BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Bermondsey Project Space - ECPv6.0.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Bermondsey Project Space X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://project-space.london X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Bermondsey Project Space REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20170101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180710 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180729 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180708T150143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190720T103402Z UID:5444-1531180800-1532822399@project-space.london SUMMARY:MEDIUM:OIL (part 3) Abstract Realities DESCRIPTION:  \nABSTRACT REALITIES\nStephen Newton\n10 – 28 July\n  \nNewton is not a realist\, but a new kind of surrealist. Psychoanalytic theory has moved away from drive theory towards relational theory\, and so has the most subtle and sophisticated surreal art\, Newton’s paintings being exemplary. All the more so because they incorporate drive\, as their excited painterliness indicates\, into their realism. That is\, their rendering of objects – the desolate and isolated objects – in his empty space\, sometimes cosmically and threateningly empty. The stark geometry of the space – the confrontal planarity of the rooms – makes its emptiness more intimidating. \n\nNewton’s work offers ‘radically Distilled imagery\, simple – even childlike iconographies represent a far more primeval Creative force that stir (often uncontrollable) sensations of recognition in those that take the time to consider and reflect on them. \n\nABSTRACT REALITIES is supported by State Magazine \nhttp://www.state-media.com \n\n—– \nTuesday to Saturday \n11 am –  6 pm \n183-185 Bermondsey Street\, SE1 3UW\, London \n  \n\nMEDIUMOIL\nA summer season dedicated to the art of painting\nillustrated: Stephen Newton\, Communion\, 2018 URL:https://project-space.london/event/mediumoil-abstract-realities-stephen-newton CATEGORIES:Events,Previous Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/communion_2018_lowres.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180626 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180708 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180616T150748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180829T143433Z UID:5392-1529971200-1531007999@project-space.london SUMMARY:MEDIUM:OIL (part 2) The Inner And the Outer DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Inner and the Outer\n26 – 7 July\n  \nOpening event: Tuesday 26th June\, from 6 to 9 pm\nFinissage: Meet the Artist\, Saturday 7th July\, 12-3 pm\n  \nCo-curators: Trevor Burgess and Marguerite Horner \nArtist: Trevor Burgess\, Caroline Burraway\, Nelson Diplexcito\, Oli Epp\, Marguerite Horner\, John Kiki\, Lee Maelzer\, Mona Osman \n  \n“For the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without”. C.G. Jung \n  \nThe process of painting and drawing is a subjective encounter between inner and outer worlds. Hence the paradox of painting that a decorative surface is able to act as mode of communication. Every mark on the surface faces outwards to the world and inwards to the artist’s mind. \nIs there a point where something seen transforms into and coincides with something imagined? Where inner and outer worlds fuse? \nArtists Marguerite Horner and Trevor Burgess have brought together eight contemporary artists whose work can make us aware of this paradox\, that the quality of intense concentration that the artist directs outwards onto the visual becomes\, in the process of painting\, a mode of access to an inner life. \n  \n \nImage © Marguerite Horner\, “Verge”\, 2013\, oil on linen\, 50 x 50 cm \nMarguerite Horner writes of “the external world as a trigger or metaphor for experiences.” The paintings may depict suburban or urban houses\, cars\, freeways yet these are a gateway to subjective experiences that may evoke transience\, intimacy\, loss and hope. \n\n \nImage © Nelson Diplexcito “Robe”. 2017\, oil on paper\, 51 x 68.5cm \nFor Nelson Diplexcito there is a starting point in the direct encounter with images of various kinds\, whose resonance is found in the development of the work through a process of what might called a search for painterly analogy. It is only through persistence in a process of detours and revisions that the work\, as he says\, “begins to look back at you”. \n \nImage © Lee Maelzer “Yellow stairs” \nLee Maelzer has made her own the overlooked\, overgrown\, neglected\, decaying crannies of our 21st-century environment – whether experienced and photographed by her directly or constructed through the dystopian mixed media collages she makes as source images. It is through the finely judged tonal and chromatic intensity of the realization in paint that these places transform into a state of mind that you enter and inhabit. \n \nImage © Trevor Burgess “Two boys\, Granary Square”. 2015\, oil on board\, 100 x 100cm \nFor Trevor Burgess\, the paintings start with his visual experience of everyday public spaces captured in snapshot photos. He says it is important that the paintings have a starting point in something he has seen and experienced\, but there is always a gap between the appearance and the experience\, which painting makes explicit. \n \nImage © Caroline Burraway’s “Untitled 18” charcoal\, 120 x 120 cm \nCaroline Burraway’s relationship to her photographic source material is more direct. Her process of charcoal drawing intensifies the impact of the image – portraits that seek to restore power to people who have suffered\, often in a historical and political context. In this case\, the artist directs the creative process outwards inviting empathy with the subject. \n \nImage © Mona Osman “Et puis Je fume” 2017\, mixed media\, 150 x 120cm \nBut painters can equally come at painting from within their imaginations. Mona Osman starts with the populous contents of her inner world which teem over the canvas. Her personal experiences take a visible form that give them a narrative and pictorial logic. \n \nImage © John Kiki “The sculptor”\, 2018\, acrylic and collage on canvas\, 68 x 63cm \nJohn Kiki’s process of making figure paintings is an endless tirelessly inventive play with the creative potential of his medium\, where inner and outer worlds vividly replenish each other. \n \nImage © Oli Epp “You spin me right round”\, 2018\, oil\, acrylic and spray paint on canvas\, 150 x 180cm. \nOli Epp‘s paintings are informed by everyday experiences and observations. They are autobiographical; sometimes confessional\, sometimes irreverent and frequently handled with a humorous sense of pathos. His work focuses on situations that involve himself\, or others that he has witnessed\, in public and private moments that pass by as unremarkable\, at a glance. But documenting these unreported tragedies in paint is\, for him\, an act of discovery. \n  \n\n\n\n\nTHE INNER AND THE OUTER exhibition is part of\nMEDIUMOIL\nA summer season dedicated to the art of painting\n\n\n\n\nIllustrated: Oli Epp You spin me right round\, 2018 URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-inner-outer CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Oli-Epp-You-Spin-Me-Right-Round-2018-oil-acrylic-and-spray-paint-on-canvas-150cm-x-180cm.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180619 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180624 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180616T145615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180831T083914Z UID:5390-1529366400-1529798399@project-space.london SUMMARY:RICOCHET: David Bowie 1983 by Denis O’Regan DESCRIPTION:Image: Ricochet: David Bowie 1983\, book content \nRicochet: David Bowie 1983 by Denis O’Regan\n\n\n19th-23rd June\n  \n\n\n\n\nThe exhibition features the limited edition book and an exhibition of photographs from the Serious Moonlight tour. \n\n\n\n\nPublished by Moonlight Books on 20th June 2018\, the thirty-fifth anniversary of David’s Serious Moonlight tour concert in Berlin\, Ricochet : David Bowie 1983 is a unique limited edition piece of art charting David Bowie’s 1983 world tour\, a luxurious boxed set featuring offstage photographs\, lyrics\, exclusive interviews\, memorabilia\, vinyl & fine art prints. \n\n\n\n\nThe book is an official David Bowie product\, in collaboration with David’s official tour photographer Denis O’Regan\, It is the most ambitious Bowie publishing project ever\, focusing entirely on just one year in David’s life when he toured the world for the first time in five years. \nLimited edition of 2000; signed and numbered by Denis O’Regan\, supplied with an authenticated certificate featuring the official David Bowie estate stamp designed by Jonathan Barnbrook. Clothbound hardcover book with four supplementary volumes\, limited edition vinyl and three limited edition prints housed in an acrylic slipcase. With nearly 1000 images\, each personally approved by Bowie\, many of which have never before been published\, the main book in the Ricochet limited edition provides an intimate portrait of one of music’s biggest stars. Featuring personal photographs of the musician traveling the world as well as live and backstage shots\, it offers unprecedented access into Bowie’s life. \n\n\nThe boxed set contains four supplementary volumes including memorabilia\, lyrics\, tickets and extra photographs\, many of them revealing a more intimate side of Bowie\, and showing his personal choices and contact sheets\, as well as a limited edition 12 inch red vinyl\, featuring the tracks Ricochet and Let’s Dance\, re-mixed by Nile Rogers\, plus three 20 x 16 inch limited edition prints all signed and numbered by Denis O’Regan. \nTo help collectors protect their investment\, Moonlight Books have partnered with Tagsmart\, a London-based British technology company to tag and authenticate the David Bowie Estate stamp and the set of three limited edition prints that accompany each numbered limited edition. Tagsmart pioneered the application of DNA tags to authenticate artworks and is now the go-to provider of tagging and certification services in the fine art market. It was the only such business highlighted in the 2017 Deloitte Art and Finance Report. The company uses physical DNA Tags to identify artworks via an online service. Artists use the service to verify their work and issue Certificates of Authenticity to collectors\, who can access artwork data and manage their collections by building an immutable digital provenance history over time. \n\n\n\n\nThe exhibition sponsored by Olympus \n\nfrom 11 am to 6 pm\n183-185 Bermondsey Street\, London SE1 3UW\n\n \nImage © Denis O’Regan\, David Bowie Cracked Actor\, 1983. URL:https://project-space.london/event/ricochet-david-bowie-1983-denis-oregan LOCATION:Gallery 1 + 2 + 3\, 183 - 185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ricochet-Contents.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180616 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180508T150143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180829T143606Z UID:5612-1527465600-1529107199@project-space.london SUMMARY:MEDIUM:OIL (part 1) Two Painters DESCRIPTION:Two Painters\nSummer season at Bermondsey Project Space\nFeaturing DAVID ROYLE (UK) and GIANLUCA PISANO (Italy) in May and STEPHEN NEWTON (UK) solo show in July.