On-site
Exhibition: 15 November 2024 – 18 January 2025
Memories float for a moment and then fall – Shino Yanai’s new installation explores the plasticity of sound and its power to create new and imagined memories. Ken Ikeda (Tokyo) contributes sonic material and visits for a live performance, to improvise with Yanai’s voice and her prepared piano.
Off-site
Exhibition: 7 September 2024 – 23 March 2025
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears at Serlachius Museums: 7 September 2024 – 23 March 2025, as part of the Below Zero Finnish Art Award
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Screenings at Beaconsfield London on 29 November and at the Andrew Stewart Cinema, Glasgow University on 30 November 2024
FALL is an exploration of experimental film and text and announces the start of a new collaboration between Beaconsfield and Glasgow University’s Creative Writing course.
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears
Exhibition: 7 September- 23 March 2025
Below Zero Finnish Art Prize Exhibition at Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland
Memories of the Five Administrations
Exhibition: 15 May – 6 July 2024
Bringing together two very distinct bodies of work, reflecting an unlikely coupling: the earthy materiality of clay and its ephemeral antithesis.
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Shino Yanai is an interdisciplinary artist who has created performance-based works, including a field recording project involving long-distance running that began in London during the lockdown in March 2020. This…
Ken Ikeda is an improvisational electronic musician and composer. His music intricately weaves FM sine waves with unique processing, reminiscent of fabric weaving, through the spontaneous extraction and amalgamation of…
Exhibition: 15 May – 6 July (Wednesday – Saturday, 12-5pm)
British artists Simon Bedwell and Stephen Sutcliffe collaborate in an exhibition of new ceramics, video and painting. Bedwell’s new ceramics portray mainstream political figures from the last decade as slugs, inspired by satirists James Gillray and Steve Bell. These amorphous forms become the support for video works by Sutcliffe, which draw on an extensive archive of British television, film sound, broadcast images and spoken word recordings.
SONIC REFLECTIONS ON WINDRUSH WITH DUBMORPHOLOGY
26 October 7.30-11pm
Black Industrial Sound artists Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart AKA Dubmorphology return to Beaconsfield for Black History Month to weave black histories into a specially commissioned electro-acoustic sound performance.
Residency: 23 January – 15 March, Exhibition: 16 March – 6 May
The third recipient of the Below Zero Finnish Art Prize, investigates relationships between the digital era, power, humanity and the future of our planet. For this commission she will develop three new moving image works on site, produced with Beaconsfield under the working title salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.
BEACONSFIELD AND THE WILD ESCAPE
Beaconsfield is part of The Wild Escape, a major new project uniting hundreds of museums and galleries with schools and families to connect to the natural world in their local habitats. We will be working with local families and school children, ceramic artist Phoebe Collings-James and Rachael Nilssen of Mud Gang Pottery Studio, to contribute to re-wilding Kennington/Vauxhall while thinking about the role that earth or clay plays in our ecologies. These themes will be expanded in a public talk with Professor Kathryn Yusoff, author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2019).
LUCY GREGORY WINS BLOOMING LAMBETH AWARD 2022 FOR BEACONSFIELD’S GARDEN-YARD
Congratulations to our brilliant horticulturalist Lucy Gregory, who won a Blooming Lambeth Award for Beaconsfield’s Garden-yard! Her ‘Best in Bloom’ 2022 award was presented in Lambeth Town Hall at a prizegiving event hosted by Arit Anderson, from BBC’s Gardeners’ World, and Incredible Edible Lambeth.
SYSTEMIC PERIPHERALISM
Mark Fell
8 October – 3 December 2022
Responding to Beaconsfield’s main gallery spaces, two new sonic installations mark a cautious return to public life, asking visitors to collectively engage in sensory exploration.