler etc. and the music duets/duels around the sonic subconscious of the everyday. here’s a clip of Adam solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKvCxaixheY

CHARLES HAYWARD (begin anywhere): songs at the piano, a sequence of betrayal, paranoia, subterfuge and privilege, as well as a series of sound events and This Heat & Camberwell Now songs in stark, minimal arrangements. here’s 3 songs: https://soundcloud.com/charles-hayward-1/sets/trademark-ground

TOM MOODY: bassist with FIRST eschews loudness for acoustic guitar and songs that disintegrate and haemorrhage language left right and centre.

8 – 11pm
Entry £5
Bring your own

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An Arranged Marriage

15th – 17th May 2015

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Six UAL students exhibit their work together against their will.

Experience a group show, the outcome of an arranged marriage that these artists would definitely like to share with you. Celebrate the result of our collaboration at the beautiful venue that Lewisham Arthouse has provided us. Exhibiting the works of:

Kathryn Armitage
Tom Benedek
Leonel Cravioto
Christina Koutsolioutsou
Sophie Fox
Joe Winder

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Thurston Moore & James Sedwards + Albert Newton + Harmergeddon

Saturday 21st March 2015

THURSTON MOORE: Since the demise of Sonic Youth Thurston has moved to London and thrown himself into the city’s fevered music underground. Local/global. Makes sense. Tonight he will be performing songs with guitarist JAMES SEDWARDS, currently one of Moore’s closest collaborators and deep with it. Here’s a clip of them getting all site-specific performance like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tJrAMIKmxY&spfreload=10

ALBERT NEWTON is a long term project of John Edwards (double bass), Pat Thomas (keyboards) and Charles Hayward (drums). Sudden change of direction, spin on a fivepence, pirouette like emergency response team, iron grip, sumo wrestling on speed, we don’t know the result yet, like football. Albert Newton played for 12 years as a quartet with Harry Beckett on trumpet and flugelhorn. At Harry’s memorial benefit, as the last notes faded, John remarked that they had to keep playing this music and so Harry’s absence has thrown them into a new dynamic as a trio: the spirit lives on in the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSx60m2McY&spfreload=10

HARMERGEDDON do their thing like nobody’s business. Their thing accesses dreamtime via the off cast, the disembowelled VHS cassette, the bar code check out, the L.E.D. and photosensitivity. Think cavemen, Fred and Wilma, for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePlbY7zJRos&spfreload=10

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thurston-moore-james-sedwards-albert-newton-harmergeddon-tickets-16120941169

Doors open 8pm
Entry £5

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The Groundnut

11th – 13th March 2015

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Greetings,

We’re back from our travels in Eastern Africa and have more news. Our cookbook is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It’s exciting to see it up there!

We are also happy to announce that we will be hosting three days of dinners, at Lewisham Arthouse, during the second week of March.

Tickets are £34 per person and advance purchase is essential. Please do reserve a place in good time to avoid disappointment, as tickets tend to sell quickly. Food is served banquet style, and the menu will be revealed in full on the day of the event. As always, we welcome vegetarians and most dietary requirements (but please let us know in advance). The evenings begin at 7pm.

For more information or to see menus and pictures from our past evenings visit thegroundnut.co.uk. If you have any further questions, contact us at thegroundnut@gmail.com.

Warm Regards,

Folayemi, Jacob and Duval

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Poesy

Friday 27th – Sunday 29th March 2015

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“As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the sea,
And with great power it forth led me
To walk in visions of poesy”
– The Masque of Anarchy by Percy B Shelley

Poesy is a new collaborative project from visual artists Louise Emily Thomas and Nell Loder. The project, based on the poem The Mask of Anarchy by Percy B Shelley, will culminate in a three-day experimental show at the Lewisham Arthouse. The title Poesy – a Middle English term derived from the Greek poiesis ‘making, poetry’; poiein ‘ to create’, represents the premise of the project; exploring boundaries between poetry, art and the moving image.

In the spirit of protest, folk tradition and the process of ‘making’, the artists will endeavor to create an innovative piece of work that re-imagines Shelley’s historical poem in a new language. Craft techniques from around the world will be used to explore a multitude of processes, resulting in a theatrical multi-media installation in the gallery space. Taking a collaborative approach, the artists will work alongside peers within music, art curation and political theory, to re-narrate the poem from various angles, offering a new interpretation of Shelley’s work for a wider audience.

The poem was written on the occasion of the Peterloo massacre, a fatal protest that voiced the lack of suffrage, amongst other issues. Thomas and Loder are interested in re-appropriating the political, social and romantic agendas present in the literature, to demonstrate the virtues of poetic thought that the poem explicitly advocates. The show will result in the production of a moving image work that will be released and screened in May 2015.

The artists met and trained at The Heatherley School of Fine Art in Figurative Sculpture and now work independently in London. Their individual practices have evolved to push the boundaries of the figurative tradition by focusing on the object as multi-functional within the disciplines of puppetry, animation, performance and theatre.

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Lewisham Arthouse Winter Fair

13th December 2014

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The Winter Fair returned with renewed spirit!

We opened our doors on December 13th sending yuletide joyousness to one and all! Come and enjoy a wonderful selection of original works, seasonal gifts and artisan foods – all hand made by local artists, makers and designers. Visitors were warmed by aromas of mulled wine & pine, hot drinks and refreshments – all accompanied by the smooth vibrations of our resident DJ Terry ‘Trunkstore’ Humphrey. Full disabled access. Photography by Lynda Laird.

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IT’S NOT MY F*#*..ING FAULT..!!

A performance by Skall and Alma Tischler-Wood
3rd – 4th Decemeber 2014

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Tirage lambda 130 x 104 cm
Tirage, Print: 1/3 + 2 EA (2 AP)
En association avec Thierry Demarquest

This is the first time that the French artist Skall will be performing in London. His debut presentation IT’S NOT MY F*#*..ING FAULT….!! will take place at Lewisham Arthouse, where he will perform for seven hours over two days consecutively. He has selected four senses to focus on and will prepare for the live performance in collaboration with the London based artist Alma Tischler Wood.

Skall has been performing since late nineties but is equally well known in his native Paris for making beautiful sculptures that mix precious objets d’art with cheap bric-a-brac. A great many of these works raise questions about culture and tradition, passionately informed by a good deal of thought and background research. This does not mean that they work in a didactic, or literal way. Nor do their decorative qualities make them especially easy on the eye. Quite often, their simultaneous allusions to different genres, such as Pop Art, anthropology, or early cubism will place the viewer on an uncomfortable edge between inadequate worlds that bring about a surprising switch of emotions. What, at first, appears to be an impish exercise in kitsch may begin to evoke something darker and more sinister, after a while. This hinterland of duality is Skall’s homeland territory. It is the state of mind that he jokingly refers to as “Skallistan”. It is at its most convincing when he enacts an impromptu ritual wearing some of the physical artifacts taken out of its typical context. Sometimes, the territory of Skallistan seems uncannily unfamiliar, perhaps because it initially seems over-sentimental, infantile or tasteless. This is a subtle portal that entices viewers into the work and enables them to read a fine string of pearls as a signifier of dignity or pathos, depending on whether they make the sculpture seem shockingly large, or whether it somehow seems to be crying.

Skall’s performances allow everyone an infinite amount of freedom to capture its essence. Often, however, the rules change. Perhaps this is his secret. Once an audience has allowed the artist to stipulate new codes of behavior it becomes vulnerable to a succession of unexpected changes in those codes.

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MONKEY PUZZLE TRIO with Brass + BEEP

14th November 2014

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MONKEY PUZZLE TRIO features the words, voice and textures of singer and sound artist Viv Corringham, bassist Nick Doyne-Ditmas (Pinski Zoo, Crackle) and drummer Charles Hayward (This Heat, About Group, Massacre). Together they create a distinctive sound world, both exhilarating and immersive, which relies on the sensitivity and experience of all three musicians, obsessed with song as an ideal, adept and fast thinking improvisers.

The Pattern Familiar is the second album from MONKEY PUZZLE TRIO, a vibrant and energised song cycle that proffers a stark and resonant refusal of despair and the absurd. Just say yes. Brass orchestrations are tightly conceived and highly organised, complementing, while contradicting, the spontaneous funk and sound art of the original improvisations. For tonight’s performance MPT will be joined by the brass and saxes of Tom Marriott, Rob Mills, Tom Scott & Lawrence Wilkins.

Listen to the album ‘The Pattern Familiar’

Listen to the track “White World”

Download and purchase the album ” Walking” by Viv Corringham

A beep is a single tone onomatopoeia, generally made by a computer or other machine.

BEEP are a trio from Glasgow playing their first London gig. They live in a pigeonhole called SPACE POP. Within its small confines (3 x 10 x 12) they seek to explore theatre in music and music in theatre.

space pop. lollipop. pelican pan.

view perfomance via YouTube link

Doors open 8pm

£5 entry
No bar, bring your own, off licenses nearby

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Michael McManus, Solitary Spaces

29th October – 9th November 2014

Michael McManus Fraction

The show brings together a collection of Michael McManus’ recent works that explore structure within the motif of a landscape. Referencing virtual spaces’ use of flat, horizontal and vertical planes, there is a distinction between the more representational pieces and those that sit on the brink of an abstract pictorial space. Some are rendered to present a building or empty scene whilst others have been stripped back to reveal geometric forms and a network of overlapping marks.

Each painting serves as a translation of the collages McManus creates in his studio. The fragmented nature of the medium, together with its dramatic juxtapositions are recurring visual themes in his works. Some are rooted in historical appropriation whilst others reference photographs of abandoned spaces.

McManus lives and works in London. He graduated from Wimbledon College of Art (2012) with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. He won the Prunella Clough Painting Prize and following graduation was shortlisted for Future Map (2013) and awarded the Lifeboat residency (2013) . Recently he has exhibited in UAL Showroom Space and completed the Downstairs Residency in Herefordshire.

