Simon Bedwell, Stephen Sutcliffe

MEMORIES OF THE FIVE ADMINISTRATIONS
Simon Bedwell, Stephen Sutcliffe

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.

BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART AWARD 2025 Application Portal opens

Beaconsfield, The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland and Serlachius are pleased to announce Anssi Kasitonni as the winner of  the Below Zero Finnish Art Award 2025.
Pauli Sivonen of Serlachius comments: ‘This will only be Anssi’s second solo exhibition abroad. He is held in affection by the Finns since his artworks  speak very directly to the Finnish sensibility. It will be exciting to see how this artist responds to the London context and how the work translates’.

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CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023
EARTH-READING WITH PHOEBE COLLINGS-JAMES
24 October 6-8pm
Beaconsfield’s Environmental Artist in Residence Phoebe Collings-James leads the second in a series of reading groups.

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.

 

PAST PRESENT

PAST PRESENT
Ioana Marinescu
BREAKING NEWS 20 MAY 2024 – PAST PRESENT wins AFCN AWARD for ‘Promoting Romanian culture in the world’ at the AFCN Gala at the National Theatre in Bucharest.
PAST PRESENT is a moving archive; a research project in motion, gathering history and evolving at each stage of its development. Its components include photographs, the written word, the spoken word, videography, soundscape, living bodies and dance choreography. PAST PRESENT is commissioned by Beaconsfield and co-produced with PETEC Bucharest.

LUCY GREGORY WINS BLOOMING LAMBETH AWARD 2022 FOR BEACONSFIELD’S GARDEN-YARD

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

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.