\nAs part of the Project Space summer season dedicated to the triumph of oil painting\, Pisano’s Tales from Another World and David Royle’s Moving Matisse Furniture will be on display from 28 May until 16 June. \n  \nThe Exhibition is part of \nMEDIUMOIL\nA summer season dedicated to the art of painting\n  \nIllustrated: David Royle\, Le Reve Perturbe | Gianluca Pisano\, Antonio URL:https://project-space.london/event/mediumoil-part-one-two-painters CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Untitled-2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180527 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180509T120844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180829T143643Z UID:5321-1526947200-1527379199@project-space.london SUMMARY:Queer Gaze from Poland - A portrait of Love and Desire DESCRIPTION:Image by Kinga Michalska\, Guy and Jamaal\, Montreal\, Qc\, 2017 \n  \nQueer Gaze from Poland\nA portrait of Love and Desire\n22-26 May 2018\nCurator: Grażyna Siedlecka\nCo-curators: Gosia Fricze\, Katarzyna Roniek \nPrivate view: 23 May\, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. \nFree entry \n  \nFresh From Poland and Bermondsey Project Space invite people of all nationalities and identities to ‘Queer Gaze from Poland. A Portrait of Love and Desire’ group photography exhibition. \n\n\n\nThe show celebrates the practice of ten emerging and mid-career artists: Pamela Bożek\, Mateusz Cyrankowski\, Mateusz Grzelak\, Agata Kalinowska\, Krystian Lipiec\, Kinga Michalska\, Oiko Petersen\, Jerzy Piątek\, Natalia Podgórska and Łukasz Rusznica. Unveiling material that has never been exhibited in the United Kingdom before\, the show gives a rare opportunity to explore the different ways in which artists raised in Poland process and embrace their own sexuality. The exhibition consists of intimate portraits\, snapshots\, photographic diaries and art books. \nMost of the selected photographs focus on portraying friends and lovers in everyday settings in an almost documentary way\, aiming to tell real stories about people and relationships rather than simply creating beautiful images. No political comments are made. Some of the works are kept in a deadpan style\, while others carry a strong emotional charge. Works are created in different styles and techniques\, but what they share is a deep attachment to direct mature storytelling and maintaining a strong intimate relationship with subjects portrayed in a broad range of moods\, but mostly as sexually charged creatures. \nThe works included in this show could not be displayed in Poland without being a political statement. The curators aim to present them the way there are: as beautiful\, captivating works by talented photographers who were given the space to express themselves in an inclusive environment without prejudices. \nSocial background\nAlthough homosexuality in Poland is legal and protected by general anti-discrimination law\, 70% of the population (according to a CBOS opinion poll from 2014)\, backed by the Catholic Church and the majority of politicians\, consider same-sex relationships as unnatural and immoral. Outside of a few bigger cities it is impossible to be openly queer and have a respectable life. Much oppression comes from society: ‘Things are so bad I don’t know where to start’\, says Kinga Michalska. ‘Even in big cities\, it is very common to see “No way for gay” graffiti all over the walls. Pride Parades in Poland are always accompanied by violent demonstrations by legal neo-Nazi organizations who chant hateful songs wishing death to queer people. They take pictures of people in the parade and try to find them later and beat them up in a dark corner at night’. The other kind of oppression comes from society as a whole: ‘I was born in a big city and it was easy for me to create a bubble where discrimination could not enter. I think it got worse for me as I grew older and the reality of Polish legislation and prejudice hit me. Growing up you can establish your own rules and if you’re lucky enough they won’t be broken\, but when I realized that I was a part of a broken society where my love life was someone else’s biggest concern\, that’s when I started feeling disadvantaged and lonely’\, explains Natalia Podgórska. There is also the third form of oppression: the one that comes from inside\, rooted in religious upbringing. Jerzy Piatek told us: ‘My identity was formed in a very fluid and natural way. From the beginning\, I understood my sexual needs and didn’t find them strange. When I was a teenager I started to discover the exciting and mysterious world of my desires. Unfortunately\, thanks to the Catholic religion\, I realized quite quickly that I’m “different” and at this point\, my natural way of maturation was brutally interrupted and an internal conflict appeared – conflict and great suffering\, which kids should never go through’. ‘I’ve never given much thought to the role of my sexual orientation in the context of the church because I left it long before I was able to describe myself as gay\, but I saw boys and guys who tried to find themselves as Catholics\, believers\, and sometimes as priests’\, adds Mateusz Cyrankowski. ‘As an atheist\, I prefer to stand aside and not to comment\, because everyone has their own way to go. I only know that I do not want to have anything to do with religion’. \nDue to the social\, political and religious situation\, LGBTQ+ artists do not get enough visibility and recognition in their own country. ‘It feels to me that it’s not a good time to show queer projects in Poland. It is difficult to say whether any art gallery really\, without fear of losing financing\, vandalism or harassment\, would decide to put up anything that aroused controversy\, because the area of art has already been absorbed by politics’\, explains Mateusz Cyrankowski. ‘Problems with funding\, finding a space\, being able to get all the model releases. All these are just a part of the rocky road that an artist has to go through’\, adds Natalia Podgórska. Some of the artists hide their identity and do not bring up queer-related topics in their practices at all; others keep working for a small\, private audience or emigrate in search of a family and creative freedom\, like Kinga Michalska\, who explained her decision to emigrate in these words: ‘Other than a few dingy gay clubs for men only\, there was really no queer community that I knew of in Warsaw. When I finally met some lesbians they wouldn’t accept me because I dated people of different genders so I wasn’t lesbian enough. I left Poland because even as a young adult I could not find many people who I related to. Discovering the queer community in Montreal definitely helped\, but I am still working though a lot of oppression I internalized growing up in conservative Poland.’ \n\n \nImage by Krystian Lipiec from the “Between Us” series\, 2012 \n\nMore about the artists and exhibited works\nPamela Bożek’s practice employs multidisciplinary approaches. She focuses on the issues of minorities and women’s rights. For Queer Gaze from Poland\, she turned the camera inwards and came up with a self-portrait taken during her pregnancy. While in a same-sex relationship she decided to have a baby with her girlfriend. In Poland it is unimaginable to be a lesbian expecting a child. \nMateusz Cyrankowski is mostly interested in expectations of masculinity in the socio-cultural context. Using an instant camera he portrays guys met on the internet\, in gay clubs\, and sometimes lovers. His selection for the exhibition\, as he said\, ‘will include a sequence with only one model who I decided to additionally mark with lines like those of butchers’ schemes’. \nMateusz Grzelak’s work is part of a greater project that portrays Vlad\, the artist’s Ukrainian boyfriend. He moved to Poland at the age of 17 to study. He started to be bullied by his family when they found out about his sexual orientation. The artist tries to depict the subject’s struggle with forming a new world around himself\, between the conservative family where he finds no acceptance\, and his own identity and emotional needs. \nAgata Kalinowska for many years has been working in a diary-like way\, photographing a close circle of friends and the changing relationships between them and with those around her. Accidental analogue shots of intimate or wild moments are mixed with calm\, balanced photographs. Her practice brings to mind the mood of works of Corinne Day and Nan Goldin. \nIn Krystian Lipiec‘s intimate snapshots can be found all kinds of emotions: desire\, closeness\, anxiety. As he says\, ‘it’s a melancholic story about my relations with the people from the pictures\, and about the places that have been marked in my memory’. Spiced up with analogue grain and imperfection\, the photographs seem to tell the raw but poetic tale of intense bonds and polyamorous relationships. \nKinga Michalska emigrated to Montreal in search of a chosen family. Now she documents the queer community she became part of\, calling her way of working “a love letter” to those close to her. ‘I want my pictures to feel empowering for people who I represent\, so I give them agency on how they want to be portrayed’\, she explains. ‘I photograph LGBT people because I feel a sense of kinship with them\, but also these people often had to work really hard to accept themselves no matter what other people think\, so they often hold a very fierce\, authentic presence that I love to capture’. \nOiko Petersen is another artist who decided to leave Poland and moved to Berlin where he now lives and works. At the beginning of his career he mostly worked with marginalized groups (the queer community\, people with Down syndrome). In recent projects\, he focuses on deeply personal stories. He often visually refers to a motif of travel\, searching for answers to the questions posed by his own infatuations and heartbreaks. \nJerzy Piątek is fascinated with the theme of nature as a wild and independent power that is forced to coexist with human civilization. In the work shown as a part of Queer Gaze from Poland\, he combines the motif of flora with the male body\, where a man acts as a symbol of homosexuality\, perceived by society as something that is uncontrollable and spreads ‘like a weed’. On the other hand\, as the artist explains\, ‘a body is an affirmation of life\, it fits perfectly with the world of plants; they complement each other’. \nNatalia Podgorska emigrated to London. She is fascinated with ‘people who look like sculptures and sculptures that look like flesh’. The work presented at the show is a part of an ongoing series that combines archival works with staged portraits of close friends. She approaches her practice through the use of past experiences\, and she recreates them in abstract or surreal forms. As most of the exhibited artists\, she doesn’t perceive her practice as queer\, but she adds that ‘based on who I am and what my experiences are\, most definitely some of my work could be interpreted as queer’. \nŁukasz Rusznica is a photographer\, educator\, and curator who runs his own photo gallery in Wroclaw\, Poland. He is working slowly on a long-distance project in a way he calls ‘organic’\, mixing an almost scientific approach with poetry and raw analogue aesthetics with beauty. Most of his projects