beaconsfield The Below Zero award is open to Finnish and Finland-based artists. Candidates will have studied art to degree level or equivalent in Finland or internationally and will be eligible for a visa in the UK. Selection is focused on artists who the jury feel would most benefit from a major commission and its solo exhibition in England and Finland.
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.
Exhibition: 22 July – 12 August (Wednesday – Saturday, 12-5pm)
Exploring the recuperation of cultural memory, Ioana Marinescu’s project works with the destruction of ancient Pompeii caused by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, alongside events in 1980s Bucharest, when a historic residential quarter of the city was razed to make way for Ceaușescu’s Palace of the Parliament or ‘People’s Palace’. Working with Bucharest-based choreographers Smaranda Găbudeanu and Iulia Mărăcine and using archival image, video, soundscape, testimony and live performance, Marinescu traces both events and finds parallels in the sudden displacement of both populations.
Beaconsfield hosts the PhD cohort at the Royal College of Arts’ School of Arts and Humanities to present an exhibition, event and publication series.
Exhibition: 22 June – 1 July (Wednesday – Saturday, 12-5pm)
Earthwise invites a place of meetings and relations, without limit or system. A focus on the and and not the therefore … is driven by the gathering forces of ecological, social and psychological crises that pose an inescapable reality for artists today.
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.
THE FINNISH SAUNA
Beaconsfield is delighted to host The Finnish Sauna this summer.
open for bookings
29 July – 15 October 2021
MONICA SJÖÖ THE TIME IS NOW AND IT IS OVERDUE!
Paintings by artist-activist Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) animated by performances, reading groups, films and symposia led by contemporary artists and writers.
11 June – 10 September 2022
SINK_VESSEL
TEGH and BAW
16 February-7 May 2022
BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE 2023
Beaconsfield commissions: open call Below Zero Finnish Art Prize 2023
Winner announced: Nastja Säde Rönkkö
24 June 2022