Past Exhibitions 2007

Slow Life

Curated by Yuu Takehisa

A John Hansard Gallery touring exhibition organised in partnership with Limehouse Arts Foundation.

Funded by Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Nomura Cultural Foundation and EU Japan Fest Japan Committee

Wilfrid Almendra
Dale Berning
Mark Karasick
Ryota Kuwakubo
Tomoyasu Murata
Beltran Obregon
Wolfgang Staehle

1 - 18 February 2007

Alexander Brenchley
Julia Colmenares
Adrian Di Duca
Lucy May
Amanda Moore

Stupor Mundi

22 February - 4 March 2007

CREEKSIDE OPEN X 2

Selected by Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings

CREEKSIDE OPEN X 2

Exhibition selected by Victoria Miro

www.creeksideopen.org

Dis/connected

Myth and modern man in the work of four Finnish photographers

Vertti Terasvuori
Susanna Majuri
Kalle Katalia
Eva Persson

Curated by Natasha Nelson

Slip Frame
Anne Robinson
Video Installation and painting

21 June - 1 July 2007
Wednesday to Sunday from 11 to 6pm

Screening event and panel discussion: Friday 29 June, from 6pm
Chair: Yossi Bal, London Metropolitan University
Artists: Anne Robinson, Keren Mirza, Brad Butler, Lily Markiewicz, Ken Wilder, Judith Tucker

<< click here to download press release>>

Catalogue essay by Judith Tucker http://www.land2.uwe.ac.uk/essay15.htm

Hold
video installation
5mins extract
Anne Robinson

The main focus of the exhibition is the two-screen video installation work. The images in Hold seem to be on the edge of interior/exterior space, and of readability, placing still and moving images side by side. It is a journey through remembered films, and sites of family memory; seafaring in the unconscious; and yet this memory work, this art work which deals with the movement of shadows, also has formal concerns, with liminality, the spaces between thought, feeling, memory and affect, exploring as it does, re-filmed moving images, and the possibility of the space between frames in digital video as an imaginative space for artist and spectator.

There will also be a screening event and panel discussion with Anne Robinson and Invited artists: Karen Mirza, Brad Butler, Lily Markiewicz, Ken Wilder, Judith Tucker, chaired by Yossi Bal of London Metropolitan University on evening of Fri 29th June, further details of this event will be available.

Title: Slip Frame
Event: Screening of film & video work and panel discussion on the space between frames

Artists Panel:

Brad Butler
Lily Markiewicz
Karen Mirza
Anne Robinson
Judith Tucker
KenWilder

Chaired by: Yossi Bal, London Metropolitan University

Screening & panel discussion

29th July 2007
From 6pm
Discussion at 7pm

This screening and discussion event incorporates works by several contemporary artists working with film, video, digital photography, installation and painting. The context for this is an exhibition of installation work and paintings work at the gallery, including the video installation Hold, which are part of an ongoing body of research into:

'The elusive digital frame and the elasticity of time in painting'

-looking into questions about the elusiveness of time in relation to perception, and how understanding of this an be expanded by looking at the digital frame and moving image languages in relation to 'affect'.

The panel will be considering questions about: the expanded moment, the embodiment of time, moving image languages, the digital frame, installation space and 'affect', liminality and time and painting.

Plenum#2: installation, rusty metal table and DVD projection
Chamber : installation, canvas, timber frame, water and DVD projection
Intersection: installation, metal, cotton, acrylic, ply and 2 x DVD projections
Ken Wilder

APT on show 2007

5 - 8 July 2007

To celebrate the Tour de France and Made in Deptford Festival

Victoria Rance
Space for a Man 2007
Forged Steel

Lou Smith
Musk 2007
Acrylic and pastel on canvas
From the series "After Midnight"

Ring Line is created by a continuous connected line of angle iron steel in a pattern defining overlapping cuboids and triangles that connect back to complete a ring shape. The three dimensions of the overlapping angle and ring create irregularities in the views around it.

Yellow is painted on an inside edge of the angle to emphasize the continuous direction of the line and add warmth and contrast to the bluish zinc coated finish.

Sheila Vollmer
2006

Heather Burrell was commissioned by Transport for London to create and build a sculpture as part of the Tour de France event celebrations.

The site of the Rotherhithe roundabout was chosen as a key location on the Tour De France route and Heather put forward a number of ideas to mark the cycling race and acknowledge the importance of 'green' travel in London.

Constructed with over 300 metal leaves, Leaf Cycle measures 3m high x 3m long and is strikingly visible with a silver galvanized finish.

CONSTRUCTION

Brigitte Parusel

12 - 15 July 2007

aRTifacts aT tHe eVent hoRizon

Seung-ah Lee

19 - 29 July 2007

PAINTING UNLIMITED
6 - 16 September

Exhibition curated by Cath Ferguson

SANCTUARY - An APT exhibition curated by Keir Smith in 2005
6 - 16 September 2007

Sanctuary was curated by APT artist Keir Smith to coincide with our Open Studios weekend in September 2005. Sadly, Keir died in March 2007. This selected display of the Sanctuary exhibition is our tribute to Keir and celebrates his contribution to APT and the Gallery programme.

"The studio is a unique environment, a place of speculation as well as making, an unlikely combination of study and production line and, as such, a place where apparent contradictions are reconciled".
Keir Smith, 2005

We are very grateful to Clare Rowe, Keir's wife, for lending some of Keir's work for this exhibition.

"He dedicated his life to his art, looking at and writing about the arts of the past which nourished his contemporary practice as much as his interest and respect for the art that was going on around him."
Anne Elliott, Obituary, The Guardian, 3 April 2007

The Sanctuary photographs were taken by photographer Peter Anderson whose exhibition XPOSURE is currently on display in APT's EXTRA space on Creekside.