Artist Talk: Michael McManus in Conversation with Jessica Rutterford (Artist Talks and Front of House Manager, Flowers Gallery) Wednesday 5 November, 6.45pm

The talk will focus on Michael McManus’ recent experimentations in the studio and the changing use of source imagery within his painting. It will look at the impact of working for other artists whilst reflecting on personal concerns in his practice.

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V4V and FIRST

17th October 2014

V4V and FIRST

V4V launch their new album IN / OUT, an 8 CD-R realisation of the same shape/same details constantly re-configured one against another, like 3D chess. A limited edition of 300 with hand-made cover art.

V4V features DJ BPM (breaking out from the Grime mould for which her ResonanceFM radio show is increasingly acclaimed) building flickering ghost storms of sound, meshing with Vern Edwards’ serpentine cartoon guitar. Served on a bedrock of churning and fractured funk from the telepathic rhythmic architectures of Nick Doyne-Ditmas (bass guitar, flugelhorn) and Charles Hayward (drums).

FIRST: In a zone of it’s own with a lovely gallop, First keep the skin free from blemishes and the heart from aching 99.9 percent of the time. First are odd but familiar, animated and fruitfully nihilistic with no added sugar and using raw ingredients when possible. They are open from 7-11 at weekends and are not involved in any terrorist activity to speak of. Blisters, bliss and bananas, tender yet awkward nights at the disco. But don’t panic! First can also mean last…… to leave or to worry; it depends on context. Remember the first beak of a duck, crest of a wave and the first nib of a pencil and you’ll almost actually be there.

Link to Facebook page
Music Video “First – Unconsciousness/Happiness”
Music Video “First – Champagne With Sean Penn”

Entry £5

No bar bring your own refreshment

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An Aggregate Material

Paul Crook, Rae Hicks, Hannah Hood, Abigail Jones, Emmie Mcluskey, Ian Parkin, Will Thompson and Mary Wintour
8th – 19th October 2014

An Aggregate Material

A group show by Garage Projects
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‘An aggregate material’ is the third in a sequence of an ongoing exhibition project by eight emerging artists from across the UK. Working under the name ‘Garage Projects’, they collectively look to create works that challenge, debate and comment on contemporary society, using the gallery space as a site to present our continuous discussion.

The title ‘an aggregate material’ refers to a composition of two or more substances that form a ‘sum’ or ‘mass’. Taking this term as a starting point, we would like to propose a collective mixed media exhibition that creates a cohesive structure, which prompts dialogue around the configuration of disparate material.

The title allows the work to be read by the viewer both collectively, as a presentation of artistic practice and independently, as individual narratives.

The artists participating are:
Mary Wintour
Ian Parkin
Abigail Jones
Hannah Hood
Paul Crook
Will Thompson
Emmie Mcluskey
Rae Hicks

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OPEN STUDIOS 2014

3rd – 5th October 2014

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Phil Ashcroft / Chris Barnes / Ruth Beale / Luke Burton / Oliver Campbell / Laura X Carlé / Barry Cunningham / Ali Day / Amanda Francis / Anita Gwynn / Lucy Harker / Tom Hemming / Terence Humphrey / Steve Mihara / Basia Muslewska / Nina Necak / Janine Nelson / Mark Nelson / Stephen Palmer / Rosey Prince / Toby Rye / Anna Salamon / Joyce Saunders-Diop / Fiona Smithers / Heather Steed / Shirley Stewart / Alma Tishler Wood / Eleanor Watson / Sara Willett /

Lewisham Arthouse opens its doors again with a bumper selection of exhibitions and events… Wander around a warren of studios, buy artwork from the source, window shop or simply enjoy the grandeur of a beautiful Edwardian building. After the success of Lounge at the Arthouse, its back to provide a wide selection of scrumptious handmade cakes, savoury nibbles and drinks. Add a dollop of family fun activities – postcard-sized artworks by Arthouse artists, on view and sale in our pop-up café + bar and DJ’s on opening night.

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Who Thinks The Future?

Josh Bilton, Darren Harvey-Regan, Jenny Moore, David Mabb, Steven Ounanian, Kate Pickering, Charlotte Warne Thomas
26th September – 5th October 2014

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A Peer Sessions project coinciding with Deptford X, Art Licks Weekend and Lewisham Arthouse Open Studios

Curated by Tom Trevatt & Peer Sessions

Recently, there has been a resurgence in thinking the future. Not only what horrors it may hold, but how we might construct it. This important task had fallen out of favour over the last thirty years, a period of time that could be equated with a general repetition of the logic of the same. If we are now forced to think forward again, to find ways out of impending climate crises for example, we have to find new methodologies by which to construct our shared future. Perhaps the logics of contemporary art, a non-oriented, cyclical exercise, are inadequate for dealing with this project. However, equally, the modernist conditions under which the avant-garde appeared no longer exist. Thus new models need to be constructed. This exhibition asks whether the artist is a figure with whom these tasks can be carried out. Without assuming the privilege usually associated with this exceptional figure, we ask what role the artist has now, and what they should have in the future.

To engage in these questions we will adopt a methodology of synthetic thinking, practised as it is by Peer Sessions, to combine multiple ideas into complex wholes. This practice, something that art is capable of, could be utilised to connect and represent positions across a spectrum, enabling an ecology of ideas to be enacted or engendered. The exhibition will negotiate these concerns, attenuating them through art practice, and start thinking the future.

Talking about Contemporary Art

Free public widening-participation workshops to be held in the gallery, all welcome:

Friday 3rd October 3-4.30pm

Saturday 4th October 4-5.30pm

Sunday 5th October 4-5.30pm

Further information can be found at: peersessions.com
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(Im)Permanence

Lucy Harker, Tom Hemming, Trevor Simmons, Russell Terry
10th – 21st September 2014
Preview: Friday 12th September 2014, 6 – 9pm with a performance by Charles Hayward

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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. – George Santayana

In many ways the act of making art can be seen as a means to impose a sense of permanence, to immortalise a moment, person or idea. Or perhaps to create something solid, something treasured, an object to be kept forever. In reality however permanence is a false ideal, the only possible permanent state being a state of impermanence. (Im)permanence brings together the work of four artists whose practices engage with the contradictions of this complex idea. The theme is repeated as an element of each artistsí work manifesting itself in a variety of ways. In bringing the works together we hope to open a dialogue between the individual approaches of each artistís working practice.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

The private view will include a live performance by Charles Hayward adding an additional dimension to the exploration of this theme. The performance will feature two new pieces ‘SHUDDER’ and ‘CHAPELWHITE’, integrating elemental projections of video shot by Hayward, electronics of reconfigured voice samples and resonances of slowed down and manipulated bells, given in-the-moment social context by Hayward’s live drum performance. Sound art with funk backbeat.

Lucy Harker paints with varnish and oil paint. By their nature the materials are hard wearing and solid. In contrast the images are fragile explorations of mortality. Delicate portraits emerge from organic looking forms. Themes of fragility and mortality are undermined by the sculpted relief and careworn solidity of the surface, like treasured fetish objects. The outcome is contradictory, maintaining a conflict between permanence and decay, the synthetic and the organic. She is interested in the tensions created by contradictory relationships in painting and this becomes apparent through the conflicting elements within her work.

Tom Hemming works figuratively in oil paint focusing primarily on portraiture. His paintings attempt to engage with time and movement rather than a direct likeness or static moment. Working from drawings done quickly from life, the paintings are made over a period of time, removed from the subject. The intention is to capture a sort of perpetual flux more closely related to the perceived reality of lived experience. Any likeness is incidental, found through the distortions of time, movement and the painting process. The time described in the image is replaced by the time spent painting and left evident in the mark making.

Trevor Simmons’s heterogeneously accumulative drawings- amass upon the two parallel sides of a clear perspex block. Circumnavigation causes the assemblage of marks (made with coloured inks), ranging from the swift and the observed to the filamentary and the protracted, constitutes of the two opposing sides to alter in relation, without rendering the synchronicity of the object’s non-predetermined image(s) arbitrary. They hover- on the brink of becoming.

Russell Terry shows a large paper sculpture of a sarcophagus alongside a selection of two dimensional, composite paper cuts. Intricately cut and intrinsically delicate the monumental architecture of the sarcophagus creates a tension with the fragile paper. The ephemeral nature of the material and the shifting opacity of the planes contrast the human obsession with permanence and mortality evoked by the sarcophagus itself. The works achieve a particular state of ambiguity that is usually found in drawing – a shifting between solidity and transparency, a ‘state’ that isn’t fixed at all and one that is properly reserved for forms within the imagination.

Charles Hayward Drummer/songwriter with astoundingly prescient prog/industrial/post-punk soundscapers and electronic pioneers This Heat, later working with Fred Frith and Bill Laswell in Massacre and more recently a key contributor to improv kraut/jazz/pop quartet About Group, Charles Hayward has been a tireless collaborator, prolific solo artist and performance artist for well over 40 years. Evidence places his solo sets at the confluence of post-punk abstraction, percussion attack and spoken-word agit-prop; minimalist fragments eked out on drums, loops and voice broken up by spells of hypnotic drumming.

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I See I Don’t See

Luke Burton, Jack Tan, Miriam Austin, Andrew Munks, Claire Blundell Jones, Harry Lawson, Stephanie Mann and Claire Poulter
30th August – 7th September 2014

I See I Don’t See is a group show that explores contemporary notions of symbol and ritual, and its relationship with the idea of an artwork’s aura through specifically curated video, sculpture, photography and performance. The works in the show privilege the way ritual is formed through personal mythology or diffuse biography, as well as through the shared and formalised manners and repeated symbols of society.

As Walter Benjamin states, “We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of a ritual – first the magical, then the religious kind. It is significant that the existence of the work of art with reference to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function. In other words, the unique value of the ‘authentic’ work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value.”

