Past Projects
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
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…
Svein Flygari Johansen
Am I making up what really happened?
12 November 2011 – 12 February 2012
Thursday – Sunday, 11am-5pm
Influential Norwegian artist shows solo for the first time in London, with cultural references ranging from the London stock exchange to the Utoya massacre.
Special Events:
Friday 11 November 2011, from 6.30pm: Exhibition Preview, with live performance by experimental musician Arne Borgan.
Friday 25 November, 6-8.30pm: LAST Fridays late opening:
Friday 27 January at 7pm: Svein Flygari Johansen and Jonny Bradley, as part of January LAST Fridays
Bruce Gilbert and BAW (David Crawforth & Naomi Siderfin)
Post-Diluvial Performance
With October LAST Fridays & Bankside Afterparty
Friday 28 October, 6pm till late
Performance at 7pm
Live performance of aural and visual material composed weekly throughout the current Soundtrap project, Diluvial.
With Bruce Gilbert, David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin.
Booking essential.
This event forms part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.
Beaconsfield hosts the Bankside Afterparty until late with DJ Howard Jacques.
image: Bruce Gilbert & BAW, Diluvial, 2011, Installation View, Beaconsfield
Art & Compromise (VII):
Julian Stallabrass with Clive Stafford Smith
Using Images of War
Wednesday 19 October, 2011 at 2pm
What now does it take to confer artistic status on an image? At what point does documentary evidence become ‘art’?
Academic Julian Stallabrass will discuss such issues in conversation with international human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith.
Free but booking essential.
Image: Noor Behram, 2010.05.21 Fatima Picture, Documents from the Frontier, Gaming in Waziristan, Beaconsfield, July 2011, Image courtesy the artist
September LAST Fridays
Friday 30 September 2011, 6-8.30pm
Performance at 7pm: Noshin Farhid’s Conic Trilogy: Screening with Live Narration by Ross Mullan
Beaconsfield joins participating galleries throughout South London open late for the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.
The exhibition Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and BAW, Diluvial, 2011 will be on show throughout the evening.
image: Nooshin Farhid, video still, Parabola, Conic Trilogy, 2010
courtesy the artist and the Agency
SpaceShip Earth
Living Roof
Sunday 18 September at 2pm: Green Walk
Sunday 18 September, 3.30-8pm: Living Roof Launch
Masterminded by Mark Pavey, Michael Shaw and Dafna Talmor, the sustainable, living roof at Beaconsfield has been more than a year in the making, built by volunteers, working under strict principles, only from donated and salvaged materials.
Open House London
Saturday and Sunday 17/18 September 2011, 11am-5pm
Beaconsfield participates in Open House London for the 15th year running with exhibitions Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and BAW, Nooshin Farhid‘s Conic Trilogy and special events to launch SpaceShip Earth‘s living roof for public access.
Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and BAW
Diluvial, 2011
8 September – 30 October 2011
Thursday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm
Upper Gallery & Canteen Gallery FlatScreens
Wednesday 7 September 6-9pm: Exhibition Preview
Friday 28 October 7pm: Post-diluvial performance (Part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays)
Diluvial is an evolving soundscape and environment by Bruce Gilbert (ex Wire) and Beaconsfield ArtWorks (David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin).
image: Field Recordings, Sizewell Beach, Suffolk, April 2011
Nooshin Farhid
Conic Trilogy 2010
Parabola 22:00
Hyperbola 26:00
Ellipsis 9:00
8 September – 30 October 2011
Thursday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm
Arch Gallery
Wednesday 7 September 6-9pm: Exhibition Preview
Friday 30 September at 7pm: Screening with live narration by Ross Mullan
(Part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.)
A series of three digital films made in part on Orford Ness, Suffolk, a small island which politically resonates through its history of espionage, atomic testing and international communications.
image: Nooshin Farhid, video still, Parabola, Conic Trilogy, 2010, Courtesy the Artist and The Agency
Embrace the Place: A Tate Local Event
Saturday 3 September, 1-5pm
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1
Beaconsfield joins invited artists to Embrace the Place with Tate Local.
A Tate Local event in partnership with CityWest Homes Great Communities Day. Embrace the Place is produced by home live art in collaboration with Tate Britain.
