Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Beaconsfield ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [News and Events](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/news-and-events/) - [Preparing for Spring ...](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2026/preparing-for-spring/) - Preparing for Spring … Volunteering Saturday 14 March 10am-2pm ALL WELCOME 10.00-11.30 Family Volunteering Club (0-9 accompanied by their grownup) 11.30-14.00 Everyone else (all ages) - [Nastja Säde Rönkkö](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2023/nastja-sade-ronkko/) - salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tearsNastja Säde RönkköThe 3rd Below Zero Finnish Art Prize commission travels to Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland. Rönkkö's intimate poetry driven three-channel video work, delivers an intimate metanarrative for lost and found identity, a scarred planet and our ever-changing world. 7 September 2024 – 23 March 2025 - [BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART AWARD 2025](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2024/below-zero-finnish-art-award-2025-application-portal-opens/) - BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART AWARD 2025 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’. Read more here PRESS RELEASE - [BEACONSFIELD JOINS THE WILD ESCAPE, THE LARGEST EVER COLLABORATION BETWEEN UK MUSEUMS](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2023/beaconsfield-joins-the-wild-escape-the-largest-ever-collaboration-between-uk-museums/) - 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). - [Simon Bedwell, Stephen Sutcliffe](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2024/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. - [Writing to the Secretary of State: guidance from our advocates](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2021/writing-to-the-secretary-of-state-guidance-from-our-advocates/) - PUBLIC INQUIRY 2021 The Secretary of State has agreed with the Planning Inspector’s conclusions and recommendations and has decided to REFUSE Planning Permission at 8 Albert Embankment. We won! 23 June 2021 - [Beacon_Transitions 6](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2021/jin-han-lee-cv/) - BEACON_TRANSITIONS 6 B_T6: Extended Realities Jin Han Lee & artsXR In residence 17 May–19 June 2021 Exhibition 17 July-6 November 2021 - [RACHEL GARFIELD, THE STRUGGLE: A TRILOGY](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2021/rachel-garfield-the-struggle-a-trilogy/) - THE STRUGGLE: A TRILOGY Rachel Garfield 10 November – 18 December 2021 Extended 12 January – 29 January 2022 - [TEGH and BAW, SINK_VESSEL](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2022/tegh-and-baw-sink_vessel/) - SINK_VESSEL TEGH and BAW 16 February-7 May 2022 - [SYSTEMIC PERIPHERALISM](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2022/systematic-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. - [BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE 2023](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2022/below-zero-finnish-art-prize-2023/) - BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE 2023 Beaconsfield commissions: open call Below Zero Finnish Art Prize 2023 Winner announced: Nastja Säde Rönkkö 24 June 2022 - [CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2023/celebrating-black-history-month-2023/) - CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023EARTH-READING WITH PHOEBE COLLINGS-JAMES 24 October 6-8pmBeaconsfield'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. - [LUCY GREGORY WINS BLOOMING LAMBETH AWARD 2022 FOR BEACONSFIELD’S GARDEN-YARD](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2022/lucy-gregory-wins-blooming-lambeth-award-2022-for-beaconsfields-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. - [Beaconsfield Gallery Questionnaire](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2022/beaconsfield-gallery-questionnaire/) - BEACONSFIELD GALLERY QUESTIONNAIRE We greatly appreciate your feedback so we can keep supporting great art - please click here to fill our new digital form! - [Ioana Marinescu](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2023/past-present_more-about-the-artists/) - PAST PRESENT 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. - [MONICA SJÖÖ THE TIME IS NOW AND IT IS OVERDUE!](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2022/monica-sjoo-the-time-is-now-and-it-is-overdue/) - 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 - [MONIKA OECHSLER, SOMETIMES EVERYTHING IS FOREVER](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2021/monika-oechsler-sometimes-everything-is-forever/) - SOMETIMES EVERYTHING IS FOREVER Monika Oechsler online from 27 October 2021 - [Beacon_Transitions 1](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2020/beacon_transitions-b_t1/) - BEACON_TRANSITIONS 1 B_T1: Freedom of the Mind Simon Tyszko in collaboration with A.D. Crawforth Online from 9 July 2020 - [Beacon_Transitions 5](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2021/beacon_transitions-b_t5/) - BEACON_TRANSITIONS 5 B_T5: Past Present Ioana Marinescu In residence 23 March – 9 April 2021 - [Beacon_Transitions 4](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2021/beacon_transitions-b_t4/) - BEACON_TRANSITIONS 4 B_T4: SINK Shahin Entezami aka Tegh Electronic sound composition available online here from Friday 26 March 2021 - [Beacon_Transitions 3](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2021/beacon_transitions-3-andrew-pierre-hart/) - BEACON_TRANSITIONS 3 B_T3: 1:1 exchange w/Andrew Hart Andrew Pierre Hart In residence from 18 February 2021 - [Beacon_Transitions 2](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2021/beacon_transitions-2-monika-oechsler/) - BEACON_TRANSITIONS 2 B_T2: Sometimes I Dream Monika Oechsler Online from 29 January 2021 - [FOAM TALENT | DIGITAL 2020](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2020/foam-talent-digital-2020/) - FOAM TALENT | DIGITAL 2020 AN ALL-ACCESS ONLINE EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE WORKS OF YOUNG ARTISTS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Online from 19 November 2020 - 21 April 2021 - [BEACONSFIELD TAKES RULE 6 STATUS IN PUBLIC INQUIRY](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2020/beaconsfield-takes-rule-6-status-in-public-inquiry/) - BEACONSFIELD TAKES RULE 6 STATUS IN PUBLIC INQUIRY IN JUNE 2020 RT HON ROBERT JENRICK MP, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT CALLED FOR A PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH LAMBETH. Our historic corner of North Lambeth is currently threatened by inappropriate overdevelopment (8 Albert Embankment scheme). Beaconsfield has joined the Garden Museum and Lambeth Village to defend existing heritage assets and loss of daylight. The three parties have jointly taken 'Rule 6 status' in the government's Public Inquiry. - [SAVE OUR DAYLIGHT](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/save-our-daylight/) - SAVE OUR DAYLIGHT Open letter sent to Lambeth Planning Committee On Tuesday 3 December, Lambeth Planning Committee may make a decision to allow skyscrapers in the immediate vicinity of Beaconsfield. - [BEACONSFIELD HAS BEEN AWARDED A GRANT BY DCMS THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT'S CULTURE RECOVERY FUND](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2020/beaconsfield-has-been-awarded-a-grant-by-arts-council-england-and-dcms-through-the-culture-recovery-fund/) - BEACONSFIELD HAS BEEN AWARDED A GRANT BY DCMS THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT'S CULTURE RECOVERY FUND We are pleased to announce that Beaconsfield has been acknowledged as an important place for cultural exchange and will be supported as a recipient of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and ensure a sustainable future. - [VOCALIS | 19 July 2019](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/vocalis-19-july-2019/) - VOCALIS 3 Jeroen van Dooren \ Kassia Flux \ Jefford Horrigan \ Tara Fatehi Irani \ Liming Lin \ Niamh Roberts 19 July 2019 The VOCALIS performance 'happening' returns to Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall - [VOCALIS | 22 November 2019](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/vocalis-22-november-2019/) - VOCALIS 4 Ain Bailey \ Anna Dean \ Kassia Flux \ Eloise Fornieles \ Nayoung Jeong 22 November 2019 The VOCALIS performance 'happening' returns to Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall - [BLACK LIVES MATTER](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2020/black-lives-matter-to-beaconsfield/) - BLACK LIVES MATTER TO BEACONSFIELD We acknowledge the legacies of British colonialism and its contemporary expressions in systemic racism. We contribute towards dissolving borders between race, class, gender and disability by nurturing relationships with a diverse range of artists, audiences, participants and co-workers. - [Spirit_off @ Emerge Festival](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/spirit_off-emerge-festival/) - SPIRIT_OFF @ EMERGE FESTIVAL Dubmorphology and Denise Weston with Danielle Allen, Weyland McKenzie, Winnie & The Rockettes 28 September 2019 8pm - midnight - [Erika Winstone](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/erika-winstone/) - DURATION Erica Winstone 30 October - 1 December 2019 Artist's talk: Sunday, 17 November 2019, 3pm - [Spirit_off: Dreaming Utopia](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/spirit_off-dreaming-utopia/) - DUBMORPHOLOGY Spirit_off: Dreaming Utopia 2 October - 3 November 2019 Closing performance: Sunday, 3 November 2019 - [Tuula Närhinen](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2020/tuula-narhinen/) - DEEP TIME DEPOSITS Tuula Närhinen Below Zero Finnish Art Prize 16 January – 5 April 2020 - [Thames Foreshore walk with Tuula Närhinen 14 February 2020](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2020/thames-foreshore-walk-with-tuula-narhinen-14-february-2020/) - THAMES FORESHORE WALK with Tuula Närhinen 14 February 2020 - [Preview: FOAM TALENT | LONDON 2019](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/foam-talent-london-2019-opening/) - For the fourth year running, Beaconsfield is delighted to host Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and to co-present the brand new exhibition Foam Talent 2019, with works from a new generation of visual artists working with photography. The work of these 20 outstanding candidates was selected through the annual Foam Talent Call and is featured in Foam - [FOAM TALENT | LONDON TEEN TOURS 2019](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/foam-talent-london-teen-tours-2019/) - Teen Tours on 8 and 15 June 2019 The mentoring course acts as a personal and professional opportunity for the young people in the scheme and enables exhibition visitors to see selected works in a new light. - [The Partisan Social Club Entertains...](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2018/the-partisan-social-club-entertains/) - Saturday 24 November 16:00–19:00 The Partisan Social Club invite you to a closing event to celebrate the Partisan Social Club's residency with Beaconsfield. Starting with a talk by artist Richard Galpin and end with Partisan Bingo and a sing-a-long! Expect music, slogans, provocations and reflections on the topic of the current display at Beaconsfield Gallery, Vauxhall: On Being Together: Memberships, Collectives and Unions. - [GARGANTUA](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/1996/gargantua/) - Thursday 6 June 1996, 12 noon – 12 midnight Julian Stallabrass, Orphan Drift, Keith Arnatt, Uli Aigner, Polskadavians, Ronald Fraser Munro and Jeremy Blank, Patricia Scanlan, PUT PUT, Debbie Booth, Wayne Lloyd and Laurence Harvey, Trebor Sholz, Laboratory of Art Technology, Strike (Izhar, Thomson, Craighead) A 12 hour event of excess, incomparable violence, greed and incontinence, - [#DoingItInPublic | Paloma Proudfoot](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/doingitinpublic-paloma-proudfoot/) - belittle, Paloma Proudfoot Against the rigid order of the market rhythms, what emerges as by-products in the peripheries, seams and off-times? Every morning flowers discarded from the market will be brought to the gallery. Through performance with artist and choreographer Aniela Piasecka, they will be composed together with Proudfoot’s ceramic sculpture and removed by the end - [Provisional Conditions](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2016/provisional-conditions/) - Symposium: Heritage, Immigration and Temporary Fabrications: Abandoned Facilities & Housing Immigration with Material Conjectures, Andrea Delaplace and invited speakers. The Beaconsfield Commission is part of a wider research project reflected in a symposium planned during the exhibition in conjunction with the Centre for Sculptural Thinking at University of Huddersfield, the University of Reading and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Symposiums in - [#DoingItInPublic | Jakob Rowlinson](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/doingitinpublic-jakob-rowlinson/) - The Vauxhalla Lecture Series (or how the People’s Republic of Vauxhalla gained it’s name), Jakob Rowlinson Can research be public art? What intrigues Rowlinson most about Nine Elms is the various ways institutions and developers are keen to inscribe the area with a certain local history. In a similar way, he will blur the lines - [#DoingItInPublic | RCA Sculpture](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/doingitinpublic-rca-sculpture/) - Sculpture programme, School of Fine Art, Royal College of Art The Sculpture programme at the RCA establishes a framework that encompasses the material, historical and theoretical conditions of Sculpture in which artists are supported to develop their practice. Sculpture includes object-making, public art and social practices, site and space, performance, as well as sound, film - [Mic Drop: a performative symposium](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/mic-drop-a-performative-symposium/) - Keith Piper with Paul Goodwin as part of a performative symposium on Saturday 21 October starting at 5.30pm. Participating performers respond to Keith Piper’s new commission Mic Drop including: dubmorphology Rinkoo Barpaga Tansy Spinks and Maya Amrami Sharon Bertram Jheni Arboine FREE EVENT This event is free but please register at Eventbrite Mic Drop tickets The symposium - [London Teen Tours 2017](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/london-teen-tours-2017/) - Teen Tours are public talks taking place on the last weekend of the exhibition, within the exhibition spaces. The tours offer audiences new perspectives on the exhibition, based on young people’s experiences and ideas, and give young people an opportunity to develop their critical thinking and skills in relation to photography exhibitions. The Teen Tours programme - [Foam Talent: London Teen Tours  2018](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2018/foam-talent-london-teen-tours-2018/) - Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June at 2pm and 4pm Teen Tours are public talks taking place on the last weekend of the exhibition, within the exhibition spaces. The tours offer audiences new perspectives on the exhibition, based on young people’s experiences and ideas, and give young people an opportunity to develop their critical thinking and - [Practice in Dialogue Reading Group](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2018/practice-in-dialogue-reading-group/) - The Breasted Experience: the look and the feeling by Iris Marion Young. Sunday 5th August 2018 3-5pm in The Ragged Canteen with closing drinks to mark the end of In Whose Eyes? https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-015-7924-7_13 The chest, the house of the heart, is an important center of a person’s being. I may locate my consciousness in my head, but - [Messy Bodies](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2018/messy-bodies/) - Reclaim Your Recipe: a workshop to reclaim self love and care Wednesday 1 August 6:30 - 8:30pm in The Ragged Canteen The Ragged Canteen at Beaconsfield hosts a workshop that explores the benefits of a constructive expression of anger or hurt. What could it mean to let ugliness and pain brew, marinate and cook? Messy Bodies is a - [#DoingItInPublic | RCA](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/doingitinpublic-rca/) - The Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art is the world’s leading university of art and design, placed at Number One in the 2015 and 2016 QS World University Rankings. Specialising in teaching and research, the RCA offers the degrees of MA, MRes, MPhil, and PhD across the disciplines of applied art, fine art, - [The Partisan Social Club + Sean Griffiths](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2018/the-partisan-social-club-sean-griffiths/) - Make sure you book a place on our free artist-led workshops in conjunction with the Big Draw: Wednesday Evening 24 October 18:00 - 19:30 Slogan writing with the Partisan Social Club Get together with people of all ages to produce, publish and embody slogans under the guidance of members of the Partisan Social Club. Channel your political - [Dean Kenning's Stuck Machines: the artist in Conversation with Emma Hart](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/dean-kennings-stuck-machines-dean-kenning-in-conversation-with-emma-hart/) - Saturday 27 April at 4pm To mark the final weekend of his exhibition The Origin of Life at Beaconsfield Gallery, Dean Kenning will be in conversation with the artist Emma Hart to discuss his kinetic sculptures. Over the past two decades Kenning has reengineered obsolete equipment using simple electric motors and rubber. Sculptures such as - [Dean Kenning Preview: Friday 22 March, 6-8pm](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/dean-kenning-preview-friday-22-march-6-8pm/) - The Origin of Life by Dean Kenning Preview: Friday 22 March 6-8pm Exhibition: 20 March - 28 April Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm In the beginning was the machine... Dean Kenning explores political and philosophical material through kinetic sculptures, videos and diagrams, often employing DIY, allegorical and autodidactic methods and modes of representation to - [Neal Brown writes about Heidi Kilpeläinen's LAND OF DREAMS](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2019/neil-brown-writes-about-heidi-kilpelainens-land-of-dreams/) - Land of Dreams (2019) charts a tour by Heidi Kilpeläinen where the artist performed her work Tango Therapy at Refugee Centres and private homes in Finland, meeting war invalids, war widows and displaced people from war-torn countries. Tango Therapy involves the public performance of a personal encounter; where the artist sings to one person at a time - [(film)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2003/film/) - Friday 28 November 2003 6pm onwards Programme 7.00 The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge), Fischli & Weiss, 1987, 16mm, 30 mins 7.30 Untitled (Bleached Film), Wendy Lewis, 2002, 16mm, 3 mins 30 7.35 Framed Construction, the Kino Club archives, 16mm, 10 mins 7.45 Sewn Film, Anna Barham, 2000, super-8, 2 mins 7.48 Intermission - [(music)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2003/music/) - Friday 12 December 2003 Doors open 7pm for Food, Wine and general relaxation Programme 9.30 Writing through John Cage, a text re-enactment by Paul Newland 10.00 One8, John Cage, 1991, a solo for cello performed by Audrey Riley, 43'33" “If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. - [(Film) Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Isreal](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2004/film-route-181-fragments-of-a-journey-in-palestine-isreal/) - Saturday 15 May 2004 6pm - 11pm ROUTE 181, FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNEY IN PALESTINE-ISRAEL A film by EYAL SIVAN and MICHEL KHLEIFI Introduced by producer Omar Al-Qattan Route 181 offers an unusual vision of the inhabitants of Palestine-Israel, a common vision of a Palestinian and an Israeli. For more than a year, Khleifi and - [(Music) REEM KELANI with Samy Bishai (violin) and Paul Clarvis (percussion)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2004/music-reem-kelani-with-samy-bishai-violin-and-paul-clarvis-percussion/) - Friday 28 May 2004 7pm onwards REEM KELANI with Samy Bishai (violin) and Paul Clarvis (percussion) Palestinian singer Reem Kelani, born in Manchester and brought up in Kuwait, describes her music as a kind of 'Palestinian blues' and is renowned for her interpretation of the Palestinian musical heritage. In the course of her research into - [Society (Pizzeria Gestione Familiare), Andrea Crociani and Anna Best](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2004/society-pizzeria-gestione-familiare-andrea-crociani-and-anna-best/) - (Pizzeria Gestione Familiare) Friday 25 June 2004 Restaurant open from 7pm onwards For one evening Beaconsfield will be turned into an Italian Pizzeria by two local artists - Andrea Crociani and Anna Best. Menu: pizza margherita, pizza rucola e parmigiano, pizza tonno e cipolle. During the evening a number of presentations will take place about - [Society (Japanese Immigration Control), gur(:)n (YU, SAM2, Yumi Hara aKa DJ Anakonda, Tomomi Adachi, Michiyoshi Isozaki) plus special guests](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2004/society-japanese-immigration-control-gurn-yu-sam2-yumi-hara-aka-dj-anakonda-tomomi-adachi-michiyoshi-isozaki-plus-special-guests/) - (Japanese immigration control) Friday 26 November 2004 7pm onwards A novel evening of live performance, live music and video within an interactive Japanese environment. YU, the leading member of female Japanese artist group gur(:)n, brings a new version of issued - your visa to the heaven to Beaconsfield's Society club in Vauxhall. A group of uniformed Japanese - [Society (necronautical), Tom McCarthy, Neil Gordon-Orr, Stewart Home, Jem Finer, Melissa McCarthy.](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2006/hello-world/) - "We the First committee of the International Necronautical Society, declare the following:- 1. ~That death is a type of space, which we intend to map, enter, colonise and, eventually, inhabit..." For 7 April, The International Necronautical Society (INS) makes seven Degree Zero propositions in the spirit of a nineteenth century Anarchist club. Contributors have been picked - [Society (with Cocktail), Alan Donaldson, Samson Paul, (nobleandsilver), Wertus, Sav, The Hands, Charlie Gillan + very special guests.](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2005/society-with-cocktail-alan-donaldson-samson-paul-nobleandsilver-wertus-sav-the-hands-charlie-gillan-very-special-guests/) - Friday 15 July 2005 7pm onwards An evening of bespoke Cocktails, Music, Magic & Comedy. Alan Donaldson & Samson Paul, Director's of with, present ex-clients (nobleandsilver), Wertus, Sav, The Hands, Charlie Gillan + very special guests. Resting somewhere between alternative comedy, performance art and corporate presentation with appropriates the distinct visual language of a ‘self-help’ business. Based at withyou.co.uk - [Society (Newport Calypso), Michael Goddard, Derek Goddard and Mark Dean](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2005/society-newport-calypso-michael-goddard-derek-goddard-and-mark-dean/) - (Newport Calypso) Friday 15 July 2005 7pm onwards An evening of Pan-African music and food: father and son duo Michael and Derek Goddard play live acoustic jazz calypso; Mark Dean on the decks. Michael Goddard (guitar and vocals) has toured the world playing calypso. His audiences have included GI's in Vietnam and Brigitte Bardot in - [Seb Patane's Art Class Kennington](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2018/seb-patanes-art-class-kennington/) - in Greenhouse Effect 2018 Thursday 24 May from 2pm to 5pm Migrating his weekly art class to the colloquial atmosphere of the Ragged Canteen as part of Greenhouse Effect 2018, Seb Patane offers his expertise to support individual expression and experimentation. The class will focus on assemblage, working with mixed media techniques and improvised compositional strategies of drawing and collage. - [Nine Elms Consortia - artist residency](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2016/nine-elms-consortia-artist-residency/) - Nine Elms on the South Bank and Tate Exchange in partnership with Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Gasworks and Pump House Gallery Artist Residency We are looking for an artist or arts collective to work with us in a unique opportunity to create new work with three local art organisations and Tate Modern. The artist residency - [#DoingItInPublic](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/doingitinpublic/) - DoingItInPublic_Press - [#DoingItInPublic | CCA](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/doingitinpublic-cca/) - Curating Contemporary Art Programme (CCA) Established 25 years ago the MA Curating Contemporary Art (CCA) programme is recognised both as an international leader in its field and for its commitment to collaborative group project-based work that integrates theory and practice throughout the two years of the curriculum. The CCA programme approaches the field critically, theoretically and through best - [BELOW ZERO press release](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/zero-press-release/) - BelowZ PR(i) - [Keith Piper Press Release](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/keith-piper-press-release/) - KP Press Release - [Keg](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/2017/collectibles/) - Keg Beaconsfield Art Works (BAW) curated by Conductors Hallway, Camberwell, London SE5 as part of Collectibles. ## Pages - [Home](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/) - Gail Dickerson Beaconsfield EARTH AIR Summer 2026 Environmental Artist In Residence 4 June - 12 September 2026 recent projects HAPPENS Beaconsfield offsite at ASC Gallery Exhibition: 1-18 November 2025 A.D. Crawforth Minna Haukka Emily Mulenga Ellis Parkinson Naomi Siderfin A.L. Steiner HAPPENS links Vauxhall art-neighbours ASC and Beaconsfield as both organisations celebrate 30 years of - [One of UK’s important platforms for experimental contemporary art practice](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/supportbeaconsfield/) - Beaconsfield believes that artists can catalyse radical change, so we curate a space for experimentation and invite future creatives to share in a feedback loop that hardwires maker, curator, viewer, and participant. To remain in its iconic venue, Beaconsfield needs urgent financial support. After ten years without regular public funding, our reserves have disappeared. 