XPOSURE
6 - 16 September 2007

Photographs by Peter Anderson
Exhibition curated by David Mach

Douglas Bentham

CROSSING THE POND

20-30 September 2007
Open Daily from 12 to 6pm

Canadian sculptor Douglas Bentham presents six monumental steel sculptures, executed in 1990 at the Hardingham Sculpture Workshop at Norfolk. These sculptures were Bentham's direct response to the stimulus provided by fourteen days confronted with British steel, hot days tempered by cooling rains, other sculptors' provocations and his own competitive spirit. In 'Crossing the Pond', Bentham complements the Hardingham series with six new stainless steel sculptures from his current Espalier series, shipped directly from his studio in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Douglas Bentham's formative years benefited from numerous professional artists' workshops at Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, including co-leading the 1977 workshop with Sir Anthony Caro; subsequent to that experience, the British sculptor founded the Triangle Artists' Workshop, bringing together the three points of the geographical triangle: Great Britain, the United States and Canada. The Hardingham Workshop grew from its example to become a vital gathering of sculptors from around the world. This exhibition encapsulates the cross-Atlantic exchange.

Hardingham Mirror, 1990
steel-rust, paint
92 x 52 x 40 inches

Hardingham Wish, 1990
steel-rust, paint
72 x 46 x 36 inches

Hardingham Screen, 1990
steel-rust, paint
71 x 50 x 34 inches

Hardingham Heights, 1990
steel-rust, paint
111 x 85 x 40 inches

Espalier I: Aphrodite, 2006
stainless steel
77 x 20 x 18 inches

Espalier IX: Helios, 2007
stainless steel
75 x 23 x 23 inches

Espalier X: Ariadne, 2007
stainless steel
84 x 25 x 25 inches

Espalier XII: Narcissus, 2007
stainless steel
71 x 26 x 12 inches

BOUNTY
A Case of Preposterous Optimism

In October 1787 the Bounty left Deptford on a voyage of 28 thousand miles with the intention of collecting breadfruit plants from Tahiti and taking them to grow as food for the slaves working the plantations in the West Indies. In 1789 the voyage ended in mutiny against Captain William Bligh, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian.

The initial impulse for the exhibition was the discovery by APT Trustee and artist Cuillin Bantock that the flowerpots taken out to Tahiti were made at a pottery on Creekside, home of APT. The ship itself was converted for transport at Deptford and many of the crew came from the local seafaring community. These links have been a mainspring in the making of work by the exhibitors; the APT studios are on the waterfront in Creekside.

The exhibition consists of painting, sculpture, work on paper, installation and film. It will interpret and document the events of the voyage, its links with Deptford and the wider historical context. We are hoping that breadfruits plants donated by the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii will have resumed growth in time for the exhibition.Talks for adult audiences support the exhibition.

www.bountyexhibition.org

GALLERY TALKS

Thursday 11 October 2007 at 7pm
Cuillin Bantock : Don’t Shoot Albatrosses
The talk will explore the relationship between the Bounty story and the historical shift from the
Age of Enlightenment to the Romantic Movement - The Coleridge Connection

Thursday 18 October 2007 at 7pm
Scott Plear : Don’t let truth get in the way of a good story
The talk will trace the interpretation of the Bounty story in film with reference to the directors, cast, film-locations, musical scores and period attitudes

Thursday 25 October 2007 at 7pm
Tim Cousins : Bounty Images
A guided talk on interpretations of the theme and an open debate centred round the exhibits

The exhibition has been funded by Arts Council England, Awards for All, Langara College Vancouver Canada, Ernest Cook Trust, London Borough of Lewisham and APT.

APT also acknowledges the generous support of Trinity School of Music, Lewisham College, Laban and St Thomas More School.

Exhibiting Artists

Victoria Arney
Cuillin Bantock
Tim Cousins
Nic Godbold
Oona Grimes
Liz Harrison
Margaret Higginson
Richard Lawrence
Stephen Lewis
Chris Marshall
Scott Plear
Jessica Poole
Victoria Rance
J S Robinson
Sheila Vollmer
David Webb

The Preposterous Cyclops
Contemporary Art and the Camera

1 - 18 November 2007

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN & PARENTS OR GRANDPARENTS Free, but places are limited so please book

Saturday 10 November 2007, 11am to 1pm

Blueprints are a fun, safe way to make photographic images using just light and water without the use of a camera. Come along and work with the artists in the show to create your own blueprint photographs.

Linda Hasking

Make Do and Mend

detail

Linda Hasking

Stacking Chairs 1

Blind embss and original digital print

Image size 65 x 65cm

Lorraine Morris

Gathering Storm

silver gelatin print

Lorraine Morris

Not Forgotten

silver gelatin prints

Tania Roberson

Garden of Eden

polaroid

Melanie Cory

Captured

Installation viewed through the lens filter

Melanie Cory

Captured

Installation detail

Andrew Bannister
Sean Cummins
Judith Dean
Tom Godfrey
Candice Jacobs
Mark Riley

Exhibition runs from November 22 - December 9 2007.
Gallery opening times: Thursday - Sunday, 12-5 pm.
Private view: Friday November 23, 6-9 pm

The exhibition brings together new and recent works by six artists working in a range of media. The title 'distance' relates broadly to the ideas which the works explore- of the relationship between place and memory, the gap between events and their representation, and the perception and experience of time and space. The works in the exhibition can be seen as representing a variety of creative responses to these themes, and employ diver

se media, including sculpture, photography, and video.

A talk on the works in the exhibition and the themes of the project will take place at the APT gallery on Saturday December 8 at 2.00 pm.

For further information on the exhibition or the talk, or for visual material relating to the exhibition please contact Andrew Bannister (email: pretext2007@yahoo.com, tel: 0776 168 0537)