have explored the place of the body and human experiences in the context of chemistry\, physics\, and biology\, seeing people as trapped and governed by a complex system of nature. His latest work\, part of which will be exhibited in London\, is engaged in the process of aging and personal attraction to older men. \nGrażyna Siedlecka \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind out more: bit.ly/Queer-Gaze-from-Poland \nSponsor: Blaze Image \nPrints and publications will be available for purchase at the location. \nFor more information please contact: contact@freshfrompoland.com \n#queergazefrompoland URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-queer-gaze-poland-portrait-love-desire CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Kinga-Michalska-Guy-and-Jamaal-Montreal-Qc-2017-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180515 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180520 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180428T150446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T102253Z UID:5310-1526342400-1526774399@project-space.london SUMMARY:The Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Images: © Aidan O’Neill \nThe Kingdom\nby Aidan O’Neill\nMay 15th – 19th\n\n\n\nNew limited edition book and exhibition of photographs in aid of mothers2mothers\n\n\n\n\nThis spring sees the publication of The Kingdom\, a new\, limited edition book by Irish photographer Aidan O’Neill. To coincide with the book’s publication and Photo London 2018\, an exhibition of O’Neill’s photographs will take place at Bermondsey Project Space. \n\n\n\n\nInspired by the work of charity mothers2mothers\, who aim to eradicate paediatric AIDS\, O’Neill gave up a successful career as a fashion photographer in London to spend six months living and working in Swaziland\, a country where it is currently estimated that one third of the population is living with HIV. \nOver the duration of his stay\, what had originally begun as a document of the charity’s work grew to become a rounded\, insightful and beautiful portrait of a country living with the highest prevalence of this heartbreaking disease\, in the world. In the book O’Neill explores the myriad ways that infection at this scale can impact a nation as a whole\, creating a window into the everyday lives of the Swazi people dealing with this issue. \n           \n\n\n\n\n\n\n100% of profits made from the sale of prints and the book will be donated to mothers2mothers\, to support their projects in Sub-Saharan Africa\, where their goal is to eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother to child\, and create healthy families. \nEffective and inexpensive medical interventions are available that can keep mothers and babies healthy. Without these\, up to 40% of infants born to HIV-positive mothers will contract the virus. With treatment\, that number can be reduced to 1.6%. Through The Kingdom and his recently founded not-for-profit organisation Art Aid\, O’Neill hopes to help mothers2mothers fulfill their ambition to see an HIV free generation in the near future. \nPrints and book will be available at the exhibition and can be purchased online at www.aidanoneill.com/sales \nAll funds raised will go directly to mothers2mothers \nFor further information\, images or to interview Aidan O’Neill and / or representatives of mothers2mothers\, please contact Bakul Patki b@bakulpatki.com / +44 (0) 7984 462 358 \nwww.artaid.world / www.m2m.org URL:https://project-space.london/event/the-kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/THE-KINGDOM-by-AIDAN-O’NEILL-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180513 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180405T101048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T092943Z UID:5234-1524096000-1526169599@project-space.london SUMMARY:Xhibit 2018 DESCRIPTION:  \nAbove: Jo Lane\, Wimbledon College of Arts\, UAL. Graphite\, holographic sketch of African hair\, challenging Western notions of beauty. \n\n  \n  \nXhibit – the annual exhibition showcasing the best emerging talent from UAL – returns on 19 April until 12 May.\n\nRun by Arts SU\, Xhibit 2018 is open to all students\, studying at any level\, across all disciplines. With no set brief – artists are free to explore any topic and express it through any medium. The result is a powerful collection of work\, featuring 32 artists from across all of UAL’s six world-leading colleges.\n  \nXhibit 2018 judging panel\nFrances Morris – Director of Tate Modern\, UAL Honorary\nAmal Khalaf – Project Curator\, Serpentine Galleries\, Co-director for Global Art Forum 10\, Founding member of art collective GCC\nMike von Joel – Editor in Chief\, STATE/f22 Art Director of Bermondsey Project Space\nPatrick Laing – Product designer\, working across Industrial Product\, Spatial\, Homeware\, Jewellery to VR Game Design\nNadia-Anne Ricketts – Founder and creator of BeatWoven\nLeah Kahn – Activities Sabbatical Officer\, Arts SU\n  \nXhibit 2018 artists\nAnnie-Marie Akussah | Carlos Alba | Rita Ataide Novais | Tabitha Beresford-Webb | Johanna Blaha | Anke Buchmann | Thomas Cardew | Rafael Morales Cendejas | Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark | Sophie Colfer | Yuqi Deng | Lara Geary | Penny Hartley | Eva He | Miles Johnson |  Jo Lane | Vera Lee | Ciara McNeill | Orelie Pascale | Chris Makin |  Rosie McGinn | Catherine Miller | Mayli Mountford | Katarina Rankovic | Anatolii Shabalin | Carlos Sebastia | Gwenllian Spink | Roisin Sullivan | Anna Tamas-Katzer | Kris Tralewski | Klara Vith | Haocheng Wu\n  \n \n  \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-xhibit-2018 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Jo-Lane-graphite-sketch-Wimbledon-540x394.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180415 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180323T144053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T093838Z UID:5174-1522195200-1523750399@project-space.london SUMMARY:Dougie Wallace - The Series DESCRIPTION:Above: © Dougie Wallace\, from  Stags Hens & Bunnies\, a Blackpool Story Series\n\n\n\nDougie Wallace\n‘The Series’\n  \nStags Hens & Bunnies\, a Blackpool Story\nHarrodsburg\nRoad Wallah\nShoreditch Wild Life\nWell Heeled\n  \nImages from the artist’s acclaimed galleries of street photography\nGalleries One\, Two & Three\nINCLUDING \nBook Launch \nWELL HEELED \nDougie Wallace will be signing copies of his latest book Well Heeled \nTHE EXHIBITION RUNS \n28 MARCH – 14 APRIL \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/dougie-wallace-series CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/blackpool_when-in-rome-book.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180320 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180325 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180321T153930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180831T084734Z UID:5156-1521504000-1521935999@project-space.london SUMMARY:Project Space Outreach Programme 2018 DESCRIPTION:My HOUSE My SCHOOL My STREET\nPlatanos College\n20 – 24  March\nFor the third year\, Bermondsey Project Space and OLYMPUS have selected a local school for the Photography Outreach Programme\, that invites students to turn their eyes away from their own reflected image of the selfie and rediscover the beauty and poetry of their everyday places: My House – My School – My Street. \nOn the 21st of March\, three students will be awarded a 1st\, 2nd and 3rd prize. Winning students will each receive an OLYMPUS camera. \nThe jury was again overwhelmed with the work produced by students. BPS Gallery Director Paulina Korobkiewicz indeed said: \nThis contest is designed to recognise and exhibit works of students with great talent and encourage them to later be educated within the contemporary art school system or simply continue creating throughout life. We hope to inspire and empower youth around the Borough of Southwark to express their desire for positive change through visual storytelling. \n  \n       \n       \n  \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/project-space-outreach-programme-2018 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/web-outreach-porgramme-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180320 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180325 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180321T145810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180831T083123Z UID:5138-1521504000-1521935999@project-space.london SUMMARY:Environmental Photographer of the Year Award 2018 DESCRIPTION:CIWEM\nEPOTY\nENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018\n20 – 24 March\nManaged by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Managment (CIWEM) the competition presents a unique and prestigious opportunity to share the aim to nurture a safer sustainable world. \nOpen to all professional and amateur\, national and international photographers of all ages\, the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year is an international showcase for the very best in environmental photography. Established in 2007 the competition plays a vital role in enhancing our understanding of the causes\, consequences and innovative solutions to our most pressing global environmental problems\, and is one of the fastest growing photographic competitions in the world. The competition encourages entries that are contemporary\, creative\, resonant\, challenging\, original and beautiful\, but most of all\, pictures that will inspire people around the world to start taking care of our environment. \nThe winning photographs come together to form the most outstanding collection of environmental\, social and natural photographs in the world. With images of people and places struggling with the effects of a changing climate and social inequity\, technological innovations helping us achieve environmental improvements and the incredible diversity of the natural world\, the Environmental Photographer of the Year also celebrates the splendour\, drama and variety of life on Earth \nPrivate View 21st March\, 6 – 9 pm \nAn exhibition supported by Olympus UK \nAbove: Jose Luis Rodriguez\, Flight for Life \nJose Luis Rodriguez was awarded the Changing Climates prize for his outstanding ‘Flight for Life’ image\, showing a kingfisher caught mid-flight\, in the shadow of the severe pollution caused by the numerous factories in the background.  