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During the last eight months, our world has been introduced to a new type of crisis that none of us were - [Booking Form Preview](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/wpbc-bfb-preview/) - [Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation 21 May-9 August 2025](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/manifesto-for-sustainable-experimentation-21-may-9-august-2025/) - Event Schedule Upcoming Manifesto Events Special events can be booked on Eventbrite for a minimum donation of £1+. Pay what you can afford. All proceeds contribute to sustaining the project. Past Manifesto Events Saturday 9 August 2:30-4:30pm. Manifesto Making with Joseph Walsh + Rose Tea. Book on Eventbrite Saturday 2 August 2:30-4:30pm. ‘Act of Creation' Tackling Gendered - [Preparing for Spring ...](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/preparing-for-spring/) - Volunteering Saturday ALL WELCOME Saturday 14 March 2026 Hot drinks and flapjacks (homemade in Vauxhall) for all volunteers! Bring your chosen family, or just yourself, to help us tidy up Beaconsfield's urban green lung after winter rains. Mulching, pruning, planting and seeding with top tips from Vauxhall's artisan gardeners Urban Oasis. 10.00-11.30 Family Volunteering Club - [EARTH AIR 2025 Vauxhall Schools working with clay](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/earth-air-2025-vauxhall-schools-working-with-clay/) - [Beaconsfield Shop](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/) - Editions Publications CDs LPs We publish and produce editions, records/CDs and books/catalogues. All sales support our work. - [Trevor Mathison + Roots and Shoots](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/trevor-mathison-dubmorphology/) - Thursday 10 July 2025 Visualising sound workshop for Roots and Shoots led by Trevor Mathison with a visit to Beaconsfield's Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation exhibition Listen and Watch to what they made here ... - [Who we are](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/about/who-we-are/) - Previous Beaconsfield Trustees 1994 - to present - [Visit us](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/visiting/) - Address: Beaconsfield 22 Newport Street Vauxhall London SE11 6AY Contact: T: +44 (0)20 7582 6465 E: admin (at) beaconsfield.ltd.uk Gallery opening times: Wednesday – Saturday 12-5pm Gallery Questionnaire Garden-yard and cafe opening times here Beaconsfield’s Lower gallery and Arch gallery spaces are fully accessible but we regret that there is no wheelchair access to our - [History of the Lambeth Ragged Schools](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/the-history-of-the-lambeth-ragged-schools-in-photos/) - Beaconsfield is based in the southern (girls) wing of the former Lambeth Ragged Schools. Built 1849-1851 by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (1786 -1851), in memory of his late wife, Eliza Beaufoy, the building was originally three times the size and cost £10,000, with a further £4,000 laid down for maintenance. [1] The following text, written in 1851, - [KEN IKEDA](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/ken-ikeda/) - Ken Ikeda is an improvisational electronic musician and composer. His music intricately weaves FM sine waves with unique processing, reminiscent of fabric weaving, through the spontaneous extraction and amalgamation of electronic sound particles. This approach enables listeners to re-experience the nuances, the gradual fading, and eventual disappearance of their ‘inner primal landscapes’ at the moments - [SHINO YANAI](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shino-yanai/) - Shino Yanai is an interdisciplinary artist who has created performance-based works, including a field recording project involving long-distance running that began in London during the lockdown in March 2020. This project was shown in the 2020 ‘Art in COVID-19’ at Goethe-Institut Tokyo, as well as at Japan Foundation in 2021. She also collaborated with Japanese - [Memories float for a moment ... Ken Ikeda + Shino Yanai in concert 11 December 2024](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/memories-float-for-a-moment-ken-ikeda-shino-yanai-in-concert-11-december-2024/) - Photos Ellis Parkinson - [Memories float for a moment ... workshop for Enthusiasts 4 December 2024](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/memories-float-for-a-moment-workshop-for-enthusiasts-with-shino-yanai-ken-ikeda/) - [Memories float for a moment ... sound workshop for young people with Special Educational Needs December 2024](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/memories-float-for-a-moment-primary-school-workshops/memories-float-for-a-moment-sound-workshop-for-young-people-with-shino-yanai-naomi-siderfin-david-crawforth-november-2024/) - IMG_7513 - [Programme Overview](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/about/programme-overview/) - Each year we design a diverse and eclectic programme that aims to develop artists through the production of individual projects, and further refines our curatorial model. The work that we deliver to the public is the product of a signature collaborative artistic practice and directio that remains with its artist-directors, who are the creative capital - [Memories float for a moment ... local Primary school workshops November 2024](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/memories-float-for-a-moment-primary-school-workshops/) - [FALL – a Film Poem Sampler](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/artist-biogs/) - FALL – artist statements and screening running order 1. Nicholas Shoesmith/Ishan Mahabir-Stokes, ‘How Was Work?’ As artists with Scottish Ballet, we wanted to respond to your call-out with a rhythmic take on filmed poetry, incorporating our physical approach to storytelling. Knowing that Ishan has always been very interested in writing, I asked him to - [ESSAY: MEMORIES FLOAT FOR A MOMENT AND THEN FALL.](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/essay-shino-yanai-memories-float-for-a-moment-and-then-fall-naomi-siderfin-november-2024/) - Shino Yanai with Ken Ikeda Memories float for a moment and then fall Exhibition, 15 November 2024 – 18 January 2025, Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm. A 'running stitch', the universal method of making and mending, links the memories that Shino Yanai pulls together in her exploration of identity in this new Beaconsfield commission Memories float for - [PRESS RELEASE: SHINO YANAI, MEMORIES FLOAT FOR A MOMENT AND THEN FALL, UNTIL 18 JANUARY 2024](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/12156-2/) - Yanai with Ikeda _PR - [Vauxhall Gallery Hub](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/vauxhall-gallery-hub/) - Several galleries are located in Vauxhall and the immediate area that you may also wish to visit. These include: Cabinet Gallery 132 Tyers Street Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens London SE11 5HS Danielle Arnaud 123 Kennington Road London SE11 6SF UK Drawing Room Unit b, New Tannery Way London SE1 5WS Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street London SE11 - [Online works](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/online/) - B_T4: Shahin Entezami aka Tegh SINK New sound commission available from Friday 26 March 2021 Fourth in an online series responding to the uncertain future of exhibition culture. One of the most exciting electronic sound artists in Iran, Shahin Entezami aka Tegh, offers a personal narrative of the global pandemic as experienced in his home - [BAW](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/baw-beaconsfield-art-works/) - Since 1994 David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin have collaborated together, and with occasional others, on art projects under the moniker Beaconsfield Art Works or BAW. Projects include: Sink_Vessel (with Tegh aka Shahin Entezami 2022), Beaconsfield, London Viral Traces The Spiritual Exercises 2, Arts Chaplaincy Projects, 2021 (University of the Arts London & and Diocese of London) Famine - [MARKING BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/marking-black-history-month-2023/) - 24 October from 6-8pm EARTH-READING WITH PHOEBE COLLINGS-JAMES FREE EVENT BUT BOOKING ADVISED Book here Read, sculpt or play with terracotta clay while discussing extracts from the book 'A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None' by Kathryn Yusoff. The second in a series of reading groups with Beaconsfield's Environmental Artist in Residence Phoebe Collings-James. Participants are - [BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART AWARD 2025](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/below-zero-finnish-art-award-2025/) - Anssi Kasitonni receives the Below Zero Finnish Art Award 2025 Anssi Kasitonni has been selected as the fourth winner of the Below Zero 2025 Finnish Art Award. He says 'I am absolutely thrilled to accept this amazing award! I am looking forward to discussing my proposal even further ...' Beaconsfield co-directors David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin - [CHASMA](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/chasma/) - Royal College of Art School of Arts & Humanities PhD exhibition mentored and curated by Beaconsfield. Sohaila Baluch, Martin Bonney, Flora Bowden, Hannah Clarkson, Federico Clavarino, Caroline Douglas, Daniel Durnin, Marisa Ferreira, Alexis Pearse Flynn, Xiangyin Gu, Hengzhi Gong, Anju Marie Kasturiraj, Kahyun Lee, Charlie Lee-Potter, Carmen Mariscal, Gabrielle Mowat, Folashade Elizabeth Olukoya, Amy Peace Buzzard, Minna Pöllänen, Damien Roach, Roshana Rubin Mayhew, Linn Phyllis Seeger, Varvara Keidan Shavrova, Chris/Christina Simons, Katrine Skovsgaard, Lika Tarkhan-Mouravi, Messua Wolff, Xiao Yu, Jinya Zhao. 2-10 February - [Garden-yard and Café](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/cafe/) - The Garden-yard and Café is open 12-5pm during gallery exhibition hours on exhibition days only - please check programme. Between exhibitions, when planning and installing a new show, the gallery and café are closed to the public. We currently offer a reduced service of coffee and snacks and do not offer a lunch menu. About - [Meditations on the Anthropocene: Landscapes of the Future](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/meditations-on-the-anthropocene-landscapes-of-the-future/) - 4th June 2017, 3.30pm This talk is part of the curatorial project by Beaconsfield, Meditations on the Anthropocene that continues an ongoing relationship between Beaconsfield and Finnish artist duo IC-98. Invited guests: Curator Taru Elfving and artist-researcher Edwina Fitzpatrick are joined by IC-98 artists Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää on Skype from Finland in a public discussion chaired by - [Collective Matter in residence](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collective-matter-in-residence/) - 11 - 22 January 2017 with MATERIAL ACTION at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall Collective Matter will be on site at BGV Wednesday - Sunday 2-5pm with special collaborative workshop events open to all on Friday 13 January 4-8pm Sunday 15 January 2-5pm And a public discussion on Saturday 21 January at 2pm 'Material Action' is led by Collective Matter, three artists - [PROTEST](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/protest/) - Humble Demi \ Louie Le Vack \ Maedb Joy \ Poetess Jess \ Kookie Pops \ Nikki Demajo Albanese \ Tha Reme \ Noah Dunbar \ Rosie Webb \ Rebekah Alero Friday 21 June, 2019 7-9pm Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall It all made sense in the beginning… Explore timeless themes of protest with ten multi-disciplinary artists from Guildhall School of Music and - [VIGIL FOR CEASEFIRE IN GAZA/ISRAEL](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/vigil-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-israel/) - Friday 10 November 2023 6-8pm Beaconsfield invites artist Jumana Abboud and international colleagues to lead collective, peaceful actions in a gathering that holds all lives – lost or suffering – in our hearts, calling for a cessation of all violence in the ongoing Gaza/Israel war. Actions will include candle-lighting visualisation, listening meditation, wish-tree activity, prayer and food-sharing. Our - [Earthwise](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/earthwise/) - 22 June – 1 July 2023 Wednesday-Saturday 12.00-17.00 Performance schedule here Concept and participant detail here Beaconsfield hosts the PhD cohort at the Royal College of Arts’ School of Arts and Humanities to present an exhibition, event and publication series. Earthwise invites a place of meetings and relations, without limit or system. A focus on - [Working Creatively with Clay: Ceramic Workshops 2024](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/working-creatively-with-clay-ceramic-workshops-2024/) - This summer we have been delighted to offer more terracotta pot-making workshops for schools within walking distance of Beaconsfield's gallery in Vauxhall, this time inspired by traditional Toby jugs and artist Simon Bedwell's figurative ceramics. Six local school classes visited Beaconsfield in July to meet Simon and work expressively with clay on site at Beaconsfield. Their work - [Shane Cullen, Last Will, 2006](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shane-cullen-last-will-2006/) - Beaconsfield Edition of 16 ceramosteel plates On the 28th of April 1916, during the final bombardment of the rebel headquarters at the General Post Office (G.P.O) Dublin, Michael Joseph O'Rahilly (known as "The O'Rahilly") was charged with the task of securing an escape route from the building. He and twelve other volunteers charged against the - [Stephen Sutcliffe](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/stephen-sutcliffe/) - Stephen Sutcliffe (b.1968, Harrogate) is an artist who lives and works in Yorkshire. Recent solo exhibitions include, You Can Come in But You Won't Like it, Rob Tufnell 2023, High Windows, Dead Birds, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2019). Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs, Talbot Rice Edinburgh, Twixt Cup and Lip, Hepworth Wakefield (2017), Going Over, Rob Tufnell, - [Simon Bedwell](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/simon-bedwell/) - Simon Bedwell is best known for his collaborative, interdisciplinary practice, and over the past eight years he has developed a committed solo sculptural practice, involving technically ambitious fired ceramic. Bedwell applies this ‘informe’ medium to political satire: rendering caricature in baked mud, returning to grotesqueries he first explored in BANK. Bedwell ‘s most recent solo - [Home is not just a place; it's a sensation](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/home-is-not-just-a-place-its-a-sensation-workshop/) - You're Invited to Our Food Sharing & Home Making Event! 🍲 Date: Wednesday 13th of March 2024 ⏰ Time: 2-4pm (TBC) 📍 Location: Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY Book on Eventbrite. Home is not just a place; it's a sensation. In the heart of London, amidst the echoes of the Azan and the - [The Intersections of Participatory Art, Collaboration, and Communities: roundtable](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/the-intersections-of-participatory-art-collaboration-and-communities-roundtable/) - Round Table Discussion: The Intersections of Participatory Art, Collaboration, and Communities Date: Wednesday 13th of March Time: 4-6pm Location: Beaconsfield Gallery Book on Eventbrite. This session delves into the heart of participatory art and its power to forge deep connections within and across communities. As we explore the dynamics of collaboration and community engagement through - [MaHoMe PROJECT](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/mahome-project/) - The MaHoMe project, titled "Making it Home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration," generously funded by NordForsk. This initiative takes an innovative stance on the challenges of migration and integration by delving into the ways in which migrants establish and conceptualize home within the intricate and varying politics - [COMPASS COLLECTIVE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/compass-collective/) - Compass Collective is a charity dedicated to supporting the integration of young refugees and asylum seekers into the UK through the arts. By delivering a range of projects in theatre, music, and film, along with arts-led professional development programs, Compass Collective plays a crucial role in helping these young individuals build resilience and find their - [AZADEH FATEHRAD](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/azadeh-fatehrad/) - Azadeh Fatehrad is a Senior Lecturer and International Research Lead at Kingston University. As an interdisciplinary scholar in the fields of migrant homemaking and the politics of integration, Dr. Fatehrad combines research, artistic, and curatorial practices to explore these dynamic areas. Her extensive participatory research, developed in collaboration with diverse communities and NGOs across the - [CHASMA PERFORMANCE EXCERPTS](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/chasma-performance-excerpts/) - VARVARA KEIDAN SHAROVA ALEXIS PEARSE FLYNN MINNA PÖLLÄNEN SOHAILA BALUCH HANNAH CLARKSON MARTIN BONNEY KATRINE SKOVSGAARD - [CHASMA INSTALLATION VIEW](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/chasma-installation-view/) - [Jinya Zhao](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/jinya-zhao/) - Jinya Zhao The Other Dreaming (2023) Kiln-formed glass powder painting, Glass, Wood The Verdant Moss of the Forest (2023) Kiln-formed glass powder painting, Glass, Wood Celestial Horizons (2023) Kiln-formed glass powder painting, Glass, Wood It is instrumental in forging sensory connections through the depth and texture it imparts, and in evoking specific moods based on its application. I - [Xiao Yu](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/xiao-yu/) - Underbelly' is both a journey and a dialogue—a primordial whisper beneath the surface of paint. It's the canvas's unseen verso, a space where abstraction dwells in vulnerability, a liminal inbetweenness that defies the hierarchy. The underbelly, often veiled in silence, holds a latent strength—if unveiled, it could unveil a rebirth of vision. But should we - [Messua Wolff](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/messua-wolff/) - Messua Wolff As above, so below, 2023. Charcoal ink, carob, logwood and iron sulfate on canvas, charcoal, wood and clay, 210x320. The hermetic aphorism "as above, so below" refers to the correspondences between macrocosm/microcosm and different planes of reality. This work belongs to a series investigating alchemy prompted by the slow transformation processes in my - [Lika Tarkhan-Mouravi](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/lika-tarkhan-mouravi/) - Lika Tarkhan-Mouravi [Untitled] Gouache on paper, 22x14 cm each, 2023 Plantago, video projection, 01:47 min, 2023 MARIJAN: a translation. the book of missing words, Edition 30, 2024 (Special thanks to Ian Gabb and Sharon Lee for helping to create this publication) How does uncertainty manifest itself in translation? The work consists of various attempts to - [Chris/Christina Simons](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/chris-christina-simons/) - Scrapnel (2024) Mixed Media “I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly...” — Fred Moten This gallery installation is a circular performance. It performs at being a scrapbook. The scrapbook itself performs as a gallery installation. The images include recovered photographs and rediscovered domestic crafts from my - [Damien Roach](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/damien-roach/) - Damien Roach Stream #1, (2024) 30 minute digital animation, video projector, media player, USB stick, power adaptor, industrial shelving unit, artificial intelligence, electricity, time, water, air, light. - [Amy Peace Buzzard](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/amy-peace-buzzard/) - Amy Peace Buzzard Stirring, Still. 