E3 Open Studios
Opening Event - next Friday 22nd June 6-10pm
Continues Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June
11am-5pm
The largest and longest running open studios event in London opens next Friday evening. Come and see what’s going on at our Bow Road site with over 130 artists welcoming you into their studios to see their work. It’s a great opportunity for members of the public, curators and collectors to see a huge range of original art. The opening event will be packed - with amazing and diverse art, a live band, food and a great atmosphere.
Join us....
Madge Gill Retrospective
Opening Event - this Thursday 14th June 6-9pm
Exhbition runs 15th June - 23rd August
Wed-Sun 9am-5pm
The Nunnery Gallery re-launches
this Thursday evening with an exhibition of previously rarely seen works by celebrated local artist Madge Gill (1882 – 1961).
Gill’s work has never been shown before in this way. She is presented not only as a defining member of the “Outsider art” movement (which denoted Gill’s status as a non-professional) but also as an important 20
thCentury artist whose work holds a modern audience captivated and intrigued.
(Madge Gill 117 - photographer Ollie Harrop)
Gill started to produce drawings and embroidery on paper and calico, but her adulthood was beset by the grief which it is believed inspired her work. After the death of her son from a bout Spanish ‘flu which lost her the sight in one eye, a stillborn daughter and finally the death of her husband, Gill was prolific in her production of sketches and drawings right up until the late 1950s. She died in East Ham in 1961.
The majority of Gill’s work is held in an archive by the London Borough of Newham, who have generously supported this exhibition. Individual works have been occasionally exhibited across the world in exhibitions devoted to Outsider Art, but this is the first time a comprehensive retrospective, showing many unseen works, has been put together. Artist, writer and curator Deanna Petherbridge, and local historian/Whitechapel Gallery archivist Gary Haines have contributed to the research for this exhibition and will host talks and walks for those interested in finding out more about this remarkable icon of East London.
Join us at the opening event this Thursday evening or visit over the summer and drop into our new watering hole - the Carmelite Cafe
As well as the above events, we have a whole host of Bow Arts Open 2012 events lined up for your enjoyment...
P1 Open Studios and Art Fair
23rd - 24th June, 11am-5pm
Taylor Place, Payne Road, London, E3 2SP (adjacent to McDonalds)
Not two minutes’ walk from Bow Road site, the P1 studios will host its own brand of fun across the weekend. Studios are open to the public and local residents both days, and the added bonus of an outdoor art fair on Sunday. Come and help us celebrate the start of summer with Midsummer themed family activities including art stalls and a tantalising BBQ - enough to feed both body and soul.
View details here.
SE1 Open Studios
30th June – 1st July, 11am-5pm
44 Willow Walk, London, SE1 5SF (above the Bermondsey Project Space)
An impressive array of over 150 artists will open their studios to the public – this is a chance to view the work of London’s rising stars in the art world. Come along to find out more and snap up an original work!
View details here.
Opening Night Event on
Friday 29th June (6pm – 9.30pm): Exhibition launch at the Bermondsey Project Space
