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.
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.
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
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.
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.
25 June – 15 August 2015
We continue to screen the video documentation of Monica Ross’ ‘Anniversary—an act of memory..’ on our Flatscreens.
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.
Thursday 25 June 2015, 7pm – 12am
Join us to celebrate Beaconsfield’s 20th Birthday and a new commission for Beaconsfield Editions by Thomas Yeomans.
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.
Friday 27 March, 6-8pm
Artists in residence Heidi Kilpeläinen and Simon Clark will present work developed in our Upper, Arch and Lower spaces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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