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Past Exhibitions 2009
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I'd Rather Play Sudoku
22 January - 1 February 2009
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Anna Johnson

Peter Blundell

Jamie George

Stuart Elliot
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There is a fine line between boredom and obsession when it comes
to saturating oneself with images from the internet. What is one
to do with all this visual stimulation? An answer might lie in a
drawing that turns into embroidery or maybe a monoprint to trigger
memories of why these things appealed in the first place. Another
reality might involve imagining a cut-out model of an old master
figure that can be ordered from a warehouse and assembled in the
home. Is this irony or a new intimacy with history? Partitions could
also be built and new places created and then vacated to evoke a
spatial anxiety. There might be need for domestic comforts to be
introduced to provide a necessary counterpoint. Is this how intimacy
might play in an art gallery?
All this is to keep the artist busy, give him or her tasks, something
pointless, something that won't succeed. It could be filmed as a
performance and the props could become sculptural objects. They
might be made of concrete but still contingent on the performance
which is light-hearted and kind of heavy at the same time. Velocity
as well as gravity figures too. The music producer Martin Hannett
tells Joy Division's drummer to 'play slow, but fast'. Can painting
be like this also? A continuous succession of rapid-fire attempts
to capture a moment and each time the edge is softened and then
stretched-out into a ground. Was the punk-rock moment more of a
promise than anything delivered? If so, we should all ask for a
refund if we don't get the goods.
I'd rather play Sudoku demonstrates a common desire of six artists
to be distracted and wilfully redundant within the demands of their
work. They employ strategies across a diversity of media that keep
themselves from determining the core of their projects. In so-doing,
their work reflects a certain contemporary reality of how meaning
might be forged. A reality not just dependent on an art-historical
awareness, but on a perceived life experience as well.
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Thinking
Hand
Gisel Azevedo, Martin Barrett, Matthew Chambers,
Anne Daniels, Grenville
Davey, Garry Doherty,
Paul Manners, Kon Markogiannis, Pete Nevin,
Patrick Oronsaye, Vassilis Pafilis, Hedley Roberts,
Hideyuki Sawayanagi, Timothy Weston
5 - 22 February 2009
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Ping Pong
Wia Stegeman, Toni McGreachan, Tanja Isbarn
Ping Pong is a multi media exhibition featuring the work of artists
from Britain, Germany and Holland, who found each other in their
common interest in the theme of 'Water'. The title PING PONG relates
to the way in which the water surface reflects reality and is a
symbol of how the artists communicated with each other through their
professional art practises. Supported by APT Gallery, Arts Council
England and The National Lottery.
26 February to15 March 2009
Private View: 26 February 2009, 6 - 8pm
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Las Bunitesanan (the beauties) - undeclared goods Tanja Isabarn,
2009

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T he Disappearing Pillar, Wia Stegeman, 2009
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Lolly-Pop, Tanja Isbarn, 2009
Mixed Media painting
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Animato Series, Toni McGreachan, 2009
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Confluence
19 March - 5 April 2009
Eileen Cooper, Fred Gatley, Caroline Isgar, Sara Lee, Sara Radstone,
Annie Turner
Confluence is an exhibition curated by Eileen Cooper RA and is
the result of an unusual collaboration between six artists, with
works in ceramics, on paper and in print. The work is rich and varied
but the subjects and ideas converge around a common reference in
the use of imagery: an interest in distance and containment, horizon
and proximity. Waterways, bridges and crossings feature strongly.
There is a haunting quality to many of these pieces; water is never
very far away.
Cooper herself has long been involved in making work in print and,
to a lesser extent, ceramics, often in collaboration with other
practitioners. The artists in Confluence have all worked independently
and professionally over many years. They are linked by a fascination
with process and deeply rooted in their craft, with ideas being
developed through 'making' and an engagement with materials.
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Eileen Cooper RA
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Fred Gatley
www.fredgatley.co.uk
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Caroline Isgar
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Sara Lee
www.saraleeartist.co.uk
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Sara Radstone
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Annie Turner
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CLAY ELLIS: EIGHT MILES
OF BARBED WIRE
9 - 26 April 2009
Gallery open: Thursday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm
Private View: Saturday 18 April
2009 5 - 7pm
Panel Discussion: Sunday 19 April
2009 at 2pm
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Creekside Open Selected by Jenni Lomax
7 - 24 May 2009
www.creeksideopen.org
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Eleanor Cleasby
elliecleasby@hotmail.com
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Andreas Pashias
hooked_up9@hotmail.com
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Heather Phillipson
PRIZE WINNER
heatherphillipson1@yahoo.co.uk
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Nicola Pomery
nicolapomery@hotmail.com
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Creekside Open selected by Mark Wallinger
4 - 21 June 2009
www.creeksideopen.org
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Jane Bolden
janebolden@clara.co.uk
www.janebolden.co.uk
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Hannah Brown
hannahham@hotmail.com
www.hannahbrown.info
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Eleanor Cleasby
elliecleasby@hotmail.com
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Bruce Ingram
info@bruceingram.com
www.bruceingram.com
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David Redfern
davidredfern259@btinternet.com
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Eithne Twomey
eithne.twomey@googlemail.com
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Jacqueline Utley
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Yohei Yashi
yoheiyashi@hotmail.com
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Q Art London presents
2 - 5 July 2009
Part of APT Enables
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Photography by George Lloyd, July 2009 |