2023, text on tea bag paper. A tea stain on the counter, witness to my present. Material witness to a collective past. 2024, Aluminium. I have been house sitting for my parents for the past week. There are sheets of kitchen roll everywhere. On all surfaces that could, that would, - [Folashade Elizabeth Olukoya](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/folashade-elizabeth-olukoya/) - Folashade Elizabeth Olukoya ‘Re-pairing the re-ruined’ (women empowerment) My experiential journey into research is one of passion for re-tooling. My practice roots in the materialism of paper mâché - an ancient material that has historically been employed for functional and decorative purposes yet often overlooked as a medium for artistic expression, is the metaphor for - [ Carmen Mariscal](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/carmen-mariscal/) - Carmen Mariscal Skin Site (2024) video (running time: 2’38’’) and wallpaper, photographs adhered to carboard and wood Skin-site is a sculptural and moving image installation that records the process of peeling off the layers of wallpaper in my grandparent’s house prior to its demolition. The skin is a place; it is our first means to - [Charlie Lee-Potter](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/charlie-lee-potter/) - Charlie Lee-Potter Holding It In, Letting It Out 2024 Recycled bottles, wool, paper, bookbinder’s frame The work is a materialised conversation between marginalised fictional women: Lucy from Charlotte Brontë’s novel Villette and Maggie from George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. Eliot repeatedly references the vigour of Maggie’s hair, judged inappropriate in a woman. Maggie’s - [Kahyun Lee](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/kahyun-lee/) - Kahyun Lee Reading Room: Behind the Display of Gutai (2024) Books, digital prints, a desk and a stool Dimensions Variable In 2000, Tate Modern was founded at a pivotal conjuncture of internationalist vision restructuring the art world. The global shift underpinned curatorial practices aiming to showcase a multitude of art practices transnationally and transhistorically. The - [Hengzhi Gong](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/hengzhi-gong/) - Hengzhi Gong Welcome Dinner Oil on canvas 120x150cm Eating humans is a constant theme in literature. In Lu Xun’s novel Medicine, a political militant was killed by the government, and ignorant parents bought bread with his blood in order to cure their kid’s disease. The kids died, anyway, because blood is never medicine. By examining - [Xiangyin Gu](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/xiangyin-gu/) - Xiangyin Gu It Says Forget Photographic Collage Installation 50 individual images combining into a large on-wall piece of installation in the form of photographic collage. It Says Forget is a continuation of the project Fragmented Ocean. It combines the elements of fragmented nature of images and seeks to convey the underlying parts of the screened - [MARISA FERREIRA](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/marisa-ferreira/) - MARISA FERREIRA Cartographic Series “White Gold” Dreams 2024 Valchromat, Approx 70x122x2cm “White Gold” Dreams is a cartographic series examining the matrix of power that exists between extractive practices and land exploitation. This ongoing project documents the changing landscapes that are emerging in the future lithium mines of Covas do Barroso, northern Portugal, and present it - [Daniel Durnin](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/daniel-durnin/) - Daniel Durnin Meto-Silo, 2024 Recycled plastic, Wood, ABS, ratchet Meto-silo proposes a speculative modular system for the preservation of food resources. Grounded in a notion of production, labour, and agency, how do we seek and define the future value systems and cultural signifiers in radical post digital communities? Using bread bags from the waste production - [Caroline Douglas](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/caroline-douglas/) - Caroline Douglas ‘The chloride of silver answers perfectly, 25 October 1835’, 2024, unfixed lumen print on fibre paper, 16 x 20 inches (framed), from Experiments concerning the Transmission of the Chemical Rays of the Solar Spectrum through different Media. This photograph is part of a larger series of work re-visiting, re-enacting and re-touching marginal histories - [Federico Clavarino](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/federico-clavarino/) - Federico Clavarino In the Flesh (RGB) Triptych: c-type prints, 100x125 cm each, hung with darkroom magnets Booklet: laser printed, four pages It has been suggested that the first time we experienced an image as a species was when we first saw a corpse. We were faced with something that was as present in flesh - [Flora Bowden](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/flora-bowden/) - Flora Bowden Untitled, Acrylic on linen, 2022 The Wavering Image is a project concerned with ideas of change through time, shifting states, vulnerability and instability, in the space of the image. It is interested in how an image is affected by the passage of time – how social, cultural and political forces act upon the - [ANJU MARIE KASTURIRAJ ](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/anju-marie-kasturiraj/) - ANJU MARIE KASTURIRAJ Autofiction 1 (2024). Letterpress prints, blood. Autofiction 1 is a two-part performatively assembled text. The phantom image was made with a traditional letterpress, white ink, and a drop of blood from my index finger. My work frames performance as materiality and as a method of making objects through rituals. With the exception - [LINN PHYLLIS SEEGER](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/linn-phyllis-seeger/) - LINN PHYLLIS SEEGER Jupiter (2023). Moving Image, single-channel video loop, 9 Min Slanted screen, neon tube, speakers. Dimensions variable. Based on the historical intertwining of photography, telegraphy and the railroad as technologies for annihilating time and space, Linn Phyllis Seeger’s moving image piece Jupiter considers the presence of these very technologies in the suicide of - [MARTIN BONNEY ](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/martin-bonney/) - MARTIN BONNEY Interconnectedness (2023). Silk embroidery on cotton. In this pivotal moment in our existence, as we bear witness to planetary devastation driven by human progress and the conveniences of daily life. Despite our unprecedented access to vast knowledge and global connectivity, we find ourselves entangled in the thick of ‘wicked problems’— complex challenges arising - [KATRINE SKOVSGAARD](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/katrine-skovsgaard/) - KATRINE SKOVSGAARD Aura. Embroidered robes. Six Infinity. Sound in headphones and performance on 1, 3 and 10 Feb Collaboration with composer Rosanna Gunnarsson. Performed by Hvitfeldtska Dubbelkvartett. Six Infinity activates lived experiences of chronic headaches through lyrics inspired by conversations with people with chronic headaches and professionals working in medicine, touch, philosophy and art. (Thanks - [Stitching the Future](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/stitching-the-future/) - [ROSHANA RUBIN MAYHEW ](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/roshana-rubin-mayhew/) - ROSHANA RUBIN MAYHEW w/ tenderness (2024). Various. This is a collection of performance remains and materials to think-with from Movement One: 4’45”, hold and Movement Two: MAKE ME WET, edging towards Movement Three. These include two suits. The first wrestled with an equivalent bodyweight of malleable clay. The second, tailored with frictive materials, broke down - [GABRIELLE MOWAT](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/gabrielle-mowat/) - GABRIELLE MOWAT Study of Voice in Two Parts: Form and Coming into Consciousness (2024). 2-Channel Video (running time: approx. 4.5 mins). Sound/Performance (running time: approx. 9 mins) Voice connects to the gaze and to aural reception and response. The anamorphic images used in the video channels suggest an exploration of form; a coming into - [MINNA PÖLLÄNEN](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/minna-pollanen/) - MINNA PÖLLÄNEN Tender Orbits (PAM-D in the desert) (2024). Tactile sculpture from off-cuts of wood, decommissioned sun lounger from a resort, used plastic packaging, leather from repurposed artwork, hand-stitching. January 21st, 2001 PAM-D, a piece of Delta-2 rocket falls into the Saudi Arabian desert 40 km west of Riyadh. Please take a seat and hold - [ALEXIS PEARCE FLYNN](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/alexis-pearce-flynn/) - ALEXIS PEARCE FLYNN Double Drift (2023). Oil on canvas.180 x 200 cm. Tear aft (2023). Oil and acrylic on gesso board 20 x 30 cm. Double Drift and Tear aft take ruined sites of colonial expansion in South Africa and Ireland as their central motif, conceived as vehicles through which I might pick at - [Hannah Clarkson](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/hannah-clarkson/) - HANNAH CLARKSON all the time the buzzing (2024). Upholstered salon chairs, voice. Watching Beckett’s Not I (1973), one sees only the floating ‘Mouth’ and, barely visible, a shrouded, silent ‘Auditor’ stage left. The audience cannot see the chair keeping actress Billie Whitelaw in her place: “My head was clamped in otherwise I’d get the shakes - [Sohaila Baluch](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/sohaila-baluch/) - Work 1: Sohaila Baluch, ‘We are here because you went there’, damask curtains, thread and human hair, date 2021 – ongoing. A durational performance will accompany this artwork on Saturday 3 and 10 February, from 12 pm to 5 pm. Work 2: Sohaila Baluch, Made In England, moving image - looped, duration approx. - [Varvara Keidan Shavrova ](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/varvara-keidan-shavrova/) - Varvara Keidan Shavrova memory/loss 2023-2024 Installation Digitally knitted merino wool and gasolina yarn Approx. dimensions 4.5m x 2m NOTE: To experience this piece it is recommended to lie down under it, with your head facing towards the entrance door, on a downward slope memory/loss is a new artwork that explores experiences of - [Modus operandi](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/about/raison-detre/) - Beaconsfield offers a large and well-designed laboratory space, a stone's throw from Westminster, for artists, curators and lay people from all backgrounds to experience art. Since 1992 the directors have worked in the non-profit sector with many artists, on a wide variety of contemporary visual arts projects, through which a distinctive approach to producing and - [CHASMA FLOORPLAN](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/chasma-floorplan/) - Download FloorPlan_Chasma/Design Linn Phyllis Seeger - [History](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/about/history/) - Beaconsfield was founded to provide a streamlined resource for the development and presentation of contemporary art with ambition to “fill a niche between the institution, the commercial and the ‘alternative’” (Beaconsfield, 1994). On 21 November 1994 Beaconsfield was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee and awarded charitable status on 31 May 1995. In July - [Beaconsfield Primary Research](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/research/) - A Reflection on the Context and Introduction to the Project by the late Tony Carter (1943-2016) artist, Principle of City and Guilds of London Art School (2000-2016) and Trustee of Beaconsfield (2010-2016). The Context For several decades past, the precise nature and cultural status of art has become increasingly difficult to define. The serious development of its - [Booking Form](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/wpbc-booking/) - Loading... Powered by Booking Calendar 14 - Available 14 - Booked 14 - Pending · 14 - Partially booked First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone - [Booking Received](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/wpbc-booking-received/) - Thank you for your booking. Your booking has been successfully received. Oops! We could not find your booking. The link you used may be incorrect or has expired. If you need assistance, please contact our support team. - [VIGIL FOR CEASEFIRE IN GAZA](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/vigil-for-ceasefire-in-gaza/) - VIGIL FOR CEASEFIRE IN GAZA Friday 10 November 2023 6-8pm Beaconsfield invites artist Jumana Abboud and colleagues to lead collective, peaceful actions in a gathering that holds all lives – lost or suffering – in our hearts, calling for a cessation of all violence in the ongoing war in Gaza. Actions will include candle-lighting visualisation, listening - [Beaconsfield Trustees 1994-to present](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/8203-2/) - The Board members for 22/23 are: Julie Clarke (appointed 10 May 2017) Peter Flack (appointed 27 September 2018) Luana Duvoisin Zanchi (appointed 17 April 2023) Gary Stewart (appointed 17 January 2022) Angela Weight (appointed 12 January 2018, appointed Chair 27 September 2018) The Board members for 21/22 are: Julie Clarke (appointed 10 May 2017) - [Earthwise: documentation of performances](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/earthwise-documentation-of-performances/) - Beaconsfield hosts the PhD cohort at the Royal College of Arts’ School of Arts and Humanities to present an exhibition, event and publication series. 22 June -1 July 2023 More about: Earthwise - [Earthwise: exhibition documentation](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/earthwise-exhibition-documentation/) - Beaconsfield hosts the PhD cohort at the Royal College of Arts’ School of Arts and Humanities to present an exhibition, event and publication series. 22 June -1 July 2023 More about: Earthwise - [Performance 22 July: PAST PRESENT. Fragments of memory. Bucharest-Pompeii-London](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/performance-22-july-past-present-fragments-of-memory-bucharest-pompeii-london/) - Photos Thomas Beck, Naomi Siderfin and Ella Joy Nelson. - [Symposium 19 July: Dreams and Guilt. Exhibiting the counter-narrative.](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/symposium-19-july-dreams-and-guilt-exhibiting-the-counter-narrative/) - Photos Naomi Siderfin and Ioana Marinescu - [PAST PRESENT NEWSPAPER](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/past-present-newspaper/) - Beaconsfield_Past Present newspaper - [Opening performance 21 July: PAST PRESENT. Fragments of memory: Bucharest - Pompeii - London](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/opening-performance-21-july-past-present-fragments-of-memory-bucharest-pompeii-london-2/) - Photos Ellis Parkinson. - [PARTISAN SOCIAL CLUB](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/partisan-social-club-with-sean-griffiths/) - The Partisan Social Club + Sean Griffiths On Being Together; memberships, collectives and unions Lewis Allum, Xenia Busalova, Zhishan Chen, Chris Daubney, Sadie Edington, Riccardo Fregoni, Chang Gao, Alison Gill, Sean Griffiths, Bekki Herbert, Andy Hewitt, Felicity Holmes, Hanxuan Jiang, Mel Jordan, Khaver Idrees, Louise King, Tiantian Liu, Liz Murray, Annabelle Nguyen, Joanna Osieglewska, Tina Rousou, Iza Sasaran, Alexia Soteriou, Sven Storm, Allan Struthers, Yukako Tanaka, Toby Tobais, Ewelina Trejta, Simon Tyszko, Kai Wang, Wei Zhou On being together; memberships, collectives and - [PROTEST with PACE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/protest-with-pace/) - PROTEST with PACE: Humble Demi | Louie Le Vack | Maedb Joy | Poetess Jess | Kookie Pops | Nikki Demajo Albanese | Tha Reme | Noah Dunbar | Rosie Webb | Rebekah Alero Friday 21 June, 2019, 7-9pm Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall It all made sense in the beginning… Explore timeless themes of protest - [Thames Foreshore walk with Tuula Närhinen 31 January 2020](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/thames-foreshore-walk-with-tuula-narhinen-31-january-2020/) - [Thames Foreshore walk with Tuula Närhinen 14 February 2020](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/thames-foreshore-walk-with-tuula-narhinen-14-february-2020/) - [Rainmaking (Sateentekijät) with Tytti Arola](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/rainmaking-with-tytti-arola/) - Tytti Arola in collaboration with Tuula Närhinen: Sateentekijät Vettä Räntää Lunta for hands and gloves (2020) Instrumentation hands (1 – ∞ performers) nitrile coated working gloves dishwashing gloves nitrile rubber gloves woolen mittens leather gloves stopwatches music stands Info about the piece Sateentekijät (Rainmakers) is an installation and composition for hands and gloves. The - [Taru Elfving](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/taru-elfving/) - Taru Elfving is Helsinki-based curator and researcher with a practice focused on site-sensitive investigations at the intersections of ecological and feminist thought. Elfving is currently developing a multidisciplinary platform for artistic research in collaboration with the Archipelago Sea Research Institute of Turku University. She is also leading the new research project on Sustainable Futures at - [Monika Oechsler](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/sometimes-i-dream/) - Monika Oechsler is a London-based artist whose work includes artists’ film, sound and multi-screen and multi-media installations including photography and performance. She explores material culture and socio-cultural roles through performative action and site-specific interventions with a focus on gender, cultural identity, memory and place. Recent works in particular highlight the ideological aspects of iconic architecture, - [THE COLLECTIVE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/the-collective/) - The Collective was set up in 2001 by a group of friends and family in London as a way for people on normal incomes to support artists, live with their work for a while in their homes and enjoy sharing it with others. It was never designed as a financial investment, but instead pioneered a - [SINK_VESSEL](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/sink_vessel/) - First contact: listened to Emergent Errors by Tegh. An evocative and truly powerful album centred around a mental illness called Cotard Delusion, a rare condition marked by the false belief that you or your body parts are dead, dying or don’t exist (also associated with delusions of negation leading to self-harm). Tegh (Shahin Entezami) started - [Postcard to Tehran](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/postcard-to-tehran/) - Postcard to Tehran forms a special connection between UK and Iran as part of SINK_VESSEL. We invite visitors to take time out and visually respond to the sound installation. Express your own experience with a drawing to be shared via email with commissioned sound artist Shahin Entezami and published on our social media. Free flapjack with - [Representation](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/representation/) - The launch of ‘Representation’, an RCA Communiqué, produced by students and staff at the School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art. Wednesday 15th June Event starts: 6.00-6.30pm Panel discussion and performance: 6.45pm Location: Beaconsfield Gallery, 22 Newport Street, Vauxhall SE11 6AY View pdf of book here Launch event in collaboration with Beaconsfield as part of 'Monica - [Tears|Ov ](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/tearsov/) - Tears | OV are Deborah Wale, Katie Spafford and Lori E Allen. They are an electro-acoustic trio producing soundscape and sample and sequenced based works in long form. Their are published on The Tapeworm, Bloxham Tapes and Industrial Coast. Together and in other collaborative practices they have performed at Tate South Tanks, Iklectik, Whitechapel and - [SYMPOSIUM: Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue!](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/monica-sjoo-the-time-is-now-and-it-is-overdue-a-symposium/) - Saturday 25 June, 2-5pm with keynote speakers Dr Katy Deepwell and Una Hamilton Helle, and panellists Annie Johnston, Bindu Mehra, Maggie Parks and Linsey Young. Chaired by Naomi Siderfin. Our exhibition title quotes directly from IMAGES ON WOMAN POWER – ARTS MANIFESTO (1971) by Anne Berg and Monica Sjöö, recently published by KT Press in 50 Feminist - [Tansy Spinks](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/tansy-spinks/) - Artist, sound artist, performer Tansy Spinks devises live, site related performances and is currently interested in the materiality of sound in free improvisation using objects and instruments. Website:tansyspinks.com - [Mobile Feminist Library](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/mobile-feminist-library/) - Friday, 10 June 2022 special event, part of Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! exhibition The Mobile Feminist Library is an ongoing collaborative project between Minna Haukka and Kristin Luke, in collaboration with the London-based Feminist Library. It is a travelling collection of printed materials that responds to its locality, taking - [Reading Group 1: Exploring Cosmologies, Sjöö and Kimmerer](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/reading-group-1-exploring-cosmologies-sjoo-and-kimmerer/) - Saturday, 2 July 2022, 3-5pm led by Fran Painter-Fleming Cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. They tell us who we are. We are inevitably shaped by them no matter how distant they may be from our consciousness. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass. In this first reading group, we’ll begin with - [Rupert White](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/8997-2/) - Rupert White is editor of artcornwall.org. and The Enquiring Eye: journal of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic. He wrote 'Monica Sjoo: Life and Letters' in 2018, and published 'Spiral Journey', a collection of essays by Monica, soon afterwards. - [Memorial Ritual by Linda Persson and Tears|Ov with collaborators](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/memorial-ritual-by-linda-persson-and-tearsov-with-collaborators/) - Friday, 10 June 2022 special event, part of Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! exhibition Photos Anna Jochymek - [Raju Rage](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/raju-rage/) - Raju Rage is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Raju has a theirstory in activism, self and collective organised queer/ transgender/ people of colour movements and creative projects in London and beyond for 2 decades, from which their politics and works draw on and from. They are the creator of - [Queer Culinary Community Conversations](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/queer-culinary-community-conversations/) - Saturday, 30 July 2022, 2-5pm Honouring and invoking the herstories and theirstories of autonomous queer community kitchens of the 80’s/90’s/2000’s (KItchen Table Press, Women’s Autonomous Nuisance Cafe, Q+A cafe, Queer Caf + more) we will meet and delve into the informal archive of our memories and tales. Come and join us while we cook and - [Reading Group 2: Queer Activism](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/reading-group-2-queer-activism/) - Wednesday, 3 August 2022, 6-8pm Reading Sjöö 2: Queer Activism with Caitlin Fleming and archival materials from Feminist Library. Reading Monica Sjöö 2 will explore archival materials from the Feminist Library to help unpick Sjöö’s involvement with Queer Activism. Reflection on Reading Sjöö 2: Led by Caitlin Fleming and Fran Painter-Fleming. Adopting a collage-like approach, during this - [Reading Group 3: 'Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power' (2020) by Lola Olufemi](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/reading-group-3-feminism-interrupted-disrupting-power-2020-by-lola-olufemi/) - Wednesday, 24 August 2022, 6.30–8pm Reading Group 3 'Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power' (2020) by Lola Olufemi Led by Fran Painter-Fleming. Find a PDF here if you'd like to read in advance: 'Solidarity is a doing word', from Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (2020) by Lola Olufemi The Monica Sjöö Reading Group Series is programmed by emergent curator - [Nad Ma](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/nad-ma/) - Nad Ma is a corporeal artist based in Mexico City, invested in the politics of the body, body mapping and human geography. They practice as a massage therapist, body piercer, shibari instructor, drag performance artist and workshop facilitator. More about Nad Ma here Nad Ma Instagram - [P.E.A.C.E. Walking volunteers needed!](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/p-e-a-c-e-walking-volunteers-needed/) - Dear Friends, We are looking for volunteers who would like to take part in the Harriet Hill project. Volunteers will be asked to take part in a walk wearing comfortable and easy to wear costumes with the letters P.E.A.C.E. Initially there are two walks happening as part of an event at Beaconsfield Gallery in Vauxhall - [Sally POMME Clayton](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/sally-pomme-clayton/) - Biog: Sally Pomme Clayton, please call her Pomme! is a pioneering storyteller and writer creating performances, books, plays and texts that bring fairytales and fragments of forgotten myths to new life. She is Associate Artist at Omnibus Theatre and author of 15 children's books. Her next book is for adults ‘The Mighty Goddess – World - [Peace Camp: The Imaginary of Greenham Common](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/peace-camp-the-imaginary-of-greenham-common/) - This December marks the fortieth anniversary of Embrace the Base, a mass demonstration in 1983 which brought 30,000 women together to join hands around the US air base at Greenham Common in an act of protest. Beaconsfield’s Peace Camp brings artists who participated in 1983 together with artists who are enthralled by the mythos of - [Minna Haukka](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/minna-haukka/) - Minna Haukka is a Finnish artist based in London since 1999. She works with mixed media, installation, sculpture, textiles, video and drawing. Her practice is often socially engaged with interest in deconstructing and repurposing the everyday. She was artist in residence at the Feminist Library in London from 2018-2020, where she has been volunteering since - [RACHEL GARFIELD](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/rachel-garfield/) - Art Sex Work: Brixton Hill Punctum Art Sex Work is a nuanced reflection on sex work. It is constructed through rhythmic editing, montaged and manipulated image and sound that traces some of the ethical complexities of the sex debates and its connection with disability through interviews with sex workers and found footage as well as - [Peace Camp Watchtower at Beaconsfield by Harriet Hill](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/peace-camp-watchtower-at-beaconsfield-by-harriet-hill/) - 17 August-10 September 2022 Part of a Beaconsfield’s exhibition Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! and a week-long Peace Camp, 17-20 August, in Beaconsfield’s yard with artists and writers Minna Haukka, Harriet Hill, Alexandra Kokoli, Kristen Luke, Anne Robinson, Sally Pomme Clayton, Tansy Spinks. - [Peace Camp week, Mobile Feminist Library with Minna Haukka and Kristin Luke](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/peace-camp-week-mobile-feminist-library-with-minna-haukka-and-kristin-luke/) - 17-20 August 2022 Part of a Beaconsfield’s exhibition Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! and a week-long Peace Camp, 17-20 August, in Beaconsfield’s yard with artists and writers Minna Haukka, Harriet Hill, Alexandra Kokoli, Kristen Luke, Anne Robinson, Sally Pomme Clayton, Tansy Spinks. - [Rian Treanor](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/rian-treanor/) - Rian Treanor re-imagines the intersection of club culture, experimental art and computer music, presenting an insightful and compelling musical world of