Bermondsey Project Space

Coming soon - THE LONDON GROUP: Stillness in Movement
 An exhibition in two parts, bringing together 74 members of The London Group, one of the oldest artists’ collectives in the world. Embracing diverse media, including painting, print, drawing, photography, sculpture, olfactory art, film and video, embroidery and fabric work, this is the Group’s latest, and perhaps most evocative exhibition.

Starting with TS Elliot’s ‘Four Quarters’, the Group explore the poem’s themes and offshoots - the stillness before dawn; chance encounters that are frozen time; the anticipation and pause before a performance; the stillness between breaths…   Part One exhibiting artists include: Moich Abrahams, Wendy Anderson, Bryan Benge, Slawomir Blatton, Lesley Bunch, Clive Burton, Paul & Laura Carey, Stephen Carley, Robert Clarke, Peter Clossick, Gary Clough, Sandra Crisp, John Crossley, Martin Darbyshire, Stathis Dimitriadis, Beverley Duckworth, Jeff Dellow, James Faure Walker, Marenka Gabeler, Emilia Gonzalez, Alexandra Harley, Aude Hérail Jäge, Alexander Hinks, Gillian Ingham, Anne Leigniel, Genetic Moo, Ian Parker, Alexander Ramsay, Tom Scase, Tommy Seaward, Sayako Sugawara, Paul Tecklenberg, Lisa Traxler, Joshua Uvieghara, Neil Weerdmeester, Carol Wyss

Coming soon - THE LONDON GROUP: Stillness in Movement
 An exhibition in two parts, bringing together 74 members of The London Group, one of the oldest artists’ collectives in the world. Embracing diverse media, including painting, print, drawing, photography, sculpture, olfactory art, film and video, embroidery and fabric work, this is the Group’s latest, and perhaps most evocative exhibition.

Starting with TS Elliot’s ‘Four Quarters’, the Group explore the poem’s themes and offshoots - the stillness before dawn; chance encounters that are frozen time; the anticipation and pause before a performance; the stillness between breaths…   Part Two exhibiting artists include: Jemma Appleby, Jonathan Armour, Victoria Arney, Barbara Beyer, Paul Bonomini, Mary Branson, J. Yuen-Ling Chiu, Ece Clarke, Philip Crozier, Angela Eames, Eric Fong, Cadi Froehlic, Tricia Gillman, Susan Haire, Martin Heron, Chris Horner, Jockel Leiss, Amanda Loomes, Hannah Luxton, Charlotte C Mortensson, Kathleen Mullaniff, Eugene Palmer, Claire Parrish, Janet Patterson, Sumi Perera, Steve Pettengell, Michael Phillipson, Daniel Preece, Victoria Rance, David Redfern, Suzan Swale, Almuth Tebbenhoff, David Tebbs, Philippa Tunstill, Bill Watson, Tisna Westerhof, Erica Winstone, David Wiseman

📣UPCOMING EXHIBITION📣 The London Group: Stillness In Movement Bermondsey Project Space 24-28 Sept PV: Wed 25 Sept, 6-9pm “Not known, because not looked for But heard, half heard in the stillness Between two waves of the sea - Four Quartets, by T S Eliot These three lines from Eliot’s epic poem were the starting point of The London Group’s latest, and perhaps most evocative exhibition, Stillness in Movement. Its themes and ofshoots are explored by 74 London Group members - the stillness before dawn; chance encounters that are frozen in time; the anticipation and pause before a performance; the stillness between breaths…” I will be exhibiting my work ’Sectioned’, which originates from a still which is part of my video work ‘Peripheral People’, linked in my bio. Sectioned, 4 Oil on mylar 52 x 42 x 5cm Sectioned looks at the way we end up becoming a combined deposit of past people. A re-composite. Both molecularly and metaphorically, we are combined efgies of bodies who have previously lived and died. This image is like a snapshot, an MRI slice of that effigy, and to capture this transference of matter requires absolute stillness. @thelondongroup @bprojectspace

OUT OF OFFICE 📢 🤸‍♀️ Bermondsey Project Space will be closed during the month of August for holidays and refurbishments. The next exhibition will be STILLNESS IN MOVEMENT, brought to us by The London Group from 17th -28th September. @thelondongroup For any enquiries please contact [email protected]