Q-Art London launched in November 2008 as a forum for critical
exchange, networking and
peer-review for visual art and visual culture students and graduates
from across Londons major art schools.
A potential autonomous art school in the making, Q-Art
London has been holding monthly convenors across Londons art
universities, inviting students to present and discuss work in a
critical, peer-reviewed environment.
Q-Art London presents
is the first exhibition showcasing
this unique convenor-led collective
of artists. Displaying new works by the 41 artists who presented
at one of the six convenors
throughout the year, this exhibition presents the opportunity to
view recent work, participate,
and listen again to the convenor presentations through film documentation.
Q-Art London presents
is a unique insight into a continuous
verbal and visual critical
commentary between a previously disparate range of young artists.
To promote this valuable
exchange, a series of events will also take place across the period
of the exhibition. Working across photography, sculpture, painting,
film and mixed media installation, the exhibition offers an opportunity
to experience the growing momentum of a forum that breaks down traditional
institutional barriers. Q-Art London provides an alternative and
additional learning environment to the institution; it econstructs
boundaries between various art schools as well as their departments
and levels of study; and provides a forum where graduates of these
colleges can continue to present and critically discuss work.
It is hoped that by creating a London-wide
system of peer review and critical exchange,
criticality will take a lead role in determining future successful
artists as opposed to market
forces.
Sarah Rowles, Director Q-Art London
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Photography by George Lloyd, July 2009
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Photography by George Lloyd, July 2009
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Tidemill Primary school
is proud to present an exhibition at the APT Gallery.
All the pupils at Tidemill
have made something in this exhibition; each and every one of them
has worked hard to produce an artwork for the show. Reception children
have make massive bugs and creepy crawlies, year 1+2 have built
two metre high trees and made animations of growing seeds, year
3+4 have produced amazing tribally decorated rainforest leaves and
year 5+6 pupils have painted a transparent river.
Throughout the school
pupils have been learning about growing and changes, Bio-diversity,
de-forestation and our affect on our environment.
All of their artworks
will combine to build an immersive installation; a forest full of
creatures, plants growing, rainforest songs being sung and little
child like creatures exploring each others artworks.
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Seeing
Beyond Eric
Fong
16
July - 2 August 2009
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DUAL
PURPOSE: Paintings
and Constructions
Geoff
Rigden & Norman Toynton
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- 13 September 2009
ARTISTS'
TALK: Sunday 13 September at 2pm
Tim
Cousins will be in conversation with Geoff Rigden and Norman Toynton
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SOUTH
EAST
An exhibition of work made by artists at APT Studios
17
September to 4 October 2009
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Art in Perpetuity Trust in Deptford houses some forty artists who
work in a range of media from painting and sculpture through photography
and video to installation and site specific work. Over the past fourteen
years, APT has established itself as a significant contributor to
the creative profile of South East London, largely through its gallery
programme.
This exhibition contains
work from all APT artists, and can be seen as a 'sampler' for the
Open Studios weekend which takes place on 26 and 27 September; all
artists' studios will be open to the public on this weekend between
1.00 and 6.00pm. The works selected for the exhibition are the subjective
choices of two members of the Gallery Committee - Clyde Hopkins
and Stephen Lewis. The aim of the selection is that the work is
representative of the individual artist; there is no imposed 'theme'
within the work but rather a richness in variety.
The exhibition opens
with a private view, 6.00 - 8.00pm, on Thursday 17 September 2009
and then runs from Friday 18 September through to Sunday 4 October.
The APT Gallery is open Thursday to Sunday 12noon to 5.00pm. This
exhibition is part of the Deptford X programme of events and APT
acknowledges support from this organisation.
www.deptfordx.org
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SIMON CALLERY
THAMES GATEWAY
PROJECT
9 October - 1 November
2009
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'Thames Gateway Project' represents an engagement with the changing
landscape of the regeneration zone through the medium of painting