He said: “Winning this category is a huge honour as it allows me to showcase my work and send a public message on the importance of protecting the environment.” \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/5105-2-2 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Flight-for-Life_Jose-Luis-Rodriguezlow-res-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180318 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180305T122105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T094200Z UID:5129-1520294400-1521331199@project-space.london SUMMARY:Counterfeit DESCRIPTION:  \n\nCounterfeit\nHeyse Ip\, Amelie Mckee\, Ambar Quijano\, Florentine Ruault\n6 – 17 March\nThe term “counterfeit” is commonly defined as: \n. \nThe artists reinterpret the term “counterfeit” as an imitation of both physical and immaterial content. In this case\, the term “counterfeit” becomes a metaphor for the difficulty of identifying true from false; falsehoods necessarily having a basis in reality. \nCOUNTERFEIT features Amelie Mckee and Ambar Quijano’s ‘Replicas of Bio-structures’ and series of photographs. They include pieces from the events: ‘Fossils of Today’ and ‘The North Sea’s Extended Research Program Conference’. By intertwining both factual information and imagination\, it becomes difficult to distinguish the true from the false\, enabling different entry points into a complex story. Using a range of scientific and journalistic formats\, the artworks further address the unclear boundaries between fact and fiction. \nThe exhibition further showcases Heyse Ip’s work\, ‘Model Models’\, a series of images re-photographing architectural models\, mounted onto standing frames. These images bridge the photographic plane with the physical space it occupies. This creates the idea of the model as both the subject of images and its physical arrangement. A minimal and empty presentation distorts the scale of these spaces. As a whole\, the images question notions of representation through physical layering. \nFlorentine Ruault’s presents a series of digital drawings that remove the cultural and stylistic features that characterize each city. The repetition of a geometric and colorful aesthetic refers to the cities’ homogenization; a process that is currently increasing in many cities’ urban landscapes. The result is a graphic interpretation of the multiple cities\, which become inseparable in the way they are depicted. \nCatalogue available \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage by Amelie Mckee and Ambar Quijano URL:https://project-space.london/event/5105-2 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/counterfeit-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180304 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180302T103806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180302T103806Z UID:6537-1519689600-1520121599@project-space.london SUMMARY:VISUAL POETRY DESCRIPTION:A work in progress film showcase by 11 pioneering LCC MA Documentary Film Students\n27th February – 3rd March\n\n  \nBermondsey Project Space has invited 11 pioneering documentary filmmakers to showcase their short films in the upcoming exhibition\, Visual Poetry.\nThe works explore varying themes such as artistry\, self-acceptance and legacy through an experimental approach to the medium that strays from typical documentary convention. \nViewed as a collective\, the works unite the individual directors\, each one utilizing visual aesthetics to communicate and moreover enhance the chosen narrative or subject. \nThrough a compelling range of ideas and techniques\, Visual Poetry is an exhibition that overall demonstrates the powerful ability and significance of visual storytelling. \nPresenting the following artists: \nHaya Altamimi\, Lena Kim Buehler\, Constantine Elijah\, Zoe Fayaud\, Sarah Franke\, Carlo Lavarini\, Joana Lirio\, Charlotte Martinet\, Marina Petrus\, Saurav Shahi\, Martha Shepherd\n  \n \n\nThe team behind Flattr believes in artists and creators\, and understand the Internet should be a place to foster and support creative talent with exposure\, accessibility and financial reward.\nThe Internet is not the only place to support artists and creators. Flattr helps in real life\, sponsoring shows and events that showcase inspiring creativity. \nIf you are interested in signing up as a creator or contributor\, simply visit www.flattr.com to learn more \nSponsored by  URL:https://project-space.london/event/5105-3 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/28239033_1653236861421532_3901507228494588746_o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180206 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180225 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180120T133120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180120T133120Z UID:6535-1517875200-1519516799@project-space.london SUMMARY:UAL Olympus UK Photography Award 2018 - Second Edition DESCRIPTION:UAL Olympus UK Photography Award 2018 – Second Edition\n6th – 24th February 2018\nFor the second year running\, OLYMPUS and Bermondsey Project Space are thrilled to support UAL’s next generation of art and photography students in the UAL Olympus UK Photography Award 2018. \nUniversity of the Arts London is in the top 5 universities in the world for art and design. They offer an extensive range of courses in art\, design\, fashion\, communication and performing arts. Their graduates go on to work in and shape creative industries worldwide. \n  \nFor 2018 the theme of the competition is Photo Evidence: Between (Media) Representation and Reality. \nThe competition will be articulated in three sections: \n\nPrint – reflecting on creation and composition of images.\nMultimedia – using elements of the photographic process as an integral part of a complete work.\nProjection – creating works that associate photography with video / moving image.\n\nOn the opening night\, the winner of each category will receive a camera from OLYMPUS. \nThe exhibition runs 6th – 24th February 2018\, Tues-Sat 11.00 – 18.00 \n  \nImage: Lara Orawski from her project Fractals URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-ual-olympus-uk-photography-award-2018-second-edition-2 LOCATION:Gallery 1 + 2\, 183-185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Lara_45360018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180204 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20180124T115519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180124T115519Z UID:6536-1516665600-1517702399@project-space.london SUMMARY:SPi Street Awards 2017 DESCRIPTION:SPi Street Awards 2017\nWinner and Finalists\n23 January – 3 February\n  \nStreet Photography International are a collective of street photographers who formed with the aim to promote the best Street Photography from around the world\, and to provide a platform for unrepresented photographers with talent. \nThe SPi Street Awards 2017 exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space will showcase the winner\, Merel Schoneveld\, in a solo exhibition and the following 20 finalists in the concurrent group exhibition from 23rd January – 3rd February \nAdnan Mahmutovic | Alexander Munoz | Anna Ligia Machado | Aristide Economopoulos | Daniel Tschitsch  Esther Rodriguez Johansson James Davey | Jeremy Perez-Cruz | Julie Hrudova | Julius Manzano | Ken Walton  Laurent Delhourme | Marco Domenico Parenti |Lorenzo Fasola | Mykolas Juodele | Valerie Six | Mithail Afrige Chowdhury | Rafayat Haque Khan | Sacha Wühle | Patrick Dreuning \nMerel Schoneveld\nMithail Afrige Chowdhury\nSacha Wühle\nKen Walton\n                                                                                                                                             \n  \nFeatured image: Mykolas Juodele URL:https://project-space.london/event/spi-street-awards-2017-2 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Mykolas-Juodele_-copy-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180116T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180120T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20171116T123240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190615T152208Z UID:4753-1516100400-1516471200@project-space.london SUMMARY:'A1 Britain on the Verge' an exhibition by Peter Dench DESCRIPTION:‘A1: Britain on the Verge’ an exhibition by Peter Dench\n16 – 20 January 2018 \nBritain is about to change. The fault lines that exist across the country have been exacerbated by the nation’s 2016 decision to leave the EU and the unconvincing outcome of the June 2017 general election. Communities and families have been divided. Is life in Britain about to become better or worse? Will employment opportunities increase or diminish? Will the economy and industries collapse or thrive? Are the British worried about the future and do elderly people\, the majority of whom voted Leave\, care less about it than the young? Will Britain leaving the European Union mean immigrants will feel unsafe and be forced to leave? How proud do people feel to be British? \nThese are some of the many questions photojournalist Peter Dench put to the people of Britain. The A1\, Britain’s longest numbered road\, was his tendril to them\, an artery that connects as much as it divides. It begins near St Paul’s in the City of London\, zipping north through the suburbs of Bedfordshire\, the industrial East Midlands\, northeast England and the east coast of Scotland\, ending around 410 miles later in Edinburgh. Dench traveled its length photographing the eclectic characters he met along the way; in truck stops and cafes\, temples and homes\, businesses and bars. It provided Dench with a route of certainty in a time of tumult\, through a nation on the verge. \nPeter Dench: \nThe Angel of The North stands stoically still to the east of the A1\, just south of Gateshead. It has seen it all and is seen by around 33 million people a year. It sees the many fast food outlets McBlotting the landscape. It sees the discarded adult magazines in the lay-by\, the cars being cleaned in the shadow of the Ferrybridge power stations and the goats gamboling at the tongue twisting Esshottheugh Animal Park. It sees the truckers reading complimentary copies of Truckstop News (the national newspaper for truckers) at Flo’s Cafe\, where customers can also take a selfie with a cardboard cutout of the Queen. It sees the Gurdwaras being hosed clean on Sunday morning and Muslims kicking their shoes off on the pavement for Friday prayer. \nDriving the length of the A1\, Britain doesn’t seem full. At times it feels lonely. The east coast of Scotland is largely empty except for the occasional nuclear power station\, cement factory and caravan park. The Labour voters I met along the A1 say they are doing okay. The Conservative voters I met say they are doing okay. This is Britain on the verge. If the stoicism\, drive and grit of the people I met is an accurate reflection of the nation\, Britain is going to be okay. As my journey trundles to a conclusion under a Scottish sunset\, I pull over and pull out a copy of Truckstop News\, rereading a few lines from the relatable poem Trucking Journeys\, submitted by Daphne Dawkins from Scunthorpe: \nAs the wheels hum along through the rain. \nThis week they’re cruising the roads of Britain\, \nTheir journeys could take them to far-off places \nAnd they must meet some very different faces. \nThis job is not easy\, tiring long hours\, it’s true\, \nBut as every day passes\, they see something new. \nCatalogue available. \n  \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-a1-britain-verge-exhibition-peter-dench-2-2 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DENCH_A1-Britain_on_the_Verge084.