If an artwork’s authenticity, as Benjamin proposes, is defined by its original purpose as ritual, then how easily can this ‘function’ be located now? How do artists consciously or unconsciously employ this authenticating function?

The exhibition will also include a specially commissioned performance by The Office of Public Ritual for Lewisham Arthouseís centenary, and a panel discussion on ritual convened by The Onion Discussions.

Performances and Events:

2 September 2014, 7pm – ‘Ome’, a performance-lecture by Claire Blundell Jones. ‘Ome’ explores the ins and outs of what a home is – as a comfort or confine – and will be given from within a homemade cardboard house.

6 September 2014, 5pm – Performance by the Office of Public Ritual of a specially commissioned ritual commemorating the 100th year anniversary of the opening of the Lewisham Arthouse building. The ritual will be facilitated by Nina-Shen Poblete, Christopher Minchin and Stephanie Farmer.

6 September 2014, 6pm – A panel discussion on ritual, convened by the Onion Discussions.

For further information, contact Luke Burton at luke.p.burton@gmail.com, or Jack Tan atmail@jacktan.net

Luke Burton’s practice works across media and often uses the architecture of urban landscape as a stage to perform a series of estranged or intimate interactions with architectural flourish. These actions appear as a repeated repertoire of gestures, but are elicited rather than pre-determined through paying attention to the particular site or detailís formal qualities and context. Recent exhibitions include Postcodes, Casa Du Povo, Sao Paolo; What do you think of the title: ‘Nothing Lasts’, 37 Gallery, London; Unperforming, Floating Island Gallery; Please Stand By, Chisenhale Studio Space, London; An Uneventful Day, Carroll/Fletcher, London; Love/Architecture, Turner Contemporary, Margate.

www.lukepburton.tumblr.com

Jack Tan makes work that explores the connection between the political or social and art. Prior to retraining as a potter and artist, Jack had a background in law, social policy and the voluntary sector. He currently teaches performance at the University of Roehampton where he is also researching the performativity of political resistance in his PhD. Jack has produced work for contexts such as Modern Art Oxford, Cornerhouse Manchester, the Soane Museum, Stephen Lawrence Gallery and art fairs including Frieze and Art14 London.

www.jacktan.net

Claire Blundell Jones uses humour in her drawings, performances, videos and installations to tickle at subjects which are conventionally associated with gravitas, such as wasting time, alienation, intimacy, death, shame and doubt. Her wobbly-lined drawings or DIY performance props lighten these dour themes and create an interplay of pleasure and engagement. Claire has recently exhibited at Environmental Futures, Cardiff; CGP, London; ANTI – Performance Festival, Finland; Casino Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg; Roam Festival of Walking, Loughborough.

www.claireblundelljones.co.uk

Harry Lawson completed a Sculpture MA at The Royal College of Art in 2013 where he constructed a living room for the objects he collects and artworks he makes. His practice looks into how objects and artists communicate through time, researching how archaeological methodologies might affect the way some artworks are produced. Harry is also a member and contributor to the London based artist and architecture group STORE. Recent projects include: Flow, Store, London and Everything and More, OSR Projects, West Coker. Harry also recently completed a residency at the Bothie Project, Aviemore, Scotland.

Claire Poulter aims to make personal landscapes, and explores different concerns by questioning the perceived value of a given subject with an analysis of its make-up. Using different processes and materials Poulter hopes to remain self-aware and in doing so wants her evaluation of a given environment to be expressed by the result. Poulterís objects strive to describe an experience she thinks of as ëflat-nessí and rely heavily on the use of contemporary technology, historical gleaning and personal construction. Claire has previously exhibited at Cowley Manor, Modern Art Oxford and in a number of artist-led group exhibitions.

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Miriam Austin’s practice can be thought of as a kind of shadow play. Whether installation, sculpture, video or performance, the work speaks at once of cyclical organic processes and of a form of corporeal vulnerability. Its material, formal and symbolic properties are devices ñ narrative, performative, psycho-suggestive ñ used to give rise to a suspension of disbelief; even to something akin to hypnotic trance. The works open imagined and hybrid territories whose referents oscillate between landscape, animal and body. Recent exhibitions include: A Sense of Things (Performance), Zabludowicz Collection, London; Elements of Religion, Bold Tendencies, London and The Birth Caul, Vitrine Gallery, London, 2013.

www.miriamaustin.co.uk

Stephanie Mann works primarily in lens-based media and her practice is rooted in sculptural principles. She graduated with an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art in 2013. Recently, Mann was awarded the John Kinross Travel scholarship and undertook a period of development in Florence, Italy. She worked on a short film commissioned by the BBC in Japan as part of the Edinburgh International Art Festival, and has had solo exhibitions in both Summerhall and in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Mann has work in private and public UK collections including the Royal Scottish Academy.

www.stephaniemann.org

Andrew Munks is nearly 30 and lives in London. His fish works came out of both watching Jane Eyre and going fishing and also making bonnets for people and reading the page 3 Metro. He has exhibited narrowly and currently runs Watch It gallery with Sophie Michael in the spare room.

www.watch-it-gallery.blogspot.co.uk

The Office of Public Ritual (OPR) is a service that creates bespoke secular rituals for significant occasions or life events.† We work with clients to develop a set of actions, sequence of performances or an order of programme for personal, group or public use.

www.officeofpublicritual.com

The Onion Discussions are a series of discussions that seek to peel back ideas within art and culture for a deeper look. Often taking the form of panel discussions or roundtables, the Onion Discussions brings together artists, writers, curators and other producers to consider pertinent issues in contemporary visual, spatial and material culture in an experimental format and in a cross-disciplinary context.

www.oniondiscussions.wordpress.com

2014-09 If Fish Were Human, Andrew Munks, 2013

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Lounge @ the Arthouse

Pop-up Café, 6th June – 13th July 2014

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Our gallery becomes a space to relax and refresh for 6 weeks! Greenwich Kitchen will delight your taste buds with a fantastic array of fresh food and drinks, all ethically and sustainably sourced.

Pop in for a quick snack or stay for something more substantial. Thursday nights are Foodie Nights. Bring friends and family and sample internationally inspired cuisine. Guest chefs each week will concoct marvellous menus from hot Caribbean spice to vibrant zest of the Mediterranean.

Side orders are a special programme of events to wet and nourish your appetite including; families craft activities with Arthouse artists, live music from musician Charles Hayward & Friends to Dansette record players politically spun by Rachael House’s Feminist Disco.

Monday – Saturday 9am – 6pm

Late night Thursdays and Fridays till 9pm

Friday Night Programme

6th June Barby Asante’s Open Deck Night

13th June WARNING: A virulent strand is prevalent in South East London noise. Featuring RABBIT, X-AMOUNT and MIREI YAZAWA + CHARLES HAYWARD

20th June Rachael House’s Feminist Disco – Putting the ‘disco’ into ‘discourse’ featuring Silvia Ziranek Colette Rosa

27th June TRANSMÈTIC HERESIARCS

Featuring, MER ROBERTS of 0[rphan]D[rift>], AUDiNT (Steve Goodman, Toby Heys & John Corhs), Plastique Fantastique + More

4th July Independents Day – films From the London Filmmakers’ Co-op Catalogue – as chosen by David Leister.

Featuring; Mike Dunford – LENS TISSUE, Alia Syed – SWAN, Vanda Carter – MOTHFIGHT, Nick Gordon-Smith – O, Michael Maziere – SWIMMER, John, David Leister – DRIVING THE LOOP, Noski Deville – CAROUSEL and more

11th June La Bouffe: A Night of Film with Gordon/Whitty Projects.

Featuring; Joel Blackledge – How To, Regina De La Hey and Sophie Seashell – Nux Vomica, Can Do Films – Wordfood, Jiann Hughes – Sizzling Babes, Fiona Whitty – Conversations Over Food, Tara Manandhar – Lagos is Lovely, Nick Masters – It’ll All End in Tears, WhittyGordon Projects – Vincent

Thursday night Pop-Up Restaurants from;

12th June Mana Greek, Marianna Nikologianni

19thJune In A Pickle

26th June Olly’s Turkish Gourmet

3rd July Taste of Tapas

10th July Roger Poitier

Saturday Drop-in Family workshops

7thJune Family Silhouette Workshop

14th June High Tea; cardboard cake craft

21st June Geodesia: Build a dome

28th June Butterflies & Flowers Mosaic

5th July Kidetopia; Film and Quiz for kids

This project was a partnership between Lewisham Arthouse and GCDA

www.greenwich-cda.org.uk

For further info and photos visit our Facebook page

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Lewisham Arthouse Open Studios 2014

Saturday 10th May 2014, 10am – 10pm (studios close 8pm)

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Come and explore over 30 artist studios within the beautiful Lewisham Art House. We are a voluntary led co-operative organisation, opening our doors to the public in May.

In the gallery Painting, Smoking, Eating a group show curated by Nelson Diplexcito.

Drop by for yummy cakes and a cup of tea at our pop up cafe by GCDA , followed by bar, drinks and DJ in the evening. Take part in the Cardboard Jungle workshop.

To download flyer as a pdf click here

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Painting Smoking Eating

Philip Allen, Jake Clark, Nelson Diplexcito, Freya Guest, Dave Leeson, Tom Rapsey
Exhibition Dates: 8 -17 May 2014

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“There is a delicate form of the empirical which identifies itself so intimately with its object that it thereby becomes a theory”.

This statement by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe summarises the pre-occupations of the six exhibiting artists in Painting, Smoking, Eating. The selected artists in this exhibition are painters who are driven by their experience to then reflect that experience through painting.

The artists in this exhibition know their object. They are aware of the histories, the debates and the challenges in making painting today. These artists are in it for the long haul; singularly independent but also marked by a collective distrust of the convenient and anything that would compromise their vision. The place of looking is the studio. It is work, a routine and what begins is a quarrying of the object. If you ask painters how the work begins, you will discover from the responses that there is no single unifying approach. There are always exceptions to the rule and this is perhaps one of the reasons why painting is such a resilient form.

