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ROY VOSS
Formerly Clare College Mission Church, Dilston Grove in Southwark Park was one of the first ferrocement concrete structures in this country, designed to prevent future risk of collapse. Now secular, the space is raw, dramatic and scarred. The inside feels hurt. The
GOLD RUN: REMIX
James Lake
The history of the Paralympic Games is remembered in an original and thought-provoking installation by Outside In artist James Lake, called Gold Run: Remix. The piece has been created with the help and stewardship of the Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard Wilson RA
AUDITORIUM
Gabriel Birch & Sophie Yetton | Mary Hurrell | Helene Kazan | Thomas Lock | Mirza & Butler | Linda Persson | Richard Whitby.
Pavilion is a collaboration between Gabriel Birch and Sophie Yetton, which intends to reframe the space of exhibition through interventions that call into question the relationships between viewer, art work and gallery architecture. Auditorium is a proposal for an alternative display mechanism
Swandown
Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair
In London’s Olympic year, CGP london present Swandown – The Installation, a project of Herculean proportions by two of Britain’s most creative individuals: film-maker Andrew Kötting and writer Iain Sinclair. Swandown is a plot of Olympian ambition. A poetic film-diary about encounter and
The End of Innocence
Mat Collishaw
CGP London are proud to present the UK premiere of The End of Innocence by artist Mat Collishaw which will be will be projected on a monumental scale within the cavernous raw space of Dilston Grove. The End of Innocence presents a
QUILL TWO – A Three Day Manifestation
Brian Catling
Matt’s Gallery at Dilston Grove. The original QUILL was made for an exhibition in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford. It was mounted above a long slender case containing instruments and paraphernalia for the act of writing, including a silver sheathed pen that closely
WAKE
A series of six mini-residencies. Concept by Anne Bean
A series of six mini-residencies featuring Anne Bean, William Cobbing, David Cotterrell, Carl Von Weiler, Rachel Lowe and Bronwen Buckeridge. Click here to view the online video and book. WAKE (visible tracks of turbulence) interrogates materiality itself, as well as notions of
Homeless Gallery
open submission photography exhibition
Dilston Grove offers a temporary home for Homeless Gallery’s second edition, organised by Deconstruction Project with the support of the Polish Cultural Institute in London. Since its inception in 2002, the Homeless Gallery has had over 80 editions worldwide, including UK, Ireland,
TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell
Matt’s Gallery presented a group exhibition at Dilston Grove, realised by Anne Bean, Robin Klassnik and Richard Wilson. Paul Burwell was infamous for his exuberant fusions of fine-art installation, percussion and explosive performance. He was a staunch advocate of, and passionate participant
BRIDGE
Michael Cross, curated by Andrée Cooke
Bridge is a spectacular new site-specific design commission for Dilston Grove by Michael Cross. Housed in a former church, (one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction and a Grade II listed building), the piece comprises submerging two thirds of the
HELD
Graeme Miller
Ten fragile glass bowls of sky, hold them and they come to life charged with vibrating sound. Each vessel represents a lost life. Held is a mesmerising audio-visual installation that connects its audience with the disturbing phenomenon of people who died falling
REAP
Mark Anderson, Anne Bean, Lucy Baldwyn, David Chapman, Marcus Coates, Rachel Cohen, Holly Darton, Gail Dickerson, Graham Fagen, Brian Gilson, Ilur Malus Islandus, Meg Mosely, Miyako Narita, Lucille Power, Emily Richardson, Harald Smykla, Eden Solomon, Richard Wilson, z'ev
19 ARTISTS, 30 INSTALLATIONS, 365 DAYS Mark Anderson, Anne Bean, Lucy Baldwyn, David Chapman, Marcus Coates, Rachel Cohen, Holly Darton, Gail Dickerson, Graham Fagen, Brian Gilson, Ilur Malus Islandus, Meg Mosely, Miyako Narita, Lucille Power, Emily Richardson, Harald Smykla, Eden Solomon, Richard
FROM HERE I SAW WHAT HAPPENED AND I CRIED + COMING UP FOR AIR
Carrie Mae Weems
Curated by Mark Sealy for Autograph ABP By 1990, Carrie Mae Weems’ was being widely exhibited in the USA and beginning to receive the attention of the international art world. Her work, then and even more so now, is bold, poignant, aesthetically
DILSTON GROVE
Ackroyd & Harvey
“Making Dilston Grove in 2003 was a pivotal work for us, a work that was actually over 13 years in the planning. During the course of researching sites we visited and photographed many empty or disused churches in London but none struck