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 Gaza/Israel war.
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.
Exhibition: 22 July – 12 August 2023
Wednesday – Saturday 12-5pm
Exploring the recuperation of cultural memory, Ioana Marinescu’s project works with the destruction of ancient Pompeii caused by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, alongside events in 1980s Bucharest, when a historic residential quarter of the city was razed to make way for Ceaușescu’s Palace of the Parliament or ‘People’s Palace’.
THE WILD ESCAPE
Spring – Autumn 2023
Autumn workshops continue as part of The Wild Escape – the largest ever collaboration between museums and galleries with schools and families – with Environmental Artist in Residence Phoebe Collings-James.
Exhibition: 22 June – 1 July 2023 (Wednesday – Saturday)
Beaconsfield hosts the PhD cohort at the Royal College of Arts’ School of Arts and Humanities to present an exhibition, event and publication series
NASTJA SÄDE RÖNKKÖ
Residency: 23 January – 15 March (open by appointment)
Exhibition: 16 March – 6 May 2023 (Wednesday – Saturday)
Below Zero Finnish Art Prize UK Residency & Exhibition
SYSTEMATIC PERIPHERALISM
8 October – 3 December 2022
A new commission of procedural sonic installations responding to Beaconsfield’s two main gallery spaces
Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! Curated in collaboration with Feminist Library
11 June – 10 September 2022
Controversial paintings by ecofeminist artist and activist Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) animated by performances, reading groups, films and symposia led by contemporary artists and writers including Sally Pomme Clayton, Katy Deepwell, Rachel Fallon, Caitlin Fleming, Rachel Garfield, Una Hamilton Helle, Minna Haukka, Harriet Hill, Sam Hodge, Islaja, Annie Johnston, Kara Keeling, Alexandra Kokoli, Kristin Luke, Nad Ma, Bindu Mehra, Liz Murray, Maggie Parks, Fran Painter Fleming, Linda Persson, Raju Rage, Anne Robinson, Anita Slater, Tansy Spinks, Atau Tanaka, Tears|Ov, Rupert White, Linsey Young.
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.
BEACONSFIELD COMMISSIONS: BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE 2023
Winner announced: Nastja Säde Rönkkö
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.
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.
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.
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.
IOANA MARINESCU
In residence 23 March – 9 April 2021
Site-specific experiments with light projections and performance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AN ALL-ACCESS ONLINE EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE WORKS OF YOUNG ARTISTS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
Online from 19 November 2020 – 21 April 2021