fractured and interlocking components. Having left a vivid impression with a string of releases on The Death of Rave & Warp sub-label Arcola, his debut album 'ATAXIA' for Planet Mu in 2019 established him - [Ocen James](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/ocen-james/) - Ocen James is a master Acholi fiddle player, based in Uganda. He is part of the Nyege Nyege music collective based in Kampala and works with traditional acoustic instruments, playing Udungu, Naga, Rigirgi. James is a pioneer of Acholitronix, an electronic remaking of traditional Acholi ceremonial music. He works with Otim Alpha and Leo Playeng, - [MARK FELL Systemic Peripheralism PRESS RELEASE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/mark-fell-systemic-periphalism-press-release/) - Mark Fell PR 0ct 2022 - [Past Present artists](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/past-present-more-about-the-artists/) - Ioana Marinescu is an architect and photographer who works with large images in public spaces, with projections and live actions. Her PhD by practice from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, focussed on the activation of archival imagery in urban contexts and through the body. Marinescu has delivered numerous lectures and workshops on - [Sohaila Baluch – Sprigged: A Million Little Cuts](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/sohaila-baluch-sprigged-a-million-little-cuts/) - Durational performance, involving a chair, muslin, and garden twist ties, June 2023 This performance will take place throughout the gallery and span the duration of the show. The artist will migrate through the multiple spaces at Beaconsfield, upstairs, downstairs, inside, and outside, inhabiting different locations during each sitting to sprig muslin using garden twist ties. - [Opening performance 21 July: PAST PRESENT. Fragments of memory. Bucharest-Pompeii-London.](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/opening-performance-21-july-past-present-fragments-of-memory-bucharest-pompeii-london/) - [Nastja Säde Rönkkö in Residence](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/nastja-sade-ronkko-in-residence/) - 23 January – 15 March 2023 (Gallery open by appointment) More about: Below Zero 2023 and Nastja Säde Rönkkö, salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears - [salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears: opening celebration](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/salt-in-our-blood-in-our-sweat-in-our-tears-opening-celebration/) - Nastja Säde Rönkkö salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears press view and opening celebration, 17 March 2023 photos: AJ - [Terracotta Plant Pots](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/terracotta-plant-pots/) - Local primary school children make Terracotta plant pots with Phoebe Collings-James and Rachael Nilsson Mud Gang Pottery Studio on 23.03.2023 - [LANDSCAPES OF THE FUTURE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/landscapes-of-the-future/) - BEACONSFIELD – current show: Helsinki Contemporary HC Guest Curator Beaconsfield – David Crawforth & Naomi Siderfin 30.11.2018–21.12.2018 BAW & Bruce Gilbert | David Burrows | Anna Bunting-Branch | Ioana Marinescu | Onya McCausland | Outi Pieski | Keith Piper | Phil Thompson | Thomas Yeomans Landscapes of the Future refers to a range of physical and metaphorical landscapes that open up in a globalized, - [Danielle Allen](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/danielle-allen/) - [Dubmorphology](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/dubmorphology/) - [Kennington Kinaesthetic Arts & Science](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/kas-interactive-art-science-heritage-walk-on-21-february-2020/) - Kennington Kinaesthetic Arts & Science young people & family project on Kennington Park Estate, visit Deep Time Deposits as part of their interactive art, science and heritage walk on 21 February , 2020. - [Freedom of the Mind](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/freedom-of-the-mind-pr/) - freedom of the mind PRESS - [Andrew Pierre Hart](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/andrew-pierre-hart/) - Andrew Pierre Hart lives and works in London. He graduated from Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2019) and is an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London (UAL). During 2020 Hart was a recipient of the ArtAngel ‘Thinking Time’ award and exhibited in London - [About Shahin Entezami aka Tegh](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/about-shahin-entezami-aka-tegh/) - Shahin Entezami, also known by his stage name 'Tegh', is a musician, sound artist and practitioner based in Tehran, Iran. His music style mostly takes root in Noise, Drone and Glitch together with Experimental elements. In his work, Tegh brings new aural experiences to life by combining different audio elements to create complex soundscapes. These - [LAMBETH PUBLIC INQUIRY 2021](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/lambeth-public-inquiry-2021/) - 7 July 2021 Nooks and Corners, No 1551 'First, London Fire Brigade and developer U+I were sent back to the drawing board by local government secretary Robert Jenrick over their horrible plans for their grade II-listed former HQ building at 8 Albert Embankment (Eyes passim). Jenrick followed the advice of the planning inspectorate in rejecting - [B_T5 Ioana Marinescu PAST PRESENT - VISUAL DIARY](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/b_t5-ioana-marinescu-past-present-visual-diary/) - Ioana Marinescu in residence 23 March – 9 April 2021 Site-specific experiments with light projections and performance Guests Hanna Gillgren and Elena Andreea Teleaga DAY 9 DAY 8 DAY 5 DAY 3 DAY 2 DAY 1 More about Ioana Marinescu: B_T5 Past Present, 2021 Doctoral Research Project Gravid, 2018 - [BEACONSFIELD TAKES RULE 6 STATUS IN PUBLIC INQUIRY 2020](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/beaconsfield-takes-rule-6-status-in-public-inquiry-2020/) - In June 2020 Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government called for a Public Inquiry into overdevelopment in North Lambeth (8 Albert Embankment scheme) due to the extent of public concern. Beaconsfield has taken 'Rule 6' status in the Inquiry together with the Garden Museum and Lambeth Village to defend public access to - [B_T3 Andrew Pierre Hart 1:1 EXCHANGE W / ANDREW HART - VISUAL DIARY](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/b_t3-andrew-pierre-hart-11-exchange-w-andrew-hart-visual-diary/) - Andrew Pierre Hart in residence from 18 February 2021 with guests Serena Huang \ Shabaka Hutchings \ Kanika Carr \ Tic Zogson 1:1 exchange w/Andrew Hart is an improvisatory alternative Art School for the moment. Week 1 20-21 February: 'Hart and Huang pt9' with Serena Huang Andrew Hart’s Beaconsfield residency kicked off with an invitation to trusted - [B_T3 Andrew Pierre Hart 1:1 EXCHANGE W / ANDREW HART – VIDEO REPORTS](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/b_t3-andrew-pierre-hart-11-exchange-w-andrew-hart-video-reports/) - Andrew Pierre Hart in residence from 18 February 2021 with guests Serena Huang \ Shabaka Hutchings \ Kanika Carr \ Tic Zogson 1:1 exchange w/Andrew Hart is an improvisatory alternative Art School for the moment. Week 1 20-21 February: ‘Hart and Huang pt9’ with Serena Huang Andrew Hart’s Beaconsfield residency kicked off with an invitation to trusted - [Jin Han Lee artist statement](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/jin-han-lee/) - As a Korean artist based in the UK, I live with a heightened awareness of language. My painting practice builds on an everyday experience of translation between languages and the consequent gaps opened up by what is untranslatable. 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I had to explore numerous ways to navigate this - [Extended Economies - an online discussion in immersive space](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/extended-economies-online-discussion-in-immersive-space/) - Dear Member of our Extended Online Community, Please join us on Saturday - 2 October 2021 at 14:00 GMT Please follow this link to join the Extended Economies Part 3: The Future Together with our artist Jin Han Lee and in collaboration with artsXR we have created a new space and are waiting for you... - [BAW write about VESSEL](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/baw-writes-about-vessel/) - First contact: listened to Emergent Errors by Tegh. An evocative and truly powerful album centred around a mental illness called Cotard Delusion, a rare condition marked by the false belief that you or your body parts are dead, dying or don’t exist (also associated with delusions of negation leading to self-harm). Tegh (Shahin Entezami) started - [Linda Persson](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/linda-persson/) - pronouns she/her Lives and works in Småland, Sweden She mainly works through sculptural and cinematic methods that process difficult contexts around the colonial residue of landscapes, body and language. Through residencies and commission, often long-term over years situated in places such as The Eastern Goldfields Desert in Western Australia with the Wongatha women or in - [Islaja](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/islaja/) - Islaja is Merja Kokkonen: a composer, performer and recording artist based in Helsinki, Finland. 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Through residencies and commission, often long-term over years situated in places such as The Eastern Goldfields Desert in - [Beaconsfield presents](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/the-finnish-sauna-at-beaconsfield/) - Beaconsfield is delighted to host The Finnish Sauna this summer. Renowned Finnish architect Sami Rintala and architectural students from the University of Westminster, in association with the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, joined forces to create a one-of-a-kind sauna for London Festival of Architecture – now open - [Fran Painter-Fleming](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/fran-painter-fleming/) - Fran Painter-Fleming is a curator, writer and researcher based in London. 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The first walk, Thursday 18th August 2022 between 2 – 4pm, - [Dr Alexandra Kokoli](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/dr-alexandra-kokoli/) - An art historian and theorist originally trained in comparative literature, she researches the aesthetic mobilisation of discomfort to political ends, focusing on art practices informed by and committed to feminism, the fraught but fertile relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis, death, mourning and shame. Her research is situated within feminist art history, theory and practice, focusing particularly - [Liz Murray](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/liz-murray/) - Liz Murray is a London-based artist and academic who works with sculpture, photography, collage, and moving image. Her work addresses the ownership and celebration of queer, resistant, and radical histories, drawing on a personal archive of feminist and press materials from the 1980’s. A former peace camp participant, Murray remains involved in different forms of - [Anita Slater](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/anita-slater/) - Anita Slater is a writer, poet, and researcher interested in feminist pedagogy, zines, and experimental writing. She is starting a Leverhulme Trust LUDeC programme doctoral scholarship at MMU, exploring the concept of usefulness in the city through poetry. Twitter @anitainwnderlnd - [Harriet Hill PEACE walks 18 and 19 August 2022](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/harriet-hill-peace-walks-28-and-19-august-2022/) - Two short walks as part of Peace Camp at Beaconsfield, taking place between 17th and 20th August, as part of the current exhibition of paintings by Monica Sjöö. She was a Peace activist amongst other things and produced brilliant publicity visuals for Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camps in the 1980s. The first walk, Thursday 18th August 2022 between 2 – 4pm, from - [Kristin Luke](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/kristin-luke/) - Kristin Luke (b.1984, Los Angeles, lives in Snowdonia) is an artist whose sculptural, written, filmic and communal work span the themes of radical pedagogy, utopia, feminist resistance, and the archive's role in forming knowledge and power systems. Her work, including her ongoing collaboration with Minna Haukka, The Mobile Feminist Library, have been included in programmes at - [Letters of Protest: The time is NOW and it is overdue! with Liz Murray and Anita Slater](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/letters-of-protest-the-time-is-now-and-it-is-overdue/) - 19 August 2022 A creative writing workshop with artist Liz Murray and writer Anita Slater exploring imagination, feminist activism, and time travel in response to Beaconsfield’s exhibition Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! and the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. This December marks the fortieth anniversary of Embrace the Base, a mass - [BEACONSFIELD AND THE WILD ESCAPE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/beaconsfield-and-the-wild-escape/) - BEACONSFIELD JOINS THE WILD ESCAPE, THE LARGEST EVER COLLABORATION BETWEEN UK MUSEUMS Beaconsfield is joining The Wild Escape, a major new project uniting hundreds of museums with schools and families to find nature in museums and galleries. Led by national art charity Art Fund and with support from Arts Council England, hundreds of museums, galleries and - [Chloe Carroll](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/chloe-carroll/) - Chloe Carroll is a writer and curator based in London. Her writing has been published in Art Monthly, e-flux, Elephant and ArtReview, amongst others. In 2022 she was awarded the NEON Curatorial Award in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery, London. In 2019 she was in residence in the Shanghai Curators Lab, SAFA, Shanghai. Her curatorial - [Earthwise performance/readings/interventions](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/upcoming-earthwise-performance-readings-interventions-schedule/) - Daily Sohaila Baluch – A Million Little Cuts The performance will take place at the following times: Wednesday 21 June: 6 – 7 PM (private view) Thursday 22 June to Saturday 24 June: 1 – 4 PM daily Friday 30 June and Saturday 1 July: 1 – 4 PM daily A performance will unfold throughout the - [Dreams and Guilt. Exhibiting the counter-narrative. Visual diary](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/dreams-and-guilt-exhibiting-the-counter-narrative/) - [BEACONSFIELD’S HORTICULTURALIST LUCY GREGORY](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/beaconsfields-horticulturalist-lucy-gregory/) - Beaconsfield Gallery occupies the old Ragged School building in Newport Street, Vauxhall. Entering through a sliding glass door in the perimeter wall, you find a welcoming green haven under a shady canopy. The space is compact: climbing plants cover the inside of the wall and cluster extravagantly in large pots, burst from a wheelbarrow, clamber - [A gallery tour of Monica Sjöö’s exhibition by Rupert White](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/a-gallery-tour-of-monica-sjoo-the-time-is-now-and-it-is-overdue/) - Saturday, 3 September 2022, start 2pm Rupert White, author of Monica Sjöö Life and Letters (2018) leads a gallery tour of Beaconsfield's exhibition of previously unseen paintings and drawings from the Estate of Monica Sjöö. Listen to talk here: https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Rupert_White_Beaconsfield.mp3 Rupert White is editor of artcornwall.org. and The Enquiring Eye: journal of the Museum of - [About Mark Fell](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/mark-fell-bio/) - Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Rotherham (UK). His practice draws upon electronic music subcultures, experimental film, contemporary philosophy and radical politics. Over the past 30 years Fell’s output has grown into a significant body of work - from early electronic sound works and recorded pieces, to installation, critical texts, curatorial projects, educational - [Learning](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/education/) - Beaconsfield exists to resource a broad spectrum of activity within contemporary visual art and for that reason its exhibitions and events are wide ranging in form and content (you can get a sense of the scope of Beaconsfield’s projects here). The majority of our exhibitions and events represent new work and generally include a lengthy - [The Beaconsfield Collection](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/) - The Collection is part of Beaconsfield's history, donated by artists that we've worked with over the years. By buying or pledging a piece of work, you will be supporting Beaconsfield Commissions and helping to safeguard the future of the charity. To find out how to buy or pledge contact our team. Artists in the Collection: - [About us](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/about/) - Since 1994 Beaconsfield has been a laboratory dedicated to the exploration and evolution of experimental art. An uncompromising space where open-minded artists and audiences come to challenge themselves and their understanding of what art can be. A supportive space for taking risks and exploring new ideas. A liberating space where people come together and ask - [Workshops with Rian Treanor & Ocen James](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/workshop-with-rian-treanor-ocen-james/) - 19 October 2022 2.30-5.30pm - [Vocal Resistance with Anne Robinson](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/vocal-resistance-workshop/) - Friday, 2 September 2022, 3pm Book on Eventbrite Artist and filmmaker Anne Robinson is in residence in Beaconsfield’s Arch Gallery, 24 August – 3 September working in response to Monica Sjöö’s activist work in painting. Robinson will lead a workshop on Friday 2 September, exploring the possibilities of ‘Vocal Resistance’, to conclude her residency. Robinson’s - [The Imaginary of Greenham Common: a conversation followed by a performance from Tansy Spinks](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/a-conversation-the-imaginary-of-greenham-common-followed-by-a-tansy-spinks-performance/) - 20 August 2022 Art historian Alexandra Kokoli convenes a conversation: The Imaginary of Greenham Common with artists Anne Robinson, Liz Murray, Minna Haukka and Harriet Hill followed by a peripatetic violin performance by artist Tansy Spinks. Part of a Beaconsfield’s exhibition Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! and a week-long Peace Camp, 17-20 - [THE STRUGGLE a trilogy](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/the-struggle-a-trilogy/) - A brief history of The Struggle In 2011, Beaconsfield entered an agreement with the artist to commission the video series and support Garfield in the development and delivery of the work. The ambition of the project intended the series to be the product of inter-regional relationships. A Beaconsfield residency and exhibition in May 2012 opened - [Video: Final Performance and Artist Talk](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/video-performance-by-ioana-marinescu-and-hanna-gillgren-followed-by-talk-with-naomi-siderfin/) - [Tuula Närhinen - DEEP TIME DEPOSITS](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/tuula-narhinen-deep-time-deposits/) - Photos: Tuula Närhinen and Anna Jochymek - [Winnie & The Rockettes](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/winnie-the-rockettes/) - [Winnie and The Rockettes](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/winnie-and-the-rockettes/) - [Weyland McKenzie](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/weyland-mckenzie/) - [Foam Talent I London Teen Tours 2019](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/about/foam-talent-i-london-teen-tours-2019/) - Foam Talent | London 2019 Teen Tours on 8 and 15 June 2019 Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall present Teen Tours of the brand new exhibition Foam Talent 2019, featuring works from a new generation of visual artists. Explore this forward-thinking showcase of photography in the company of London teenagers – Amina, - [Opportunities](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/opportunities/) - Volunteering with Beaconsfield Download the Volunteer Gallery Assistant Role here and email admin@beaconsfield.ltd.uk with your interest Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall (BGV) offers voluntary work linked directly to our exhibitions and events. Volunteering at BGV is a great opportunity to be part of a small friendly team and to gain experience in a contemporary art organisation. As first point of contact - [Terms and Conditions](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/terms-and-conditions/) - Every effort will be made to package items well in order to avoid damage during postage, but Beaconsfield cannot take responsibility for any damage caused. Shipping All prints are shipped via Royal Mail Special Next Day Delivery, and are tracked and insured for the full value of the purchase. 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Fraternising artists can play a key role in enabling BGV to provide an ambitious programme of residencies, exhibitions and events — - [Franko B](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/franko-b/) - [Keith Coventry](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/keith-coventry/) - [Mikey Cuddihy](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/mikey-cuddihy/) - Pig Head Girl, 2005 2005, spirit based ink on lotka paper, 213 x 152 cm - [Mark Dean](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/mark-dean/) - 10 Years x 7, 2005 2005, video, duration 23 mins, edition of 6 - [Ian Hinchcliffe](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/ian-hinchcliffe/) - [Dafna Talmor](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/dafna-talmor/) - Untitled (from the Obstructed Views series), 2003 2003, photograph, 12 x 16 inches, 1 of edition of 10 - [Caroline Todd](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/caroline-todd/) - Push the Envelope Series (Vauxhall) I, 2006 Push the Envelope Series (Vauxhall) II, 2006 Push the Envelope Series (Vauxhall) III, 2006 Push the Envelope Series (Vauxhall) IV, 2006 Push the Envelope Series (Vauxhall) V, 2006 Push the Envelope Series (Vauxhall) VI, 2006 - [J Dean](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/j-dean/) - [Joining the collection](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/joining-the-collection/) - The artist: discusses pledging a unique piece of work to the Collection with Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall (BGV) once the offer is agreed, makes a pledge in writing provides BGV with a digital image and description of the work, with CV and details of commercial representatives keeps the work in reserve for Beaconsfield. 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Printed from original artwork "Fragments of Secrets" by Shino Yanai, on a thick, smooth, 350gsm card - FSC recycled, printed in the UK Kraft brown envelope, blank inside for your own - [Mark Fell: Technically Situated Practice, 2022](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/mark-fell-technically-situated-practice-2022/) - Pigment Giclee print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, 325gsm 594mm x 419mm Limited Edition of 20 (unframed) UK shipping is £12 per print (Special Delivery) If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin@beaconsfield.ltd.uk / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 Click for more information about the exhibition Systemic Peripheralism, 2022 All - [Simon Bedwell & Stephen Sutcliffe, Memories of the Five Administrations, 2024](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/simon-bedwell-stephen-sutcliffe-memories-of-the-five-administrations-2024/) - Gloss print on standard Fine paper, 130gsm 420mm x 297mm Collectable, limited edition poster, numbered and signed by the artists Limited Edition of 100 (unframed) UK shipping is £12 per print (Special Delivery) If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin@beaconsfield.ltd.uk / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 Click for - [Shane Cullen: Last Will, 2006](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/shane-cullen-last-will-2006/) - To purchase Last Will, either through Own Art or in one lump sum, please contact Beaconsfield on: +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 admin (at) beaconsfield.ltd.uk ceramosteel plate packaged with a short DVD giving background information. 