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Joy Girvin artwork photo by Lucid Plane

Yasmin Kauser2017-10-10T15:20:45+01:0010 October, 2017|

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Chisenhale’s Summer of Art is back! ☀ Startin Chisenhale’s Summer of Art is back! ☀ Starting on Monday 25 July and taking place over two weeks, the Summer of Art is a free, outdoor programme of events and workshops on Chisenhale Road in Bow. The programme culminates in a festival day for all ages on Saturday 6 August, celebrating creativity in our neighbourhood and beyond. More details to follow soon. 📸 @lidia.crisafulli #ChisenhaleSummerOfArt @chisenhaledance @chisenhalegallery #E3
We’re hiring! Are you a producer interested in We’re hiring! Are you a producer interested in cultivating play and creativity, looking for a role that engages community? Chisenhale Art Place, which comprises Chisenhale Gallery, Chisenhale Studios and Chisenhale Dance Space, is looking to work with a lead producer on a programme of art activities this Summer, in Tower Hamlets, East London. The Summer of Art is a day-long festival that will create opportunities for play, inspire creativity and proactively bring together residents of Bow in East London. You will facilitate the delivery of a programme of outdoor activity in liaison with the Project Manager and all partners and associate artists. This will involve being the lead contact for logistical enquiries, organising and attending programme meetings, marketing coordination, and ensuring the smooth and safe delivery of public workshops and the final community festival day. Fee: £2,250 Type of contract: Freelance (1-2 days per week with additional days required in July/August) Start/Finish dates: 27th June to 6th August Location: Remote and at Chisenhale Dance Space, when required. For more information on job description and how to apply, visit the link in our bio (which will take you to Chisenhale Dance Space website). Deadline for applications Monday 20th June, 10am (BST) If you’d like to speak more about this role or discuss alternative ways to apply, please get in touch via email to jessica@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk or by phone 020 8981 6617
Posted @withregram • @intothewildchisenhale Spen Posted @withregram • @intothewildchisenhale Spend the longest evening and the shortest night with Into the Wild and GROW at WILD SOLSTICE. Tues 21 June 7pm Free entry Eleven artists and participants of this year’s Into the Wild will host an event at @growhackney presenting their work on the evening of the summer solstice Expect installations, performances, prints, zines, workshops, drinking, dancing and conversations. Not all of the site is wheelchair accessible- so please contact jordanna@growhackney.co.uk for more information. #Solstice #FreeArt #ArtEvent #Performance #Installation #Prints #Zines
It's been such a great weekend so far, with so muc It's been such a great weekend so far, with so much lovely interest and energy. We're open again today, Sunday 22 May, from 2-6pm. There's more workshops today too if you want to get creative. Link in bio for schedule or just come by and discover what you can do! Everyone is welcome and it's all open and free.
Getting ready for Open Studios THIS weekend! Ever Getting ready for Open Studios THIS weekend! Everyone is welcome to join us - come and discover the forty artist studios behind the black door at 64-84 Chisenhale Road. Friday 20th May 6-9pm, Sat 21st &Sunday 22nd 2-6pm. #ChisOpenStudios # Chisenhaleartists #artiststudios #E3 #whattodothisweekend
Open Studios are back! After a necessary pause the Open Studios are back! After a necessary pause the last few years, we are very happy to open the studio doors to the public again. We're scaling things back a bit to keep everyone safe and comfortable, but with several years worth of new work having been made, there is a bounty of new work to be seen from over fifty artists. We'll have some fab free activities going on within studios, so check out the website for full programme details (link in bio). Opening hours: Friday 20th May 6-9pm Saturday 21st May 2-6pm Sunday 22nd May 2-6pm
Looking forward to Montez Press Radio's live broad Looking forward to Montez Press Radio's live broadcast this Thursday 24th March at Chisenhale Studios.Tune in all day for an innovative line up of artist presentations and talks.