To make paintings is to always be looking. This may seem obvious, however it is the particularity and nature of the looking for the object that is central to the experience of painting. If the painter is fortunate the image will emerge quickly. More often it will never be so immediate. Painters always hope that the next painting made will be carried out more quickly than the last. The painter knows that there is a danger in the image being too familiar, particularly if they have looked too long on a painting. To paint by its very nature is to be close and sooner or later detachment, de-familiarising often through a radical decision is necessary. This combination can awaken the object of the painting. It is a very particular form and condition of the paintings in this exhibition.

In the quarrying of the image – there is always a movement towards this visual dialogue, where truths and lies are expelled between painter and painting. It is difficult to predict, document and know when and if it will happen. It should also never appear to be forced, although there may have been innumerable revisions and detours in getting there. There is no one way to the object. Sometimes the encounter comes from a suspicion or doubt that what has been set down previously does not communicate the ‘tone’ of the object. What is certain is that this encounter can only be revealed through looking intensely at what is present. Experience, tenacity, practicality and time all play their part towards this visualisation. It is only through their combined meeting that the image begins to ‘stick’ and offers a type of resistance. To recognise this encounter is to always live in the moment.

The painting that was once familiar, having been worked, will now appear unfamiliar and will be truer for being so. Only now does the work have the possibility of looking back at the painter. The painting that does this often locates itself between states, being surface and mirror and window and wall, never quite prioritising one above another. The painter will recognise the form, the territory, surface and face as a likeness of the object. The object is a resistant image that has the ability to meet and disarm, transfix and immobilise the painter. It is the myth of the Gorgon and the painters in this exhibition know its stare and the tale intimately.

They are also aware in consolidating the moment by working on and perhaps by doing so, force and lose sight of the presence of that, which was momentarily seen. The paintings in this exhibition talk about this quarrying towards immobilisation. It should never be confused as an end for a painting, far from it. It is an opening-out into the possibilities of painting and very rarely does it happen. To “finish” is too convenient and would only close the image down. Good art is always at work. Robert Frost talks about it at work, in a literary form, and more succinctly. He says that a poem should be like a “ice on a stove – riding on its own melting”. The artists in this exhibition know this. It is the experience and the difference between looking and reflecting that experience through seeing.

There will be an opportunity to meet the artists on Saturday 17 May at 6.00pm in an open discussion and all are welcome. The title of the exhibition is taken from the Philip Guston painting of 1973, Painting, Smoking, Eating (Collection Stedelijk Museum).

-Nelson Diplexcito 7.5.14

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The Mysterious Function of Belief

Christopher Oliver
Exhibition Dates: 23rd – 27th April 2014

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The Mysterious Function of Belief is a meditation; an address to humans responding to chaos in nature, our sacred geographical locations, arctic tundra and visual pleasure. Science attempts to explain chaos logically, but the esotericism present in religious symbology (particularly Catholic) and its rituals that offer their own interpretation of the universe is what appeals to the artist. The artist’s creed is to believe in One Pure Aesthetic Value and the preferred colour is Gold, Pure Gold.

Join us for a culmination of five years immersion in visual pleasure formed from collections made from the exotic detritus of an artist’s life.

The preview on 25 April, for one night only, will feature a new installation in the adjoining room.

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Ruth Beale, FFWD the Revolution, 2014

Ruth Beale
Exhibition Date: 16th April 2014
Book Launch: 6pm – 9pm
Tours: 8pm, 8.30pm

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In the hundredth anniversary year of the opening of Deptford Central Library, a performative tour and publication by Ruth Beale will chart the the history of the building, the uses of each space, and the political ambitions of its occupants. Combining new writing and archive material, the work encounters presence and absence, ambition and legacy, from the Carnegie endowment to 75 years of public library service, from a brief occupation in the early 90s as a venue for raves to community protest, and the last 20 years’ tenure as an artists’ studio cooperative.

Ruth Beale is the current Graduate Studio Bursary Artist at Lewisham Arthouse.

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RuthBeale FFWD performance photoSimon Beesley

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Snorkel, Bass Drum, Alan Wilkinson

12th April 2014

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SNORKEL South London based collective whose members come from different corners of the alternative scene, bringing together the tactics of improvisation, electronica, and sound art. Propelled by the drums, the band revel in the joy of angular repetition, throwing in elastic interruptions on guitar, trombone, analogue and digital synthesisers and vocals. To date they have released two albums and an EP on Slowfoot Records, with a third in the pipeline.
“…a vital flow of angular energy and unpretentious swagger” [The Wire] “…the missing link between Krautrock and Lee Scratch Perry” [Rock a Rolla) “…the spirit of Ege Bamyasi-era Can looms large” [The Wire]
“ …this is deeply grooved and experimental stuff” – [Clash magazine] “…bathed in the rhythmic propulsion of Can, spiky post-punk Moog/guitar interplay, and the dissonance of This Heat” [Uncut]

SNORKEL – ONE LONG CONUNDRUM (video)
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SNORKEL – The Conversation

BASS DRUM South East London noise and then some from the Vanguard Street and surrounding area as drum dynamo Charles Hayward clashes with the synthetics of new-kid-on-the-block Riley leaving a trail of destruction, taking no prisoners and giving as good as they get, only more so. Music as fever, sound as object. Very physical.
Bass Drum – Frost (video)

ALAN WILKINSON Alto and baritone saxophonist Alan Wilkinson has had a lifelong fascination with the more extreme end of the sonic palette, fuelled by the overloaded guitars of his youth, and by ecstatic free jazz, as well as a firm belief in the undiluted potency of spontaneous creativity. As a consequence he became primarily involved with free improvisation and has played with some of it’s greatest names including Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, and Alex Schlippenbach, as well as in acclaimed groups like the incendiary Hession/Wilkinson/Fell,his current Norwegian quartet Akode and with NYC duo Talibam! The more exposed and personal challenge of solo performance has always presented a welcome departure being documented on Seedy Boy from 1994, and 2011’s Practice.

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Alan Wilkinson – Solo, Pori, Finland (video)

admission £5
no bar, bring your own

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Crossing Points

Lewisham Arthouse presents three films by Alia Syed, Amanda Francis and Lucy Harris – Panopticon Letters, The Making of… and Crossing Points
Thursday 10th April, 7pm – 9pm

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Lewisham Arthouse presents three films by Alia Syed, Amanda Francis and Lucy Harris – Panopticon Letters, The Making of… and Crossing Points.

Each film presents uninhabited locations haunted by events long passed. Tides, shifting light and fleeting shadows observe the constant movement of time and a multitude of cultural and historical perspectives. The artists however offer no single point of observation. The shifting horizon disputes its role as a point of reference; figures remain fluid, fixed boundaries shift. From these fluid states the audience is encouraged to examine their own position as observers, observed and witness.

Characteristics and themes shared by these works will be discussed in conversation with curator and writer Paul Goodwin.

Alia Syed’s work examines memory, representation and colonialism through narratives constructed from both personal and historical realities. Panopticon Letters is a single screen work that explores ideas of memory, techniques of the body and colonialism, within the tradition of landscape painting. In the film, footage of the river Thames in London is altered to bring about a false relationship between sky and water. This is set against the technical descriptions of the architectural plans for an ideal prison as read from ‘The Panopticon Letters’ of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), who had first identified the Millbank site for the construction of his Panopticon. The darkness of the severed horizon-line allows different modes of address to emerge within a correspondence of letters, reformulating a multitude of narratives of time and place.

Amanda Francis is preoccupied with identity – specifically, how attempts to ‘define’ can be influenced by context. Francis’ is particularly interested in ‘Black’ as a cultural construct, the evolution of a political and social identity within the occident. The Making of… is the culmination of a project inspired by a saint with an identity crisis. Taking the practice of hagiography as a starting point, the film charts the story of Saint Maurice who died along the French/Swiss border in the third Century AD. He later became a cult figure in 15th Century Germany and a popular subject for art of this period. Following the footsteps of other artisans, Francis’ intentions to add to this catalogue were thwarted. The film presents a meandering narrative of the process, conflated with a tale of a man, an object and a legend…

Lucy Harris’s work explores relationships between personal narratives and rereading of the spaces that we inhabit, often shifting the usual/received focus of attention.

Crossing Points, filmed in the 1936 Berlin Olympia Stadium and the Kuppelsaal, exploits the interplay between memory, history and architecture. Through the interweaving of these empty venues with two fencers performing a series of choreographed gestures, a dialogue between distinct architectural spaces disrupted by a legacy of past activity is created. Her background as an artist and international fencer led to investigating the relationships between these two activities, exploring the use of the performance as a means to trigger undisclosed historical narratives.

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Awkward Conversations

New work by Liam Kean and Ed Liddle
Exhibition Dates: 2nd – 13th April 2014

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“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers rarely meet.” – Truman Capote

Art is a conversation between the artist and the subject; the work and the viewer; between the contemporary and art history – and in the case of a two person show, between the artists involved. Liam and Ed have made work in close proximity together for over four years and their work deals with similar themes, including what it is to be a painter in the current artistic environment.

Sometimes, the conversations surrounding art can be awkward – Awkward Conversations aims to be a confrontation or clash of two peoples work. It also aims to ask as many questions as it does provide answers – to be a visual conversation between two peoples work, even if that conversation is awkward.

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GERTRUDE

ROSHI FEATURING PARS RADIO ANGLEPOISE
Friday 14th March 2014

GERTRUDE are an alternative 4-piece band based in and around London. Formed as a collective in 1996 Gertrude soon caused a stir in many different London scenes. They enjoy playing gigs in a wide variety of venues – such as onboard the Motorship Stubnitz or alongside ‘punk robots’ at a science/art event at the ICA.

