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UNKNOWN
Yumi Shimada

Exhibition - 4 Feb - 16 March
Lauch Reception - Sun 2 March - 1 - 4pm

A new sculpture commission for the gallery garden.

LANDSLIDE
RCA Printmaking show

Exhibition - 13 - 16 March
Open - Fri - Sun 11am - 4pm (Sat - midday - 4pm)

Private View - Sun 16 March - 1 - 4pm

Work by the Royal College of Art printmaking students.

ACTS + ACTIONS
RCA Research Show - Practices of Space / Modes of Presentation

Exhibition - 29 Feb - 2 March
Open - Fri - Sun 11am - 4pm (Sat - 12 - 4pm)

Private View - Sun 2 March - 1 - 4pm

Royal College of Art students researching for Mphil and PhD in printmaking, sculpture, photography and painting.

OPEN EXHIBITION

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Winner of the Charlotte Stevenson Award 2006 Louisa Mota "A play about the paradoxically of dealing with a constructed real unreality".

Exhibition - Wed 21st Nov - Sun 9th Dec 2007
Open - Wed - Sun - 11am - 4pm

Private view - Sun 18th Nov - 1 - 4pm

An unselected exhibition of national and international drawings, painting, print making, sculpture, photography and video.

OPEN EXHIBITION AWARDS 2007

The Charlotte Stevenson Award
Two £500 prizes for the best works.

The Breckman & Company Theatre Art Award
One £500 prize for the best work to reference or represent the theatre.

Selection Panel
Mark Sealy - Director of Autograph - www.autograph-abp.co.uk
Frances Coleman - Director of Coleman Project Space - www.colemanprojects.org.uk

GOLDFINGER
Faisal Abdu'Allah

Exhibition - 3th Oct - 4th Nov 2007
Open - Wed - Sun - 11am - 4pm

Private view - Sun 30th Sept - 1 - 4pm

Faisal Abdu’Allah’s major new installation, Goldfinger that continues the artist’s recurring interest in reconfiguring representations of masculinity, criminality and the nature of power. Beyond the surface façade of violence, Abdu’Allah utilises the interplay between materiality and alchemy to invoke the transformative.

Taking the tradition of portraiture as his departure, Abdu’Allah subverts conventional discourses of myth and iconography to illuminate the universal and humane. The transcendental qualities of precious metal and essentially - light are used to explore a correlation between liminal spaces and spirituality.

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PROJEKTOR
Anthea Chin, Peter Eramian, Luísa Mota, Richard Wilson, MAX5 - Raw Fetish, Croatia Calling - Presenting the work of Dalibor Matinis, Tanja Dabo and Alen Floricic which has been selected by RAVNICA - Centre for Cultural Exchange in collaboration with the Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb plus work selected from the RCA by Stuart Croft: Brigit Rufer, Tereza Buskova, Edith Marie Pasquier and Patricia Pinsker.

Exhibition - 8th - 16th Sept 2007
Open - Wed - Sun - 11am - 5pm

Private view - Sat 8th Sept - 3 - 6pm
Special animation event - 15 Sept - 5.30pm

Annual survey exhibition that presents a cross-section of how people are currently working with video. The continuous screening in the main gallery comprises works from the MAX5 open project for which submissions must have been no longer than 5 minutes in duration; in addition Stuart Croft will be selecting new work from all departments of the Royal College of Art. Further pieces have been chosen by Cafe Gallery Projects including Croatia Calling a show-reel of contemporary video practice by Croatian artists; whilst the highlight of this year's main screen programme will be the UK gallery premiere of Break Neck Speed by Richard Wilson.

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EXTEND YOUR NECK
David Blandy, Marcus Coates, HK119, William Hunt, Mark McGowan, Guiseppe Mistretta, Alison O'Daniel, Claire Shallcross, Trouble Squad.

Exhibition - 27th Jun - 29th Jul 2007

Private View - Sun 24th Jun- 2 - 5 pm
Performances at the event - 7th Jul

Extend Your Neck is an exhibition at Cafe Gallery Projects and a programme of performances on 24 June and at The Event, a free festival in the surrounding Southwark Park on 7 July.

Extend Your Neck introduces two new commissioned pieces by HK119 and William Hunt. Both artists have created structures that act as both stages and essential mechanisms for them to interact with. Within the gallery, HK119 merges live music performance and gallery-based installation, creating an environment that questions the role of the spectator.

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INTELLIGENT MUSCLE
Tom Ellis, Daniel Robert Hunziker, Max Mason, Liz Murray.