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171212T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180113T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20171116T122832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T102254Z UID:4780-1513076400-1515866400@project-space.london SUMMARY:Kirsten Reynolds - Dark Ages DESCRIPTION:Kirsten Reynolds: Dark Ages\n12 December 2017- 13 January 2018\nGALLERY TWO\nKirsten Reynolds is an English artist whose current work uses photography\, painting\, printmaking and sound / light installation to re-interpret classical themes relating to landscape\, nature and the environment. Preferring to work off the beaten track\, Reynolds chooses significant locations to make nocturnal light drawings that capture dynamic traces of the artist’s movements in response to each specific landscape. Whilst this technique has been much used over the years in science and the arts\, Reynolds has developed a unique approach and her background in music and sound art makes her intuitive physical response to the chosen location both compelling and powerful. \n‘The photographs she takes record her explorations of place and time through drawing. She weaves skeins of light before the lens\, sometimes white\, sometimes coloured. Her trajectory leaves traces whose shapes shift from transparent\, through opaque\, to sinuous\, web-fine lines with the tensile strength of steel. Sometimes the landscape is barely discernible\, just a dense tactile space\, at other times the forms drift over recognisable terrain like mist that is impossibly articulated\, or a bolt of fine silk\, each fold of which is impossibly crystalline\, or a transparent titanium sculpture. They look like an extraordinary natural event: the aurora borealis\, or freak electrical activity.’ Simone Witney\, Hastings Independent Press\, 2017 \n‘The drawing process has a lot in common with making music; and I’d say drumming in particular. There is only one chance in each frame to get it right\, although there is no pre-defined idea of what is ‘right’. It’s almost like visual improvising with the landscape. The environment is very influential\, and intuition and experimentation are important every time. Each location needs to present a new challenge as repetition and predictability within the process results in images that lack dynamism.’ Kirsten Reynolds\, 2017 \nReynolds has exhibited worldwide from the Hayward Gallery in London for Sonic Boom; The Art of Sound\, the first international exhibition of Sound Art\, to the Sydney Festival with Power Plant\, in which five artists present over thirty site-specific sound and light installations botanic gardens and public parks. Power Plant has won critical acclaim at major arts festivals around the world from the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2011 to the Auckland Arts Festival 2017. \nArtist Richard Wilson says of Reynolds’ work: \n‘This is not ephemeral art\, this is light\, action and location all suspended in time as a gestural moment of magic.‘ \nCatalogue available  URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-kirsten-reynolds-dark-ages-2 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Kirsten-Reynolds-Before-and-After-Silence-II_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171212T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180113T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20171108T110650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T102254Z UID:4704-1513072800-1515866400@project-space.london SUMMARY:The Arborealists- The Art of Trees 2017 DESCRIPTION: The Arborealists: The Art of Trees 2017\n curated by Philippa Beale\n12 December 2017-13 January 2018 \nGALLERY ONE\nThe appearance of the Arborealists in 2013 is an extraordinary phenomenon within the pervading orthodoxy in an art world that values post modernist objects\, film and popular culture. Where events\, interventions and installations engage the viewer\, what can ‘tree painters’ (the Arborealists are for the most part painters)\, offer a public that is understandably titillated by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. Nevertheless\, the incredible success of the David Hockney exhibition at the Tate proves that the general public are still interested in artists who reveal nature. \nIn recent years\, many artists have discovered that trees have become one of their most penetrating of influences. The story of their existence and survival is intrinsic to our history and culture\, they are even a part of our political landscape. They are a metaphor for our own survival. They live in tribes and families\, in forests and groves. As ‘specimens’\, they also can stand alone\, not out of choice but like brave\, solitary people who stand up to be counted\, like ‘the one just man’ who does not remain silent when evil is done. \nTrees represent the holy\, the exemplary\, the beautiful and the strength required of mankind. Cut down a tree and it reveals its whole history in the rings of its trunk\, all its scars\, struggles and suffering. The attacks of axe\, saw and storms leave scars but as every forester knows\, the hardest woods have the narrowest rings and it is in the most infertile places that the strongest and most indestructible trees grow. Trees permeate our history providing inspiration for religions\, literature\, poetry\, visual art and architecture. \nPhilippa Beale. \nVaux en Couhé\, France\, May 2017 \nExcerpt from the exhibition catalogue. \nCatalogue available \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-arborealists-art-trees-2017 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2018-01-04-at-14.35.15-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171205T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171209T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20171109T140120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180829T144139Z UID:4730-1512471600-1512842400@project-space.london SUMMARY:Magnum RETOLD 5-9 December 2017 DESCRIPTION:Magnum RETOLD\nA selection of stories from the anniversary project in celebration of 70 years of storytelling\nFeaturing works by Magnum photographers \nOlivia Arthur  |  Thomas Dworzak\nThomas Hoepker  |  Moises Saman\n5 – 9 December\nOn the occasion of Magnum’s 70th anniversary\, Magnum RETOLD celebrates the powerful legacy of documentary storytelling throughout the agency’s history through to the present day. \nThe exhibition will showcase a series that reflects both the importance and beauty of stories shot by Magnum’s earliest photographers and their ongoing resonance\, not only for Magnum photographers but for all of us in today’s fast-changing world. \nWhen asked to consider an archival story that had influenced or inspired their practice\, contemporary Magnum photographers each chose a story that meant something to them personally or on a topical subject that they wished to re-visit today. In the exhibition\, we see new work by a selection of Magnum photographers\, who each respond to the project in their own manner. \nOlivia Arthur references the Children of Europe project shot by founder David Seymour in the years after The Second World War; Thomas Dworzak\, and journalist Julius Strauss\, retraced the steps of Robert Capa and writer John Steinbeck through Russia\, Ukraine\, and Georgia in A Russian Journal. Thomas Hoepker pays tribute to the poetic work of Sergio Larrian in Valparaiso; and Moises Saman\, with Marco Bischof\, followed in the final footsteps of Werner Bischof as he was documenting life in the Peruvian mountains when he tragically died in a road accident. \n  \n  \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-magnum-retold CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/NN11523231.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171128T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171202T220000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20171108T105551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190615T152208Z UID:4714-1511863200-1512252000@project-space.london SUMMARY:'A Beautiful Silence' Photography exhibition by Steve Gosling DESCRIPTION:‘A Beautiful Silence’\nPhotography exhibition by Steve Gosling\n28 November – 2 December 2017\nIn November 2016\, Steve Gosling travelled to South Georgia and Antarctica as an instructor on a Luminous Landscape workshop which gave him the opportunity to capture the landscapes that appear in his photographs. \nMy son tells me that I have the best job in the world. I think he might just be right! In November 2016 I had the pleasure of being an instructor on a Luminous Landscape workshop in South Georgia & Antarctica. Both locations have been on my bucket list for some time so to have the opportunity to get to see & photograph these incredible landscapes was too good to be true. \nIt’s not a travel journal but more a collation of the wide variety of subjects that stirred a response in me – from graphic or abstract images to landscapes and the wildlife we saw along the way. It is a mixture of both colour and B&W images as I didn’t want to be restricted to one or the other. The images reflect my visual and emotional response to what I witnessed and I chose the equipment\, techniques and mode of presentation that best communicated my response to those stimuli. \nThis exhibition and the accompanying book tells the photographic story of my adventure.  – Steve Gosling \nAn evening with Steve Gosling at Art Bermondsey Project Space. Monday 27th November\, 18:30-21:00. \nTo coincide with Steve’s London exhibition and book launch\, there will be a private viewing before the official opening. During the evening Steve will give a short talk on some of the concepts and ideas behind his images to give you an exclusive insight into his photographic approach\, followed by a Q & A session. \nTicket Price: FREE\n  \n  \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-beautiful-silence-exhibition-steve-gosling CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Heavy-Rain_sml.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171101T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171125T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20171017T085156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190615T152208Z UID:4638-1509530400-1511632800@project-space.london SUMMARY:'Canada Now –  The Tip Of The Iceberg' DESCRIPTION:Canada Now – The Tip of the Iceberg\n  \nSonny Assu | Patrick Bérubé | Simon Bilodeau | James Nizam \nJannick Deslauriers |  Karine Giboulo | Guillaume Lachapelle |  Laurent Lamarche| Cal Lane \nMarie-Ève Levasseur| Nadia Myre | Karine Payette \n curated by Anaïs Castro \nDirector of Art Mûr Germany \n1-25 November 2017 \nArt Mûr celebrates its first year in Europe since opening a space in Germany in September 2016 through a two-part exhibition titled Canada Now presented at Canada House and Art Bermondsey Project Space in London. \nThe first part of the exhibition is titled Canada Now – Self-Abstractions and presents five Canadian artists to show on the theme of conceptual self-portraiture. The exhibition is on until 18 November 2017 in the gallery of Canada House in Trafalgar Square\, a prestigious neoclassical building designed by Robert Smirke\, the same architect responsible for the British Museum. On November 2\, The High Commission of Canada will host a panel discussion with Jannick Deslauriers\, Marie-Ève Levasseur and Nadia Myre and moderated by Habda Rashid\, Assistant Curator at the White Chapel Gallery. \nThe second part of the project is titled Canada Now – The Tip of the Iceberg and is comprised of works by 12 Canadian artists at Art Bermondsey Project Space\, one of London’s most dynamic contemporary art venues. This independent non-for-profit gallery is an initiative of State Magazine and Olympus. The space located transversely from the prestigious White Cube gallery offers a platform for innovative