Past Projects
Paint Club
PAINTING as RESEARCH
Friday 26 April, 6-8pm
April LAST Fridays
One-off opportunity to see what PhD/MPhil researchers and their supervisors are painting in a salon of more than 40 works exhibited in the Upper Gallery from 6-8pm as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays late openings.
Begged, borrowed and stolen 
- random works from the digital ether
FlatScreen 1 & 2: Lower Space
25 April – 3 May 2013
Wednesday – Friday, 11am-5pm
A rolling programme of experiments in film, video, performance and dance existing free-to-view in the digital realm.
Selected by David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin.
Tamsyn Challenger
Monoculture
Exhibition
20 February – 13 April 2013
exhibition extended until Sat 20 April or by appointment until Wed 24 April
Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm
Venue-wide exhibition of new works developed during the artist’s residency with Beaconsfield since June 2012.
Combines participatory sculptural objects and a small farm.
Special Events
Friday 22 February, from 6pm: Exhibition opening event, as part of February LAST Fridays with Bankside Afterparty
Saturday 16 March at 3pm: Interpreting Monoculture: Selfies & Sadism, with Naomi Siderfin and Judith Dean
Saturday 23 March at 3pm: Tamsyn Challenger in conversation with Fran Cottell, Rebecca Fortnum and Hannah Philp, chaired by Naomi Siderfin: How far do contemporary women artists identify with feminism?
Wednesday 27 March at 11am: Monoculture Coffee Morning
Saturday 6 April at 3pm: Rachael House responds to Monoculture
Begged, borrowed and stolen
- random works from the digital ether
FlatScreen 1 & 2 Canteen Gallery
9 January – 16 February 2013
Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm
A rolling programme of experiments in film, video, performance and dance existing free-to-view in the digital realm.
Selected by David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin.
Touch.30 at Beaconsfield
Atmospheres 4
Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6 December 2012
Two-day festival at Beaconsfield celebrating 30 years of Touch, with performances, installations and displays, plus a series of presentations and talks.
Curated by two of Touch’s founders and the current creative team, Mike Harding and Jon Wozencroft.
Buy tickets now from the TouchShop.
Tereza Buskova & Matthew Cowan
Experiments in Ritual
Friday 30 November 2012, 6-8.30pm
November LAST Fridays
Earlier this year Buskova and Cowan joined Tamsyn Challenger in her ongoing investigations into Monoculture.
This special screening will premier new video works from this engagement.
As part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays late openings.
Monica Ross and Children of Class 4
Act 47
Anniversary – an act of memory
solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
a performance series in 60 Acts
Closed workshops in November: Cathedral Primary School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy
Public Performance: Tuesday 13 November 2012 at 1.30pm
Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London SE1 9DA
A public recitation of the entire text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from memory by the children of Class 4, The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy with artist Monica Ross.
As part of Anniversary – an act of memory: a performance series in 60 acts.
FALL
Matthew Tickle | Angus Sanders-Dunnachie | Thomas Kvam | Minna Haukka
27 October – 1 December 2012
Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm
Exhibition preview: Friday 26 October from 6.30pm, as part of October LAST Fridays with Bankside Afterparty
Group exhibition.
Atelier: artists at work on site
Tamsyn Challenger | David Crawforth | Judith Dean | Rachel Garfield | Bruce Gilbert | Naomi Siderfin | Caroline Wright
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 September 2012, 11am-5pm
As part of Open House London
Weekend-long public dialogue about the ideas governing Beaconsfield as a creative base for critical enquiry.
Explore the venue through traces of past projects, permanent on-site artworks, resident artists, temporary installations and a series of live events.
Telepathy Research
Wednesday 5 September 2012, from 7pm
MyPeople Project host a talk by talk by Prof. Christopher C French, Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London.
To accompany the exhibition Solar Plexus at our South London neighbours Space Station Sixty Five.