Gertrude weave electric cello, melodica, clarinet and keyboard with traditional rock instruments to create a unique sound. Live, the band is energetic, rhythmic and intense – their set often scattered with droll commentary and surreal musings. Gertrude have been influenced by punk rock’s ‘DIY’ ethos, feminist thinkers as well as numerous other bands, ideas, people and events. The band have toured Europe, Canada and the U.S. and have been asked to perform at various Ladyfest events. A new album LOVE AXE WISH LIST was released in November 2013 on their Urban Missfits label.
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ROSHI featuring PARS RADIO is the band built around Welsh-Iranian singer-writer Roshi Nasehi. Their music is a mix of sometimes radical interpretations of Iranian songs she grew up hearing alongside her own evocative and atmospheric songs. Her collaborator is Graham Dowdall who also works solo as Gagarin, is a member of Pere Ubu and former colleague of Nico, John Cale and many others. Roshi feat. Pars Radio have released several records to widespread acclaim. The most recent 3 Almonds & A Walnut (2013) “a beguilingly unclassifiable mix of traditional roots and crunchy avant-garde sound effects and beats”, The Independent (4 stars); “sophisticated cross-cultural urban art-pop… an original creative voice”, Songlines;
“Classic songs that transcend any “exotic” or “culture clash” boundaries…” The Quietus.

The band have gigged extensively in UK and also in Europe – live performances combining Roshi’s incredible voice with keys, vocal looping as well as Graham’s electronic beats, atmospheres and field recordings.
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ANGELPOISE is a new project from Jo Thomas and Charles Hayward conjuring a primitive elegance from voice, laptop and drums. Is this electronic circuitry, city traffic or blood flow? A constant play with sense of scale and dynamics invokes a visceral field of mesmeric hypnosis. Earlier they thought to both wear pinstripe suits, but that seems inappropriate now that the sound has stated its stark, stern & unequivocal demands.
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Disability Re-Assessed

Shape Open Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: 12th – 29th March 2014

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This exhibition is an annual call-out for disabled and non-disabled artists to submit work in response to a disability-focused theme. The theme for 2013 was Disability Re-Assessed. The winning submission, selected by a panel of arts industry judges, was announced prior to the exhibition showcase at The Nunnery Gallery and was awarded the Shape Open Prize of £500.

REFLECTION, the winning work by Eric Fong represents a reflection on identity and disability in the context of facial disfigurement. This short film plays with perception and moves between abstraction and reality. The piece was done in collaboration with the organisation Changing Faces.

2012 proved a momentous year, in which disabled people dominated sporting events, cultural celebrations and political debate. The focus on categorising, defining and re-assessing disability was, and continues to be, as prevalent as ever – influencing and impacting on the experience and representation of disabled people around the UK.

The Shape Open exhibition showcases work from a range of multi-disciplinary disabled and non-disabled artists, whose work explores and comments on the 2013 theme Disability Re-Assessed. Shape’s Patron Yinka Shonibare was on the shortlist panel and helped select works from 46 participating artists.

‘The Shape Open Exhibition provides a fantastic platform for artists to show their work. Such exhibitions offer great opportunities for artists to be discovered by institutions and large audiences. Similar exhibitions have helped to contribute to the development of my own personal career’.

– Yinka Shonibare MBE, Shape Open Patron

Shape is a disability-led arts organisation working to improve access to culture for disabled people. We develop opportunities for disabled artists, we train cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and we run participatory arts and development programmes. We aim for:

a. More disabled people as arts audiences

b. More disabled people employed in, and leading, the arts

c. More disabled people participating in arts activities

d. More high quality practice by disabled artists

For more information please visit www.shapearts.org.uk

For a preview of the winning entry REFLECTION by Eric Fong www.youtube.com/watch? V=wuzq; OAZOjg

For further information about the exhibition please email: jhinuk@shapearts.org.uk

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Domming

Lily Hawkes and Holly Hendry
19th February – 2nd March 2014

‘Domming’ is a graffiti term referring to a colour mixing technique created by spraying one colour over another while it is still wet, then rubbing the two together. The term is derived from ‘condom’, referencing its synonym ‘rubber’ and is sometimes called ‘fingering’ as it is commonly done with one’s fingers.

Domming presents the work of Lily Hawkes and Holly Hendry, whose sculptural installations deal with important notions of process, including the physical manipulation of material and colour. Influences of architecture and scale are employed in both artist’s work, involving the viewer in an experience of simultaneous confrontation and seduction through the sculptures that are presented. Forms from the inner body accompany silhouettes from urban cityscapes, dry and soft materials are placed in juxtaposition with the taught and rubbery, squashed against the framework of the gallery or existing as islands within the space, mimicking the social or physical structures at the core of their creation.

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Flamin’ Martians

A Retrospective of Nonexistent
24th January – 10th February 2014

Eero Tiitula
I first came across Flamin’ Martians in Glasgow in early 2008. I was scraping together my weekly food budget as a living statue, when someone handed me a deep fried disc wrapped in a greasy flyer… such are the unexpected scraps of life that feed the alternative world of Flamin’ Martians.
Contradictions are their essence. Fine art is renounced, yet fine art fuels the Flamin’ Martians’ unsigned flyers and untagged graffiti. Members identify themselves to each other by wearing leather jackets bearing a symbol. Flamin’ Martians denies its existence as a group, yet leaves its traces everywhere to the initiated. To the uninitiated, however, the traces appear to lead nowhere…

A retrospective is usually expected to bind together various lines of development, to tell a coherent story. Flamin’ Martians shuns the simplicity of Aristotelian dramaturgy: the beginning is not known, the end does not exist, and the confusing middle does not help to construct either one of them. Such fragmentation and inconsistency is what provides the element of surprise and excitement.

Flamin’ Martians is above all a manifestation of the 21st century counterculture. Behind its pseudo-religious rhetoric and symbolism lies a genuinely agnostic world view.

Flamin’ Martians strive for Utopia – or the nonexistent – aiming to create an exciting space for discussion and openness…

Expect the unexpected, we invite the uninvited.

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OSCILANZ, HOOFUS, OPEN TUNING

10th January 2014
Doors Open 8pm, Entry £5

OSCILANZ is a new trio formed of Charles Hayward (This Heat, About Group), Ralph Cumbers (Bass Clef, Some Truths) & Laura Cannell (Horses Brawl, LCAB duo).

They came together in 2013 with the intention of interpreting the music of Hildegard Von Bingen, a 12th century nun and mystic, a herbalist and inventor of her own language, who was also a prolific composer of some very beautiful pieces of music.

The group started off using very small fragments, sometimes runs of only 3 or 4 notes, as a basis for improvisations, bypassing any ideas of correct ways of performance and instead connecting with the spirit and magic of the music in a very subconscious and non-verbal way. The melodies took on a life of their own and Oscilanz was born.

Trombone, drums, violin, recorders, voices and electronics all blend together to produce something beguiling and hard-to-pin down. The word Oscilanz is taken from the Lingua Ignota, the language Hildegard invented. It means ‘October’.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/oscilanz
andrebosman.com/osc/

HOOFUS based in the undergrowth of rural Norfolk, Hoofus writes and performs electronic music, using visceral ritual rhythms smeared with restless feral yearning and the distant hum of moss covered machinery to express the feelings of living on the borders of ordered civility and untamed wildness, and the uncanny beauty of the intangible, the occult and the arcane seeping through into the post-industrial 21st century world of reason and corporate compliance.
www.hoofus.com

OPEN TUNING is south east London guitarists Terry Edwards (AKA ThE WizarD of New CrOZ) and Holly Victoria Hayes playing a gently hypnotic set of acoustic guitar improvisations.
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No bar – bring your own refreshments

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Artistic Autistic

Joel Smith, Wesley John-Smith and Victoria Noel
4th – 8th December 2013

Artistic Autistic is an exhibition celebrating and sharing the work of three young autistic students who attend Drumbeat School. They are all very passionate about making art in their chosen medium.

Joel, who is 13, makes models mostly from re-cycled materials. He gets his ideas from watching TV, playing games and using his imagination. He likes to play with the models when he has made them.

Victoria, 14, does photography as an everyday thing and takes a camera where ever she can, photographing herself, friends, family and anything she finds interesting. Editing her images is currently her favourite pastime.

Wesley, 13 years of age, draws because it makes him feel free. He likes detail and precision. Trains and designscapes are his main interest.

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The Groundnut

27th – 29th November 2013

Firstly we would like to say a special thank you to our guests and hosts at Le Bal Café, Paris, for our last evenings in September. It was a fantastic experience, and we enjoyed sharing our food with a new audience.

We very much emjoyed another run at Lewisham Arthouse in November, after the success of the July series.

We hosted three nights of dinners on Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 and Friday 29 November 2013.

Tickets were £32pp with advance purchase is essential (available from our website – www.thegroundnut.co.uk – or by email). Food was served banquet style, and the menu will be revealed in full on the day of the event.

For more information or to see menus and pictures from past evenings visit thegroundnut.co.uk. If you have any further questions, contact us on thegroundnut@gmail.com.