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[Thomas Yeomans: im not the one you miss, 2015](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/thomas-yeomans-im-not-one-miss-2015/) - Limited Edition of 10 UK shipping is £12 per print If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin (at) beaconsfield.ltd.uk / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 In 2015 Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall (BGV) Editions launched with a new commission by Thomas Yeomans at New Dawn: Beaconsfield’s 20th Birthday Party on 25th - [Thomas Yeomans: we smiled, 2015](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/thomas-yeomans-smiled-2015/) - Pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photorag, 308 gsm 500mm x 700mm Limited edition of 10 UK shipping is £12 per print If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin (at) beaconsfield.ltd.uk / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 In 2015 Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall (BGV) Editions launched with a new commission by Thomas - [Thomas Yeomans: what were you thinking, 2015](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/thomas-yeomans-thinking-2015/) - Pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photorag, 308 gsm 500mm x 700mm Limited edition of 10 UK shipping is £12 per print If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin (at) beaconsfield.ltd.uk / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 In 2015 Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall (BGV) Editions launched with a new commission by Thomas - 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Etching on Somerset Velvet Antique paper, 250gms 73 x 57cm ( Image size 51 x 38cm) edition of 50 UK Shipping is £12 per print If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin (at)beaconsfield.ltd.uk / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 A FlatBed Edition produced exclusively by BGV to accompany the - [Rude Mechanic: Pan sonic / Hayley Newman / David Crawforth](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/rude-mechanic-pan-sonic-hayley-newman-david-crawforth/) - Acclaimed limited edition double album from 1999 – last few extremely rare original stock copies available! 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If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: - [Peter Owen: Memory Zone 2, 2011](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/peter-owen-memory-zone-2-2011/) - Crumpled digital print 29 x 20cm Unique work, Courtesy the artist UK shipping is £8 per print If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin@beaconsfield.p-2.biz / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 A unique work donated to BGV for the fundraising scheme Fraternise. - [Peter Owen: Memory Zone 1, 2011](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/peter-owen-memory-zone-1-2011/) - Crumpled digital print 29 x 20cm Unique work, Courtesy the artist - [Mark Dean: Love Missile (12”), 2011](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/mark-dean-love-missile-12-2011/) - Photographic print 30 x 30cm Editions of 20 + 1AP, Courtesy the artist UK shipping is £8 per print If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin@beaconsfield.p-2.biz / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 A limited Edition produced for BGV as part of the fundraising scheme Fraternise. - [Mark Dean: Love Missile (7”), 2011](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/mark-dean-love-missile-7-2011/) - Photographic print 18 x 18cm Editions of 20 + 1AP, Courtesy the artist UK shipping is £8 per print If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin@beaconsfield.p-2.biz / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 A limited Edition produced for BGV as part of the fundraising scheme Fraternise. - [Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy: Greenwich Degree Zero, 2006](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/shop/rod-dickinson-tom-mccarthy-greenwich-degree-zero-2006/) - Size A2 Edition of 50 UK shipping is £7 per print If you have a question about this piece of work, please get in touch: admin@beaconsfield.p-2.biz / +44 (0) 20 7582 6465 Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy created a special signed limited edition print to accompany The BGV exhibition, Greenwich Degree Zero (2006). ## Projects - [Gail Dickerson](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/gail-dickerson/) - Gail Dickerson Earth AIR 2026. - [Anssi Kasitonni](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/anssi-kasitonni/) - Gentle Means and Easy Tasks Exhibition: 7 March – 26 April 2025 Anssi Kasitonni, fourth winner of the Below Zero Finnish Art Award, is in residence with Beaconsfield from 22 January 2025. - [TERMINAL - Beaconsfield curates Late at Tate](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/terminal/) - 5 December 2008, 6pm — 10pm Tate Britain Millbank London SW1P 4RG - [HAPPENS](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/happens/) - Beaconsfield offsite at ASC Gallery Exhibition: 1-18 November 2025 A.D. Crawforth Minna Haukka Emily Mulenga Ellis Parkinson Naomi Siderfin A.L. Steiner HAPPENS links Vauxhall art-neighbours ASC and Beaconsfield as both organisations celebrate 30 years of operation in South London. - [FALL – a Film Poem Sampler](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/fall-a-film-poem-sampler/) - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Deadline 8 November 2024 at 23.59 GMT Screenings at Beaconsfield London on 29 November and at the Andrew Stewart Cinema, Glasgow University on 30 November 2024 FALL is an exploration of experimental film and text and announces the start of a new collaboration between Beaconsfield and Glasgow University's Creative Writing course. - [Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/manifesto-for-sustainable-experimentatio/) - Exhibition: 21 May – 9 August 2025 Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation celebrates thirty years of Beaconsfield commissions in an exhibition of historic works and ephemera, interspersed with new commissions, screenings, performances, readings, workshops and other happenings. - [B_T4 Shahin Entezami aka TEGH](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/b_t4-sink/) - SHAHIN ENTEZAMI AKA TEGH Beacon_Transitions Online 2021 One of the most exciting electronic sound artists in Iran, Shahin Entezami aka Tegh, offers a personal narrative of the global pandemic. Translating the stress and dark thoughts associated with his own experience of contracting Covid19, this sound work takes its pace from events happening without preface, particularly as experienced in his home city of Tehran. - [Shane Cullen The Agreement 2002](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/shane-cullen/) - The Agreement is a new sculptural work commissioned by Beaconsfield of the Dublin based artist Shane Cullen. - [BEACON_TRANSITIONS](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/beacon_transitions-2/) - IOANA MARINESCU \ SHAHIN ENTEZAMI \ ANDREW PIERE HART \ MONIKA OECHSLER \ SIMON TYSZKO & A.D. CRAWFORTH An online series in response to the uncertain future of exhibition culture. Online from 9 July 2020 - [B_T1 Simon Tyszko & AD Crawforth FREEDOM OF THE MIND](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/beacon_transitions/) - SIMON TYSZKO IN COLLABORATION WITH AD CRAWFORTH Beacon_Transitions Online 2020 B_T1 is a lockdown experiment wherein a virtual portal is developed for Beaconsfield through a collaboration between Simon Tyszko and A.D. Crawforth in response to Covid19. Onsite CCTV surveillance of the shuttered gallery provides a poignant visual basis for the first in the series of Beacon_Transitions. - [JONNA KINA: BELOW ZERO Finnish Art Prize](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/jonna-kina/) - 7 March - 22 April 2018 Emerging from Finland into the international arena, JONNA KINA is the first recipient of BELOW ZERO, a new contemporary art prize for emergent Finnish artists. - [SYZYGY Orphan Drift](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/syzygy-orphan-drift/) - 26 February – 28 March 1999 - [Glean](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/glean/) - June 1998 Anna Best, Robert Beard, Keith Coventry and Tamsin Pender - [Cottage Industry](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/cottage-industry/) - 4 November - 3 December 1995 - [BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART AWARD](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/below-zero/) - Beaconsfield Commissions: Below Zero Finnish Art Award 2025 2025 Winner announced! - [Shino Yanai with Ken Ikeda](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/shino-yanai-with-ken-ikeda/) - Memories float for a moment and then fall Exhibition: 15 November 2024 – 18 January 2025 Shino Yanai's new installation explores the plasticity of sound and its power to create new and imagined memories. Ken Ikeda (Tokyo) contributes sonic material and visits for a live performance, to improvise with Yanai’s voice and her prepared piano. - [MARK FELL](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/mark-fell-systemic-peripheralism/) - SYSTEMATIC PERIPHERALISM 8 October - 3 December 2022 A new commission of procedural sonic installations responding to Beaconsfield's two main gallery spaces - [Beaconsfield ArtWorks](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/raf/) - January 1999 Beaconsfield Artworks (BAW) were invited to make interventionist work in Small Pleasures curated by artist Hayley Newman, that happened as part of Sensation at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin. - [Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/) - August 1997 - [Phoebe Collings-James](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/beaconsfield-and-the-wild-escape/) - Phoebe Collings-James works with ceramics and collective gathering to explore the multifaceted meanings of the term ‘sustainability’ as Beaconsfield’s Environmental artist in residence 2023, incorporating the UK-wide Museums project The Wild Escape. - [Azadeh Fatehrad](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/on-the-move-mobile-phones-and-the-tapestry-of-home/) - On the Move: Mobile Phones and the Tapestry of Home 1–16 March 2024 A combination of docu-fiction film, photography, written and spoken word emphasises the role of mobile phones as symbolic links connecting individuals to their origins. This active exhibition is a dialogue: both story of, and testament to, the shared human experience of the journey of migration, homemaking, and integration. - [Ioana Marinescu with Smaranda Găbudeanu and Iulia Mărăcine](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/past-present/) - Exhibition: 22 July - 12 August 2023 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’. - [Marking Black History Month 2023](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/celebrating-black-history-month-2023/) - Beaconsfield marks Black History Month with collaborators past and present. Tuesday 24 October 2023 Beaconsfield's Environmental Artist in Residence Phoebe Collings-James leads the second in a series of reading groups where participants can read, sculpt or play with terracotta clay while discussing extracts from the book 'A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None' by Kathryn Yusoff. Thursday 26 October 2023 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 that will employ every aspect of the venue as a player in an immersive ambient score. - [Simon Bedwell and Stephen Sutcliffe](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/simon-bedwell-stephen-sutcliffe-memories-of-the-five-administrations/) - Memories of the Five Administrations Exhibition: 15 May – 6 July 2024 Bringing together two very distinct bodies of work, reflecting an unlikely coupling: the earthy materiality of clay and its ephemeral antithesis. - [Nastja Säde Rönkkö](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/nastja-sade-ronkko/) - salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears Exhibition: 7 September- 23 March 2025 Below Zero Finnish Art Prize Exhibition at Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland - [B_T5 Ioana Marinescu PAST PRESENT](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/b_t5-ioana-marinescu-pastpresent/) - IOANA MARINESCU In residence 23 March – 9 April 2021 Site-specific experiments with light projections and performance. - [B_T3 1:1 EXCHANGE W / ANDREW HART](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/bt3-11-exchange-w-andrew-hart/) - ANDREW PIERRE HART Beacon_Transitions Online 2021 Utilising the decolonising techniques he has been developing as teaching methodology, Andrew Hart’s workshop programme will discuss institutional structures through improvisatory ideas of cross-modality. - [B_T2 Monika Oechsler SOMETIMES I DREAM](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/sometimes-i-dream/) - MONIKA OECHSLER Beacon_Transitions Online 2021 Monika Oechsler's exploration of bunker mentality provides an uncanny reference point for the second in the series of Beacon_Transitions: a lockdown experiment and virtual portal opened by Beaconsfield for artists to explore. - [B_T2 Monika Oechsler SOMETIMES EVERYTHING IS FOREVER](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monika-oechsler-sometimes-everything-is-forever/) - MONIKA OECHSLER online from 27 October 2021 Sometimes Everything is Forever is an animated short film that follows on from Sometimes I Dream. Inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Burrow, both films explore bunker mentality, in particular the desire for safety and protection from invasion. - [IC-98: MEDITATIONS ON THE ANTHROPOCENE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/meditations-anthropocene/) - 28 January–23 April 2017 Meditations on the Anthropocene continues an ongoing relationship between Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall and Finnish artist duo IC-98 – Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää – whose projects combine research, text, drawing and animation. - [Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue!](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monica-sjoo-the-time-is-now-and-it-is-overdue/) - Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! 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. - [Nastja Säde Rönkkö](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/nastja-sade-ronkko-salt-in-our-blood-in-our-sweat-in-our-tears/) - NASTJA SÄDE RÖNKKÖ Residency: 23 January - 15 March Exhibition: 16 March - 6 May 2023 Below Zero Finnish Art Prize UK Residency & Exhibition - [BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE 2023](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/below-zero-finnish-art-prize-2023/) - BEACONSFIELD COMMISSIONS: BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE 2023 Winner announced: Nastja Säde Rönkkö - [Shane Cullen, Fragmens sur les Institutions Républicaines IV, 1998.](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/fragmens/) - March/April 2001 - [Rude Mechanic - Pan sonic, Hayley Newman & David Crawforth](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/rude-mechanic/) - November 1996 - [TEGH + BAW](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/tegh-baw-sink_vessel/) - SINK _VESSEL 16 February – 7 May 2022 Two audio tracks sit side by side simultaneously playing – physically in Beaconsfield’s Arch space and Upper space, providing simple spaces of aural contemplation. SINK composed and recorded in Iran by Shahin Entezami aka TEGH. VESSEL composed and recorded in England by A.David Crawforth & Naomi Siderfin aka BAW. - [VOCALIS 1](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/vocalis/) - A.D. CRAWFORTH \ MICHAEL CURRAN \ RUFUS MICHIELSEN \ HAYLEY NEWMAN AND GINA BIRCH \ VIRALUX Performance at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall Friday 25 January 2019 7 - 11pm - [VOCALIS 2](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/vocalis-2/) - LOUISE ASHCROFT \ LUCA BOSANI \ LEA COLLET & MARIOS STAMATIS \ ALICE JACOBS \ YUKI KOBAYASHI Performance at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall Friday 1 March 2019 7 - 11pm - [VOCALIS 4](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/vocalis-4/) - AIN BAILEY \ ANNA DEAN \ KASSIA FLUX \ ELOISE FORNIELES \ NAYOUNG JEONG Performance at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall 22 November 2019 7 - 11pm - [VOCALIS 3](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/vocalis-3/) - JEROEN VAN DOOREN \ KASSIA FLUX \ JEFFORD HORRIGAN \ TARA FATEHI IRANI \ LIMING LIN \ NIAMH ROBERTS Performance at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall Friday 19 July 2019 7 - 11pm - [Factory Outlet: Bob and Roberta Smith - Launch](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/launch/) - 7 November 2009 - 21 February 2010 Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm Launch: Friday 6 November, from 7pm with performances by The Ken Ardley Playboys, The Apathy Band, Leigh Clarke, Boycott Coca-Cola Experience, The Fucks and Resonance Radio Orchestra Venue-wide exhibition showcasing the mass output achieved during Bob and Roberta Smith's time in residence (22 February 2009 – 21 February 2010). - [Rachel Garfield THE STRUGGLE a trilogy](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/rachel-garfield-the-struggle-a-trilogy/) - RACHEL GARFIELD 10 November 2021 – 29 January 2022 The Struggle is a trilogy of three video works commissioned by Beaconsfield and developed with a range of partners. The three films, The Straggle (2012), Opening Up (2015) and A Glimpse (2019) are exhibited together for the first time, exploring the impact of familial interactions on the formation of subjectivity. - [Engineer I – Georgina Batty](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/georgina-batty/) - 19 June 2003 - 30 May 2004 Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm Georgina Batty makes spatial explorations with conventional building materials. For Part One, Batty has architecturally adjusted the volume and perspective of Beaconsfield's upper gallery to allow access to a normally inaccessible part of the building. She draws attention to the exploitable value of urban space by applying the same restrictive proportions as a standard domestic redevelopment to the gallery. - [GROUND CONTROL artists' despatches from Lithuania and Britain](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/ground-control/) - May/June 1997 - [Tamsyn Challenger: Monoculture](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monoexhibition/) - 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 - [Hibernator: prince of the petrified forest](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/hibernator/) - 15 March - 29 April An ambitious new exhibition project by London Fieldworks. Working with the legacy and personal myth of Walt Disney, the commission embraces the latest developments in animatronics, primal hibernation patterns and the practice of cryonics in its exploration of fantasy and death. - [Anniversary: an act of memory - Monica Ross](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/anniversary/) - Saturday 19 September 2009 at 2.30pm Gallery Three Performance Monica Ross will lead a collective recitation by artists, from memory, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. - [DUBMORPHOLOGY: TREVOR MATHISON AND GARY STEWART](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/spirit_off-dreaming-utopia/) - SPIRIT_OFF: DREAMING UTOPIA 2 October – 3 November 2019 3 November closing performance from 4.15pm - [The Lowest Form of Music: The Los Angeles Free Music Society’s London Weekend](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/lowestform/) - Friday 22 - Sunday 24 October, 2010 Upper Gallery 1, Canteen Gallery 2 & Arch Gallery 3 Beaconsfield plays host to a packed weekend of performances, films and discussions exploring the work of the legendary Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) and their huge influence on the worldwide explosion of DIY culture. Produced by Harbinger Sound, Second Layer Records, No-Fi and Sound and Music. - [Factory Outlet: This Artist is Deeply Dangerous - Bob and Roberta Smith](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/factoryoutlet/) - 16 June - 12 November 2009 As recession bites, Bob & Roberta Smith are making the most of the spacious Beaconsfield premises, turning the former Ragged School into a prolific site of production over one whole year. - [The Big Draw at Beaconsfield](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/phase-4-big-draw/) - Friday 25 October 2013, 6-8pm In the midst of her exhibition, Judith Dean invites all to join her in acts of drawing. - [Judith Dean - Phase 4 with The Cult of the Endorphin](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/cult-of-the-endorphin/) - Friday 29 November 2013 Join us for a special warm-up for all as Mary George shapes up the Art World with The Cult of the Endorphin. As part of the SLAM Fridays late openings. - [Bruce Gilbert and BAW: Soundtrap V: Diluvial](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/diluvial-athens-biennale/) - 29 September – 1 December 2013 AGORA 4th Athens Biennale 2013 National Bank of Greece Building (Former Athens Stock Exchange), 8-10 Sofokleous str, Athens Soundtrap V: Diluvial is realised in a new context for the 4th Athens Biennale. - [Begged, borrowed and stolen - random works from the digital ether](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/begborrowiv/) - 22 January - 14 February 2014 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. - [Station House Opera: Dissolved](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/shodissolved/) - 6-22 March 2014 A brand new installation for performance using telematics and live video streaming to dissolve creative public spaces in London (Beaconsfield) and Berlin (Sophiensæle). - [Middlesex BA Fine Art: PAUSE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/mentor-pause/) - 25-27 March 2014 Fine Art students from Middlesex University engage with Beaconsfield’s mentoring programme to curate their own exhibition. - [IC-98 Arkhipelagos](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/ic-98-arkhipelagos/) - 4 April – 7 June 2014 Finnish-duo IC-98 return to Beaconsfield on a grand scale with a two-part work in their signature medium – pencil-drawn animation. - [John Timberlake: We Are History](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/wearehistory/) - 28 June - 30 August 2014 Looking upriver from Vauxhall towards the new US Embassy Gardens, above the broad sweep of the Thames hang unusual clouds… - [We Are History: John Timberlake in conversation with Martin Myrone and Joy Sleeman](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/gallery-talk-july-slam-friday/) - Friday 25 July at 6.30pm Talk chaired by Naomi Siderfin with John Timberlake, Martin Myrone, Lead Curator, pre 1800 British Art at Tate Britain and Joy Sleeman, lecturer in History and Theory of Art at UCL Slade School of Fine Art - [Material Conjectures: Kwartz Kapital Konstruction Kollider](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/kwartz-kapital-konstruction-kollider/) - 29 October – 6 December 2014 Dale Holmes and Kirsten Cooke return to Beaconsfield to extend the generative questions that lie at the heart of their ongoing project Material Conjectures. For KKKK a collision of individual artworks by Sinead Bligh, Mikko Cannini and Thomas Yeomans are staged upon a large-scale architectural sculpture conceived for Beaconsfield’s Arch space. - [24 hours under the arch](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/24-hours-under-the-arch/) - 12 - 14 January 2015 Arch, Lower Gallery and Yard Undergraduate students from the Department of Art at the University of Reading engage with Beaconsfield's mentoring programme to curate their own exhibition. - [London’s Lithuanian Artists -  Portfolio review and discussion](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/londons-lithuanian-artists/) - 2 February 2015 Following a recent research trip, Beaconsfield is delighted to renew its longstanding connection with the Vilnius art scene by opening the Lithuanian Embassy’s Winter portfolio review to a wider audience. - [Watch this Space](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/watch-this-space-exhibition-view/) - Wednesday 18 March 2015 Open for one night only Third Year BA Fine Art students from Middlesex University engage with Beaconsfied to co-curate their own exhibition, reflecting Beaconsfield’s ongoing commitment to mentoring emergent artists. - [Bruce Gilbert & BAW at Space-Time: The Multiverse](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/bruce-gilbert-baw-at-wysing-arts-centre/) - 5 September 2015 Wysing Arts Centre Bruce Gilbert and BAW - Beaconsfield Artist Directors Naomi Siderfin and David Crawforth - will perform new sound material as well as working on their recent Electromagnetic residency in Cork. - [Watch This Space](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/watch-space-middlesex-university-third-year-fine-art/) - Wednesday 16th March 2016 Third Year BA Fine Art students from Middlesex University engage with Beaconsfield to co-curate their own