July Pop-Up Month at BPS concluded with GEOGRAPHIES OF SELF. Presented by 401 Collective, this exhibition featured works by Reem Acason, Devon McCulloch, and Vix Koch, multidisciplinary artists currently pursuing their masters at the University of Brighton. Thank you to everyone who attended, delving into an intricate tapestry of identity and place, offering a profound exploration of self through varied artistic lenses. The work engaged with themes of identity, self and connections to place, exploring how identity is formed and transformed by our connections to the places we inhabit. We look forward to seeing what @401collective does next! @reemacason @vix_koch @devon_mcculloch_illustration

Last Pop-Up at BPS GEOGRAPHIES OF SELF By Reem Acason, Vix Koch & Devon McCulloch 27 – 28 July 2024 Private View: 27 July, 6-9pm ‘Geographies of Self’ is a pop-up art exhibition presented by 401 Collective. It features works by Reem Acason, Devon McCulloch, and Vix Koch, multidisciplinary artists currently pursuing their masters at the University of Brighton. This exhibition delves into the intricate tapestry of identity and place, offering a profound exploration of self through varied artistic lenses. The work engages with themes of identity, self and connections to place, exploring how identity is formed and transformed by our connections to the places we inhabit. @reemacason ’s work navigates the fluid boundaries between personal and collective identity, often drawing from her rich cultural heritage. Her current work follows inter-generational threads, through loss and societal evolution. Elements are woven together, layered and juxtaposed to create narratives rooted in the mythical which hint at lost histories and folklore. @devon_mcculloch_illustration ’s art combines modern and historical photographs, documents, found objects, and medical paraphernalia as reference points. Her practice explores the internal and external aspects of subjects and subject matter and magnifies the slippage within the anti-portraiture genre (portraits where ‘likeness’ is irrelevant).Her working practice uses anachronistic technology in unconventional ways, processes are suggestive of form; and inspirational in the curation of montages of photographs, graphics and prints as artworks. @vix_koch ’s practice centres around site-specific work that utilises sculpture, experimental photography and digital collage to investigate the nuances of time and space. She uses wax, cardboard, paper mache and plaster to create sculptures that tap into pre-modern architecture. Situating them in rural sites, she employs double exposure and overlaying techniques to reimagine these landscapes exploring the mythic and surreal. Please visit our website for more information to RSVP for the Private View.

BARBIELAND vs REAL WORLD was held last Sunday by Merlin Nova. This third instalment of SERIES OF EVENTS included an exhibition of work from Nicole Houff and Merlin Nova and an evening of participatory read through of Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s award winning Barbie movie script soundtracked by artist Fran Lobo. Thank you to the attendees and performers for a fantastic evening. @_merlinnova_ @nicolehouff

Up Next and back again at BPS for July Pop-Up month: FROM ARTCAN WITH LOVE ArtCan annual postcard fundraiser Postcard Auction Event: Tuesday 23 July, from 6pm ‘Join us for the return of our popular postcard fundraiser, selling miniature masterpieces from our amazing member artists for just £40 each! This year we will again be taking over Bermondsey Project Space for our one-night-only event, however our international supporters will be able to join us via live stream to bid on their favourite works… ‘ As a non-profit organisation entirely volunteer led, ArtCan does not take commissions on purchases at our exhibitions; instead selected artists pay a small set fee towards the costs of putting on a show. 100% of the sales from this event will go to fund future ArtCan exhibits. Please visit @artcanorg for more information.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Private View for Rafael Escardó’s first London solo exhibition MARICA FORMAL. BPS will be open tomorrow for the last day of this exhibition. Special Sunday opening hours will be 11am - 6pm. Make sure to catch MARICA FORMAL before its over! Translating into *Formal Faggot* in English, Marica Formal is an art installation that takes the form of a socks brand for queer activism in South America. Burrowing for foot fetish and sportswear queer aesthetics, Escardo’s project aims to tackle systematic homophobia by reclaiming the words ‘Marica’ and ‘Maricon’ from the common derogatory use of non-queer individuals. Turning the gallery into a kinky concept store, Escardo has produced the first edition of MF socks, prints, photographs and a video piece installation. Boosting change in the Latin queer community, the artist is not only addressing the use of language but also donating 15% of the socks income to Casa Trans Lima Este, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to giving shelter to trans people who lost their homes in Lima, Peru. For more information about the project, or to purchase MF socks, please visit our website. @maricaformal @rafaelescardo_studio @casatranslimaeste