Warm Regards,

Duval, Folayemi & Jacob
www.thegroundnut.co.uk

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Crackle / Housewives / Necessity

23rd November 2013
8pm to 11pm

CRACKLE: is an off-kilter collaboration between bass player Nick Doyne-Ditmas and drummer Frank Byng, that draws on their extensive experience as musicians and producers working across a wide range of traditions and practices, old and new. Through a series of studio experiments and improvisations the duo explore the frontiers between analog and digital, acoustic and electric, lo-fi and hi-fi, real and imaginary…Recent addition to the band is Ben Cowen [keyboards], one half of electronic duo 7-Hurtz [Output] and also currently plays with Snorkel and Vibration Black Finger.

soundcloud.com/slowfoot/crackle-heavy-water
www.slowfoot.co.uk/crackle.html

HOUSEWIVES: I was in Music Complex, Deptford’s rehearsal studios, buying some drumsticks. From along the corridor I could hear an intriguing and dynamic sound, coming from one of the rehearsal rooms.
“Who’s that?’” “Housewives.” “Who are they?” “Local band, playing Bird’s Nest next week.” So I went to the gig, but they went on early and I missed them; total piss off.
Couple of weeks later I’m in Music Complex again, sound along the corridor. “Is that Housewives?” “Finger on the pulse, sir.”
They come along to the reception area for a break, we get chatting. They’re playing 2 weeks time at Old Blue Last, and by the way, here’s a soundcloud link.soundcloud.com/housewivesband
Far out. 2 weeks later I’m at Old Blue Last to hear Housewives. Far out. A sort of monochromatic surliness slowly warms up to a barely controlled anger, hypnotic and building from the simplest elements. Far out. I want to hear more of this music.

www.facebook.com/pages/Housewives/450983988303606
soundcloud.com/housewivesband
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAGTxr__N3Q

NECESSITY: The power trio re-configured for the age of social and emotional collapse. 3 generations of underground noise makers collaborate in the unending struggle with the mainstream subconscious infrastructure.
Alex Ward plays guitar. Eric Clapton was never ever God. And anyway, God is dead.
Nathan Harmer plays found and abandoned sound.
By the way, beneath the pavement, the beach.
Charles Hayward plays drums. It’s a life. Keep going.
Their first CD Strip Search will be released in the new year.
So fresh it’s off the map. Click here for eternal youth.

nofacebook.com/pages/Necessity/02077034708
soundisloud.com/necessityband
www.doubleyoutube.com/watch?y=sE8_4sf

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Look

Chrissie Stewart
13th – 17th November 2013

Look explores, semi autobiographically, constructs. How the artist was encouraged to be a girl, a woman and a woman artist. By approaching some of the artist’s past, the hope is to explore through various pieces the impact on her. This often means using found objects that relate to her past. There is a hinted narrative sometimes clear, sometimes more poetic and open.

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V4V + Lone OMI + The Balloons

One event, 3 different approaches to music making
Saturday 19th October 2013, doors open 8pm, entry £5

V4V is group V4V is sound V4V is shape
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V4V sci-fi nostalgia
Same shape, different detail
V4V may vary V4V Mayday! Mayday!
V4V deserve the rights and wrongs
V4V so much more than 4 on the floor
Uncommon time V4V do 7/8, 11/4, 24/7, 9/11
V4V learn from city: traffic, buildings and crowds
V4V been Japan and back
V4V been Birds Nest and roundabout (see A-Z)
V4V hearts synapses V4V sound-art funk
V4V DJ BPM, Charles Hayward, Nick Doyne-Ditmas, Vern Edwards
V4V uncertain until box open V4V south-east London noise
V4V soundcloud.com/v-4-victory

LONE OMI sings songs about mountains and rivers and heartbreak…
I am the Sun video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YONe1cwJxZE (Preview)
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THE BALLOONS: Fuelled by passion and commercial indifference in equal measure, The Balloons have evolved from being completely unknown to utter obscurity in a mere 35 years.
With an energy to rival that of terminal invalids at least 25 minutes their junior and a unity of purpose that belies their capacity for persistent squabbling, The Balloons remain the dark and cheery purveyors of juddery, shuddery, jittery, jottery, scuttlesome jat they always was.
Jock? Razz? Who gives a monkey’s makeover!!?
http://theballoons.wordpress.com/
theballoons.bandcamp.com

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Re-Launch

South East London Arts Network
11th – 27th October 2013

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South East London Arts Network (SELAN) officially re-launch with a group show at the Arthouse Gallery.

The show features work by SELAN artists, many of whom have exhibited widely in London and beyond, including Phil Baird winner of the Outside In Award 2012.

The eclectic show highlights the talents of our artists who work in a range of mediums including mosaic, glass, painting, drawing and mixed-media.

SELAN – South East London Arts Network is South London’s leading visual arts organisation for people living with severe and enduring mental health support needs.

www.southeastlondonartsnetwork.org.uk

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Open Studios

Friday 4th October 2013, 6pm to 9pm
Saturday 5th October 2013, 12pm to 6pm
Sunday 6th October 2013, 12pm to 6pm

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Brian Archer, Peter Baker, Chris Barnes, Richard Buckle, Laura X Carle, Barry Cunningham, Alison Day, Amanda Francis, Anita Gwynn, Lucy Harker, Pat Hextall, Terry Humphrey, Julia McNeal, Nina Necak, Janine Nelson, Mark Nelson, Stephen Palmer, Ben Parry, Sofie Pinkett, Rosey Prince, Toby Rye, Anna Salamon, Rachel Salter, Joyce Saunders-Diop, Fiona Smithers, Shirley Stewart, Alma Tischler Wood, Luigi Vanzan, Ben Varney, Eleanor Watson, Sara Willett

We invite you to come and explore 30 artist studios over three floors of our beautiful Edwardian building, the former Deptford Library.

Friday 4 October, 6pm to 9pm
Saturday 5 October, 12pm to 6pm
Sunday 6 October, 12pm to 6pm

Don’t miss our special programme of exhibitions, events and site-specific works, during and preceding open studios weekend. On the ground floor, Arthouse artists will be demonstrating people power in the group exhibition POWERHOUSE. Back by popular demand is our Ping Pong Tournament with special cocktails to savour. In the gallery artist Rory Macbeth will be showing a site-specific work LOST PRAIRIE, and as a special treat he will be giving an artists talk. And last up, David Aylward and friends will be leading a parade through the streets of Deptford in tribute to our dearly departed anchor. You can catch the parade on route or at the Arthouse where things culminate in a striking crescendo.

Anchor Parade 5 October arrives at 4pm (approx)

Special thanks to Greenwich Kitchen for their sterling work providing scrumptious food in our pop-up café. Greenwich Kitchen is part of Greenwich Co-operative Development Agency (GCDA), a voluntary organisation, established to support the creation of community owned social enterprises focused on food and health.

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LOST PRAIRIE

by Rory Macbeth as part of Deptford X
Exhibition Dates: 27th September – 6th October 2013

During Deptford X, Rory Macbeth will be making a site-specific piece of work in response to the complexities of Lewisham Arthouse as a long-standing co-operative arts organisation.
His performance-driven practice has recently seen him translate a novel by Kafka with no understanding of the original language and no dictionary, write email excuses to a gallery for a poor art show of dog paintings, and to play Beethoven on piano in front of classical music audience, having never played piano before.

For his show at Lewisham Arthouse, Rory Macbeth has built 3 street billboards and rented the space out via a pubic advertising company, Outdoor Advertising Ltd, who have found 3 clients interested in advertising here as part of new publicity drives. As such, all three adverts are fully functioning current adverts, the same as the ones on the buses that drive past the Arthouse or that line local roads, and in this sense a sort of reversal of the ‘80s idea of billboards as a site for Art. Lost Prairie is also a direct response to the particular circumstances and history of the Lewisham Arthouse as an independent and autonomous space, with all the utopian advantages and nightmares that brings with it: forcing the corporate world into the co-operative’s hard-fought independent boundaries temporarily, in a sense to see who wins. Named after a half-remembered song lyric, Lost Prairie is romantic, hopeful, stupid, awkward, funny and wrong.

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FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH

An evening of music, film and movement
Friday 13th September 2013, doors 7.45pm start 8.15pm

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MONKEY PUZZLE TRIO Viv Corringham, electric voice, Nick Doyne-Ditmas, electric double bass, Charles Hayward, drums and keyboards

JO THOMAS will unfold her elegant and mysterious soundworlds

GONE HOUSE, GHOST HOUSE (film plus live soundtrack by RABBIT with butoh interventions/actions by Bridget Scott)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdX__nWNa-o

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STAR GAZING LAZER CATS

Nicky Teegan
Exhibition Dates: 12th – 22nd September 2013

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Following a 6 month residency in Lewisham Arthouse, Nicky Teegan presents a collection of devotional objects, handmade oddities, sounds, texts and footage. Drawing from the every day, science fiction and local stories of mystical phenomena this exhibition will function as fiction rather than a hermetically sealed system of pedagogies.

Teegans’ work deals with the fanatical collecting of things. It specifically focuses on the fetishisation of everyday objects, outmoded technologies and found oddities and their subversion into devotional objects. It examines hidden meanings behind these devotional objects and rituals and their purpose. Underlying this, Teegans’ work draws from dystopian science fiction and ufo cults.

Alongside the exhibition was an event on 21 September, from 6pm. A dusk performative walk with the exhibition as a starting point. The two hour performance was a subversion of objects, science fiction and local stories of mystical phenomena, functioning as a fictional narrative and subverting the location and objects into a place of mystery. Tea and snacks were provided at the end.

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The Question Market?

An arena of exchange: 5 performance events in 3 hours
30th August 2013, 6-9pm

30 minute drum rool

Bridget Scott makes work that takes movement to expressionist terrain, adapting a variety of approaches to achieve places of vulnerabilty. She lives in Kyoto, which naturally informs her work. http://www.deepkyoto.com/?tag=bridget-scott

Charles Hayward is a musician, songwriter and performer. 40 years at the coalface of the European underground. https://www.facebook.com/charleshayward.official?fref=ts

Harmergeddon is Nathan and Fae Harmer, a duo of sound artists, utilising a hybrid technology from the hinterlands of now.

Merlin is an emerging performance artist, using movement, word, character and costume for her own reasons. She will bring her friends.

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The evening will feature 5 performance pieces:

The BELL AGENCY is a study in cooperation and concentration. For 3 or more players. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LXAL4GYPrw

Bridget Scott will slowly unfold an UNTITLED movement piece involving gesture and stillness that takes its cues from the Arthouse gallery space. Nathan Harmer and Charles Hayward will provide live soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdX__nWNa-o

Harmergeddon will play their sound in semi-darkness, enhanced by the flickering TV monitor and LED devices, music from the dreamtime.