exhibition, reflecting Beaconsfield's ongoing commitment to mentoring emergent artists. - [The Big Draw Workshop: drawing a line between the historic and the contemporary](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/slamfriday-the-big-draw-workshop/) - Friday 30 October 2015, 6 - 8.30pm Sophie Bouvier Auslander leads a drawing workshop at Beaconsfield in partnership with Borough Road Gallery. Free and all welcome. - [Process and Politics](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/slamfriday/) - Friday 27 November 2015 Plenary where the artists of Harnessing the Wind discuss their work chaired by Dr Rachel Garfield. - [Simon Tyszko: The Unfun Fair](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/simon-tyszko/) - 12 - 29 June 2013 Wednesday-Saturday, 11am–5pm Friday 28 June 2013, from 6pm: Attenuated Performance In The Unfun Fair, a special event for LAST Fridays - [Simon Tyszko: The Unfun Fair Too](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/unfunfairtoo/) - 10 July - 10 August 2013 Wednesday-Saturday, 11am–5pm Visit The Unfun Fair Too for kinetic sculptures in production... - [Tuula Närhinen DEEP TIME DEPOSITS: TIDAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE RIVER THAMES](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/tuula-narhinen/) - TUULA NÄRHINEN Below Zero Finnish Art Prize 2020 Re-opening from lockdown Fridays and Saturdays 10 July–1 August 2020 11am–4pm 10 July – 1 August 2020 - [B_T6 Jin Han Lee EXTENDED REALITIES](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/jin-han-lee-with-artsxr/) - 17 July – 6 November 2021 B_T6 throws painting into the metaverse of immersive technologies in a collaboration between Jin Han Lee, artsXR and Beaconsfield to test and demystify aspects of extended realities. - [Plein Air – Matthias Jackisch with Felix Ziem](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/plein-air/) - 14 September - 13 October 1995 Inaugural exhibition at Beaconsfield's new building at the Former Lambeth Ragged School, 22 Newport Street, Vauxhall, London. - [Bruce Gilbert and BAW: Diluvial CD launch](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/diluvialcd/) - Friday 13 September at 6pm CD – 7 tracks – 73:51 Touch # TO: 87 Released (2 September2013) by Touch - to purchase and read reviews press here. Celebrating the launch of Diluvial – the CD. - [The Collective UNWRAP!](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/unwrap/) - THE COLLECTIVE 10-13 November 2021 The Collective performs the final act of sharing its collection. Artists include Michael Armitage, Fiona Banner, Jemima Brown, Peter Doig, Bobby Dowler, Tracy Emin, David Goldblatt, Joy Gregory, Paul McCarthy, Frances Richardson. - [NOSEPAINT](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/nosepaint-archive/) - January 2001 - [LAND OF DREAMS](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/test-screening-of-heidi-kilpelainens-land-of-dreams/) - Heidi Kilpeläinen Friday 8 March 2019 Premier 3 channel film screening from 6pm - [FOAM TALENT | DIGITAL 2020](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/foam-talent-digital-london-2020/) - AN ALL-ACCESS ONLINE EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE WORKS OF YOUNG ARTISTS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Online from 19 November 2020 - 21 April 2021 - [SPIRIT_OFF @ EMERGE FESTIVAL](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/spirit_off-emerge-festival/) - DUBMORPHOLOGY AND DENISE WESTON WITH: DANIELLE ALLEN \ WEYLAND MCKENZIE \ WINNIE AND THE ROCKETTES Saturday, 28 September 2019 8pm-midnight - [THE ORIGIN OF LIFE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/the-origin-of-life-by-dean-kenning/) - DEAN KENNING 20 March – 28 April 2019 11-5pm - [FOAM TALENT | LONDON 2019](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/foam-talent-london-2019/) - Presenting a new generation of young photographers 16 May – 16 June 2019 - [THE DURATION](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/erika-winstone/) - ERIKA WINSTONE 30 October – 1 December 2019 11am – 5pm - [Book Launch: Beaconsfield Chronic Epoch](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/book-launch-beaconsfield-chronic-epoch/) - Thursday 7 April 2016 6 - 9pm Join us for a panel discussion and book launch of Beaconsfield Chronic Epoch, published by Black Dog Publishing. - [Drawing Space](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/drawing-space/) - October/November 2000 - [Shozo Shimamoto](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/shozo-shimamoto/) - September/October 2001 New Beaconsfield commission featuring the former Gutai artist. - [ART NIGHT LONDON 2018](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/art-night-london-2018/) - Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall was selected to be part of Art Night 2018 taking place on Saturday 7th July between Hayward Gallery, Southbank and Battersea Power Station. Beaconsfield opens its entire site to Art Night London 2018 from 6pm with a continuous programme of all-women performances and artworks. To help us manage numbers, register here if - [RAX](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/1996-soap-opera-feast/) - September 1996 - [LANDSCAPES OF THE FUTURE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/landscapes-of-the-future/) - Helsinki Contemporary HC Guest Curator Beaconsfield – David Crawforth & Naomi Siderfin 30.11.2018–21.12.2018 BAW & Bruce Gilbert | David Burrows | Anna Bunting-Branch | Ioana Marinescu | Onya McCausland | Outi Pieski | Keith Piper | Phil Thompson | Thomas Yeomans Landscapes of the Future refers to a range of physical and metaphorical landscapes that open up in a globalized, knowledge economy. Bringing together some - [The Partisan Social Club + Sean Griffiths](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/the-partisan-social-club-sean-griffiths/) - Exhibition Dates: 6th October – 25th November 2018 Wednesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm Opening launch: Friday 5 October 6.30- 8.30pm. Closing party: Saturday 24th November 4-7pm On being together; memberships, collectives and unions, is a project aimed at developing new artworks dedicated to the concept of ‘membership’ to be sited in the outdoor spaces of Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall - [FOAM TALENT | LONDON 2018](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/foam-talent-london-2018/) - 16 May - 10 June 2018 Foam Talent | London 2018 presents 20 artists – all of whom have been selected for their exciting and creative approaches to the medium. These talented image makers introduce us to a wide range of media and digital aesthetics, which are applied in unique and unexpected ways throughout the exhibition. The exhibition will be officially opened by Simon Baker, director Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris. - [In Whose Eyes?: Practice in Dialogue](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/in-whose-eyes-practice-in-dialogue/) - 4th July – 5th August 2018 Taking the act of looking as a starting point, In Whose Eyes? explores questions of female subjectivity, representation and power in contemporary Western culture. Who is made visible – or excluded – and how they are represented in culture is highly political and impacts on people’s lives in numerous intersectional ways. - [PROVISIONAL CONDITIONS: Material Conjectures with Gary Woodley | Emily Motto](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/provisional-conditions/) - 5 October – 27 November 2016 Preview: Friday 7 October 7-9pm Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall launch a new commission by Material Conjectures with Gary Woodley (Arch Gallery) and Emily Motto (Upper Gallery) - [The Lisson Gallery - Nosepaint](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/1994-the-lisson-gallery/) - March 1994 - [Beaconsfield at the Ministry of Sound](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/1994-beaconsfield-at-the-ministry-of-sound/) - 20th October 1994 - [A Public Work of Art – Beaconsfield Artworks](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/public-work-of-art/) - February 1995 - [Accompanying Dialogues - Beaconsfield Artworks](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/accompanying-dialogues/) - July 1995 - [Beaconsfield opens a new space for art in central London](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/opening/) - 13th september 1995 - [Afterlife: Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/afterlife/) - 16th May - 10th June 2001 - [Oh Lover Boy: Franko B](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/oh-lover-boy/) - April 28th 2001 - [Maps Elsewhere](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/maps-elsewhere/) - March 1996 - [Robert Ellis](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/robert-ellis/) - June/July 1996 - [Earthshaker - Beaconsfield Artworks](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/earthshaker-3/) - February 2001 - [Disorders 15th-16th August 1996](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/disorders/) - 15th-16th August 1996 - [FATE](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/fate/) - December 2000 - [Classic](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/classic/) - February 1997 - [Realm of the Senses](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/realm-of-the-senses/) - September 2000 - [Keith Coventry: W.A.F.S](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/wafs/) - July 1997 - [FIELD VI - Fabienne Audeoud and John Russell](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/field6/) - August 2000 - [FIELD V](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/field5/) - July 2000 - [Tomoko Takahashi](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/tomoko-takahashi/) - November/December 1997 - [FIELD IV - Mary Anne Francis](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/field4/) - June/July 2000 - [Instantaneous](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/instantaneous/) - January/Febuary 1998 - [Beaconsfield in residence at Dartington College of Art](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/dartington/) - April/June 1998 - [Earthshaker](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/earthshaker-2/) - June 2000 - [FIELD III - Ben Cockett, Naomi Siderfin](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/field3/) - May/June 2000 - [I Miss You - Franko B](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/i-miss-you/) - April 2000 - [Newcontemporaries 99](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/newcontemporaries-99/) - November/December 1999 - [Estate – the Ian Hinchliffe Retrospective](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/estate-1998/) - October/November 1998 A new live art commission in the context of an archive documenting thirty years of performance art. - [Little Dancer - David Crawforth](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/little-dancer/) - September/October 1999 - [Mikey Cuddihy – New Paintings](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/mikey-cuddihy/) - November/December 1998 - [Chris Marker](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/chris-marker/) - 12 May – 13 June 1999 - [Clouding the Issue – Beaconsfield Artworks](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/clouding-the-issue/) - February/March 1999 - [British Links in collaboration with offside](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/british-links-offside/) - April/June 1999 - [Thatched – Beaconsfield Artworks](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/thatched/) - October 1996 - [Mark Dean: PHASE II - The Beginning of The End](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/phase2/) - 24 November 2010 - 27 February 2011 Tuesday - Sunday, 11am-5pm Upper Gallery 1, Canteen Gallery 2 & Arch Gallery Retrospective and commission This is the second in the Beaconsfield series Phase which turns the spotlight on mid-career artists with whom the organisation has a significant relationship. - [Beaconsfield at Curzon Soho The Way Out…](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/thewayout-curzon/) - Sunday 8 November at 12 noon Short Films and Discussion on the disabled vanguard with Maxa Zoller, Justin Edgar and Aaron Williamson Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5AY - [Soundtrap IV : John Wynne](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/soundtrap4/) - 9th September - 18th October 2009 The combination of multi-channel technology, the resonance of a classic mechanical instrument, sculpture on a grand scale and Beaconsfield - [Alex Kershaw - 3 films made between 2005 and 2009](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/alexkershaw/) - 9 June - 9 August 2009 Gallery Two FlatScreen Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm Alex Kershaw is based in Sydney and works with video and photography to generate unexpected relationships between people and their terrain. Often spending extended periods researching locations and characters, Kershaw’s quiet activism blurs the boundaries between everyday activity and devised performance as ordinary people become involved in the work. - [The Way Out - 15mm Films](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/thewayout/) - 25 March - 14 June 2009 Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm The Way Out is a fictional disability terrorist organisation that has been fighting for the rights of disabled people whilst adding to their number by randomly mail-bombing the public… - [Noble and Silver](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/nobleandsilver/) - 31 October-24 November 2002 Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm Noble and Silver have achieved considerable critical success on the comedy circuit. At the Edinburgh Festival 2000, they received the prestigious Perrier Best Newcomer Award and in Spring 2001 were commissioned by Channel 4 for a six part series on E4. - [Test Bed 1](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/testbed1/) - Anthony Gross / Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning / Pil and Galia Kollectiv / Joseph Walsh / Lilli Hartmann / Dafna Talmor Exhibition: 18 September - 17 October 2010 Tuesday - Sunday 11am-5pm Exhibition Preview: 17 September 6-9pm TestBed 1 Artists’ discussion: 19 September at 2pm Upper Gallery 1, Canteen Gallery 2 & Arch Gallery 3 Exhibition of digital, screen-based new commissions produced during on-site residencies at Beaconsfield, March-July 2010. Curated by Dafna Talmor, Joseph Walsh and Beaconsfield. TestBed 1 pilots Beaconsfield’s curatorial mentoring scheme. Image: TestBed 1: Joseph Walsh, Rise of Treble, Ode to Bass, 2010, Work in progress, courtesy the artist and Beaconsfield - [Markus Copper: 2 Sculptures](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/markus-copper/) - 30 May- 7 July 2002 Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm Markus Copper has recently emerged as a key figure in the thriving Finnish Contemporary Art scene, winning the Scandinavian Ars Fennica prize in 1999. - [John Issacs: voices from the id](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/john-issacs/) - 4 April to 12 May 2002 Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm This is a landscape of caves and shadows, far from gleaming linear modernity, a space where the subconscious can cultivate its strategies and deliver unexpected and devastating blows to the body. - [Engineer II - Susan Collis](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/susan-collis/) - 10 July 2003 - 30 May 2004 Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm Susan Collis tampers with the surfaces of things through meticulous processes of layering and mark-making. For Part Two Collis has introduced her preoccupation with artifice to the lower gallery space by superimposing inlay and veneer on existing and installed fixtures and fittings. Upon close inspection, random and incidental marks of wear and tear reveal themselves as having been laboriously crafted by hand and layers of veneer elevate the status of an ordinary material. These interventions raise questions about aesthetic value, identity, craft and labour. - [Art & Compromise (IV) – 15mm Films](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/artandcompromise-15mm/) - Wednesday 6 May at 2pm 15mm Films is a collective of disability artists - Aaron Williamson, Katherine Araniello, Laurence Harvey, Simon Raven, Juliet Robson and Philip Ryder - based in the UK who take an experimental approach to collaboration in their delivery of visual art works. - [Engineer VI - Katie Barlow](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/katie-barlow/) - 25 March - 30 May 2004 Barlow has filmed in the occupied territories of Palestine on four separate occasions over the past two turbulent years. From more than one hundred hours of footage, Barlow presents "Visit Palestine" a documentary installation offering a subjective insight into the conditions in which Palestinian communities are living. - [Monica Ross: fallen idyll - the end of a perspective](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/fallenidyll/) - 17 March - 17 May 11am - 5pm home movies from 138 St.Lawrence Square, Byker 2003-2008 24’ single screen version, 2008 - [Engineer V - Kerry Stewart](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/kerry-stewart/) - 25 March - 30 May 2004 Kerry Stewart lives and works in London. Stewart's disquieting sculptures and installations, featuring life size figures and rendered in materials such as fibre-glass and resin came to public attention as part of Young British Artists V, Saatchi Gallery (1995). For Part Five, the sculptural work is animated by human performers playing out rituals of loss and desire. Performances will be on Saturday and Sunday from 12noon -6pm at 30 minutes past the hour. - [Courage to Refuse](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/courage-to-refuse/) - Katie Barlow / John Buckley / David Crawforth / Shane Cullen Gallery Two Flat-screen 20 January - 15 March 2009 11am - 4pm Courage to Refuse unifies documentary footage (Barlow) from Jenin and Israel fused with a Hebrew transcription (Buckley/Cullen) of the 638 members of the military who form the resistance group Courage to Refuse. The visual component has a sonic accompaniment (Crawforth) offsetting the original sounds recorded in the Middle East. The text, sound and moving image are rendered to reflect the radical contrasts and tensions existing in today’s Israeli-Palestinian territories. - [Engineer IV - Carina Diepens](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/carina-diepens/) - 26 February - 30 May 2004 Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm Carina Diepens lives and works in Holland. She has exhibited widely in Europe and collaborated as an artist and curator with organisations such as De Fabriek, Eindhoven, and Bank, London. For Part Four she repeatedly deconstructs and recreates her sculptures by switching them between live and inanimate states. This process not only sets up a curious psychophysical encounter, but questions the work itself. - [Engineer III - Laura Ford](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/laura-ford/) - 22 January - 30 May 2004 Laura Ford's personified, mixed media signature sculptures have been widely exhibited since the early Eighties. Part Three (Wreckers) is informed by Ford's childhood in funfairs with its experiences of itineracy, masquerade and the grotesque. A purposeful band of Bell Boys and their relationship to a bearded female - an embodiment of creative and destructive forces - raises questions about violence, systems of belief and the absurd. - [Art & Compromise (III) Mark Sealy: The Organ that Weeps](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/artandcompromise-sealy/) - 11 February at 2pm free but booking essential Mark Sealy delivers the third lecture in the Art & Compromise series. In The Organ that Weeps, Sealy will discuss, through his work at Autograph ABP, issues relating to race, representation and human rights. - [John’s House - Patricia Osses](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/johnshouse/) - 20 September - 21 December 2008 Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 4pm John’s House is a digital body of work in progress: a response to the spaces within and beyond the former home of the playwright John Osborne. - [Moral Plinth](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/moral-plinth/) - 18 October - 21 November 2004 A microphone, an audio line input, a video projector, a soapbox for free speech available to anybody. Beaconsfield invites you to use the Moral Plinth. - [Lightsilver](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/lightsilver/) - 24 February - 8 May 2005 Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm Preview Wednesday 23 February 6-9pm Mark Dean, Peter Collis, Chiara Pirito, Chris Cornish, susan pui san lok, Mattias Härenstam, João Seguro, Zineb Sedira, Semiconductor. Lightsilver explores the physical, conceptual and historical impact of the landscape tradition on the ideas of contemporary artists. - [Soundtrap III: Aura Satz Glissolalia](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/soundtrap3/) - 27 June - 1 August Friday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm By appointment only - please contact Beaconsfield to arrange visit Friday 27 June, 6 - 9pm preview and free live performance with Aleks Kolkowski (musical saw),Lydia Kavina (theremin) and a Barbershop Quartet. - [Mother of all Parties (3 Faces of Matmos)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/moap-matmos/) - In association with lumin live music performance-art electronica film eclectic dj’s 7, 8, 9 June 2008 - [Art & Compromise (II) – Paul Hobson](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/artandcompromise-hobson/) - 28 May 2008 at 2pm free entry but booking essential A series of lectures conceived by Beaconsfield in collaboration with City & Guilds of London Art School. - [Mother of all Parties (some do 'ave' em)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/moap2/) - Saturday 8 March 2008, 8pm-3am Admission: £10 (£8 concessions) live music performance-art electronica film eclectic dj’s - [Self-Cancellation](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/selfcancellation/) - Mark & John Bain / John Butcher / Michael Colligan / Rhodri Davies / Benedict Drew / Robin Hayward / Gustav Metzger / Lee Patterson / Sarah Washington Commissioned by Arika & the London Musicians’ Collective and developed withBeaconsfield. Ten experimental sound artists are invited to explore in public the principles of self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops and performance in London and Glasgow. - [Carl Michael von Hausswolff](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/cmvh/) - 2 June - 31 July 2005 Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm Preview Wednesday 1 June 6-9pm Carl Michael von Hausswolff's triptych for Beaconsfield is a juxtapositioning of new and historic works, incorporating photography, film, sound, light and olfactory sensation. - [Art & Compromise (I) Gustav Metzger](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/artandcompromise-metzger/) - 6 February 2008 at 2pm free entry but booking essential Presented during Self-Cancellation - 2-9 February - [Estate - the Ian Hinchliffe Retrospective](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/estate/) - 17 November 2007 - 13 January 2008 Flashes From the Archives of Oblivion brings together four pioneers of the performance genre with established practices that date back to the 1960s. The exhibition explores elements of each artist’s practice in relation to the discourse that surrounds the documentation of performance art. - [Chronic Epoch: 1995-2005](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/chronic-epoch/) - 14 September - 20 November 2005 Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm Preview - Tuesday 13 September from 6pm In a decade, names have been made or changed, careers have been lost and found, alternative concepts have lived, died or been institutionalised. Chronic Epoch marks Beaconsfield's 10th Anniversary and is a signature exhibition that includes painting, film, performance and sculpture by just a few of the artists we've worked with over ten years. - [Open House London: Luis Carvajal and Annie Davey / 15mm Films](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/openhouse/) - Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 September Opening hours 1-5pm http://www.londonopenhouse.org/ For Open House London 2007, there will be two co-existing performances within the Beaconsfield venue at 22 Newport Street. Each activity will reflect the respective characters of two linked sites: the remaining wing of a Victorian school building and its adjacent double railway arch. - [Greenwich Degree Zero - Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/greenwich-degree-zero/) - 22 February - 30 April 2006 Greenwich Degree Zero is the first collaboration between