artistic practices over the three floors of a former 19th-century paper mill. The artists brought together for The Tip of the Iceberg play with perceptions to compel their viewers to devote a prolonged look or a second perspective in order to fully comprehend what is presented. Through a variety of mediums ranging from installation to video art and photography\, the exhibition testifies to the complexity of a world in constant flux and aims to disavow initial preconceptions while promoting prudent attention and critical examination. \nCanada Now aims to reflect the Canadian art landscape in its engagement with contemporary concerns through a variety of artistic productions. The two exhibitions represent a unique opportunity for Canadian artists to be showcased in one of the most important art capitals of the world. The two-part project will be covered through a publication that will be launched at the Délégation du Québec à Londres on November 3. \nCatalogue available \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/coming-soon-canada-now-tip-iceberg-2 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Nizam_Shard_of_Light-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171017T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171028T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170908T103144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190615T152208Z UID:6527-1508234400-1509213600@project-space.london SUMMARY:'Gibraltar As Seen by Five Artists' curated by Philippa Beale DESCRIPTION:Gibraltar As Seen By Five Artists \n\n\nPaul Cosquieri | Shane Dalmedo | Nina Danino | Carolina Santos Floriano | Karl Ullger \n\n\ncurated by Philippa Beale \n\n17-28 October 2017\nPhillippa Beale\, an English artist and curator\, has chosen Paul Cosquieri\, Shane Dalmedo\, Nina Danino\, Carolina Santos Floriano and Karl Ullger\, to showcase their work on Gibraltar. \nThe exhibition highlights the individual agendas of these five artists whose work\, when viewed collectively\, reveals a highly topical and polemical narrative towards the current political and economic situation in Gibraltar after the Brexit referendum. \nFor 300 years\, Gibraltar has guarded the Straits and loyally stuck to Britain. Culturally European and Llanito speaking\, what it means to be Gibraltarian is a curious phenomenon. The language is derived from Spanish\, influenced by Andalusian Spanish and English\, with an extended vocabulary taken from Genoese\, Hebrew\, Maltese and Portuguese. Gibraltarians call themselves Llanitos\, recognising the hybridity of their culture and language\, which in the spoken form involves peppering their language with English using a code – something only they can understand. \nThe current Socialist-Labour Government leads an entirely multi-cultural society. Gibraltar has now become a byword for tolerance\, as about a third of the population are either Jewish\, Muslim or Catholic. Unity and respect for the mores of each culture prevails. \nHere\, council flats are by the sea and the richer live up the Rock. The climate is tropical but the cultural events are Anglo-Saxon; comprising of theatre\, Book-Fairs\, Royal Academy exhibitions and a National Art Gallery showing the work of great Gibraltarians with Spanish and Italian names. It is a humane place to live\, where the government truly looks after its people; the epitome of ‘small is beautiful’ and as Solomon Levi\, the first Mayor of the Gibraltar\, says it is an\, ‘example to the world’. \n[row][one_col] \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n[/one_col][/row] \nPaul Cosquieri \nGrowing up in Gibraltar has been crucial in defining my painting style in more ways than one. Living in a closed frontier Gibraltar meant that one could not get away from the shadow of the omnipresent and imposing limestone Rock and its sheer physicality. \nCarolina Santos Floriano \nThe different perspectives offered by the landscape of the Campo de Gibraltar have always made me think about the peculiarity of this territory\, and it is precisely this reflection that has served as an inspiration for my last project. \nShane Dalmedo \nThe subject of my work is mostly I would say to be an exploration into the human condition; and toys\, dolls\, ornaments and objects are a very important part of my expressive language. I feel that these retain their own energy. They are keepers of stories and secrets and so they add their own language to mine when I use them in my work to form a new dialogue. \nKarl Ullger \nMy life is in Gibraltar\, where over 90 per cent of us voted to remain in Europe. For us living in a totally multi cultural\, multi religious society\, where we eat and drink and trade with Europe and Europeans all the time; the very idea of Brexit is perplexing. We do not understand why Britain our mentor and Alma Mater would want to leave and so my current work is all about this dilemma\, this schizophrenic situation in which we Gibraltarians find ourselves. \nNina Danino \nMany of my works draw from inter-subjective experiences\, cultural references\, geography and a sense of place. Gibraltar is an entry point to the local\, the regional and to the wider Mediterranean from where I can travel out as far out as I want. \nCatalogue Available \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/gibraltar-see-five-artists-2 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Cover-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171003T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170916T122720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190615T152208Z UID:6528-1507028400-1508004000@project-space.london SUMMARY:'The Hemming and Marr Show' DESCRIPTION:The Hemming and Marr Show \nRecent Paintings  \n3-14 October 2017 \nAdrian Hemming on Andrew Marr \nI FIRST ENCOUNTERED Andrew (or rather I didn’t but used to observe him)\, rapt with attention\, painting on Primrose Hill and I knew that the last thing an artist wants in those situations is a twat like me interrupting him to say: ‘Hi\, you must be Andrew Marr’. A time and a place for everything. So\, finally I did meet him and he kindly invited me to his studio. It was a revelation. I could see and sense that it was the start of a serious\, momentous\, lifetime journey. I don’t mean the physical journey he has had to endure but I mean the journey that all artists undertake if they are truly going to call themselves artists. Yes\, it’s difficult\, of course the journey is obscure\, it’s about many\, many\, things. It’s about seeing inside one’s self and the world around us\, it’s not just surface detail. \nHe works in oil paint on canvas and board. His subjects are abstract motifs and shapes\, floating on highly coloured backgrounds. They gain their excitement and visual energy from the push and pull of object to colour\, each fighting for balance and/or dominance. However\, he doesn’t slavishly copy other artist’s; he wants to distil the imagery from his own sensibility and the world around him to create a truthful comment on himself. \nHe is pushing his own work so that the look and feel of the paint is a big part of the message. It has to be sensuous. It has to be alive. There is a sense that the painting process is almost like being in psychoanalysis\, there are deep layers of unconsciousness that you constantly try to understand it’s both deeply satisfying and deeply disturbing at the same time. \n  \nAndrew Marr on Adrian Hemming \nPAINTING IS\, necessarily\, a solitary occupation. Everything that matters most about it takes place silently\, in the brain of the painter. In the studio\, when the hard work is being done\, the silence is absolute. And yet every painter needs to talk – needs help\, needs criticism\, needs a frank and knowing friendship. So\, when I began to try to paint seriously\, after I had suffered a stroke\, Adrian Hemming’s friendship was both wonderful luck and a lifeline. He comes into the studio\, raises a quizzical eyebrow\, perhaps shakes his head about something that had pleased me\, and quietly\, gently\, suggests other directions I might follow. \nI always call Adrian\, with a slight note of jealousy in my voice\, ‘a proper painter’. Unlike me\, he has gone through a full and rigorous training. He has devoted his entire life since teenage hood\, to mastering pigment and surface\, design and meaning. And\, by God\, it shows! \n  \nAlthough when we talk we mainly talk about the craft and physicality of painting – about pigments\, bristles\, different oils and glazes – Adrian Hemming is a philosophical painter\, much concerned with myth\, the environment and the nature of perception. Above all he is trying to answer the most difficult and important question painters’ face\, which is simply: ‘what should fresh painting look like in 2017?’ \nWhen I am painting badly\, I drive myself into a rage. But when I am painting well\, I feel full of delight. A big part of that delight has come about thanks to the calm\, wise friendship\, and peaceable advice given to me by Adrian Hemming. A lesser man would have tried to encourage me to paint just is like him: Adrian has helped me to paint like me\, only better – a much harder task. As you observe these pictures\, I hope you see the story of an artistic friendship too. \n  \nExcerpts from the exhibition catalogue. URL:https://project-space.london/event/hemming-marr-show-2 LOCATION:Gallery 1 + 2\, 183-185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Hemming-and-Marr-res.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170923T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170907T152236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170907T152236Z UID:6526-1505818800-1506189600@project-space.london SUMMARY:Dafydd Jones 'A Weekend in Washington - January 2017' DESCRIPTION:Dafydd Jones  \nA Weekend in Washington – January 2017 \n19-23 September 2017\n  \nI travelled to Washington for the weekend of the Trump Inauguration. -What was later called the inauguration that wasn’t. \nEverywhere there were protestors. Protestors intermingled with the supporters. -It was impossilbe for Trump supporters not to notice the protestors. Lone people holding signs and large groups. Some entrances were impassable for demonstrators although there were Trump supporters queuing next to demonstrators. Many people had come from all over the country to demonstrate. One elderley couple one with a zimmer frame had travelled from San Francisco. – Along with all the people who were working in some capacity or other they padded out the numbers. The guys selling Trump flags didn’t seem to be doing very well. Only ponchos were selling as it was raining slightly… There was a subdued almost miserable atmosphere. One religious group holding banners were just about the most unpleasant people I saw. \nThe next day If the crowds in the subway were anything to go by\, there were 3 times as many on the womens march. It was moving and inspiring because of the protestors. On the flight back to London I was sitting next to a mother and her daughters who had travelled from London for the women’s march. \nThe pictures are more about the mood of Americans. I’ve been experimenting with doing traditional silver gelatin darkroom prints of my digital pictures which will be exhibited.. Because I lose some detail in the process the black and white silver gelatin prints have a