Past Exhibitions 2009

I'd Rather Play Sudoku

22 January - 1 February 2009

Anna Johnson

Peter Blundell

Jamie George

Stuart Elliot

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.

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

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

Lolly-Pop, Tanja Isbarn, 2009
Mixed Media painting

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.

Eileen Cooper RA

Fred Gatley

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Caroline Isgar

Sara Lee

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Sara Radstone

Annie Turner

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

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Eleanor Cleasby

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Andreas Pashias

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Heather Phillipson

PRIZE WINNER

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Nicola Pomery

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Creekside Open selected by Mark Wallinger

4 - 21 June 2009

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Jane Bolden

janebolden@clara.co.uk
www.janebolden.co.uk

Hannah Brown

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Eleanor Cleasby

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Bruce Ingram

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David Redfern

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Eithne Twomey

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Jacqueline Utley

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Yohei Yashi

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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 London’s major art schools.

A potential ‘autonomous art school’ in the making, Q-Art London has been holding monthly convenors across London’s 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

Photography by George Lloyd, July 2009

Photography by George Lloyd, July 2009

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.

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

SIMON CALLERY

THAMES GATEWAY PROJECT

9 October - 1 November 2009

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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.

EDUCATION

Symposium: Friday 16 October at 2pm

Artist's Talk: Tuesday 27 October at 10.30am << Talk PDF>>

Deptford Update

Exhibition designed by David Kohn Architects

11 - 29 November 2009

Exhibition open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm

Design for London

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 London’s public realm.

Exhibition designed by:

David Kohn Architects

Contributors include:

Deptford Creekside Charrette Team
Studio Sergison at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland
East
Witherford Watson Mann Architects
David Kohn Architects

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