Gaming in Waziristan
Noor Behram | Butler Brothers | Nooshin Farhid
Exhibition: 19 July – 5 August, 2011, Tuesday – Friday, 11am-5pm
Exhibition Extended: Thursday & Friday 25/26 August, Thursday 1 September, 11am – 5pm
Friday 29 July, 6.30 – 8.30pm: LAST Fridays: Gaming in Waziristan as part of Becks South London Festival of Art Night
(Splash page image: Butler Brothers, still from The Ethical Governor, 2010)
Ian Hinchliffe
- the Memorial
Saturday 2 July 2011, 2pm – 8pm
Upper Gallery 1 & Canteen Gallery 2
Tribute to the Northern legend and sometime bad boy of the British Performance/Live Art scene.
Join us on 2nd July as some of the many great performers, artists, musicians, organisers, publishers and friends who were touched by Ian Hinchliffe will celebrate his life/art.
South London Art Map
LAST Friday & Bankside Afterparty
Friday 24 June 2011, 6.30pm till late
Beaconsfield joins galleries open late for the South London Art Map LAST Fridays : the late night opening of all galleries in South London on the last Friday of every month.
First join us to celebrate the launch of Monica Ross’s DVD, acts of memory 2005-2010 and then for a relaxed evening viewing of our current FlatScreen film.
The Ragged Canteen will be open from 6.30pm till late, serving a selection of beers and wine alongside our outstanding coffee and cakes.
The Afterparty is a locus for the Bankside SLAM Galleries and all art aficionados to relax and let their hair down after the LAST Friday openings.
DVD Launch
Monica Ross
acts of memory 2005-2010
solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Friday 24 June 2011, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Upper Gallery 1 & Canteen Gallery 2
acts of memory traces the evolution of Monica Ross’s extensive collaborative work, from the solo act rightsrepeated—an act of memory at Beaconsfield in 2005 through performances 01-30 of the ongoing project.
Nineteen thirty-six
Kate Allen
31 May – 15 July 2011
Tuesday – Friday, 11am-5pm
Canteen Gallery 2: FlatScreen
This enigmatic short film speaks of history – of art, architecture and gender politics.
Beaconsfield Off-Site
Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and Beaconsfield ArtWorks (David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin)
Diluvial
at Faster Than Sound 27-29 May 2011
Soundtrap V is a collaboration between Bruce Gilbert, David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin (Beaconsfield ArtWorks). Diluvial takes as its theme the rising sea levels that preoccupy those living close to water, focusing particularly, on the Suffolk coast and near the banks of the Thames.
Fraternise
- the Salon
Upper Gallery 1, Canteen Gallery 2 & Arch Gallery 3
2 April – 29 May 2011
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am-5pm
Fraternise – the Salon gathers a cohort of artists in a curated, fundraising exhibition, to support the future existence of Beaconsfield.
Special Events:
Friday 1 April, from 6pm: Exhibition Preview
Monday 16 May at 7pm: Fraternise - for Collectors (Booking essential)
Wednesday 18 May at 11am: Fraternise – the Coffee view
Saturday 21 May at 2pm:Fraternise - the Curator’s talk
Friday 27 May from 6.30: LAST Friday’s: Fraternise - the finissage
LAST Fridays at Beaconsfield
Friday 25 March 2011, 6.30pm til late
Beaconsfield joins 90 galleries throughout South London open late for the the South London Art Map LAST Fridays . Come along for a relaxed evening viewing of our current exhibitions, accompanied by a glass of wine!
The Ragged Canteen will be open till late, serving a selection of beers and wine alongside our outstanding coffee and cakes.
My Mum (V2-Sensitive)
Mark Dean
9 March – 25 March 2011
Tuesday – Friday, 11am-5pm
Upper Gallery 1: FlatScreen Projection
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art:screen (Sweden) on FlatScreen
1 March – 1 April 2011
Tuesday – Friday, 11am-5pm
Canteen Gallery 2
FlatScreen Talk: Dan Lestander, Thursday 3 March at 2.30pm
A programme of contemporary Swedish video works, specially compiled for FlatScreen by art:screen, at the invitation of Beaconsfield.
South London Art Map
LAST Fridays
Friday 25 February 2011, 6pm till late
Artists Tour at 7.30pm
After-party with artist-DJ Mark Dean from 8pm
Beaconsfield will join 90 galleries throughout South London open late for the first South London Art Map LAST Friday.
Art & Compromise (VI)
Mark Dean
Thursday 3 February at 2pm
Free entry but booking essential
Gallery One
Art & Compromise is a series of discursive lectures addressing the various forms and occasions when compromise might enter into art-practice. Mark Dean will open a discussion on the relation of contemporary art and religion.