Our final post about the Myco-Lective website high Our final post about the Myco-Lective website highlights the Map-lective exhibition and workshop that Sonia Barrett organised at Chisenhale Studios, which also included work by Myco-Lective participants. 1/2/3/4) Sonia is the initiator and co-founder of the Map-Lective and convened a Map-lective at Chisenhale Studios on Monday 30 August to create a new work for Studio4. The Map-lective is a collective of black and brown women working with the map, who take techniques of personal care embedded in black communities and use them to deal with maps. In dread-locking or braiding the map, the Map-lective are creating a space for a new understanding of maps. An Inaugural work spanning 6 metres was created At the Royal Geographic Society London earlier this year. The Map-lective work at Chisenhale Studios has been created by Sonia, Mia Morris OBE, Chantelle Purcell and participants to a drop-in workshop. 5) A selection of resources and links compiled by participants to aid in your further research and pleasure. Even as the formal bit ends, Myco-Lective continues to grow. #braiding #maps #mapping #colonialism #ecology #connectivity #artists #working #together #resources #reading #mycolective #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Myco-lective.net website is best experienced on a computer in Chrome or Firefox. Chisenhale Studios and Myco-Lective are grateful for the support of Arts Council England
Our fourth post about the Myco-Lective website hig Our fourth post about the Myco-Lective website highlights content that individual artist participants organised and produced, that was inspired by and responded to the programme. After the first few sessions, all the participants - Joseph Morgan Schofield, Sonia Barrett, Angela Chan, Linda Persson, Laurèl Hadleigh and Sam Hodge - lead and followed, held space, listened and learned together. The programme was shaped in and became our creative relationship. 1) Linda Persson - images and sound from the forest. During Myco-Lective, Linda moved to rural Sweden, setting up home in the forest, partly inspired by thoughts of the mushrooms she would find. These are some of her Myco-inspired experiments, painting and photos from her new home. 2 and 3) Joseph Morgan Schofield - documentation of a performance These Teeming Forms, which responded to their single-channel video work, duration: 28.33 of the same name. “The land, like the body, is an archive. these teeming forms is a process of communing with the land, of (be)longing with and to it… Queer ecology is enacted here as a process of wilding, looking forwards and out, towards new mythic relations with the land.” 4) Souls of the Tomato Folk. Sonia Barrett found solace and joy in growing tomatoes in her garden during lockdown, and one of the things we often did when we met as a group was discuss our lunches! Food being political, earthly and multispecies, this seemed more than appropriate. Sonia took it to another level with her growing and with her poetry. 5) Sam Hodge led this ink-making workshop for participants online, which really gets into the nitty gritty of her practice. 6)@ mossy.soft.sprot photograph from a project by Angela Chan. #earth #lunch #inkmaking #grief #mushrooms #recycling #queerecology #growing #poetry #mycolective #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Myco-lective.net is best experienced on a computer in Chrome or Firefox
Our third Myco-Lective website post shares a few h Our third Myco-Lective website post shares a few highlights from the ‘taught’ content that formed part of the intensive programme. Myco-Lective was developed and facilitated by Feral Practice (Fiona MacDonald+) in association with Chisenhale Studios. Fiona brought her experience in artist development, posthumanist thought, practices of attention and multispecies aesthetics. The lead artist was speculative writer and researcher Ama Josephine Budge, who brought her expertise in queer identity, speculative fictioning and climate colonialism, and co-held the initial sessions with great warmth and care. 1) Mycorrhizal Meditation by Feral Practice is a guided meditation that choreographs a connective journey through the human body and down into a dynamic, semiotic underworld of living soil and mycorrhizal mycelium. The spoken word entwines with sound recordings made in wooded places, including sonifications of the shifts in electrical current emitted by plants and fungi. It complicates a notion of nature as ‘ultimate digital detox’, and guides the user towards the intelligent responsiveness of beyond-human nature, the ‘wood-wide-web’ that predates our digital connectivity by millennia. 2) Beneath Yaba’s Garden, a speculative fiction by Ama Josephine Budge. Ama guided group exercises in speculative fiction and offered one-to-one writing tutorials to Myco participants. 3) A talk on plants and fungi by Feral Practice #fungi #attention #meditation #plants #mycorrhizalnetwork #bodies #mycolective #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @amajosephine @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Website is at myco-lective.net and is best experienced on a computer in Chrome or Firefox. Chisenhale Studios and Myco-Lective are grateful for the support of Arts Council England
Collective Creativity Starting in Spring 2020, My Collective Creativity Starting in Spring 2020, Myco-Lective was reshaped around the impact of Covid-19 on all our lives. Participants met together on Zoom. Some of us have still yet to meet in in real life. For what was conceived as a holistic, embodied project, this was… tricky. But despite the challenges, and the inevitable online-weariness of us all, Myco-Lective nurtured a space for mutual support, and expanded the situated, critical and creative thinking of participants. Rather than a programme of shiny public outcomes, then, the website invites you into the nurturing, explorative tone of our group. Here are screen shots from the website of some of the content that we produced collaboratively: 1) Oracle cards - Myco-Lective were joined by Hari Byles and Linden Catherine McMahon of Queer Ecologies for a day to explore soil culture and becoming with the earth, and made these personal cards that acted as our offer to and thoughts on the group dynamic. 2) A ‘porch sitting’ conversation. Cameras off, all participants shared the view of this live feed view of a garden, and their conversation ranges around how to come together to create positive change, even while physically separated. 3) Collective speculative fiction - working like an ‘exquisite corpse’ drawing 4) Playlist - for a collective walking exercise we made this playlist together #walking #dancing #writing #fiction #talkingtogether #becomingwith #queerecology #mycolective #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @amajosephine @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Chisenhale Studios and Myco-Lective are grateful for the support of Arts Council England
We are excited to launch our newly commissioned we We are excited to launch our newly commissioned website which shares excerpts from the Myco-Lective programme. The website has been designed by Myco artists, built by Ali Ashe @ali.ashe, and is itself an artwork! The rippling, interconnected shapes draw inspiration from the soft dynamic arrangements of living and growing beings sharing space. You can find it at myco-lective.net and it’s best experienced in Chrome on a computer or tablet. As you roam around, you can click links to different content, including video, sound, images and texts. More about this in our next few posts. Myco-Lective is a programme for artists engaging with ecological thinking, climate change, and multispecies futures. It takes its inspiration from human and non-human models of education, collective action, care, reciprocal networking, and mutual aid, including the mycorrhizal networks of the forest, where plants share nourishment and knowledge via the under-soil web of fungal mycelium. 1/2/3/4) Screenshots of the garden-forest-homepage 5) The contributors and their weblinks #mycolective #artistdevelopment #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @amajosephine @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Chisenhale Studios and Myco-Lective are grateful for the support of Arts Council England.
