NASTJA SÄDE RÖNKKÖ
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears

winner of Below Zero Finnish Art Prize 2023

Residency: 23 January – 15 March
Exhibition: 16 March – 6 May

Current and Recent Projects

PHOEBE COLLINGS-JAMES AND THE WILD ESCAPE

THE WILD ESCAPE
Spring – Summer 2023
Beaconsfield joins The Wild Escape, with environmental artist in residence Phoebe Collings-James; the largest ever collaboration between museums and galleries with schools and families

MARK FELL

SYSTEMATIC PERIPHERALISM
8 October – 3 December 2022
A new commission of procedural sonic installations responding to Beaconsfield’s two main gallery spaces

Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue!

Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! Curated in collaboration with Feminist Library 
11 June – 10 September 2022

Controversial paintings by ecofeminist artist and activist Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) animated by performances, reading groups, films and symposia led by contemporary artists and writers including Sally Pomme Clayton, Katy Deepwell, Rachel Fallon, Caitlin Fleming, Rachel Garfield, Una Hamilton Helle, Minna Haukka, Harriet Hill, Sam Hodge, Islaja, Annie Johnston, Kara Keeling, Alexandra Kokoli, Kristin Luke, Nad Ma, Bindu Mehra, Liz Murray, Maggie Parks, Fran Painter Fleming, Linda Persson, Raju Rage, Anne Robinson, Anita Slater, Tansy Spinks, Atau Tanaka, Tears|Ov, Rupert White, Linsey Young.

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salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears
Nastja Säde Rönkkö

Residency: 23 January – 15 March (open by appointment)

Exhibition: 16 March – 6 May (Wednesday – Saturday, 12-5pm)

Nastja Säde Rönkkö, 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 is in ‘Factory’ mode, with sculpture construction complete, the artist’s script in progress followed by Nastja filming (in the gallery and various sites across London) late February and installation leading up to the exhition opening in mid March.

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.

THE FINNISH SAUNA
Beaconsfield is delighted to host The Finnish Sauna this summer.
open for bookings
29 July – 15 October 2021

UNWRAP!
The Collective performs the final act of sharing its collection
10–13 November 2021

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