Simeon Barclay: In the Name of the Father
"I've been very aware of psychological and physical barriers whether they be structural, governance or bureaucratic forms of institutions. Those forces... have had an implication to how I think about space, how I would understand that navigation of the gallery."
Simeon Barclay: 'In the Name of the Father' is open and free to visit at the South London Gallery until 27 November.
https://www.southlondongallery.org/exhibitions/simeon-barclay-in-the-name-of-the-father/
A Poem from the South London Gallery
It's #NationalPoetryDay!
💕 The Source of Art is in the Life of a People 💕
We invited poet Jude Yawson to respond to this quote, inlaid in the floor of the SLG’s Main Gallery since 1897.
The Source of Art is in the Life of a People
It's #NationalPoetryDay!
💕 The Source of Art is in the Life of a People 💕
We invited poet Jude Yawson to respond to this quote, inlaid in the floor of the SLG’s Main Gallery since 1897.
Your Network Is Your Net Worth | Mykaell Reily, Shy One & Makeda Bennett-Amparbeng
Find out about the value of networking and what it can do for your career through a conversation between Mykaell Reily, Shy One & Makeda Bennett-Amparbeng.
Learn about how to make systemic change, hear the best ways to build relationships in the music industry and find out how to work with others to make things happen!
Part of Convergence Labs from the South London Gallery. Convergence Labs is an alternative learning space for young people which aims to platform experimental and innovative approaches to contemporary issues through creative exploration.
Explore other Convergence Labs videos and writing commissions on our Journal: https://www.southlondongallery.org/category/convergence/
We invited group of families living in Peckham and Camberwell were invited to cook their favourite meal in our Fire Station kitchen. Charlotte and Ryan taught us how to make Macaroni Cheese! 😋
Food Stories is a collection of the tales behind the recipes and conversations they shared, illustrating the important role of food in family life.
Find out more about the project and watch the full series on our website: https://www.southlondongallery.org/food-stories/
🚨'The Show is Over' ends this weekend!🚨 Don’t miss your last chance to see this major international group show. The last day to visit the exhibition is this Sun, 4 Sep. We're open all weekend, from 11am - 6pm.
Find out more about the exhibition from the curators in our latest video.
https://www.southlondongallery.org/exhibitions/the-show-is-over/
Creating Powerful Writing with Season Butler, part 1 | Convergence Labs
✍️ Make your writing more impactful with tips from writer & artist Season Butler.
✍️ In this video, Season tells us about how to use your own experiences for powerful & meaningful storytelling.
Produced as part of Convergence Labs, with Spread the Word
Explore more content, produced as part of Convergence, on the South London Gallery journal: https://www.southlondongallery.org/category/convergence/
Food Stories - Zakia, Jasmine and Graciella
We invited group of families living in Peckham and Camberwell were invited to cook their favourite meal in our Fire Station kitchen. Zakia, Jasmine and Graciella taught us how to make Cocoyum Stew! 😋
Food Stories is a collection of the tales behind the recipes and conversations they shared, illustrating the important role of food in family life.
Find out more about the project and watch the full series on our website: https://www.southlondongallery.org/food-stories/
🤔 What does it take to be a Creative Director? 🤔
Last year we spoke to Ollie Olanipekun founder of Flocktogether & creative agency futurimpose. He shared industry insights & his thoughts on the skills you need for the job.
Tune in to hear more about skillsets required for the job, strategy and self-care. Get Clued Up!
Making Sense is supported by A New Direction. This is the second of three videos aimed at inspiring you to be the change you want to see.
https://www.southlondongallery.org/projects/making-sense/
Food Stories - Julz and Leila
In February 2022, as part of our Flavour Cravers programme, a group of families living in Peckham and Camberwell were invited to cook their favourite meal in our Fire Station kitchen.
The resulting video series, Food Stories, is a collection of these special dishes and the tales behind them. The recipes and conversations they shared illustrate the important role of food in family life.
In the first video, Julz and Leila share how they make chicken and plantain curry with rice.
Find out more about the project and watch the full series on our website: https://www.southlondongallery.org/food-stories/
School SOS is a nomadic Not-For-Profit Critical Design School that seeks to challenge modes of delivering Higher Education in the UK. This August, the SLG will host two public lectures, programmed by School SOS
🆘 On 3 August, ex-British Army officer and open source analyst, Nick Waters will examine the use of open source information and investigation as a methodology for understanding the world around us. Waters has a special interest in the conflicts in Syria, as well as social media, civil society, intelligence and security.
🆘 On 10 August, Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics Helen Hester will explore the fixed nature of gender and gendered labour through work and technology. In her book, 'After Work', Hester explores the social and political nature of domestic work and how it is often an extension of the daily paid work life for women.
Book online now:
https://www.southlondongallery.org/whats-on/events/
Flavour Cravers: Roast Chicken Recipe with chef Marie Mitchell
🍗 Planning your Sunday Roast?
🥦 Join us in the kitchen with chef Marie Mitchell as she teaches us how to make a delicious Roast Chicken dinner with Sweet Potato Fries and steamed Broccoli in a new video.
😋 Find the full recipe on our website and cook along at home!
https://www.southlondongallery.org/education/children-families/flavour-cravers/in-the-kitchen/
This video is part of Flavour Cravers, a dynamic programme celebrating food, culture and community at home, at school & in our neighbourhood.
The programme nurtures our interrelationships through cooking and conversation, unearthing connections between us.
Watch this space for more cooking videos coming soon!
‘To dismantle a house’ is artist's Valerie Asiimwe Amani’s new performance and installation work, created following five weeks in residence at the SLG in partnership with the Roberts Institute of Art.
🧹 Earlier this month, over four events she presented the new work at the SLG, exploring the ways in which cultures intersect, be that through music, food, faith, texts or dialogue.
The work focused on the space of the home, and the public and private relationships that form within domestic spaces.
This video is just a taste of what visitors to the galleries experienced. Stay tuned for more coming soon...
Find out more about Amani and her experience at the SLG: https://www.southlondongallery.org/journal/interview-with-valerie-asiimwe-amani/
🚨 THE SHOW IS OVER 🚨
NOW OPEN
This group show brings together sixteen international artists whose work grapples with remapping the architecture of an ever-unfolding afterlife of historical violence.
Through painting, film, photography and sculpture, the artists take personal approaches to global politics.
http://ow.ly/ruCT50JEQEX
❗ The South London Gallery is pleased to be hosting Bloomberg @newcontemps 2022 for the fifth consecutive year from 9 Dec 2022 to 19 Mar 2023. ❗
Drawing on personal and universal narratives – from complex identities to notions of memory and storytelling – this year’s exhibition will demonstrate a rich diversity of voices and approaches to making.
The rigorous two-part selection process was headed by a panel of three internationally renowned artists comprising James Richards, Veronica Ryan and Zadie Xa.
This year’s 48 artists include final year students and recent graduates from arts institutions across the UK, as well as practitioners on alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes including Open School East, Intoart, The Royal Drawing School, Into the Wild, and Conditions Studio Programme.
See all of the selected artists and find out more: https://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/news/bnc22-artists-announced?fbclid=IwAR1Yg1v3m0IXE_8wnvw9rd_OqsR_l6Ea8ox5-qdmo4_qOvcHva7m6RnOi04
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Supported by @aceagrams @bloombergdotorg #BridgetRileyArtFoundation
Exhibition venues: @humberstreetgallery @ferensartgallery @southlondongallery
Graphic: Ashley Kinnard
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#BNC2022 #NCArtist #NewContemps #zadiexa #jamesrichards #veronicaryan
POoR Collective: How to make change in your local area
🥊 How to make change in your local area 🥊
Shawn Adams from POoR Collective spoke to us about how you can positively impact your neighbourhood for our Making Sense Clued Up video series.
Find out about POoR’s recent project with young people to create a community mural at Carney's Community in South West London and gain some top tips for setting up your own project.
Making Sense is a local cultural education project that assembles us collectively around themes of recovery, inclusion and anti-racism through creative practise and conversation. Find out more: https://www.southlondongallery.org/projects/making-sense/
Until 5 June at the South London Gallery, artist Céline Condorelli presents a new work. Titled ‘After Work’ the video and installation explore themes of labour, play and public space. In 2019 the SLG commissioned Condorelli to create a playground for the nearby Elmington estate and Condorelli takes the process of making this playground as her starting point.
The installation also includes a sculpture which functions as seating from which to view the film, in keeping with Condorelli’s interest in support structures and forms of display.
On 1 June, Condorelli will be in conversation at the SLG with her collaborators, filmmaker Ben Rivers and poet #JayBernard.
🎫Tickets only £5/£3
🔗https://www.facebook.com/events/1109493836574927/
A Creative Heads film, by Theo Brinch, Lenz films 2020. Initiated by the Embassy of Switzerland in the UK
With thanks to Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom
‘After Work’ by @celinecondorelli reflects the relationship between work and free-time. It explores the idea that going to a gallery is usually considered time-off from work while at the same time, the experience is the product of cultural workers.
🎥 A new film work made in collaboration with @benriversfilm and #JayBernard takes the process of making a playground as its starting point. The installation includes a sculpture that also acts as gallery seating from which to view the film, blurring the lines between support structures and forms of display.
🎟️ Join @celinecondorelli @benriversfilm and poet Jay Bernard for an in-depth conversation on 14 May around the exhibition and the launch of Condorelli’s new book titled After Work published by Archive Books. Book your tickets online now from the link in our bio for just £5/£3.
Happy #EarthDay! 🌍 We love our green spaces here at SLG. 💚 The SLG Fox Garden and Orozco Garden are densely planted with year-round scented flowers which encourage local wildlife. Together, our two gardens are home to over 60 different types of plants! 🌿
The Orozco Garden opened in 2016 and was created over two years by artist Gabriel Orozco, with support from 6a architects and horticulturists at the Kew Gardens Together, they transformed the space into a unique sculptural work with various levels and spaces. The Orozco Garden is open every Saturday and Sunday for free. Come and visit this weekend!
PUSHBACK Happening this Saturday, 3-6pm!
Aged 14-21?