rough directness. \n[row][one_col] \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n[/one_col][/row] URL:https://project-space.london/event/dafydd-jones-weekend-washington-january-2017-2 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/17fri29543was-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170905T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170916T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170907T143616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170907T143616Z UID:6525-1504609200-1505584800@project-space.london SUMMARY:Chris Floyd 'You Rise\, Then You're Gone' DESCRIPTION:You Rise\, Then You’re Gone \n\n  \n\nThe Verve: Photographs by Chris Floyd \n\n\n5-16 September 2017 \n\nIt has been two decades since the colossal success of The Verve’s era-defining Urban Hymns\, and it remains one of the biggest selling British albums of all time. You Rise\, Then You’re Gone is an exhibition by the photographer Chris Floyd who was embedded with the band in late 1996 and 1997\, following an initial assignment in 1994. He documented the recording\, touring and promoting of the album in the UK\, Ireland and the USA – the only photographer to have such access. When Chris Floyd met The Verve in 1994\, they were playing to crowds of a hundred. A mere four years later\, they sold out a 33\,000 gig at Haigh Hall in their hometown of Wigan. The majority of these photographs have never been seen before. \nThis body of work is a celebration of a band that\, momentarily\, looked like they were set to become one of the biggest rock and roll bands in the world. As Floyd reflects: “For a while it felt like being at the centre of the universe. . . . We were in a brief golden era\, when it looked like the world was unshackling itself and beginning to develop a more advanced and progressive attitude. We seemed to be in a decade that had taken a holiday from history. I am grateful and thankful that I got to live out my twenties in such a fertile\, peaceful and creative period.” His images take us  back to a time before the explosion of the internet\, smartphones and social media. \nIn celebration of the 20th anniversary of Urban Hymns\, Chris Floyd is presenting his photographs in this exhibition alongside a book entitled The Verve: Photographs by Chris Floyd (the first time his photographs of that era to be published). \nUrban Hymns was The Verve’s third album; it was released by HUT Records on 29 September 1997\, and featured hits\, ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’\, ‘Lucky Man’\, and ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ – the song that won the band a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song. The Verve won two Brit Awards in 1998\, including one for Best British Group\, and were twice on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. \nThe exhibition and book release coincide with the release in September 2017 of new Super Deluxe versions of Urban Hymns on 5CD / DVD and 3 double-vinyl (6LP) box set editions. Both sets contain rare and unreleased recordings. \nChris Floyd is a British photographer and filmmaker. His photographic work has appeared in publications including Vogue\, Vanity Fair\, The New Yorker\, Harper’s Bazaar\, GQ\, Esquire\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Sunday Times Magazine and Wallpaper* among others. He has shot advertising campaigns for Apple\, British Airways\, Sony and Philips and has been selected several times for the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and the annual publication American Photography. Chris’s attention to the subtleties of mood\, texture\, emotion\, light and colour is what binds his aesthetic and attitude into a coherent and unique style. In a career that has spanned over 20 years\, he believes that the most important aspect of his working method is his ability to establish a level of collaboration and ease with his subject that allows him to engender intimacy and empathy within the frame. \nArt Bermondsey Project Space  \nA non-profit independent gallery sponsored by Olympus\, part of a Cultural Initiative Programme in association with State Magazine. The Project Space provides a platform for fresh ideas in visual arts and embracing artists from all cultures. Three gallery spaces\, three floors\, across three thousand square feet of a former 19th Century paper manufacturers with a dedicated video-screening suite – the Art Bermondsey Project Space is one of London’s most dynamic contemporary art spaces. \nMSGM Founded by Massimo Giorgetti in 2009\, MSGM is all about colour\, youth and energy. Until early this year\, Massimo was also creative director of Emilio Pucci. One of MSGM’s collection was a collaboration with artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari ’s art magazine Toilet Paper. \nSTINK is a global network working with clients across advertising\, entertainment\, music and the arts. They create film\, interactive and original content\, focusing on quality and smart production. \nReel Art Press R|A|P stands for exceptional style and a unique curatorial eye. It stands for luxury and class\, the highest production values\, and a sensitivity to an eclectic selection of subject matter and material. It stands for rare\, unpublished and unusual work including subjects with mass appeal and limited editions with unlimited potential. The company has made headlines around the world with its previous releases\, which include: Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs\, The 2001 File\, Unseen McQueen\, Billy Name: The Silver Age and Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival. \n  \nPlaces available for:\nChris Floyd in conversation with Ben Smith \n14 September 6.30pm \nArt Bermondsey Project Space \nBook here \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/chris-floyd-rise-youre-gone-2 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/res_LuckyManNYV_5017_0209_RT-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170808T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170812T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170725T100207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170725T100207Z UID:6524-1502190000-1502560800@project-space.london SUMMARY:Martina Govindraj - Travelling Light – Wander More DESCRIPTION:TRAVELLING LIGHT – WANDER MORE\nDrawn to geometric architecture and the often ignored design that surrounds everyday life\, OLYMPUS Ambassador Martina Govindraj aims to use her latest exhibition\, Travelling Light – Wander More to explore the idea of isolation and our connection to mobile technology in densely populated urban spaces. \nThis unique exhibition consists of a selection of stunning architecturally-focused shots\, all captured on the bustling streets of Shanghai. In preparation for her trip\, Martina packed her E-M1 Mark II and 2 lenses. She challenged herself to travel with as little camera gear as possible with the intention of blending in and becoming invisible while shooting in one of the busiest cities in the world. \nMartina (also known as @YesZebra) is a self taught photographer. Photography became a major part of her life following the purchase of her first SLR camera from a second hand shop at age 16. Having invested heavily over the years in DSLR equipment but simply fed up of her cumbersome camera gear\, she decided to switch to a Micro Four Thirds camera in 2015 and never looked back. URL:https://project-space.london/event/4577-2 LOCATION:Gallery 1\, 183 - 185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-25-at-11.59.02.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170805T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170616T151746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190615T152209Z UID:6521-1500980400-1501956000@project-space.london SUMMARY:Anything Goes? | Contemporary British Painting DESCRIPTION:Anything Goes?  \n\n\nContemporary British Painting \n\n\nAn Exhibition of Works by Members of Contemporary British Painting \n\n\n Selected by Anna McNay \n\n\n\n25 July – 5 August 2017 \n\nDespite\, and perhaps because of\, the global\, mass and social medial world in which it exists\, contemporary British painting is and remains something complexly personal\, defined as much by its breadth and multiple individualities as by any pervading style or theory. This exhibition\, drawn from the work of members of the Contemporary British Painting group\, does not seek to define what might well be an undefinable beast. In part an open call salon and in part curated according to the tastes of art writer and editor Anna McNay\, it brings together a variety of works to combat the all too pervasive false transmission of painting as reproduction (be it printed or digital) and to put paintings as objects in and of themselves out there to be experienced by the public. The mixture of figurative and abstract (and everything in between)\, mixed media\, mixed scale\, textured versus smooth and flat\, representational versus whimsically imagined\, is a result both of the members’ varied outputs and McNay’s own eclectic taste. Is it a case of anything goes? Almost certainly not\, but perhaps only time – and hindsight – will tell. While common themes and methods can of course be noted\, those that will persist – and survive – in 30 years’ time might only be guessed at. For now\, this is painting as a living example of the real in a time of the unreal. \nArtists include: Day Bowman\, Marco Cali\, Ruth Calland\, Simon Carter\, Lucy Cox\, Andrew Crane\, Pen Dalton\, Lisa Denyer\, Annabel Dover\, Natalie Dowse\, Fiona Eastwood\, Wendy Elia\, Terry Greene\, Susan Gunn\, Susie Hamilton\, Alex Hanna\, Marguerite Horner\, Barbara Howey\, Phil Illingworth\, Sue Kennington\, Matthew Krishanu\, Andrew Litten\, Cathy Lomax\, Paula MacArthur\, Enzo Marra\, Nick Middleton\, Paul Newman\, Stephen Newton\, Gideon Pain\, Mandy Payne\, Ruth Philo\, Freya Purdue\, James Quin\, Katherine Russell\, Wendy Saunders\, Ehryn Torrell\, Judith Tucker\, Sean Williams \nAbout Contemporary British Painting: \nContemporary British Painting is an invitation-only\, artist-led organisation\, which explores and promotes current trends in British painting through group exhibitions\, talks\, publications and the donation of paintings to art museums. \nTwitter: @paintbritain \nAbout Anna McNay: \nAnna McNay is an art writer and editor based in London. She is Assistant Editor of Art Quarterly and former Deputy Editor of StateF22 magazine. \nTwitter: @annamcnay \nAbout Art Bermondsey Project Space  \nA non-profit independent gallery sponsored by Olympus\, part of a Cultural Initiative Programme in association with State Magazine. The Project Space provides a platform for fresh ideas in visual arts and embracing artists from all cultures. Three gallery spaces\, three floors\, across three thousand square feet of a former 19th Century paper manufacturers with a dedicated video-screening suite – the Art Bermondsey Project Space is one of London’s most dynamic contemporary art spaces. \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/anything-goes-contemporary-british-painting-2 LOCATION:Gallery 1\, 183 - 185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CBP-lead-composite-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170712T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170712T170000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170712T124939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170712T124939Z