- a tradition where we are accustomed to find evidence of our shifting
attitudes in relation to landscape. The aim of this work has been
to develop new forms for landscape-based painting in response to this
new environment. Simon Callery has worked in collaboration with Oxford
Archaeology, who provided on-site access to a number of locations
within the Thames Gateway over a three-year Arts and Humanities Research
Council Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship. Sites of work have
included a flood relief scheme at Washlands Basin, Dagenham, the A2
road rerouting at Gravesend, Kent, at Woolwich Teardrop, Woolwich
Arsenal and at the London Gateway container port development on the
Thames estuary at Shellhaven, Essex. Commercial excavation sites are
characterised on one hand by the materiality of the construction site
and on the other by a tangible sense of temporality. They are rapidly
changing landscapes, where briefly future function and evidence of
past human activity fuse.
This exhibition consists
of two related groups of paintings; Pit Paintings and Wall Spines.
Both groups employ a recasting of the support (stretchers) for painting
to a more central role, the use of organic form found in archaeological
features and the opening up of the paintings to give access to the
interior. In combination these qualities involve the viewer in an
encounter that initiates visually but leads, through a structured
perceptual route to a physical register. Significantly, the aim
of these paintings is to mobilize the viewer, encouraging movement
from edge to edge, and to peer inside the open body of the works.
These new works connect
with current thinking in archaeology, architecture and the fine
arts where an ambition is growing to accommodate, record and communicate
lived experience, proposing an alternative to the image-based culture
that dominates contemporary life.
The Thames Gateway
Project is an Arts and Humanities Research Council Creative and
Performing Arts Fellowship. In collaboration with Oxford Archaeology
and Wimbledon College, University of the Arts London. This exhibition
is supported by the Arts Council England, Lottery Funded.
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EDUCATION
Symposium:
Friday 16 October at 2pm
Artist's
Talk: Tuesday 27 October at 10.30am <<
Talk PDF>>
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Deptford
Update
Exhibition designed
by David Kohn Architects
11 - 29 November 2009
Exhibition open: Tuesday
to Sunday from 10am to 5pm
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Design for London
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Update is an exhibition of drawings and models accompanied by a programme
of events showcasing emerging public realm projects in Deptford and
North Lewisham.
Commissioned by Design
for London in partnership with London Borough of Lewisham, the exhibition
includes: an urban plan for Deptford Creekside, proposals for the
Kender Triangle in New Cross Gate, improved pedestrian connections
along Deptford Church Street and a series of speculative housing
proposals by students from the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio,
Switzerland.
A specially-commissioned
wall mural will present all of the projects in context including
the LB Lewisham led Deptford and New Cross Links programme. Visitors
will be invited to comment on the proposals which will be reviewed
by DfL and LB Lewisham.
Part of the gallery is
being set up as a meeting room available free of charge to local
organisations. Events planned include a heritage walk, design workshops,
a two day design charrette lead by Creative Process building on
the successful charrette event from June 2008 [http://www.designforlondon.gov.uk/uploads/media/Deptford_Creekside_Charrette_Report.pdf]
and design crits for architecture students working in the area.
A library of books about urban design that have influenced the projects
will be available with fresh coffee being served. A heritage talk-and-walk
by Edmund Bird and Creek walks hosted by the Creekside Trust will
give further background to the proposals on show.
The exhibition is intended
to invite debate on the design ambitions for the area amongst the
local community, key players from the private and public sector
and designers involved in shaping Londons public realm.
Exhibition designed by:
David Kohn Architects
Contributors include:
Deptford Creekside Charrette Team
Studio Sergison at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland
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Witherford Watson Mann Architects
David Kohn Architects
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Sponsors:
Design for London
London Development
Agency
London Borough of
Lewisham
Accademia di architettura,
Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio
Swiss Cultural Fund
in Britain
Federal Department
of Foreign Affairs, Presence Switzerland
Art in Perpetuity
Trust
RIBA Bookshops
Exmoor Ales
Creative Process
Sergison Bates architects
Knoll
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