Join us for an afternoon for social change at the SLG. Enjoy art and performance by local young people and sounds by @bornnbread DJ Collective; chat creative careers with Ollie Olanipekun @ollie_ranger founder of @futurimpose and @flocktogether.world, Shannie Mears, co-founder of @elephantroomuk, and take part in a collaborative artwork with Tyreis Holder @_tyreis_ artist and poet. 💚💙💚
Invest in new creative skills that will stay with you forever - sign up for @augustaakerman 's Botanical Printmaking 4-week course this Spring
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Book now via our link in bio, under ‘what’s on’
£125/£100
Clore Studio, 16, 23, 30 April & 7 May
11am-1pm
#southlondonartist #SLGskills #southlondongallery #botanicalprintmaking #print #plants #springtime #newskills #investinyou #art #creative #create
New Contemporaries artist @rafal_zajko discusses his work, 'Amber Chamber II (resurgence)' - touching on themes of industrialism, the environment and connections with working class and queer identities.
You can see this extraordinary work on display and much more until 20th Feb.
In her work, @newcontemps visual artist Shannon Bono @bonosart_ shares everyday lived experiences happening within black womanhood. In the painting, 'WATA', Bono specifically explores ideas of destruction and renewal.
See this piece, alongside a huge breadth of other work on display at the SLG until the 20th Feb 💚
#southlondongallery #slg #firestation #newcontemporaries #ShannonBono #visualartist #blackfemalebody #blackwomanhood #identity #painting #mangbetuvessel #femaleartist
In her work, @newcontemps visual artist Shannon Bono @bonosart_ shares everyday lived experiences happening within black womanhood. In the painting, 'WATA', Bono specifically explores ideas of destruction and renewal.
See this piece, alongside a huge breadth of other work on display at the SLG until the 20th Feb
@newcontemps artist #leonpozniakow
takes us through his work, 'CK Low-Rise Brief with Fly' an intricate brass sculpture and facsimile of an existing pair of briefs.
You can see this piece, alongside a huge breadth of other work on display, right now @southlondongallery .
Open until 20th Feb – plan your visit 🧡
Meet @newcontemps director Kirsty Ogg - as she introduces this year's cohort of up-and-coming artists.
BNC 2021 presents "some of the most interesting work that’s emerging from formalised and alternative education programmes at the moment in the UK"
Open until 20th Feb – plan your visit📍
#southlondongallery #slg #firestation #maingallery #newcontemporaries #KirstyOgg #earlycareerartists #bloombergnewcontemporaries2021 #southlondongallery #southlondon #art #exhibition
Opening this Friday, @newcontemps exhibition of emerging and early career artists returns to the SLG for the fourth consecutive year.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 includes 75 artists selected through an open submission by internationally renowned artists @hewdjlocke, @taishani and @michellewilliamsgamaker.
New Contemporaries was established in 1949 to give visibility and recognition to an incredible breadth and depth of emerging talent. It also provides other vital development opportunities that enable artists’ practices to become more sustainable long-term.
#BNC21 is supported by @acegrams @bloombergdotorg #TheBridgetRileyArtFoundation @govartcol @kccuk @spaincultureuk @swedeninuk @czechcentrelondon @germanyinuk
#contemporaryart #contemporaryartists #southlondongallery #peckham #southlondon #newcontemporaries
Image credit:
Jaime Welsh, The Ambassador's Suite (Rob and Adam), 2020.
Agnieszka Szczotka,Władysław's Teeth, 2019.
Aaron Ratajczyk, A Hole in Space ATH-BER, 2020.
Bryan GIUSEPPI Rodriguez Cambana, The Sexy Smell of Growth Hormones, 2018.
Elsa James, Black Girl Essex; Here We Come, Look We Here, 2019.
Tom Harker, Spectral Perennials, 2020.
Shannon Bono, WATA, 2020.
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to bring unprecedented challenges. The death of George Floyd and the #BlackLivesMatter movement has galvanised a generation demanding urgent structural change.
Making Sense is a new local cultural education partnership between the South London Gallery and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts @mountviewldn. This collaboration cements a commitment to practising anti-racism and challenging the systemic issues unfairly holding young people back.
We are calling all teachers, students, change makers, collectives and creatives to join our movement to generate systemic change by submitting think pieces and by contributing their work to this ever growing online and onsite platform🕹
Head to our bio to explore our anti racism and teaching resources⤴️
Contribute to the site and have your work published online💻
We welcome experimental work, essays and reviews as well as personal testimonies📝
Send your works to [email protected]📧
#antiracism #AntiBullyingWeek #makingsense #BlackLivesMatter #structuralchange #mountviewldn #changenow
Ahead of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 opening at SLG in December, check out the work of the 75 selected @newcontemps artists on the #NC2021 Online Platform! 🖥️
https://platform.newcontemporaries.org.uk/
The platform also includes biographical material, texts and a bibliography of research material generated by the artists 📚 It also includes an introduction by 2021 selectors Hew Locke, Tai Shani and Michelle Williams Gamaker 🗣️ and contributions from a range of emerging curators and writers, providing an opportunity to bring new voices to New Contemporaries and new perspectives on the artists’ practices 💭