Exhibition - 30th May - Jun 17th 2007
Wed, Thur, Fri & Sun - 11 am - 5 pm
Sat - 12 - 5 pm

Private View - Sun 27th May - 3 - 7 pm
Launch Event - Tues 15th May - 5 - 7pm

Organized by Clare Goodwin and Sandi Paucic of K3 Project Space, Zürich who brought us the notorious Hand Luggage exhibitions; on this occasion, the exhibition Intelligent Muscle presents a show of UK and Swiss artists who will be living and working in the gallery space!

What happens when you confine four artists, with reputations as independent problem solvers and makers, within a gallery space for 12 days and charge them with the task of conceiving, creating and curating an exhibition?'Intelligent Muscle' brings together four artists whose practices explore different sculptural concerns at the intersection of production and concept:

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NEW PAINTINGS AND SKETCHES - WITHOUT TITLE
Sybille Berger

Exhibition - 21st Mar - 15th Apr 2007
Open - Wed - Fri & Sun - 11 am - 5 pm - Sat - 12 - 5pm

Private View - 18th Mar - 2 - 5 pm

This first London solo exhibition by the highly acclaimed German colour painter Sybille Berger features three new major works alongside recent paintings and related sketches.

By excluding any narrative element from her painting and letting the work speak for itself, her colours take on a reality outside of their own existence. The colour of a whole work becomes both concrete and abstract at the same time, making an impact both as a physical and metaphysical presence. These paintings speak to an intuitive receptive level within us, becoming like a projection surface for the observer.

Sybille Berger is represented by Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

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Website - www.m-bochum.de

THE WATER PEOPLE
Brian Griffin - New Photographs and international book launch and especially commissioned medals by artist Brynja Sverrisdottir.

Exhibition - 20th Sept - 29th Oct 2006
Open - Wed - Sun - 11 am - 4 pm

Private View - Sun 17th Sept - 2 - 5 pm

Book Launch - Wed 13th Sept
From 6.30pm - 8.30pm at Claire de Rouen Books, First Level, 125 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EW.

In his first major UK exhibition in 15 years, Britain’s greatest living portrait photographer presents the mythic tale of an aerial expedition across Iceland’s epic landscape in search of The Water People. Brian Griffin draws on Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth in response to a commission from Reykjavik Energy, visualising the pathway of its remarkable geothermal infrastructure as a modern Icelandic saga. The adventure - retold through a surreal, filmic narrative of large-scale colour and black-and-white photographs - begins with a bizarre rooftop encounter, where he is introduced to his aircrew. A voyage into a netherworld of gaseous, ethereal landscapes, following a pathway of polished metallic pipelines to discover The City of the Water People, inhabited by strange, amorphous, liquid life forms.

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Website - www.briangriffin.co.uk

COMING UP FOR AIR AND FROM HERE I SAW WHAT HAPPENED AND I CRIED.
Carrie Mae Weems

Exhibition - Jun 8th - Jul 3rd 2005
Open - Wed - Sun - 11 am - 4 pm

As her first solo exhibition in the UK, the internationally celebrated black American artist Carrie Mae Weems presents two new films from her ongoing project Coming Up For Air. May Days Long Forgotten, shows four young African American girls dancing around a maypole, posing for the camera bedecked in flowers and floral attire. The work explores the construction of identity and how this can relate to patterns of revolution (May Day) and the civil rights movement. "My responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specificity of our historical moment......"

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Website - www.womeninphotography.org

DILSTON GROVE

Exhibition - 16 - 19 April
Open - 12 - 6pm

Performance - Sun 20 April at 2.30pm

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IN THE WAKE OF A DEADAD - THE INSTALLATION
Andrew Kötting

Exhibition - Thurs 4th Oct - Sun 11th Nov 2007
Open - Thurs - Sun - 11am - 4pm

Closing event - Remembrance Sunday 11th Nov - 3pm: Performance in remembrance of the deadad. To celebrate the passing of ‘In the wake of a deadad’.

A sixty five screen video installation showing the inflation of large inflatable effigies of Kötting’s Deadad and his Deadad’s Deadad (his Grandad) in various locations around the world.

For more information click on - www.deadad.info

Frieze review - www.frieze.com/shows/review/andrew_kotting.html

Time out review - www.timeout.com/london/art/events/557286/andrew_kotting.html

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THE HARRACHOV EXCHANGE
A collaboration between visual artist Guy Bishop and film makers Matt Hulse, Ben Rivers and Joost van Veen.