What will everyone be creating at today's Art for What will everyone be creating at today's Art for Wellbeing session with #CharlotteMew?
Two artists in our studios, Merve Iseri and Aycin Two artists in our studios, Merve Iseri and Aycin Sucuoglu, are offering two different art classes for children to do together with a parent or carer. On Wednesdays, Merve will run creativity sessions with a range of painting styles, 2d and 3d collage making and more. On Thursdays, it's ceramics with Aycin. Both run from 4pm - 5.30pm, starting 10th/11th November for six weeks. These are the artists own courses and have a fee for the six weeks - they are able to offer some places at a lower cost so do enquire. For info and booking contact the artists directly; thisisaycin@gmail.com or iserimerve@gmail.com @aaaycnnn
We’ll be running some new workshops for adults s We’ll be running some new workshops for adults seeking some creative arts activities to help improve their sense of wellbeing. Join Charlotte Mew every Tuesday from 11am to 1pm in the ground floor Education Room at Chisenhale Studios between 9th of November and 7th December. Sessions are free to attend and materials are provided for each workshop – a different one each week, suitable for all abilities. To maintain social distancing, places will be limited so email or call us to book in advance or if you’d just like to find out more. We’ll keep some spaces open for drops-in. #artforwellbeing #artforbeginners #communityart
More local fun today at Bow Community Day 1-4pm, i More local fun today at Bow Community Day 1-4pm, including activities from @chisenhalelearnplaycreate and @chisenhalegallery Huge thanks to @romanroadtrust for making it happen👏! (And @samaacademyuk for yummy samosas )
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“Throwing Bones II” By Henrietta Armstrong in “Throwing Bones II” By Henrietta Armstrong in Studio 21 Open studios today and tomorrow 2-6pm Throwing Bones II was inspired by the sea defence structures used to protect the land from erosion by the sea, particularly the Dolos. I look at man-made objects and totemic structures within my work that often have a geometric shape as well, as the symbolism and power that we imbue them with. The white of the Dolosse forms catch the varying natural light at all times of day, changing the work as the daylight changes. Piled up on top of each other look like giant playing pieces from an ancient game, or bones that have been scattered for the purposes of divination I wanted the sculpture to be a playful yet beautiful reminder of climate change and what our future will be like if we don’t take action now to prevent it. #tideline #messums #messumswiltshire #tidelineexhibition #climatechange #sculpture #contemporaryart #dolos #seadefence #artistsforchange #art #risingseas #savetheearth #globalwarming #saveourseas #dolosse #contemporarysculpture #mouldmaking #casting #londonartist #artlife #exhibition #femalesculptor
. #Iceland . this new #map image celebrates Icela . #Iceland . this new #map image celebrates Iceland as the no. 1 global #peace country . #monikaoechsler #chisenhalestudios #chisenhaleartists #chisopenstudios
“Nymphaeaceae Array” 175x125. Oil on canvas. 2 “Nymphaeaceae Array” 175x125. Oil on canvas. 2021. By Nicholas William Johnson in studio 34 Open studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm The botanist Francis Hallé observes that, ‘plants elaborate themselves according to strict rules, rules that lead to the conceptualisation of models’. The dynamics of these models and their further implications are investigated in Nicholas William Johnson’s new paintings. In his works these rules are altered, flowers bloom in digital arrays, fruits and leaves are suspended in double helices. Johnson renders plants – other lifeforms – as dynamic, interactive systems and examines our often unquestioned belief in the passivity of nature. Repetition of botanical forms in futuristic digital arrays confers the idea that they constitute systems of information. Plants and trees are systems that reiterate, recursive nestings of individual elements that form an interconnected network. #nicholaswilliamjohnson #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
“The Gate (2020)” By Kumbirai Makumbe in Studi “The Gate (2020)” By Kumbirai Makumbe in Studio 33b Open Studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm "Kumbirai Makumbe currently takes form as a London based artist who believes in the transmutation of the intangible yet experiential. They place significant effort into explorations of alternative modes of being and thinking that could negate ideologies inhibitory to a ‘needed’ future. Their work continually interrogates the multi-dimensionality of blackness, transcendence & belonging. Makumbe makes work for the ‘in-between’ that are here and are yet to be. Through the use of speculative science fiction narratives, Makumbe time and (time) again advocates for handling complexity without simplification and the enactment of the transformation required to do so. They are currently researching a state of being which they have termed as ‘in-betweenness’ and will be doing so for the foreseeable future. Their work has so far taken shape in the form of digital audio-visual installations, Interactive works, installations, moving image works, sound works and more recently sculptures. They are enticed by the materiality and physicality of digitally generated matter and the infinite possibilities of its employability. Makumbe has a very keen interest in its malleability and repeatedly engages in its metamorphosis. You can expect to see elements of my previous works as well as a glimpse into the new ideas I'm exploring and how they take shape." #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
