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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thursday 3 February at 2pm

A series of lectures conceived by Beaconsfield in collaboration with City & Guilds of London Art School.

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.

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.

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.

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

22 June – 18 July
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm
Closing event: Sunday 18 July at 2pm

On-Site Screenings open to the public

Upper Gallery 1

27 April – 4 June
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm
On-Site Screenings open to the public

Arch Gallery 3

20 April – 30 May
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm
On-Site Screenings open to the public