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30 MINUTE SNARE DRUM ROLL does pretty much what it says, as Charles Hayward takes the limited sonic palette of the snare drum roll and uses it to build a 30 minute sound world of inflection and structure, a pencil thin line of sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFSveQ57Co8

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MODEL VILLAGE is a collection of miniatures, song, movement, spoken word and sketches. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTd3kanSXmk

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PROPRIOCEPTION

31st July 2013
Nina Davies, Elenor Hellis, Cara Mills, Zoé Nguyen, Anna Pickles Harvey, Michael Peters, Jean-François Santhéo Le Minh, Andrew Smith, Sif Thy, Christian Wright, Charles Verni

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“The prefix “post-,” which denotes an immobile state past history, is replaced by the prefix “re-,” which points at repetition or response. We are not after production. Rather we are in a state in which production is endlessly recycled, repeated, copied, and multiplied, but potentially also displaced, humbled and renewed. Production is not only transformed but fundamentally displaced to locations that used to form its outside: to mobile devices, scattered screens, sweatshops and catwalks, nurseries, virtual reality, offshore production lines. It is endlessly edited and recombined.” – Hito Steyerl, Cut! Reproduction and Recombination, e-flux journal (2012)

When I watch a film it exists in numerous tabs. 1channel and Facebook blur into one site. I listen to an album dissected into a Youtube playlist, its narrative deleted by the silence of buffering or the roar of adverts. The tune is interrupted as the BBC News theme tune emanates from my IPhone. I open the app and slip through the top headlines with the haptic touch of my thumb, stories of heterogeneous nature and origin blending into one heterotopian space. A new story emerges and in one smudged swipe of an index finger I’m back at a fleetingly current event. The laptop screen flickers off temporarily and my gaze is brought up from one GUI to another. I’m in a digital composite and it hurts. Apps don’t translate well corporeally and it’s hard to move through a 4D space.

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THE GROUNDNUT

18th – 27th July 2013

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The Groundnut was a dinner project founded by Folayemi Brown, Duval Kojo Bankole Timothy and Jacob Fodio Todd. Menus were inspired by their mixed European and African heritage. The food was freshly made and unless otherwise stated all recipes are new creations. Lewisham Arthouse hosted The Groundnut for a series of six pop-up dinners over two weeks in July 2013. Tickets were £30 and advance purchase is essential. For more information, and to learn abot future events visit thegroundnut.co.uk or email thegroundnut@gmail.com.

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VISUALIZING AFFECT

Curated by Katalin Halasz and Polly Card
8th – 10th July 2013

2013-07 Visualizing Affect

This exhibition has been organised in conjunction with the International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference 2013 that takes place at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Visualising Affect investigates art-practices and visual research strategies that consider and challenge the affective and emotional dimensions of race, sexuality and gender-constructs in art and society. It provides a compelling argument for an aesthetic engagement with affect and offers an insight into the ways in which social research remains concerned with the role and possibilities of feeling.

The art show and conference talk bring together the most exciting minds from social science and visual arts, both new talent as well as established international contributors to explore these issues. The group show runs over three days and includes sound and textile installations, video-art, photography, film screening and talks from 17 contributors from 10 different countries.

Artists and visual sociologists participating in Visualising Affect are Sutapa Biswas, Sandra De Berduccy, Nirmal Puwar, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Julio Gonzáles Sánchez, Karin Michalski, Laura Cuch and Yvonne Füegg.

Films by Jane Kin Kaisen and Guston Sondin-Kung, Jack Tan, Justin Archer, Martin Bleazar and Rosanna Scott, and by Konstantinos Panapakidis are screened as a special event to the exhibition.

A panel talk with academics Allison Carter and Rachel Clarke and exhibiting visual practitioners Laura Cuch and Konstantios Panapakidis takes place on 9 July as part of the International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference 2013.

For additional information, images or interview requests please contact: theblushmachine@gmail.com

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BIZZARO FILTER

19th – 30th June 2013

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BIZZARO FILTER is an exhibition of portraiture by a group of emerging artists working in paint and print. Each artist operates as a filter, projecting, delineating and subverting the figure; creating a new perspective rooted both within a tradition of painting and their own personal experience. The results inevitably are bizarre.

Mathew John Atkinson – www.matthewatkinson.co.uk

I create ethereal hinterlands that are eerily constructed and ambiguous in a bid to explore the moral and finite reality that humans have formed. The paintings challenge the viewer to reflect upon and enter into a dialogue concerning their universal vulnerability and empathy. A fusion of techniques influenced by Richter, Polke, Turner, Goya, Doig to name a few are combined to produce paintings that are poignant, calculating, hopeful and otherworldly.

Benjamin Bridges – www.benjaminbridges.com

I see my art practice in parallel with life as a journey of learning and discovery. A journey through which I can produce work that reflects my eclectic interests and that also serves as a tool for the discovery of new ideas. Most of my practice is purposely sombre and unpopulated, but when painting portraits I wanted to make paintings that were human, eccentric and yet light hearted. The painting process for me is about speed, a relaxed touch and the intensity of colour.

Christina Christova – www.inachristova.com

My work is a voyeuristic intrusion into fantasy and secret desires. Using photographs of people as a starting point from which I draw on the mood, infusing them with my own imagination and memories. I aim to create an ambiguous world of escapism and delusion, in a sense an alternate reality. Currently I am painting on uneven or reused boards the surface of which add their own, accidental mark to the work.

Amy Cochrane – www.amycochrane.co.uk

My recent work takes its imagery from Greek and Roman sculpture, where I paint restored marble busts with the colours they may have worn, which raises questions regarding our taste and the kitsch. The ‘Mug Head’ series toys with musicological display practices and directly explores the relationship between object-hood, decoration and the illusory nature of painting. The paintings record the process from object to staged photograph and finally to painting. They then serve as a record of constant metamorphoses: in scale, dimension, and in cultural value.

Nadir Kinani

I am a printer making CMYK halftone screen prints. I treat each print and the process as individual works of art. My work is split into two branches, the first of which I call ‘Funsies’. These are prints that I make purely out of an enjoyment of the process, where I strip away all sense of context to make enjoyable images to look at. The second strand I have labelled ‘Pretentious’. These works explore philosophy, metaphysics, religion, science, art history and theory. These works are purposefully contrived and dense with questions and influences, in which every element serves a specific function.

For more information please contact benjaminbridges@gmail.com or visit hollowearthlondon.com or facebook.com/HollowEarthLondon

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Take It Or Leave It

29th May – 9th June 2013
An exhibition of work by members of s-a-l

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Take It or Leave It is a mixed media exhibition by the London based collective s-a-l (Spanish Artists in London). The show explores and celebrates the artistic response to changing cultural context and identity. s-a-l aims to promote and exchange experiences with other contemporary art groups and create awareness and interest in Spanish culture.Using various mediums the artists examine their idiosyncrasies and responses to their own personal identities. The exhibition encompasses installation, sculpture, painting, photography and music; featuring: Maria Alverez, Trndad Ball, Marisol Cavia, Loli Cardenoso, Slvia Ramona Estevez, Manuel Noguera, Natalia Rivero.

Event: Friday 31 May kicking off from 6pm as part of SLAM Last Fridays.
Playing live SLEEPLESS KIDS CLUB – indie/folk band from Madrid.

Free Entry.

www.soundcloud.com/sleeplesskidsclub

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Berliner Mauer Dunkelheit

24th April – 5th May 2013

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Mystique and Mundanity

A study of the fallen Berlin Wall aims to reinvent the mystique of a famous city by elevating the mundane

Press photographer Haydn West and filmmaker Tom Sands spent five nights documenting what they saw over a nocturnal six mile walk along the route of the fallen Berlin Wall, using 35mm black & white film, a DSLR and radio microphones.

Kunst Photo-Projekt used the photographs and film as the starting point for an installation of photographs, film, sound-design and 3D work. The personal vision of the artists investigates the mystique of the Berlin Wall. The photographer used a film camera while being filmed by a cameraman using a digital camera. The two types of media are exhibited side by side, encouraging the viewer to reflect on the reliability of information in our world today.

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I N V I T E 100

Townly Cooke & Mary Louise Evans
6th April 2013

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I N V I T E 100 was an Event/Exhibition on Saturday April 6th 2013 that marked the 100th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone for the then Deptford Central Library, now the Lewisham Arthouse Grade II listed building.

In 1913 over 70 people sent RSVP letters accepting or declining their invitation to this ceremony that celebrated this new building which honoured the then progressive idea of libraries open to all.

We invited today’s inhabitants of the same addresses that attended the ceremony on Saturday April 5th 1913. Copies of the letters and archival material will be exhibited alongside new work documenting the process and response to the invitation.

All were welcome to join us to celebrate this building and be part of this event. For further details contact Townly Cooke at townlycooke@googlemail.com or Mary Louise Evans at evansmarylouise@gmail.com

Thanks to Lewisham Local History and Archive Centre.

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Mahsiwel

Duval Timothy
22nd – 29th March 2013

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Duval Timothy presents Mahsiwel, a solo exhibition of new artworks at Lewisham Arthouse Gallery, situated in the heart of the local area of south-London that has inspired many of his works. The exhibition includes video, paintings, sculptures, audio, prints and drawings; a display of Duval’s cross-disciplinary practice. Mahsiwel will be Duval’s first major show since graduating from Central St Martins University, London and Beaux Arts, Paris.

The title of the exhibition, Mahsiwel, is an example of how Duval has recently adopted the use of text and anagrams to his practice to evoke questions about language and a suggested ethnic background inside familiar names and places. This technique was also used in a musical context in The world Is Yours where Duval transcribed the lyrics of the rapper Nas’ hip-hop track by jumbling up the letters in each word and re-rapping the new lyrics over the Pete Rock instrumental.

