#34 Annual Open Exhibition
Now in its 34th year, The Open exists to encourage artists at all stages of their career from across the UK to submit their work as part of a large-scale annual salon show. The Open is a key date in the gallery’s
SKEEN NITE (COME)
Plastique Fantastique / 0(rphan)d(rift>) with Kirsten Cooke / Benedict Drew
Plastique Fantastique / 0(rphan)d(rift>) with Kirsten Cooke / Benedict Drew SKEEN NITE (COME) Thursday 8 November 2018 6.30 – 9.30pm In the lead up to their 2019 exhibition at CGP London, artist collective Plastique Fantastique and friends host a night of performance,
Radio Anti residency research online
Radio Anti were the first commissioned artists-in-residence in our recently launched Bermondsey Bothy. During their residency, Radio Anti (Matt De Kersaint Giraudeau and Ross Jardine) researched allegory, metaphor and other literary devices within the immigration process for asylum seekers, working with young refugees
DIFFIKUΛT
Marcia Farquhar
Join us to celebrate the first ‘non-survey’ of work by the iconic artist Marcia Farquhar. Marcia’s work in performance, installation and object-making is conceptual in nature; precariously balanced between the prescribed and the unpredictable – socially open, broadly embracing of circumstance, and resolutely
Marcia Farquhar Events Programme : Somethings for the Weekends
During its run, Marcia Farquhar’s Diffikuλt can be experienced in the company of the artist on mostly Fridays & Sundays throughout the exhibition, where she will act as the tour guide of her own relics (excluding 28/30 Sept). The following schedule stipulates the
ACTS OF CLOTHING
MARCIA FARQUHAR
“Make a catwalk and model your own clothes on it. Talk about them one after another until you’ve run out of garments or time” Marcia Farquhar 1999 – 2018. Join us for the rare performance of Marcia Farquhar’s legendary work Acts of
Lunar House and Other Stories
Radio Anti
An afternoon of radio broadcasts about the UK immigration system. Drawing on their four week research residency in the Bermondsey Bothy, Radio Anti host a series of broadcasts that conduct a literary reading of language used in immigration legislation, visa application forms
The Everyday Political
Curated by George Vasey
Artists // Foundation Press, Emily Hesse, Joy Labinjo, Toby Phips Lloyd, Gayle Meikle with Ciara Lenihan, Kuba Ryniewicz with Deborah Bower, Jo Coupe and Janina Sabaliauskaite, Mark Pinder, Matt Antoniak, Jade Sweeting with Keano Anton, Holly Argent and Harriet Sutcliffe with the Women
Watch // John Walter in conversation with Jonathan P. Watts
For the finissage of John Walter’s exhibition CAPSID (May – July 2018), Southwark Park Galleries (formerly CGP London) hosted an in conversation with John Walter and writer Jonathan P. Watts. In this, they discuss the representation of viruses in art and how
Inaugural Bermondsey Bothy Residency
Radio Anti
Radio Anti are the first commissioned artists-in-residence in our recently launched Bermondsey Bothy. During their residency, Radio Anti will research allegory, metaphor and other literary devices within the immigration process for asylum seekers. Despite being presented as objective and unauthored statements of
Bermondsey Bothy Launch
Bobby Niven
On Friday 29 June we launched our Bermondsey Bothy, a permanent outdoor art workshop and residency site by Scottish artist Bobby Niven (co-founder, Bothy Project) Bermondsey Bothy is a quiet space for artistic experimentation, horticultural and conservation research, writing, meditation and creativity. A
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Harry Bix
summarynjdkjds.pdf // 16 June 2018 // 6pm CGP London // The Gallery Harry Bix and the East Anglia Records House Band perform a reading of his publication summarynjdkjds.pdf. The text is written in reference to a year’s discussion of an ultimately failed
CAPSID //
JOHN WALTER
CAPSID is the latest multi-media maximalist installation by London-based British artist John Walter (b.1978), best known for Alien Sex Club. Presenting a compelling, sometimes riotous and often surreal world incorporating 250 works of art, CAPSID is the result of collaboration between Walter
SEEK-PRAY-ADVANCE, EPISODE 1: EYES ONLY
MEGAN BROADMEADOW
Inspired by recent UFO religious leaders, and records of hallucinations from across human history, SEEK-PRAY-ADVANCE, EPISODE 1: EYES ONLY is the first chapter of an aggregative national touring exhibition by Bristol-based artist Megan Broadmeadow co-commissioned by CGP London, QUAD, Derby and Green Man Festival.