UID:6523-1499846400-1499878800@project-space.london SUMMARY:Turps Studio Painters 2015-2017 DESCRIPTION:A show of recent works by painters who have been on the Turps Studio Programme during 2015-17 and will be leaving the studios this Summer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\nTurps Studio Programme is a one year mentoring programme with the option to say for a second year\, based at Turps Studios in South East London. \n\nUniquely painters work together in open studios exchanging ideas with each other and a comprehensive team of painters who visit across the year as well as a dedicated team of mentors. \nDuring 2015-17 the mentors are: Dan Coombs \, Andrea Medjesi – Jones\, Anne Ryan and Neal Tait. \nThe programme is led by Marcus Harvey and Phil Allen \nPainters: \nKatie Brookes \nMaj-Gret Gaupas \nAthene Greig \nStephanie Maeseele \nScott Mccracken \nAnna Mcneil \nTim Ralston \nAnna Jung Seo \nMel Scott \nJenny Smith \nRhys Trussler \n  URL:https://project-space.london/event/anything-goes-turps-banana-painters-2 CATEGORIES:Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170704T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170708T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170524T090348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T090348Z UID:6519-1499166000-1499536800@project-space.london SUMMARY:Jasper Wilkins 'Gorkha: in focus' DESCRIPTION:Gorkha: in focus \n\n\nDocumenting livelihoods in a changing climate by Jasper Wilkins \n \nGorkha is based west of Kathmandu\, Nepal and was the epicentre of the 2015 earthquake killing nearly 9000 people and destroying thousands of houses and businesses. This project explores stories of hope in a rural community located in Gorkha and demonstrates the importance of environmental awareness through exploring individual stories of how climate change effects rural communities. \n  \nJasper Wilkins\, Olympus Ambassador and documentary photographer is passionate about culture\, nature and communication and has recently spent three months working as a team leader in 2017 within Khadka Gaun\, Gorkha\, focusing on income generating projects for Raleigh International and was inspired by the generosity\, kindness and integrity of the people he encountered in this beautiful place. In 2016\, Jasper created an environmental organisation called ‘In Focus’ that provides creative content for companies and NGO’s focusing on environmental sustainability. In collaboration with Olympus UK\, Jasper will be hosting an exhibition at the Art Bermondsey Project Space\, London (04/07/2017 – 08/07/2017) alongside a book that will be distributed Internationally. These insightful and interesting stories demonstrate hope\, beauty and determination in a changing environment\, showing the importance of worldwide sustainability. \n  \n“People have to adapt to anything and when there is a problem\, there is a solution.” \n – Dhan Bhadur Parivar\, 2017 \n  \n“I was once told ‘Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.’ And it stuck with me\, the time for environmental protection is now and it is needed more than ever. One day we may observe a world that we created; with limited wildlife and water\, flooding cities and we will ask ‘What happened’?” \n – Jasper Wilkins \nwww.olympus-imagespace.co.uk \n[row][one_col] \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n[/one_col][/row] URL:https://project-space.london/event/jasper-wilkins-gorkha-in-focus-2 LOCATION:Gallery 1\, 183 - 185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jasper.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170708T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170607T125845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T125845Z UID:6520-1498561200-1499536800@project-space.london SUMMARY:Marilyn Stafford | Stories in Pictures 1950 - 1960 DESCRIPTION:Lucy Bell Fine Art Presents\nMarilyn Stafford\nStories in Pictures\n1950-1960\n“I have always been fond of stories\, listening to them\, telling them\, performing them\, singing them. One way or another my life has been that of an observer and story teller” \nPhoto-journalist Marilyn Stafford\, who now lives in West Sussex\, was born in Cleveland Ohio\, in 1925. She originally trained as an actress\, at the age of 7 she was scouted to train at the Cleveland Play House Theatre\, along with big names like Paul Newman. She then studied drama at university and went to New York to act\, finding work off Broadway and in television. \nHer photographic career began in New York in 1948 when she was asked to photograph Albert Einstein for friends who were making a documentary about him. \n“The director gave me a camera and said you are going to be the photographer. I said I didn’t know how to take pictures. I had only taken them on a Brownie. So\, in the car from New York to New Jersey\, I learned how to use it.” \nThis single experience set her on her future path. She went on to assist Francesco Scavullo\, a controversial fashion photographer whose work has been published widely including in Vogue and Cosmopolitan \n“I was not really interested in that kind of photography\, but that was where you could earn a living as a woman. I was interested in telling stories in pictures and showing the world to people as I saw it\, maybe to make them see something and then act on it or enjoy it.” \nIn December 1948 Marilyn moved to Paris briefly singing with an ensemble at Chez Carrère near the Champs Elysees\, and photographing for a Fashion PR Company. At the club she met Edith Piaf and also became friends with Robert Capa and during this period she was also introduced by her life-long friend the Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand to Henri Cartier-Bresson who encouraged her photographic career. \n“I often went out photographing with Cartier-Bresson – the time I photographed him\, was at a household and appliance exhibition at the Grand Palais” \nMarilyn photographed the neighbourhoods of the Bastille and Boulogne-Billancourt and her images of children from Cité Lesage-Bullourde near the Place de la Bastille are a very rare insight into the street children living in one of the city’s notorious slums. Demolished in 1984\, it is now the site of the Paris Opera Bastille. Some of the negatives have been lost\, but thanks to modern technology Robin Bell the renowned darkroom printer has created new negs and printed these historically important images for the first time in 67 years\, creating an edition of silver gelatin prints. \n“I did these pictures long before I met Cartier-Bresson\, I never showed them to him as I was very shy\, but I felt honoured that he let me tag along\, it was only after taking the Algerian pictures that I prevailed on him to help me select the pictures\, that I would then send over to the Observer. These became the first front page pictures I had published” \nIn 1958 Marilyn Stafford travelled to Tunisia to document the Algerian refugees fleeing France’s ‘Scorched Earth’ attacks. Marilyn was 5 months pregnant when she took these pictures. \n“It was harrowing and as far as I am concerned\, the picture I loved most is of a refugee mother holding this poor little infant. That image meant more than anything else. I wanted to do a story about the refugees\, I believe that documentary work should raise social issues\, and was very happy when other photographers and journalists were commissioned to go out and record the situation\, as I had brought the issue to wider attention” \nThe exhibition also features Marilyn’s pioneering photographs\, where\, for the first time\, she took models out of the studio and chic salons into the streets of Paris\, using a photo-documentary style to her fashion shots. In the mid-sixties Marilyn Stafford settled in London\, where\, along with Fay Godwin\, Sally Soames\, and Jane Bown \, she helped pave the way for future female photographers working on Fleet Street. Marilyn Staffords commitment to supporting female documentary photographers continues today with the launch of the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award Launched in Spring 2017 in Association with FotoDocument. \nRobin Bell who has printed for many of the world’s top photographers and archives\, including Bill Brandt\, Norman Parkinson\, Ernst Haas and David Bailey says of the work \n“I often feel lucky to be doing the thing that I do and sometimes I get double lucky; this is one of those occasions. Lucy and Marilyn invited me to curate and print approximately 40 images\, some of the chosen images no longer have negs\, but thanks to a combination of new and old technology\, modern silver gelatin prints have been made. Marilyn’s pictures have warmth\, perception\, humour and technical skill and do the trick that all good photos do\, which is transport one to another world and time\, evoking nostalgia\, surprise \,empathy and wonder in equal measure.” URL:https://project-space.london/event/marilyn-stafford-stories-in-pictures-1950-1960-2 LOCATION:Gallery 2\, 183 - 185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CITE-LESAGE-PARIS-1950-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170613T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170623T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T143542 CREATED:20170518T154321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170518T154321Z UID:6518-1497351600-1498240800@project-space.london SUMMARY:The Douglas Brothers | SEE - SAW DESCRIPTION:The Douglas Brothers \nSEE/SAW \nThe collaborative accomplishments of double visionaries \n13-24 JUNE \n\n\n\nLOST ICONS TO GO ON EXHIBITION THIS SUMMER \nRecovered historical portraits of leading British cultural figures – including Dame Judi Dench\, Daniel-Day Lewis\, Damon Albarn\, Kenneth Branagh\, Ronnie Wood and Morrissey – will be exhibited in London in June. \nThe photographs\, taken by The Douglas Brothers\, were lost for over 20 years. Some have never been seen before. They will go on show for the first time this summer. \nThe Douglas Brothers – real-life siblings Stuart and Andrew – spent a decade photograph leading figures from the worlds of art\, literature\, film\, music\, sport and fashion. \nThe Douglas Brothers signature style is considered highly influential. Sabina Gaskot-Gill from the National Portrait Gallery described it as “work that shaped the course of photography for a decade.” \nAfter the brothers left the UK to make films\, their stills work sat gathering dust for two decades in a disused storage unit and came very close to being lost forever. \nThe Douglas Brothers distinctive image making extended beyond portraiture and into abstract\, collage\, still-life\, reportage\, nudes and fashion. \nPhotos spanning the entire spectrum of this remarkable body of work will go on show at Art Bermondsey Project Space in London on June 15th in a show entitled SEE/SAW. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n[row][one_col] \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n[/one_col][/row] URL:https://project-space.london/event/douglas-brothers-see-saw-2-2 LOCATION:Gallery 1 + 2\, 183-185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DouglasBrothersEflyer.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR