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Exhibitions

ART FUNDRAISER

RSVP Exhibition tours to Streets of Growth Headquarters, Marsh Wall, London

November 9th 2018 until 14th December

As part of this relocation we are organised an

Art Fundraiser

7th December 2018

from 6pm

Small sized works sold anonymously for £50 

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RSVP is an exhibition that brings together a group of artists who engaged with the CWND artists’ residency in 2017. The Canary Wharf New District residency (CWND) was established by Andrea Coltman in 2016 and is a pioneering artist led residency, it being the first (and only) annual opportunity of this type within the Canary Wharf estate. The residency itself is housed deep within the construction site of the Wood Wharf ‘New District’ development to the east of the estate. Over the course of the summer the residency artists are encouraged to explore the nature of the site by developing a critical dialogue between their diverse practices and the unique environment of one of the world’s major financial districts that surrounds them. During the 2017 residency there were a range of visiting artists invited in to facilitate seminars, lectures and workshops, there were official site tours and even a visit to the top of the iconic tower at One Canada Square, the defining symbol of the London Docklands project.

Deptford is an appropriate venue for this exhibition, from here the buildings of the Docklands on the Isle of Dogs seem to be both very near and paradoxically very far away due to their close proximity to Deptford ‘as the crow flies’ but decisively separated by the fast-flowing waters of the river Thames. This sense of being both physically near and yet mentally far away from the site is the most obvious common thread in the experience of the artists during the residency, their position as artists affords them the privileged position of being unclassifiable outsiders embedded deep inside a community populated by easily classified ‘insiders’ ranging from the office workers in their business suits, construction workers in hard hats and hi-vis vests, uniformed retail workers, street cleaners and day tripping tourists. Their residency artist status afforded them official approval to move freely within this archetypal 21st century space (health and safety permitting!) and so with the luxury of time they have been free to observe, think, look and talk much like a 19th century flâneur or flâneuse. 

The practical results presented here are as diverse and exciting as the artists themselves. Some explore the psychogeographic implications of this intensely controlled environment others have responded to the unseen or overlooked peripheral elements whilst some have revelled in the formalism inherent in the geometry of glass and steel structures and the unique way riparian light is reflected off these surfaces. Despite the various nature of these responses they are all unified by the quality of the collaborations initiated during the residency and, as is clear from the work in this exhibition, it is an ongoing and vital dialogue that will continue to feed and enrich their practices in the future.

In October 2018 we were given a double opportunity to show resolved work from the artists involved in CWND residency 2017.

Open Daily from

12th October - 6th November 2018

Artists:  

Andrea Coltman, Jane Pickersgill

and Fiona G. Roberts

Community Gallery Window

Jubilee Walk

Canada Place

Canary Wharf

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Devised and run by artist Andrea Coltman, the CWND Artist Residency offers a rare opportunity for professional artists to respond to Canary Wharf interrogating the multifaceted nature of the Estate. 

 

Due to its unique location based at Wood Wharf Construction Site, the residency presents new opportunities and exciting challenges.

 

Now in its third edition, the residency reflects the symbiotic community relationship between professional artists and Canary Wharf Contractors. 

 

The work showing has been developed over a 12 month period and will run in conjunction with an exhibition, entitled R.S.V.P, no format Gallery, Deptford, SE8 5JB, from 17-28th October 2018.

. Simon Brewster .

www.simonbrewsterart.com

. Andrea Coltman .

www.andreacoltman.com

. Samuel L. Herbert .

www.samuellherbert.com

. Rita Isaac .

www. ritaisaac.com

. Ian Monroe .

www.ianmonroe.net

. Carolyn Morris .

www. carolynmorris.co.uk

. Ventia Nevill .

www.venetianevill.com

. Amy Peace Buzzard .

www. amypeacebuzzard.com

. Jane Pickersgill .

www. janepickersgill.com

. Fiona G. Roberts .

https://fionagroberts.wordpress.com

. Monique Wan.

https://moniquewan830.wixsite.com/moniquewebfolio3

. Yuting Wang .

http://anntywang01.wixsite.com/artyuting

R.S.V.P

Streets of Growth Headquarters, 30 Marsh Wall, London E14 9TP

Curated by Andrea Coltman

Art Fundraiser

Friday 7th December 2018

 

 

 

 

R.S.V.P

no format Gallery, Arch 29, Rolt Street, Deptford, SE8 5JB

Curated by Andrea Coltman

17th - 28th October 2018 

13.00 - 18.00pm Daily

Opening Event 18th October

Join us for a drink* and chat with the artists:

18.00 - 21.00pm

Panel Discussion 20th October

14.00-16.00pm

FOLLOWED BY DRINKS*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chair: 

Ian Monroe

Panel:

Rebecca Byrne, Andrea Coltman, Liz Elton, Samuel L Herbert 

 

Informal discussion centred around:

"Working with Limited Resources"

Closing Event Sunday 28th October

Please join us for an informal:

Artist Talk and Tour of the show

14.00-16.00pm

FOLLOWED BY DRINKS*

This show has been sponsored by Canary Wharf Contractors Limited (CWCL).

*We are raising money for Streets of Growth through a donation bar at all the above events

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

June 2019    

Ideas Store, Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5RB

October 2019    

TBC Exhibition and events with CWND 2018 Artists 

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