Hannah Barry Lewisham Art House Flat Time House Peckham Platform Arcadia Missa Sunday Painter Peckham Print Studio South London Gallery APT White Cube Drawing Room Jerwood Space Wapping Project Studio Voltaire Ambika Subramaniam, Peihang Huang, Suning Wang, Scarlett Bowman, Linda Vigdorcika, Frances Hogg, Seungyang Wong, Allen Ren, Shuwen Wong, Min Hae, Jin, David Kovacks, Bijan, Stephen Hennessey, Justin Rang, Mimita Ma, Nicholas Yang, Yang Chang
OPENING: NOVEMBER 12TH MARIE JACOTEY Solo exhibition “Dolly” opens 12th November Private View: 6:30- 9pm.
HANNAH BARRY
LEWISHAM ART HOUSE CURRENT EXHIBITION Michael McManus, Solitary Spaces Exhibition Dates: 29 October - 9 November 2014
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.
FLAT TIME HOUSE
DR SINCLAIR’S DRAWER KATRINA PALMER WITH SAMUEL HASLER, FRANCESCO PEDRAGLIO AND SARAH TRIPP 9 October–23 November 2014 | Opening Wednesday 8 October 6–9pm
PECKHAM PLATFORM
About Peckham Platform Peckham Platform recently took the exciting step of becoming a charity, independent from the University of the Arts London. OUR VISION Our vision is that communities can inform and shape their engagement with their locality by working with contemporary visual artists. OUR MISSION Our mission is to create meaningful and accessible social arts practice for Peckham and beyond. OUR PRACTICE We support artists and communities to co-create and own new artworks by: 1. Working with the best social arts practitioners who prioritise working with people as an integral aspect to their practice. 2. Working with communities in a sustainable way to identify issues that are important to them and can be addressed through contemporary art. OUR OBJECTIVES Our objectives for the next three years are to: 1. Deliver an expanded co-commissioned gallery programme which will deepen our relationships with our community partners in Peckham; 2. Champion social arts practice and become a critical resource for HE partners, leading practitioners and engaged organisations; 3. Critically investigate the social impact of our place based work so that we contribute to wider sector development and influence policy making in this area; 4. Build a sustainable organisation with diversity and partnership at its heart. OUR IMPACT The work we do in Peckham helps increase civic pride and build a positive sense of place. The work we will do to champion and critically contribute to the development of social arts practice will increase the number of communities that can enjoy this kind of positive cultural experience. The work we do to critically investigate the social impact of our place based work will influence future policy in this area.
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TRISPACE GALLERY
ARCADIA MISSA
SUNDAY PAINTER UPCOMING EXHIBITION Samara Scott 28 November - 18 January 2014
Whistle And Flute James Viscardi 12 October - 9 November 2014 The Sunday Painter is pleased to announce the opening of Whistle and Flute, a solo presentation of new works by New York based artist James Viscardi. The slippery nature of human things. Layers, associations, appropriations, concept’s and design all distilled into physical objects, objects tugged back and fourth across boundaries of applied exclusivity, to a point of flux. Too much friction, too fast, the disjointed hypocrisy bubble to the surface, a new declaration must be made, compromises must be had. The old order must be reshuffled, redesigned, its very nature must be reassessed, an entropic universe dictates the only constant to be change.
SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
APT
WHITE CUBE ‘The work is about rites of passage, of time and age, and the simple realisation that we are always alone.’ Tracey Emin, July 2014 White Cube is pleased to announce ‘The Last Great Adventure is You’, a major new exhibition by Tracey Emin, her first at the London gallery in five years. Featuring bronze sculptures, gouaches, paintings, large-scale embroideries and neon works, the exhibition chronicles the contemplative nature of work by an artist who has consistently examined her life with excoriating candour. Reflective in tone, the works in the exhibition are the result of many years’ development, from the bronze sculptures – the most significant body she has made to date – to the works on canvas. There is a complexity in the sculptural form of the bronzes, simultaneously robust yet tender, that points to a consummate understanding of material, composition and subject matter. In Grotto (2014), a tessellated, cave-like chamber gives sanctuary to a solitary figure as artist proxy, while the muscular form of Bird (2014) harmonises sinuous lines with gravity and grace. A series of bronze bas relief plaques portray figures that appear amorphous yet distinct, with subtle interplay between light and shadow. While the paintings at first appear simple and immediate, many of them are the result of application, obliteration and layering over a period of several years. Emin repeatedly returns to the canvases as a means of reviewing, revising and reconsidering her own position in relation to painting through temporal passages. The title ‘The Last Great Adventure is You’, which is transcribed in neon within the exhibition, was originally intended by Emin as a reference to the ‘other person’; however, over the two year period since she began creating this body of work, she came to realise that the implication was once again coming back to the self.
Tracey Emin The Last Great Adventure is You 8 October – 16 November 2014 South Galleries and 9 x 9 x 9, Bermondsey
DRAWING ROOM
The Nakeds 25 September 2014 – 29 November 2014 David Austen, Fiona Banner, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, George Condo, Enrico David, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Leon Golub, Stewart Helm, Chantal Joffe, Maria Lassnig, Paul McCarthy, Chris Ofili, Carol Rama, Egon Schiele, Nancy Spero, Georgina Starr, Alina Szapocznikow, Rosemarie Trockel, Nicola Tyson, Andy Warhol and Franz West. A group exhibition looking at drawings of the body exposed. The naked body is frequently the physical terrain artists traverse in search of the inner self. How to represent love, shame, solitude and sexual yearning? Drawing from the self or life model, from reproduction or the imagination, has provided artists with the freedom to explore desires, fears and fantasies. The Nakeds takes as its starting point selected drawings of the single figure by Egon Schiele. From here it considers work by artists from the post-war period to the present day. The exhibition will include new work made specifically by Enrico David, Stewart Helm, Chantal Joffe and Nicola Tyson. The Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918) was a prolific and provocative draughtsman. His drawings of the body unclothed or in a state of undress are amongst the most arresting works to have emerged from Vienna in the tumultuous years around the First World War. Working at the same time as Sigmund Freud, in the birthplace of modern psychiatry, the artist was attacked and acclaimed in his short lifetime. Still dividing opinion today, his drawings tested long-held distinctions between the ‘nude’ and the ‘naked’, art and pornography. The exhibition seeks to explore this contested terrain. - Drawing Room thank the School of Humanities, Music and the Performing Arts, and ‘Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries’, Plymouth University for their support of the catalogue and contribution to Gemma Blackshaw’s research. We thank the Polish Cultural Institute and Paulina Latham, Head of Events and Visual Arts, for their support of the inclusion of the work of Alina Sczapochnikow. We thank our Patrons Miel de Botton, Brian Boylan and Veronique Parke for their generous and vital support of this exhibition.