Exhibition - Sat 8th - Sun 16th Sept 2007
Open - Thurs - Sun - 11am - 5pm

Private view - Sat 8th Sept - 3 - 6pm

An ingeniously crafted, sublime installation transforms Dilston Grove's unique space into a haunting spectacle of light, sound and movement.

Pulled together by an unseen force in the dark belly of the Grove, an eccentric accumulation of disparate objects have melded into a bizarre, intricate and chaotic kinetic machine-system. Multiple projected animated film loops reinforced by unsettling sonic interactions create a spectacular, ever-changing, fractured 'live documentation' of the machine's evolution and re-animation. It has proved particularly suitable for adults accompanied by children.

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URBAN GOTHIC
George Bolster Kate-Rose Carrick, Mark Dean Veca, Kelly Eginton, Jane Philbrick, Rachael Reupke, Ewoud Van Rijn.

Exhibition - 30th May - Jun 24th 2007
Wed - Sun - 11 am - 5 pm
Saturday - 12 - 5 pm

Private View - Sun 27th May - 3 - 7 pm

This exhibition brings together several international artists whose work implies a morbid fascination; macabre elements run through each of their varied practices. Epic is a device used here as something to explore ideas of heightened or altered emotional states. The dark side of the subconscious is explored through a fusing together of psyche and taboo. These works simultaneously swing from implied crassness to material seduction. A fantastical or gothic sense of their chosen subject threads the artists together.

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THE WATCH MAN
Shona illingworth

Exhibition - 14th Mar - 15th Apr 2007
Open - Wed - Sun - 11 am - 5 pm

Private View - Sun 18th Mar - 2 - 5 pm

The first international exhibition of The Watch Man, a major new installation by artist Shona Illingworth will take place within the atmospheric and powerfully evocative architecture of Dilston Grove, London.

Using video and sound, The Watch Man explores the conflict between trauma memory and the need for a coherent ‘life story’ through the experience of an 80 year old watchmaker, who as a 19 year old experienced one of the most deeply affecting and shocking events of the Second World War.

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For more information on Shona click at - www.shonaillingworth.net

BRIDGE
Michael Cross A site-specific design installation for Dilston Grove. Curated and commissioned by Andrée Cooke.

Exhibition - 20th Sept - 29th Oct 2006
Open - Wed - Sun - 11 am - 4 pm

Private View - Sun 17th Sept - 2 - 5 pm

Bridge is a spectacular new site-specific design commission for Dilston Grove by Michael Cross. Housed in a former church, (one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction and a Grade II listed building), the piece comprises submerging two thirds of the inside of the church in water, and producing a series of steps which rise out of the apparently empty man-made ‘lake’ as you walk across them. Each step emerges one step in front of you and disappears back underneath behind you as you go. This ‘bridge’ is purely mechanical, the weight of the person on it depresses each step a little, this force activates a submerged mechanism which raises the next step.

Part of the London Design Festival - 15th - 30th Sept 2006

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Please contact Andrée Cooke for further information about the project on:

Email: cooke@macunlimited.net

OFF-SITE PROJECTS

MEME

Exhibition - 24th May - 15th Jun 2007
Open - Thur - Sun - 11am - 5pm

Opening Event - 20th May - 3 - 7pm
Closing Event - 15th Jun - 6.30 - 9pm
Venue - Unit A05 Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road, SE16 4DG.

Information travels from person to person and generation to generation; creating and contaminating our social realities.

In the 14,800 square foot space that once housed the acclaimed modern medicine and gambler exhibitions curated by Damien Hurst, The Bermondsey Artists’ Group is incubating it's visions and releasing them on London this May. Viral events and visual whispers, repetitious images and cast mementos. Work from 25 artists explore the notion of MEME.

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For more information on MEME click at - www.meme07.info

ANNE BEAN with MARK ANDERSON
REAP

Exhibition - Sept 18th - Oct 30th 2005
Open - Wed - Sun - 12 noon - 5 pm

Private view - 17th Sept - 3 - 5 pm

At the following venues Cafe Gallery Projects London, Coleman Project Space, Dilston Grove and in a "secret garden"; within Southwark Park seventeen artists present their commissioned videos, sculptures and performances for the REAP programme of exhibitions, process based installations and events in and around the park; the culmination of an entire year of individual projects which present spectacular and intimate manifestations of an astronomical ritual which is informed by contemporary ideas about nature, society and technology.

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For more information on REAP click at - www.artsadmin.co.uk/artists/ab/index.htm

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