Will Alsop | Edward Chell | Jennifer Cooke | David Lawrence
Poetics of the Motorway
Friday 27 July, 6-8.30pm
July LAST Fridays
Talk and readings celebrate the recent launch of In the Company of Ghosts: the Poetics of the Motorway, a book created by artist Edward Chell and poet Andrew Taylor, through their common interest in the physchogeographics of the motorway.
With guests Will Alsop, Edward Chell and David Lawrence and sonic performance poetry from Jennifer Cooke.
This event forms part of the South London Art Map July Not the Opening Ceremony LAST Fridays.
MA Fine Art - Camberwell College of Arts at Beaconsfield
4-6 July 2012
Thursday July 5 2012, 6-9 pm: bend over shirley Open/Close
Tamsyn Challenger
Monoculture
Commission and residency
From 28 June 2012 – February 2013
Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm
A new project conceived by Challenger to focus on the homogenised nature of global culture and explore alternatives.
Special Events:
Monoculture Launch: Friday 29 June 2012, 6-8.30pm
Monoculture Exhibition Opening Event: Friday 22 February from 6pm
Friday 25 May, From 6pm
LAST Fridays Late opening
6.30pm Rachel Garfield in conversation with Naomi Siderfin
8pm Ian Saville performs Socialist Magic
Beaconsfield hosts the Bankside Afterparty until late.
Galleries open for an evening viewing of The Struggle as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.
Image: Rachel Garfield, The Struggle, Part 1: The Straggle, video still
Friday 27 April, 6.30-8.30pm
LAST Fridays Late opening
With South London Art Map People’s Choice Gallery Tour
SLAM tour leader Adam Walker in conversation with Rachel Garfield at 6.30pm. Booking Required.
Galleries open for an evening viewing of The Struggle as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.
April’s Bankside Afterparty takes place at Hotel Elephant.
Image: Rachel Garfield, The Struggle, Part 1: The Straggle, video still
Rachel Garfield
The Struggle
19 April – 3 June 2012
Thursday – Sunday, 11am-5pm
Exhibition extended until 23 June, Thurs-Sat Only
Fridays during June: Rachel Garfield at work on site
Click here for special events programmed throughout the exhibition
The Struggle is a dynamic new series of films exploring the impact of politicised familial interactions on the formation of subjectivity in the individual – starting with The Straggle: a study focusing on individuals whose parents were left-wing activists, and the socialist magician Ian Saville.
Exhibition includes: Rachel Garfield and Stephen Dwoskin, Here There Then Now, 2009
A View from the Other Side
Drop-in Draw
Friday 30 March 2012, 6-8.30pm
A drop-in drawing session for all ages inspired by the current exhibition.
The galleries will be open late for an evening viewing of IC-98: A View From The Other Side.
As part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays late openings.
Image: IC-98, A View from the Other Side, 2011, animation detail
The [Blank] Collective
Friday 16 March, from 12 noon
Presence & Absence
discussions on the intervention of censorship
with guests Kirsten Cooke, Mark McGowan and Alex Wolfe
IC-98
A View from the Other Side
1 March – 14 April 2012
Thursday – Saturday, 11am-5pm
Closed Easter Week 5/6/7 April
Artists Talk and Reception: Friday 2 March at 6.30pm
Drawing Workshop & Evening View: Friday 30 March, 6-8.30pm
Meticulously drawn, slow–burn cinematic animation by Finnish duo IC-98 with other works from the same series on FlatScreens 1 and 2.
(Image: IC-98, A View from the Other Side, 2011, animation detail)
Friday 27 January from 6pm
Svein Flygari Johansen and Jonny Bradley talk at 7pm
Live Performance by Metamono at 9pm
Beaconsfield is delighted to host an evening when artist Svein Flygari Johansen returns to London to ask Am I making up what really happened?
A discussion with code maker Jonny Bradley will unpack their long-term collaboration and the marriage of digital revolution with landscape tradition in our current exhibition.
As part of January LAST Fridays at Beaconsfield with Bankside Afterparty till late…
January LAST Fridays
Friday 25 January 2013, 6-8pm
Beaconsfield’s galleries open late as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.