JULY POP UP SEASON 2024 continues with: MARICA FORMAL By Rafael Escardó 19 – 21 July 2024 Private View: 19 July, 6-9pm Translating into *Formal Faggot* in English, Marica Formal is an art installation by artist Rafael Escardo that takes the form of a socks brand for queer activism in South America. Burrowing for foot fetish and sportswear queer aesthetics, Escardo’s project aims to tackle systematic homophobia by reclaiming the words ‘Marica’ and ‘Maricon’ from the common derogatory use of non-queer individuals. Turning the gallery into a kinky concept store, Escardo has produced the first edition of MF socks, prints, photographs and a video piece installation. Boosting change in the Latin queer community, the artist is not only addressing the use of language but also donating 15% of the socks income to Casa Trans Lima Este, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to giving shelter to trans people who lost their homes in Lima, Peru. Please visit our website for more information. @maricaformal @rafaelescardo_studio @casatranslimaeste

JULY POP UP SEASON 2024 Thank you to everyone who attended the Private view of AT THE EDGE OF PAINTING. by Mary Anne Francis & Caroline Pick. This exhibition will conclude at 6pm today, make sure to catch this impressive installation before its gone. Things happen at the edge: forms dissolve and metamorphose. Newly collaborating, Pick and Francis prod this paradox, for painting. Pick makes sculpture: visceral, flouncy, and translucent. Her work is loosely formed, both voluptuous and disturbing, asking to be touched while repelling touch. Francis is an artist-writer with a radically diverse practice, in which a flirtation with painting jostles with a multitude of other art-forms. For this joint venture at Bermondsey Project Space, Pick takes paintings off the wall and floats them from the ceiling as three-dimensional cloudscapes, surrounding the viewer with twisting and turning structures. Latex layered on to flesh-coloured organza – this is painting with no paint. Nor is there paint in Francis’ take-away exhibition catalogue which documents the abstract monochromes of Jo Faust. Here is painting as a printed surface, flattened in a way that counters Pick’s dimensionality. And pushing further at the edge of painting, Faust’s work is also fictional – the catalogue is the first chapter of an experimental art-novel. In the back room of the gallery, painting is propelled across another edge with Francis’ set of standing forms, which combine functionality and colour-field abstraction. In their different ways and edging past their predecessors, Francis and Pick look to a perpetual painting practice which continually redraws its boundaries, invigorated by its intersection with non-painting. @carolinepickstudio @mary.anne.francis

July- Pop Up Month Continues 👀 AT THE EDGE OF PAINTING By Mary Anne Francis & Caroline Pick 11 – 12 July 2024 Private View: Thursday 11 July, 6-9pm Things happen at the edge: forms dissolve and metamorphose. Newly collaborating, Pick and Francis prod this paradox, for painting. For this joint venture at Bermondsey Project Space, Pick takes paintings off the wall and floats them from the ceiling as three-dimensional cloudscapes, surrounding the viewer with twisting and turning structures. Latex layered on to flesh-coloured organza – this is painting with no paint. Nor is there paint in Francis’ take-away exhibition catalogue which documents the abstract monochromes of Jo Faust. Here is painting as a printed surface, flattened in a way that counters Pick’s dimensionality. And pushing further at the edge of painting, Faust’s work is also fictional – the catalogue is the first chapter of an experimental art-novel. In the back room of the gallery, painting is propelled across another edge with Francis’ set of standing forms, which combine functionality and colour-field abstraction. In their different ways and edging past their predecessors, Francis and Pick look to a perpetual painting practice which continually redraws its boundaries, invigorated by its intersection with non-painting. To RSVP for the Private View tomorrow or for more information, please visit our website. @mary.anne.francis @carolinepickstudio