Duval also continues his exploration of clothing through collars, bow ties and hats. He explored his old school’s photographic archive (also situated in Lewisham borough) as a platform for various collages highlighting elements of the uniform. In his studies, Bow ties for Corbusier, Duval comments on traditional architects attire through the influential modernist architect Le Corbusier. The motif of a continually expanding bow tie is a celebration and critique of the infinite potential of repeated units typically used in modernist tower blocks, something that Corbusier pioneered.

Duval who is Sierra Leonean, Ghanaian and English references the large west-African population that exists in south-London. In Kufi, the artist has taken the logo for Lewisham borough (a crown of yellow figures holding hands) and embroidered the logo in relief around a blue wool kufi hat that he constructed. Fittingly, the name for the traditional west African hat “kufi” translates as “crown” in Yuroba.

A closing event took place on Friday 29 March 6 – 9pm as part of South London Art Map Last Fridays.

www.duvaltimothy.co.uk

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Co-operatives’ Salon

Hosted by Ruth Beale
16th March 2013

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Community-led initiatives, social enterprises and co-operatives – people continue to seek new ways to work collectively, and to reinvigorate tried-and-tested models. From its noble beginnings in 19th century Rochdale, through to the 20th century labour movement, the co-operative sector is growing again, and bucking the recession trends. But doing things together isn’t always easy, as members face both the realities of home-grown democracy and external bureaucratic pressures.

Following on from 2012’s ‘year of the co-operative’, this event will bring together ten co-operatives and collectives to consider the co-operative from all angles. As well as being a chance to share practical information, it will address the ideological and political reasons behind co-ops. The afternoon will include presentations by a range of organisations, followed by a series of discussions and workshops about democracy, community and ethics, bureaucratic barriers, common strengths and difficulties.

Participants include representatives from: 115 (Kentish Town), Brockley Housing Co-op, Cube Cinema (Bristol), Cubitt (Angel), Lewisham Arthouse, Myatt’s Fields Park Project (Brixton), The People’s Supermarket (Bloomsbury), Voice of Youth (Hackney) and the former London Filmmakers Co-op.

2-6pm discussions, workshops and presentations

6-7pm food and drinks in the newly renovated gallery, and the opening of Arthouse members’ ‘secret show’

7pm screening of ‘Together’, dir. Lukas Moodysson

Free, all welcome. No booking necessary – drop into any part of the day. Step-free access.

Lewisham Arthouse is an artists’ studio cooperative in New Cross, South London, formed in 1994. The Arthouse is currently undergoing organisational change, including the formation of a new charity to run the building – a spectacular Grade II-listed Carnegie Library. Ruth Beale is the current Graduate Studio holder. The Arthouse Gallery runs a selected programme of contemporary art exhibitions throughout the year. If you are a curator or an artist with an idea for an exhibition we’d like to hear from you.

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SECRET SHOW

Ongoing from 16th March 2013

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Alma Tischlerwood, Brian Archer, Rosey Prince, Luigi Vanzan, Toby Rye, Sara Willett, Pat Hextall, Janet Hyde, Amy Cook, Mark F. Nelson, Gregoire Bouffon, Shirley Stewart, Terence McDonald Humphrey, Tom Hemming, Charles Hayward, Heather Steed, Chris Barnes, Natasha Rosling, Richard Buckle, Jemma Grundon, Phil Ashcroft, Townly Cooke, Anita Gwynn, Fiona Smithers, Alison Day, Laura X Carlé, Duval Timothy, Amanda Francis, David Garcia Pena.

In 1905 Andrew Carnegie promised a sum of £9,000 for a central library in Deptford and commissioned Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas to design a building. The foundation stone was laid along with other objects and affects; this show is dedicated to that moment in 1913.

Deptford Central Library closed down in June 1991. The building suffered heavily from vandalism, attracted squatters and became a venue for illegal raves. In 1994 local pressure groups, convinced the local authority not to redevelop the building – since then it has remained in community use.
As part of the buildings centenary celebrations, a time capsule lies locked behind the gallery walls evidencing the individuals who currently work and care for the building. Once you enter the gallery, listen out for the bumps, scrapes and murmurings of it’s becoming…

Exhibitions, Previous Event

SNORKEL and RAF & O

Live Performance
8th December 2012

Snorkel[toggle](Above)Improvisation recorded and filmed at Snorkel Studios 2012.[/toggle]

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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Going Backwards Towards

LEOHT Collective
21st November – 2nd December 2012

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Going Backwards Towards brings together four artists working with the materiality of the photographic medium to explore ideas of memory, nostalgia and the unconscious. Alexandra Davenport, Hekla Flókadóttir, India Guthrie and Silje Lovise Gjertsen all work into and beyond the surface of the image, exploring process as a means of excavating the latent desires and memories within each artist’s practice. Addressing notions of craft and the hand-made in relationship to femininity and sisterhood, the works embrace the physicality of the artwork and the artist’s bodily interaction therewith in the processing of making. Defying the speed of image reproduction and consumption within our digital age, the works echo one another formally whilst intertwining narratives and memories to generate new understandings.

Alexandra Davenport’s series of black and white ballet slippers printed on a mottled, leathered surface, recall a mother’s attachment to her daughter’s long outgrown garments, archiving the past to safeguard the future. Davenport works with ideas of the personal archive and a passing on of craft from mother to daughter over generations. Other works include images from family albums of grandmother, mother and the artist herself stitched into to obliterate and highlight aspects of the image. Her practice examines a reclaiming of the feminine through preserving traditional methods of production.

Hekla Flókadóttir’s work explores the relationship between man and it’s environment, often in a dreamlike and nostalgic way. Her surreal like painted canvases and collages invite the viewer into her fantasy world. Flókadóttir’s work explores her relationship to the mother, the organic and reclaimed femininity. Using both photographs and drawings to project her dreamlike state, she uses delicate papers and soft shades to incorporate the female body into the landscape.

India Guthrie’s abstract drawings and paintings scrolled and layered upon one another show process and prepatory material as final works, a never-ending examination of form and materials. Skin tones and cool blues and pinks depict organic shapes that escape the drawings in wax models and sculptures.

Silje Lovise Gjertsen’s distant dreamlike portraits explore the subconscious state of mind; inducing feelings of dreaming, nostalgia, imagination and memory. Her portraits study herself and members of the collective to create an extensive study of this out of mind/body state. Using long exposures, she forces her sitters into a trance-like state — enchanting them into their subconscious. Gjertsen creates a “fetus inside a womb” like effect, exploring this temporary space – a world outside of reality. Her enchanting, vignette portraits hold an ethereal and prolonged presence of the sitter.

Alexandra Davenport is a British-born visual artist, who lives and works in London. With a previous performance background as a classically trained dancer, her practice primarily explores choreographic and performative elements of the body.

Silje Lovise Gjertsen is a Norwegian artist currently based in London. Her work explores questions of identity, family and nature; often with a closer look at the subconscious state of mind, dreaming, nostalgia, imagination and memory. Her practice emphasises experimentation with different techniques and materials in the darkroom.

India Guthrie is an English artist based in London. Working primarily with drawing, India’s practice explores abstraction and form.

Hekla Flókadóttir is an Icelandic London based artist, whose childhood in the Icelandic countryside surrounded by nature has had a huge impact on her practice – imaginary/ surreal, process. This collaboration was formed through the artists working together at London College of Communication.

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My Playground

An exhibition by Clair Tighe and Nina Necak
7th – 11th November 2012

MyPlayground

An exhibition by Clair Tighe and Nina Necak

Clair Tighe –

At the age of 7 the Arthouse was like a massive playground for me. I ran around, played with the pottery wheel and explored all the old rooms. At the age of 17 I see it as a haven for artists wanting to live their dreams. Using Photography, this exhibition highlights the artists in their habitat and shows that it is not only who they are, but what they do. The Arthouse is a gateway for creative thinking and you can help it by coming to see my exhibition.

Nina Necak –

At the age of 7, and through The Adoption Service, Clair chose me to be one of her new parents. We instantly bonded, and my work through the media of Ceramics, Printmaking and Painting shares some of the joys of family life.

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UMuMa

24th October- 4th November 2012

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Cavernous steel structures, intimate bodily forms and a man spending time, watching the clock: Peter Ibberson, Bethany Marett and Godai Sahara team-up to present * new video, pictures and sculptural daydreams about life, play and the imagination.

* F, FA and A
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TRACK PROJECT EXHIBITION

19th – 21th October 2012

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An exhibition of work created during the Track Project workshops. The Track Project has now come to an end. This series of workshops for young people which ran at Lewisham Arthouse over the summer to coincide with London 2012, was extremely successful. Led by some inspiring artists, our fantastic young participants produced some great work. To celebrate we are holding an exhibition of the artwork and films produced.

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Celebrating 20 years of Lewisham Arthouse

28th September – 14th October 2012

PhilAshcroft_GustonYeti_2006[toggle](Above)© Phil Ashcroft, Guston Yeti, acrylic on canvas, 2006.[/toggle]

To celebrate our 20th anniversary Lewisham Arthouse invited all the artists who have had studios with us, past and present, to put work into a group show. We wanted to acknowledge the contributions of anyone who has been an Arthouse member over the years.

In the last twenty years we have seen many artists working in very diverse artistic fields ranging from painting, sculpture and installation, print, illustration, textiles and ceramics through to film, video, performance, theatre, music and more. Deptford X was originally conceived at Lewisham Arthouse and our members have organised and curated all kinds of projects from The A6 Show to Chain and The Hallway Projects; events such as Keep and Vampire Night; international exhibitions by artists from South and North Korea, Japan, USA, France, Italy and Germany; local educational projects including The Magic Snake and Mark of Action to Simply Red And Green and The Track Project; artists as diverse as Mark Titchner, Rita Keegan, Walker and Bromwich and Bob Godfrey are just some of the many that have exhibited work at the Arthouse.

We have a lot to be proud of and a lot to thank our members for!

Lewisham Arthouse Open Studios will also be open Friday 5 October 6-9pm and Saturday and Sunday 6 & 7 October 12-6pm.