artist Rod Dickinson and artist/novelist Tom McCarthy. - [Push The Envelope - Further](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/pushtheenvelope-further/) - Wednesday 25 July 2007 From 1.30pm Free - all welcome A cultural quarter in Vauxhall/Kennington? How likely is that? The truth is, it's not so far fetched. When plans for an Artisan School, an Arts and Crafts Museum and Damien Hirst's proposed Newport Street development are positioned against galleries, art spaces and studios already flourishing in the area, the idea is not only a distinct possibility, but almost a reality. - [Soundtrap I: Daniel Figgis' DOPPLER](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/soundtrap1/) - 21 - 25 June 2006 Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm Preview Tuesday 20 June 6-9pm Part of Architecture Week - [Soundtrap II: Leafcutter John](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/soundtrap2/) - 13 June - 22 July 2007 Exhibition open Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm Preview Tuesday 12 June, 6-9pm Free entry One hundred and sixty years of history impregnates the wooden floorboards of the Upper Space at 22 Newport Street ­ the former Lambeth Ragged School ­ where London-based composer, artist and musician Leafcutter John is in residence. During June and July the old wooden floor will be symbiotically linked to software specially written to coax out sonic stories, old and new, re-told with the arrival of each visitor. - [Golden (lessons) susan pui san lok – a Beaconsfield Research project](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/golden/) - 18 October - 10 November 2006 Open Wednesday - Friday 12-6pm Ballroom and song are recurring motifs in Golden (Lessons), a research residency that expands on susan pui san lok's ongoing project, Golden, exploring themes of nostalgia, cultivation and aspiration in diaspora. - [Forest - Volume IV](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/forest/) - Beaconsfield Artworks / Karl Burke / Mark Dean / Bruce Gilbert / Leafcutter John / Fergus Kelly & David Lacey / Pan sonic / Bob and Roberta Smith / DJ Tendraw / Nina Hynes Thursday 6 - Sunday 16 September 2007 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin Curated by David Crawforth in association with Beaconsfield and TBG&S, Dublin. - [Carina Diepens - living sculptures](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/living-sculptures/) - part of the Open House London weekend 16-17 September 2006 Opening hours: 1-5pm 17 September at 4pm: book launch For Open House London 2006, Carina Diepens will animate all three spaces at Beaconsfield with a series of her living sculptures. Using cloth, thread, metal, coal and human beings, Diepens' sculptures create a tableau vivant that intermittently comes to life. - [Push the Envelope: Sustaining arts communities on the left-bank - a Beaconsfield symposium](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/pushtheenvelope/) - Part of the Lambeth Riverside Festival Wednesday 19 July 2006, 2pm - 6.30pm Speakers include - SHEENA WAGSTAFF - Chief Curator, Tate Modern - TONY CARTER - Artist and Principal of City and Guilds of London Art School - ANNA HARDING - Chief Executive, Space Studios - RICHARD GRAYSON - Artist and Independent Curator - PETER ST JOHN - Director, Caruso St John Architects - JEFFE JEFFERS - Director, Lady Margaret Hall Settlement - [Mother of all Parties (summer solstice)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/moap-summersolstice/) - Saturday 24 June 2006, 8pm-3am Admission: £6 (£4 concession) - [Test Bed 1: Kane’s Revolutions – Anthony Gross](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/gross/) - Upper Gallery 1, Canteen Gallery 2 & Arch Gallery 3 3 March - 21 March 2010 Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm On-Site Residency open to the public Kane's Revolutions: a gangster tale of architectural regeneration in South London. Friday 19 March, 8.00-10pm: Kane's Revolutions Residency Event Screening of Kane’s Revolutions – work in progress, performance and installation with live electronic soundtrack by Zon on n. With closing performance at 9.55pm Image: TestBed 1: Anthony Gross, Kane's Revolutions, 2010, video still - [Test Bed 1: RELLA – Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/curran-gunning/) - Upper Gallery 1 & Canteen Gallery 2 23 March - 11 April Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm On-Site Residencies open to the public An ongoing conversation brings Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning together for their first collaboration. The artists are working from zero - seeing what can happen in the space through experimental and investigative studio practice. - [Test Bed 1: Co-Operative Explanatory Capabilities in Organizational Design and Personnel Management – Pil and Galia Kollectiv](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/kollectiv/) - Canteen Gallery 2 13 April - 9 May Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm On-Site Screenings open to the public - [Test Bed 1: Rise of Treble, Ode to Bass – Joseph Walsh](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/walsh/) - Arch Gallery 3 20 April - 30 May Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm On-Site Screenings open to the public - [Test Bed 1: Inside-out Cave – Lilli Hartmann](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/hartmann/) - Upper Gallery 1 27 April - 4 June Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm On-Site Screenings open to the public - [Beaconsfield Artworks: Earthshaker](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/earthshaker/) - October 2001 UKS Biennial, Oslo, Norway. - [Beaconsfield Artworks: Element](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/element/) - September / October 2001 UKS Biennial, Alta, Norway - [CLUB: Wilken Schade, Eva Stenram and Simon Wood](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/club/) - June/July 2001 - [Mother of all Parties](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/moap/) - Saturday 19 November 2005, 8pm — 3am Party all night to up and coming live music, experimental electronica and eclectic DJ's. Enjoy the quirky atmosphere of a truly independent space (and well kept secret) in the middle of London that is controlled by artists for artists. - [TestBed 1: SpaceShip Earth, 2010 - Dafna Talmor](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/talmor/) - 22 June - 18 July Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm Closing event: Sunday 18 July at 2pm On-Site Screenings open to the public - [The Badger Series – Paul Tarragó](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/the-badger-series/) - Canteen Gallery 2 FlatScreen A cycle of eight short videos broadcasting intermittently throughout Spring/Summer 2010. - [South London Art Map LAST Fridays](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/slam-last-friday/) - 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. - [Beaconsfield Art Works: Salah Days](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/salah-days/) - A sound installation with digital print for the exhibition Proposals for a Socialist Colony, Skydive, Houston, USA - [TestBed 1: Residencies](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/residencies/) - 3 March - 18 July On-Site Residencies open to the public. TestBed 1 reflects popular practice by commissioning six new digital screen-based works, to be made through readily available modes of production. TestBed 1 is produced as part of Beaconsfield’s curatorial mentoring scheme for emerging artist-curators. Mentees: Dafna Talmor and Joseph Walsh. Image: TestBed 1: Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning, Rella, 2010, Residency view, Lucy Gunning filming, Upper Space - [Travelling Fields - Inger Lise Hansen](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/travelling-fields-inger-lise-hansen/) - 26 October - 21 November 2010 Tuesday - Friday, 11am - 5pm Canteen Gallery 2: FlatScreen Moving the camera upside-down, one frame at a time, Inge Lise Hansen has documented a number of different topographies and locations in the Kola Peninsula, Northern Russia. The inverted perspective and animated camera movements, together with the cinematic quality of this work powerfully redefines the geography of this remote part of Europe within the Arctic Circle. - [Art & Compromise (VI): Mark Dean](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/art-compromise-vi-mark-dean/) - Thursday 3 February at 2pm A series of lectures conceived by Beaconsfield in collaboration with City & Guilds of London Art School. - [art:screen (Sweden) on FlatScreen](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/artscreen-sweden-on-flatscreen/) - 1 March - 1 April 2011 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. - [Mark Dean: My Mum (V2-Sensitive)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/my-mum/) - 9 March - 25 March 2011 Tuesday - Friday, 11am-5pm Upper Gallery 1: FlatScreen Projection New work made during the period of the artists recent Phase exhibition at Beaconsfield. - [n.paradoxa salon: July 2013](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/n-paradoxa-july13/) - Thursday 18 July 6-9pm Registration essential £5 entry fee Please register with n.paradoxa n.paradoxa: the international feminist art journal monthly Salon. A forum for professional women artists, curators and writers to meet. - [n.paradoxa salon: September 2013](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/n-paradoxa-september13/) - Wednesday 11 September 6-9pm Registration essential £5 entry fee Please register with n.paradoxa n.paradoxa: the international feminist art journal monthly Salon. A forum for professional women artists, curators and writers to meet. - [The [Blank] Collective](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/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 - [Fraternise - the Salon](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/fraternise-the-salon/) - 2 April - 29 May 2011 Fraternise – the Salon gathers a cohort of artists in a curated, fundraising exhibition, to support the future existence of Beaconsfield. Exhibiting artists include… Franko B, David Birkin, Ansuman Biswas, John Burgess, Matthew Burrows, Tony Carter, Tamsyn Challenger, Jules Clarke, Ben Cockett, Susan Collis, Michael Corkrey, A. David Crawforth, Mikey Cuddihy, Shane Cullen, Michael Curran, Judith Dean, Mark Dean, Nicholas Deshayes, Adam Dix, Richard Elliot, Robert Ellis, Tracey Emin, Laura Emsley, Alexa de Ferranti, Peter Fillingham, Edwina fitzPatrick, Rebecca Fortnum, Eloise Fornieles, Stephen Fowler, Rachel Garfield, Mary George, Mathew Gibson, Bruce Gilbert, Colin Glen, Lucy Gunning, Matt Hale, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Denise Hawrysio, Damien Hirst, Rachel Howard, Marc Hulson, Kate Janes, Sarah Jones, Simon Lawson, Peter Liversidge, Sarah Lucas and Olivier Garbay, Maria Marshall, Ross McNicol, David Mollin, Charlotte Moth, Hayley Newman, Paul Noble, Monika Oechsler, Peter Owen, Tom Ormond, Peter Owen, Lily Paine, Tom Paine, Tamsin Pender, Susan Pui San Lok, Monica Ross, Aura Satz, Boo Saville, Michael Shaw, Naomi Siderfin, Bob and Roberta Smith, Julian Stallabrass, Dafna Talmor, John Timberlake, Caroline Todd, Roman Vasseur, Jessica Voorsanger, Mark Wallinger, Joseph Walsh, Roxy Walsh, Amelia Whitelaw, Keith Wilson, Erika Winstone. - [Fraternise : Curators Talk](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/fraternise-the-salon/fraternise-curators-talk/) - Wednesday 18 May at 11am & Saturday 21 May at 2pm: Aimed at those with parental commitments during evenings and weekends, this is a coffee morning with Beaconsfield Directors Naomi Siderfin and David Crawforth at hand to advise on works on display, and the curators discuss the selection of artists and work on display. - [Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and Beaconsfield ArtWorks (David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin) - Diluvial](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/soundtrap-v-diluvial/) - Beaconsfield Off-Site at Faster Than Sound 27-29 May 2011 We know the sea is eating away the coast in quite a number of places, primarily- but not totally exclusively- on the east and south coasts. It’s a particularly huge issue in East Anglia... Daily Telegraph 18 August 2008 - [FlatScreen: Kate Allen - Nineteen thirty-six](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/flatscreen-kate-allen/) - 31 May - 15 July 2011 Tuesday - Friday, 11am-5pm Canteen Gallery 2: FlatScreen This enigmatic short film, Nineteen thirty-six, speaks of history – of art, architecture and gender politics. - [Ian Hinchliffe - the Memorial](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/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. - [Monica Ross: acts of memory 2005-2010 - DVD Launch](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monica-ross-dvd-launch/) - solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Friday 24 June 2011, 6.30 – 8.30pm 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. - [Gaming in Waziristan](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/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 - [South London Art Map: LAST Friday & Bankside Afterparty](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/last-friday-june-2011/) - 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. - [Clive Stafford Smith Talk](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/gaming-in-waziristan/clive-stafford-smith-talk/) - Exhibition launch with Clive Stafford Smith in conversation with Shahzad Akbar on the Drone effect Thursday 21 July 6-9pm According to a recent broadsheet report, within 20 years nearly one third of the RAF could be made up of remotely controlled aircraft (drones); the use of drones by the US air force and CIA in - [Nooshin Farhid: Conic Trilogy, 2010](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/nooshin-farhid/) - Parabola 22:00 / Hyperbola 26:00 / Ellipsis 9:00 8 September - 30 October 2011 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 - [SpaceShip Earth: Living Roof](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/spaceship-earth-launch/) - 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. - [Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and BAW - Diluvial at Beaconsfield](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/soundtrap-v-diluvial-at-beaconsfield/) - 8 September - 30 October 2011 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 - [Beaconsfield at Embrace the Place: A Tate Local Event](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/embrace-the-place/) - 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. - [September LAST Fridays](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/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. - [Post-Diluvial Performance: October LAST Fridays](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/post-diluvial-performance-october-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 - [Art & Compromise (VII): Julian Stallabrass with Clive Stafford Smith - Using Images of War](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/2468-2/) - 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 - [Svein Flygari Johansen: Am I making up what really happened?](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/svein-flygari-johansen/) - 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 - [January LAST Fridays: Svein Flygari Johansen and Jonny Bradley Artists Talk](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/january-last-fridays-sfj-artists-talk/) - Friday 27 January from 6pm 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 View from the Other Side: Drop-in Draw](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/ic-98-drawing-workshop/) - Friday 30 March 2012, 6-8.30pm A free drop-in drawing session for all ages inspired by our current exhibition. - [IC-98: A View from the Other Side](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/ic98/) - 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 - [The Struggle: SLAM Tour](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/thestruggle-slamtour/) - Friday 27 April, 6.30-8.30pm, LAST Fridays Late opening SLAM tour leader Adam Walker in conversation with Rachel Garfield at 6.30pm. The SLAM April LAST Friday’s tour visits Kennington & Vauxhall, as chosen by a public vote. The tour will visit Beaconsfield, Greengrassi, Gasworks and the newly relocated Space Station Sixty-Five. - [Rachel Garfield: The Struggle](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/rachel-garfield/) - 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 - [Rachel Garfield: The Struggle: Special Events](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/rachel-garfield/thestruggle-specialevents/) - Wednesday 18 April, 6.30-9pm Exhibition Preview: The Struggle Sunday 22 April, 11am - 5pm Rachel Garfield working on site Friday 27 April, 6.30pm South London Art Map People's Choice gallery tour: Adam Walker in conversation with Rachel Garfield The SLAM April LAST Friday's tour visits Kennington & Vauxhall, as chosen by a public vote. Assemble - [The Struggle: Artist Talk & Socialist Magic](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/the-struggle-artist-talk-socialist-magic/) - 6.30pm Rachel Garfield in conversation with Naomi Siderfin 8pm Ian Saville performs Socialist Magic Beaconsfield hosts the Bankside Afterparty until late. - [n.paradoxa salon: October 2013](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/n-paradoxa-october13/) - Wednesday 16 October 6-9pm Registration essential £5 entry fee Please register with n.paradoxa n.paradoxa: the international feminist art journal monthly Salon. A forum for professional women artists, curators and writers to meet. - [n.paradoxa salon: November 2013](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/n-paradoxa-salon-november-13/) - Wednesday 13 November 6-9pm Registration essential £5 entry fee Please register with n.paradoxa n.paradoxa: the international feminist art journal monthly Salon. A forum for professional women artists, curators and writers to meet. - [n.paradoxa salon: December 2013](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/n-paradoxa-december13/) - Wednesday 11 December 6-9pm £5 entry fee Free mince pies! Enquiries: ktpress@ktpress.co.uk n.paradoxa: the international feminist art journal monthly Salon. A forum for professional women artists, curators and writers to meet. - [Tamsyn Challenger: Monoculture](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/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 - [MA Fine Art - Camberwell College of Arts at Beaconsfield](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/camberwell-ma-2012/) - 4-6 July 2012 Thursday July 5 2012, 6-9 pm: bend over shirley Open/Close - [Poetics of the Motorway](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/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. - [Atelier: artists at work on site](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/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](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/2899-2/) - 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. - [Touch.30 at Beaconsfield: Atmospheres 4](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/touch-30/) - 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. Please note that during this event Beaconsfield's site will be closed to non ticket holders. - [Monica Ross and Children of Class 4: Act 47](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/act47/) - 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](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/fall/) - 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 - [Tamsyn Challenger : Monoculture - Collaboration](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monoculture/monocollaboration/) - Experiments in collaboration with Tereza Buskova and Matthew Cowan 28 June - 30 November 2012 - [Tereza Buskova & Matthew Cowan: Experiments in Ritual](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/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. - [Begged, borrowed and stolen - random works from the digital ether I](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/flatscreenbegborrow/) - 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. - [Paint Club: PAINTING as RESEARCH](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/paint-club/) - 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. - [University of Reading: 22 Hours](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/22hours/) - Thursday 20 February, 6-8pm Friday 21 February, 11am-4pm Fine Art BA and MFA students from the Department of Art, University of Reading engage with Beaconsfield’s mentoring programme to curate their own exhibition. - [Material Conjectures: Asymmetrical Cinema: INTERVAL](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/asymmetrical-cinema-interval/) - a special event for May LAST Fridays A discursive event simultaneously celebrating the exhibition and launching Material Conjectures' publication Asymmetrical Cinema. - [Material Conjectures: Asymmetrical Cinema](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/asymmetricalcinema/) - with Amanda Beech and Alan Clarke 15 May – 8 June 2013 Wednesday-Saturday, 11am–5pm Asymmetrical Cinema: Interval Friday 31 May 2013, from 6pm - a special event as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays Architectonics and video. - [Judith Dean: In residence](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/judith-dean-residency/) - 16 May – 29 June 2013 Wednesday–Saturday, 11am-5pm Judith Dean is in residence with Beaconsfield until November 2013. Installed in the Upper Space during May and June, Dean will be available to the public for conversation about her work in progress. - [Begged, borrowed and stolen - random works from the digital ether II](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/beg-borrow-ii/) - FlatScreen 1 & 2: Lower Space 25 April - 30 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. - [Bodil Furu: This bird has flown (i)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/bodilfurui/) - 12 - 29 June 2013 Wednesday-Saturday, 11am–5pm Friday 28 June 2013, from 6pm: This bird has flown... a special event for LAST Fridays Screen-based works reflecting on the social and environmental dynamics that shape change. - [n.paradoxa salon: May 2013](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/n-paradoxamay13/) - new monthly Salon in London First date: Thursday 16 May 6-9pm Registration essential £5 entry fee Please register with n.paradoxa A forum for professional women artists, curators and writers to meet. - [Bodil Furu/ Simon Tyszko: a special event as part of South London Art Map LAST Fridays](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/furutyszkoevent/) - Friday 28 June 2013, from 6pm 6.30pm: This bird has flown... Bodil Furu in conversation followed by 8pm: Attenuated Performance In The Unfun Fair with Simon Tyszko and guests This event forms part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays late openings. - [n.paradoxa salon: June 2013](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/n-paradoxa-june13/) - Thursday 13 June 6-9pm Registration essential £5 entry fee Please register with n.paradoxa n.paradoxa: the international feminist art journal monthly Salon. A forum for professional women artists, curators and writers to meet. - [Monica Ross: 1950 – 2013](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monica-ross/) - We would like to express our sorrow at the sudden death on Friday 14 June of artist Monica Ross with whom Beaconsfield was privileged to work on a number of occasions over the past 20 years. - [Bodil Furu: This bird has flown (ii)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/bodil-furu-ii/) - 10 July - 10 August 2013 Wednesday - Saturday, 11am–5pm Exhibition extended until 30 August, Wednesday - Friday 11am-5pm only . A season of five films from Norwegian artist Bodil Furu probing effects of global economics on community dynamics. Includes premier of new work Den Gamle Kinoen, 2013. - [idonthaveyourmarbles: I Want To Be In The Unfun Fair Too](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/july-2013-last-friday/) - Friday 26 July 2013 from 6pm a special event for July LAST Fridays Artist in residence Judith Dean invites idonthaveyourmarbles. Simon Tyszko's exhibition The Unfun Fair Too hosts a sonic seance with dead guests. As part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays late openings. - [Lori Ann Napoleon aka MERIDIAN7](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/openhouse2013/) - a sonic visitation for Open House London Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 September, 11am-5pm The former Lambeth Ragged School is inhabited by Brooklyn-based sound artist Lori Ann Napoleon. - [Judith Dean: Phase 4](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/phase-4/) - 11 October - 30 November 2013 Wednesday – Saturday, 11am–5pm Exhibition Preview: