THE EXHIBITION
FRIDAY 28th August - Thursday 3rd September
Daily 12noon - 5pm
A collaborative exhibition from three new collectives from South East London; LuckyPDF, Off Modern & Friendly Street Gallery
LuckyPDF are a group of artists, curators and musicians based in Peckham.Currently resident curators at Area10, LuckyPDF program exhibitions and events across South London. For South East in East LuckyPDF present artist Doug Flanagan. Flanagan makes work based around the highly influencial but not well known cultural and religious leader Brian Rubin who lived in the East End during much of the 1980's.
Off Modern are a collective of artists, writers, promoters and curators based in South East London, we put on monthly nights at Corsica Studios in Elephant & Castle and publish a quarterly arts magazine. Our events provide young artists with an easily accessible platform to exhibit their work outside of the gallery system thus exposing their work to a new audience. Our aim is to promote contemporary art, literature and music at a grass roots level.
Off Modern artists Tom Harrad & Yuri Pattison will be exhibiting
Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann formed in 2005 after studying at Goldsmiths. Exhibiting nationally and internationally, they have recently undertaken commissions as part of The Art Car Boot Fair 2009 and an exhibition associated with the Centre of European Policy Studies at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. They have also recently completed a month long residency and exhibition as part of the Boeing Way residency programme.
For South East in East, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann will be producing a limited edition print that will continue their exploration of the local political networks and the subversive dissemination of music, protest and unrest through pirate radio broadcasts. This work is part of a body of work which includes the Off Modern commissioned work "frequency name format" (2008).
Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann live and work in South East London.
Bradford Bahamas
Based in London, Bradford Bahamas are a collective of artists and musicians who revolve around an interactive analogue audio/visual installation by Nitin Lachhani. Lachhani's practice often engages transmuting natural phenomena by diverse processes that involve using found electronic equipment to high end rapid prototyping technology.
Friendly Street Gallery adopts the living quarters of an old Deptford pub as it’s setting. Triumphing the corner of a listed Victorian street, we carry forward the legacy of the old Crown and Sceptre pub, inviting London’s most switched on crowd to enjoy contemporary art shows.
Friendly Street Gallery artists’ Mitchell Bridges, Rumi Trelawney Josephs & Aaron A. Angell will be exhibiting.
Mitchell Bridges, artist, curator and founder of southeast London's contemporary art gallery "Friendly Street Gallery". They see young 23-year-old is presently attending Camberwell College of Art and design in process of completing a degree in fine art drawing. born in the UK but raised in Canada, Mitchell has exhibited in both countries frequently since 2005. And with and the birth Of Friendly Street Gallery, September of last year Mitchell is a definite up and comer in the London art scene.
Mitchell's work revolves around themes of reiteration culture and DIY culture. Heavily influenced by artists such as Andreas Hofer, Hans Peter Feldman, Jonathan Monk. Mitchell works in the multitude of mediums from performance to painting Mitchell embodies a wide spectrum of creative practice, was a greater emphasis on choosing the right medium for the right idea or concept.
Rumi Trelawney Josephs
With an educational background in English Literature (BA Hons) rather than Fine Art, my early work was predominantly informed by text based practices by artists such as the Art & Writing collective. In 2001 I completed my dissertation for a Film Studies MA at The University of Essex, a modern ethnographic study on images of the body on-screen. This began an extended period of investigation into the concerns of Late Modernism, no-longer with the body as the subject of interest, but the objects which act upon it. In 2006 I moved to a large warehouse space in Hackney Wick where I began constructing large-scale work which dealt with material issues - interventions into the domestic space - structural bodies with social or even mythological ramifications.
"Currently, my work is concerned with how an encounter with materials can operate like an act of remembrance. How might the concerns of the 70s and Minimalism return to haunt us?"
Aaron A. Angell is a 21 year old artist who lives and works in South East London. He studies Fine Art at The Slade School of Fine Art, and is Co-Curator of Friendly Street gallery in Deptford.
Producing work with a variety of materials and processes, Angell’s work is often presented as a physical or visual milestone sprouting from various threads of research and experimentation. These milestones may or may not signal the end of a particular thread. The detritus left over from this research is published in his monthly magazine, Votive Anchor.