Come to Chisenhale Open Studios this weekend @moni Come to Chisenhale Open Studios this weekend @monikaoechsler @chisenhalestudiosartists #monikaoechsler #culturalweekend #vickyparklondon #eastlondon #chisenhalestudios
“eggs” By Aycin Sucuoglu in studio 17b Open “eggs” By Aycin Sucuoglu in studio 17b Open studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm an ode to anatolian ceramics and the women behind it. #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
“MMXX” By David Blackmore in Studio 36 Open S “MMXX” By David Blackmore in Studio 36 Open Studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm David Blackmore is a European artist based in London since 2003. Initially trained through the medium and criticality of photography his practice has migrated substantially favouring a Post-Medium approach. David has two sides to his practice. One is studio based, working with sculpture and print. The other consists of transgressive actions performed for the image and relational exchanges. #davidblackmore #mmxx #phraseology #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
Nadine in her Studio. studio 16. Open Studios May Nadine in her Studio. studio 16. Open Studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm. Nadine will be showing a selection of her figurative paintings and works with glass. Each day she will be a running a drop in workshop to make watercolour paint, check link for timings on each day. #contemporarypainting #figurativeartnow #paintings #femaleglaze #herbody #feminineenergy #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
“Swept Under the Carpet (Hammersmith)” By Dian “Swept Under the Carpet (Hammersmith)” By Diana Taylor in studio 8 Open studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm Painting, textile assemblage, collage, print, weaving #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
“Starboard” By Kevin Dunbar in studio 37B O “Starboard” By Kevin Dunbar in studio 37B Open Studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm. Painting, recent work relating to costal travel and other work from 1976 until the present . Please look at my website dunbarartist.com #dunbarartist.com #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
“view from the boat Sailing around Isle of Skye” By Joy Girvin in Studio 30 Open studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm 22nd 2-6pm Figurative painting; seascapes ; sailing related images ; coastal scenes and landscape. #greenwichyachtclu #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
“Ghilly” By Daniel Turner in Studio 9 Open St “Ghilly” By Daniel Turner in Studio 9 Open Studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm 22nd 2-6pm. Daniel's makes work which explores tradition and memory within his Romany heritage. #romaart #grt #romaarts #opreroma #eriac @the_romani_chal_sculptor #romamoma #galeriekaidikhas #romamoma @the #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
“Strength Lab” By Kate Hardy in Studio 3 Ope “Strength Lab” By Kate Hardy in Studio 3 Open studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm. Kate Hardy makes paintings, prints, and mixed media work. She'll be running free postcard collage workshops in her studio on Chisenhale's 1st floor for the duration of Open Studios : May 20, 21 +22 #chisenhaleeveningpainters #museumdrawing #katehardyartist #katehardystudio @katehardystudio @chisenhaleeveningpainters @museumdraw #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
“Mariinsky Damask (Russia)” 2022 By Monika Oec “Mariinsky Damask (Russia)” 2022 By Monika Oechsler in Studio 29B Open Studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm Sculpture, video, photography #monikaoechsler #salonforaspeculativefuture #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
“Toward a unified field theory of photography (d “Toward a unified field theory of photography (detail)” By Cole Robertson in Studio 30 Open Studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm I like photography—its histories, languages, and endless ability to move between genres, functionalities, and industries. I teach, write, work, play, curate, and create among this imagescape. #chisenhaleartists #chisenhalestudios #chisopenstudios #chisenhalestudioartists
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