Friday 11 October, 6-8pm Judith Dean’s work is concerned with ideas of territory and claiming, value and exchange: genuine artifice for the real world. Phase 4 events: Friday 25 October 6-8pm: Judith Dean in the context of The Big Draw Saturday 9 November at 4pm: Judith Dean pitches an informal discussion around her show Friday 29 November 6-8pm: Mary George shapes up the Art World with The Cult of the Endorphin - [Begged, borrowed and stolen - random works from the digital ether](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/beg-borrow-iii/) - FlatScreen 1 & 2: Lower Space 11-13 September & 25 September - 4 October 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. - [Judith Dean - Phase 4: Talk](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/phase4talk/) - Saturday 9 November at 4pm Judith Dean pitches an informal discussion around her exhibition of 30 new works, Phase 4. - [Station House Opera: Telematics Performance Workshops](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/sho-telematics-workshop/) - Beaconsfield Upper space Thursday 16 January, 7-9.30pm Friday 17 January, 2-4.30pm & 7-9.30pm FREE Award-winning performance company Station House Opera are using long-distance computerized technology - telematics - to create their new work Dissolved, to be presented at Beaconsfield, London and Sophiensaale, Berlin for three weeks during March 2014. For three workshops Artistic Director of Station House Opera, Julian Maynard Smith, shares the telematic set-up for performers to play with. Free - booking required. - [Ellie Harrison: Early Warning Signs](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/early-warning-signs/) - 1 January – 31 December 2014 Beaconsfield has adopted an Early Warning Sign – Sign 1/4, yellow on black – by British artist Ellie Harrison, for the duration of 2014. The work has temporarily moved next-door to the pop-up Sculpture Garden next to Beaconsfield on the corner of Black Prince Road and Newport Street, Vauxhall SE11 6AB. - [Arkhipelagos / Northern Souls Curators’ Conversation](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/finnish-april-slam-friday/) - Friday 25 April from 6pm Beaconsfield and Space Station Sixty Five co-organise a special event linking concurrent exhibitions by Finnish artists as part of SLAM Fridays late night openings. Free. All welcome to join the conversation. - [Richard Hards: One eye is enough](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/one-eye-is-enough/) - 15 October – 6 December 2014 Show extended between 17 December – 20 December 2014 Preview: Wednesday 15 October 6-8.30pm Hards’ previous works are characterised by their direct and often combative response to found site or subject, and is now invited to make an intervention in Beaconsfield’s Upper Space Gallery. ‘One eye is enough’ reflects Beaconsfield’s commissioning commitment to emergent artists. - [Sean Dower in residence](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/sean-dower-in-residence/) - January 15 - February 28, 2015 From 15 January Sean Dower has been in residence at Beaconsfield with a drum kit and assorted instruments, taking advantage of the sound-proof acoustic space of the Arch to develop new work. - [Art & Compromise (V): Jon Thompson](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/art-compromise-v-jon-thompson/) - Thursday 18 February 2010 at 2pm Free entry but booking essential Art & Compromise is a series of discursive lectures addressing the various forms and occasions when compromise might enter into art-practice. Jon Thompson will discuss changes in art practice over his professional career. - [Heidi Kilpeläinen in residence](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/heidi-kilpelainen-in-residence/) - 10 February - 28 March 2015 Open late: Friday 27 March, 6-8pm Charlie Hebdo, Helena Bonham Carter (naked embracing a fish) and Vladimir Putin, as discussed on Facebook, are some of the global stories informing Heidi Kilpeläinen as she expands her multidisciplinary practice into the Upper space. - [Simon Clark in residence](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/simon-clark-in-residence/) - 4 - 28 March 2015 Open late: Friday 27 March, 6-8pm Artist/writer/musician Simon Clark is interested in exploring an immersive criticality. Clark will be offering a series of haptic encounters with educational practices, discourse and theory during his Spring residency. - [Society](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/society/) - 2003-2006 There is always a bar, food and some form of thought-provoking entertainment - be it a film programme, performance, live music or interactive installation. The basic Society structure is uniquely ignited on each occasion by the participating artists and transformed into whatever they want the event to be. - [Performative Event as part of #SLAMFRIDAY](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/pen-late-as-part-of-slamfriday/) - Friday 27 March, 6-8pm Artists in residence Heidi Kilpeläinen and Simon Clark will present work developed in our Upper, Arch and Lower spaces. - [Beaconsfield at The Foundry 2015: On The Wire (i)](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/beaconsfield-at-the-foundry-2015-on-the-wire-i/) - 22 April - 26 June 2015, 10am - 5pm Show extended until Friday 24 July Beaconsfield curated show at The Foundry including artists Jules Clarke, Ben Cockett, Mathew Gibson, John Timberlake, Caroline Todd and Thomas Yeomans. - [Beaconsfield's 20th Birthday Party: New Dawn, 25th June 2015](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/beaconsfields-20th-birthday-party-new-dawn-25th-june-2015/) - Thursday 25 June 2015, 7pm - 12am Join us to celebrate Beaconsfield's 20th Birthday and a new commission for Beaconsfield Editions by Thomas Yeomans. - [Monica Ross: a celebration](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monica-ross-a-celebration/) - Saturday 13 June 2015, 11am - 8pm On 13 June, the premier screening of video documentation by Bernard G Mills will be shown all day at Beaconsfield. - [Thomas Yeomans: Anomie](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/thomas-yeomans-anomie/) - 25 June - 15 August 2015 Open late Friday 31st July for #SLAMFRIDAY 6-8.30pm with artist's talk at 7pm For all six works exhibited Thomas Yeomans continues his practice of sourcing sound, video, text and other imagery online and diverting it to a new context. - [Monica Ross: A Celebration](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monica-ross-a-celebration-2/) - 25 June - 15 August 2015 We continue to screen the video documentation of Monica Ross' 'Anniversary—an act of memory..' on our Flatscreens. - [Harnessing the Wind](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/harnessing-the-wind/) - 7 October - 29 November 2015 Preview: Tuesday 6 October 7-9pm 'Harnessing the Wind’ is a metaphor for the difficulties of capturing process: difficult but not impossible - as the image of the wind turbine embodies. Group show with artists Sophie Bouvier Ausländer, Ellie Harrison, Monika Oechsler and Naomi Siderfin - [Beaconsfield at The Foundry: The Migrant Experience](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/beaconsfield-at-the-foundry/) - 23 September - 29 January 2016, 10am - 5pm Beaconsfield presents a new exhibition in The Foundry - Vauxhall's social justice and human rights centre - in collaboration with Lebara and Artgym. - [Open Walls: Expanding Beaconsfield's Reach](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/open-walls-expanding-beaconsfields-reach/) - Ongoing in 2015 Over the summer you would have seen changes to the venue as we opened up the front wall to increase visibility and access. Visit us and tell us what you think! - [The RRAAF Debate: Shifting Power](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/the-rraaf-debate-shifting-power/) - Saturday 14 November 2015, 4 - 6pm The RRAAF Debate at Beaconsfield invites artists, activists and speakers to discuss the necessity, possibility and the practicalities of systemic change in arts funding. - [Evelyn O'Connor: The alchemical creation of the utterly real](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/evelyn-oconnor-alchemy/) - 3 February - 10 April 2016 Special events: Friday 26 February 6-8pm and Saturday 9 April from 2pm Evelyn O'Connor will be conducting alchemy with common substances in Beaconsfield's Upper Space. - [Heidi Kilpeläinen: Implicated](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/heidi-kilpelainen/) - 10 February - 10 April 2016 Open late: Friday 26 February, 6-8pm Heidi Kilpeläinen returns to London after a spell in Finland, to show a new digital work that she has been developing from her residency with Beaconsfield this time last year. - [Foam Talent: Shaping the Future of Contemporary Photography](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/foam-talent-shaping-the-future-of-contemporary-photography/) - 22 April - 22 May 2016 Preview: Thursday 21 April 6.30-8.30pm Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and Beaconsfield Contemporary Art in London proudly present 'Foam Talent', a group exhibition featuring 21 photography talents who represent an international range of innovative image-makers under the age of 35. - [Greenhouse Effect](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/greenhouse-effect/) - 26 May - 12 June 2016 The Liquid Gang Happening: Friday 27 May 6-8.30pm As part of the Chelsea Fringe Festival Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall celebrates the fruits of its previous seedbed residencies with artists Michael Curran and Joseph Walsh in collaboration with Dawn Gaietto, Shanks Pony Gardener and Untitled, resident gallery cat. - [WINDAUGE - Mulfinger & Budgett | Giorgio Sadotti](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/windauge-mulfinger-budgett-giorgio-sadotti/) - 25 June - 18 September 2016 Preview: Friday 24 June 7-9pm with special performance by the band GIORGIO SADOTTI Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall launch a new commission by Mulfinger & Budgett accompanied by a sound installation by Giorgio Sadotti - [Foam Talent | London](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/foam-talent-london/) - 18 May - 18 June 2017 24 young artists shaping the future of photography Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam returns to Beaconsfield Gallery London to present its views on the current state of photography. - [Seb Patane: RE-MASTER](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/seb-patane-re-master/) - 1 July - 6 August 2017 A body of new, related works by London based artist Seb Patane, that lie between the fields of art and music. All four works are in some way re-mixed, addressing notions of authorship through drawing other artists– Gustav Metzger, Pablo Bronstein and Black to Comm – into the creative process. - [Keith Piper: Jet Black Futures 1](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/keith-piper-jet-black-futures-1/) - 20 September - 29 October 2017 Beaconsfield commissions: Mic Drop - part of Jet Black Futures 1 Keith Piper is a Black British artist of international significance and Beaconsfield is proud to have commissioned the latest digital work in the artist’s oeuvre, Mic Drop. The new work is contextualised by the first London screening of Unearthing The Banker’s Bones (2016), an Arts Council Collection 70th Anniversary commission. - [DISSOLVEDProduction](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/shodissolved/dissolvedproduction/) - DISSOLVED Directed by Julian Maynard Smith with Florian Feigl and Christopher Hewitt Performers London Yoko Ishiguro, Julian Maynard Smith, Martin Tomlinson Performers Berlin Claudia Splitt, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, Florian Feigl Network and development Damien Wiles Production Manager Steve Wald and Andy Downie Lighting London Andy Downie Sound Andy Pink Interactive set Rob White Assistant - [Freecycle Party](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/talmor/freecycle-party/) - TestBed 1 SpaceShip Earth, 2010 Dafna Talmor Free-cycle Party: Sunday 18 July 2-8pm SpaceShip Earth Closing Event to celebrate the culmination of Dafna Talmor’s TestBed 1 residency at Beaconsfield. Freecycling party Drop off your unwanted goods from 11am. Browsing from 3pm. Freecycle Frenzy at 3.30pm Art Swap Shop Spaceship Earth’s Living Roof in progress Constructed - [DiluvialCD_TheWireReview](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/diluvialcd/diluvialcd_thewirereview/) - [MonoEvent Conversation](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monoexhibition/monoevent-conversation/) - Tamsyn Challenger Monoculture Special Events Programme 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? Listen to a full recording of the talk here: Tamsyn Challenger in conversation with Fran Cottell, Rebecca - [MonoEvent Interpreting](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monoexhibition/monoevent-interpreting/) - Tamsyn Challenger Monoculture Special Events Programme Saturday 16 March at 3pm Interpreting Monoculture: Selfies & Sadism With Naomi Siderfin and Judith Dean. Beaconsfield director and curator of Monoculture, Naomi Siderfin, walks around the exhibition in an informal discussion with Judith Dean – next artist in residence with Beaconsfield. Free – no booking - [MonoEvent Response](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monoexhibition/monoevent-response/) - Tamsyn Challenger Monoculture Special Events Programme Saturday 6 April at 3pm Rachael House responds to Monoculture A director of neighbouring gallery Space Station Sixty-Five brings her own perspective to the exhibition. Rachael House is an artist and gallerist. At the core of her practice is a desire to democratise art and make it - [MonoEvent CoffeeMorning](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monoexhibition/monoevent-coffeemorning/) - Tamsyn Challenger Monoculture Special Events Programme Wednesday 27 March at 11am Monoculture Coffee Morning A chance for a curatorial walk-around the exhibition Monoculture, followed by an informal discussion focusing on issues raised by the works – including the effect of social media on the rising generation. Babes in arms welcome. Beaconsfield’s Ragged Canteen - [RELLA: Closing Event](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/curran-gunning/rella-closing-event/) - TestBed 1 Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning RELLA CLosing Event Sunday 11 April 2010 3-9 pm Come and join us for the culmination of RELLA in which you are invited to enter a live film. Make free use of the space: choose a mask, play basketball, inscribe the Wall of Dreams in the gallery - [Kanes Revolutions Closing Event](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/gross/kanes-revolutions-closing-event/) - TestBed 1 Anthony Gross Closing Event: Friday 19 March 2010 From 8-10 pm Kane's Revolutions, a gangster tale of architectural regeneration in South London Upper Gallery 1: Kane’s Revolutions, 2010 (work in progress) Screening, performance and installation with live electronic soundtrack by Zon on n including the wall based works Sculpture Unit – Made in Shanghai and - [Fraternise - Artists finisage](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/fraternise-artists-finisage/) - Friday 27 May from 6.30pm till late LAST Fridays: Fraternise – the finissage Last-chance, evening viewing of Fraternise – the Salon with late bar and Fraternising artist-DJs. Beaconsfield joins participating galleries throughout South London open late for the South London Art Map LAST Fridays . The Ragged Canteen will be open till late serving a selection - [Fraternise - the Salon: Collecting](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/fraternise-the-salon/fraternise-the-salon-collecting/) - Collecting Fraternise – the Salon offers a collectible range of contemporary art works. Contributing artists include those at the top of the commercial game and others who are, as yet, unknown in the auction room. With prices ranging from £5 – £20,000 this exhibition offers a special opportunity to exercise your judgment and perhaps risk - [Monoculture Launch](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/monoculture/monoculture-launch/) - Friday 29 June, 6-8.30pm Tamsyn Challenger Monoculture launch June LAST Fridays To launch Monoculture, Challenger will introduce her lifelong Tamsynette project – an opportunity for visitors to don a wig and make like Tamsyn. Here are some photos from the experiment at the Monoculture launch. This work has developed from the Tamsynettes. You can follow - [TestBed 1 : Discussion](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/testbed1/discussion/) - TestBed 1: Artists Discussion with Francis Summers Sunday 19 September at 2pm. Chaired by Francis Summers, artists commissioned for TestBed 1 will reflect on the project in a discussion that takes as its starting point the proposal that internet ‘browsing’ has become implicit in the process of making work. Francis summers is an artist - [SLAM: South London Festival of Art Night](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/slam-south-london-festival-of-art-night/) - LAST Fridays at Beaconsfield Becks South London Festival of Art Night Friday 29 July 2011, 6.30 – 8.30pm Beaconsfield will be open late for a relaxed evening viewing of Gaming in Waziristan as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.The South London Art Map brings together a special programme of events and exhibitions to - [Estate - Performance photographs](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/estate/performance/) - Estate the Ian Hinchliffe Retrospective originally commissioned by Beaconsfield in 1998 will form part of: Flashes From the Archives of Oblivion: Stuart Brisley, Ian Hinchliffe, Alastair MacLennan and Tatsumi Orimoto. [slideshow] Click here for images of the installation Click here for more information 17 November 2007 - 13 January 2008 At Chapter, Cardiff - [Golden (lessons) - susan pui san lok – Chorus](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/golden/chorus/) - Golden (Lessons) susan pui san lok a Beaconsfield Research project 18 October - 10 November 2006 Open Wednesday - Friday 12-6pm Singing Lesson / Mobile Chorus Date: Friday 20th October Time: 5pm - 7pm Venue: Beaconsfield susan pui san lok has commissioned composer and musician Mat Davidson to compose a short three-minute score for five - [Golden (lessons) – susan pui san lok – Mobile Ballroom](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/golden/mobile/) - Golden (Lessons) susan pui san lok a Beaconsfield Research project 18 October - 10 November 2006 Open Wednesday - Friday 12-6pm Mobile Ballroom Date: Friday 10 November Time: 4.19pm Location: Vauxhall Underground station exits 3 and 4 Destination: Beaconsfield, London Mobile Ballroom is a performance / intervention inspired by the mobile clubbing phenomenon. Mobile Ballroom - [Gloden (lessons) - susan pui san lok - Events](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/golden/events/) - Golden (Lessons) susan pui san lok a Beaconsfield Research project 18 October - 10 November 2006 Open Wednesday - Friday 12-6pm Events Week 1: Wed 18 — Fri 20 October Wed 12-6pm Work in process Thurs 12-6pm Work in process Fri 12-3pm Work in process 3-8pm Opening Events: 3-4.30pm Trialogue Sonya Boyce Irit Rogoff Naomi - [Golden (lessons) - susan pui san lok – Trialogue](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/golden/trialogue/) - Golden (Lessons) susan pui san lok a Beaconsfield Research project 18 October - 10 November 2006 Open Wednesday - Friday 12-6pm Trialogue Date: Friday 20th October Time: 3pm - 4.30pm Venue: Beaconsfield Trialogue is an event curated by artist susan pui san lok as part of Golden (Lessons), a research residency at Beaconsfield that expands - [Golden (lessons) - susan pui san lok – Golden Hour](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/golden/goldenhour/) - Golden (Lessons) susan pui san lok a Beaconsfield Research project 18 October - 10 November 2006 Open Wednesday - Friday 12-6pm Golden Hour Date: Friday 20 October, 7 - 8pm Date: Friday 10 November, 7 - 8pm Venue: Beaconsfield Golden Hour (2006, in progress) is a new audio work, to be broadcast on Resonance 104.4 - [Golden (lessons) - susan pui san lok – Ballroom Lesson](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/golden/lesson/) - Golden (Lessons) susan pui san lok a Beaconsfield Research project 18 October - 10 November 2006 Open Wednesday - Friday 12-6pm Ballroom Lesson Date: Wednesday 25 October, 4 - 5pm Date: Wednesday 1 November, 4 - 5pm Date: Friday 10 November, 5 - 6pm Venue: Beaconsfield Visitors are invited to participate or observe an improvised - [Golden (lessons) - susan pui san lok – Residency](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/golden/residency/) - Golden (Lessons) susan pui san lok a Beaconsfield Research project 18 October - 10 November 2006 Open Wednesday - Friday 12-6pm Golden is the rubric for an ongoing series of works across installation, video, sound, and text, exploring notions of nostalgia and aspiration in diaspora. The series includes Vistas (originally commissioned by Beaconsfield for Lightsilver, - [Push the envelope – background](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/pushtheenvelope/background/) - PUSH THE ENVELOPE Background Wednesday 25 July 2007 From 1.30pm Free — all welcome BEACONSFIELD — RCDT — LMHS Background information RCDT is the community owned and led promoter of sustainable regeneration in the North Lambeth area. Manager Sean Creighton will lead a guided walk around the Vauxhall/Kennington area looking at its arts and cultural - [Chronic Epoch - Events](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/chronic-epoch/events/) - Chronic Epoch 1995-2005 14 September - 20 November 2005 Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm Performances, Talks and Events Monkey Diner Hayley Newman and David Crawforth Saturday 17 September, 12-6pm, arch Hayley Newman and David Crawforth are reunited following their collaborative work, Rude Mechanic (Beaconsfield, 1996). In a modern British restaurant setting, two monkeys will prepare and - [Greenwich Degree Zero - Talks and Events](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/greenwich-degree-zero/talks-events/) - Greenwich Degree Zero Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy Talks and Events Thursday 9 March at 6.30pm Artists' Talk: Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy Free, booking advisable Dickinson and McCarthy discuss their collaboration in the light of previous individual projects. The event will include a short reading from Remainder by the author, a documentary excerpt from - [Forest - Volume IV - Performances](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/forest/performances/) - Forest - Volume IV Beaconsfield Artworks Karl Burke Mark Dean Bruce Gilbert Leafcutter John Fergus Kelly & David Lacey Pan sonic Bob and Roberta Smith DJ Tendraw Nina Hynes Thursday 6 - Sunday 16 September 2007 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin Curated by David Crawforth in association with Beaconsfield and TBG&S, Dublin. To return - [Estate - Installation photographs](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/estate/installation/) - Estate the Ian Hinchliffe Retrospective originally commissioned by Beaconsfield in 1998 will form part of: Flashes From the Archives of Oblivion: Stuart Brisley, Ian Hinchliffe, Alastair MacLennan and Tatsumi Orimoto. [slideshow] Click here for more information Click here for images of the opening event performance 17 November 2007 - 13 January 2008 At Chapter, Cardiff - [Test Bed 1 - RELLA, 2010 Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning - artists notes](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/curran-gunning/notes/) - We met earlier outside Barbarella’s café. It was closing which was perfect - we keep talking of chucking her out - but there she was - around the corner on a billboard with sequins. I think she will keep on cropping up - after all she’s been there from the start. Who on earth is she anyway? - [Test Bed 1 - Dafna Talmor - donations](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/talmor/donations/) - TestBed 1 SpaceShip Earth, 2010 Dafna Talmor 22 June - 18 July SpaceShip Earth Requests Your Unwanted Items Please donate any of the following items: Bric a Brac: Clothes Books Shoes Accessories (Bags, Belts, Jewelry) Socks (including odd ones!) Mirrors Hangers Stationery Storage boxes (no cardboard boxes please) Fabric Art Materials Photographic Equipment Scissors Buttons - [Test Bed 1 - Dafna Talmor - events](https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/talmor/events/) - SpaceShip Earth, 2010 Dafna Talmor 22 June - 18 July Workshops and Events In the spirit of the project, all workshops are free of charge but in exchange participants are encouraged to provide the workshop facilitator/s with an offering. Offerings can be in the form of material or an alternative service. 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