CREEKSIDE OPEN 2013
Jun 6 - 30, 2013
Ceri Hand has selected work by 57 artists.

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VERNACULAR HANGOVER : BEN COVE
Jun 6 - 30, 2013
'Vernacular Hangover' is an exhibition of new work by Ben Cove conceived for the Acme Project Space. New paintings will be hung on top of, and alongside, large-scale reproductions of American press photographs from an early 1970s Primitive Art exhibition. Cove’s work examines the physical and social legacies of Modernist practices and its associated languages. Initially trained in architecture, earlier work utilised a broad range of media to focus on particular strains of Modernist architecture and design. These concerns have expanded out in the painting language that Cove has developed over recent years into an exploration of seemingly incongruous phenomena; the universal and the vernacular, the functional and the decorative, brashness and sobriety, abstraction and representation. Always aware of the physicality of the painting as an object, Cove’s paintings are often made to be hung in conjunction with other elements. Several works in the show will consist of paintings which sit alongside partially painted, wall and floor mounted plywood structures.
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PATRICK CAULFIELD : PRINTS 1964-1999
Jun 5 - Jul 13, 2013

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SHEILA HICKS : PÊCHER DANS LA RIVIÈRE
May 24 - Jun 29, 2013

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ALASTAIR MACKIE : MULTIPLICITY
Jun 21 - Aug 3, 2013
Private view Thu Jun 20 7pm - 9pm
Alastair Mackie’s practice is one based on transforming that which is left over after nature has completed its cycles of construction, destruction and reintegration. Deploying the minimalist strategies of series and repetition, he constructs sculptures which occupy the space between the natural and the manufactured, utilising multiple uniform elements to build complex structures.
 
The grid, the foundation of modernism since the 1960s, was crucial to the rejection of illusionistic space which tied painting and sculpture to the past; theorised in Rosalind Krauss’s seminal essay in 1979, she states ‘the grid is what art looks like when it turns its back on nature’. Mackie has ‘written back’ to this reading of the grid by reinvesting it with the very nature it has rejected. The artist inflects the severe artificiality of the grid through the prism of natural elements.
 

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JULIE HEFFERNAN, HARUKO MAEDA, DOLLY THOMPSETT
Jun 21 - Aug 3, 2013
Private view Thu Jun 20 7pm - 9pm
Julie Heffernan, Haruko Maeda and Dolly Thompsett; are three international artists whose works draw on a rich body of myth, fable and art history to evoke the spirit of Magical Realism.
The principle characteristics of Magical Realism are political critique, hybridity and collective consciousness; ideas shared by each of the artists exhibited in strikingly different ways.. Fantastical elements are infused with the everyday to represent a heightened sense of reality. Heffernan is concerned with the sense of self as a political agenda; Maeda questions the very notion of existence by representing a hybrid of life and death, while Thompsett represents the collective consciousness by suffusing landscapes with states of human emotion.
The principle characteristics of Magical Realism are political critique, hybridity and collective consciousness; ideas shared by each of the artists exhibited in strikingly different ways.
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NADEGE MERIAU : MYCOTOPIA
Jun 15 - Aug 31, 2013
As an exciting development from Meriau's 2-dimensional photographic practice, she has started working on an evolving, edible and compostable installation. With the support of Anarch, the project is as much about process, transformation and the possibility of failure as it is about a specific outcome.
The new commission will be accompanied by a series of events, please see the website for more details

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DAMIAN ORTEGA : APESTRACTION
Jun 6 - Sep 1, 2013
Ortega is well known for his sculptures, installations, videos, photographs and actions. Mundane objects feature prominently, from golf balls and pick-axes to bricks, rubbish bins and even tortillas – all subjected to what has been described as Ortega’s characteristic “mischievous process of transformation and dysfunction”.
 
The artist was invited to visit the Gashaka region in Nigeria: one of the last remaining wildernesses in West Africa, where the rarest subspecies of chimpanzees survives and where the Gashaka Primate Project has its base. By taking an artist to the wilderness, bridges and boundaries between art and science are instinctively created. This exhibition explores these divisions and their transgressions through the work of Ortega. Unlike a dissecting and objectifying scientist, an artist will be able to contextualize the sensitivities of our natural and cultural side in a more nuanced, private and subjectified way – thus honouring Freud’s idea that our psyche is at the heart of our existence.

PSYCHOANALYTIC POETRY FESTIVAL
Jun 22, 2013 9:30am - 4:30pm talk/event
Three of our most distinguished contemporary poets in conversations with psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, exploring themes of trauma, loss and recovery in their work.
Bernard O’Donoghue
in conversation with David Morgan
Sam Willetts
in conversation with Gerry Byrne
Jane Draycott
in conversation with Caroline Garland
£60 Full Price / £45 Students and concessions
(£5 discount for members of the Freud Museum)
For further information contact eventsandmedia@freud.org.uk or +44 (0)20 7435 2002
www.freud.org.uk/events/75110/psychoanalytic-poetry-festival-/

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A GARDEN OF DELIGHTS
May 22 - Jun 20, 2013 FINAL WEEK
Andrew Mansfield, Karl Blossfeldt, Stan Brakhage. (Brakhage 1-8 June only.)

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PROJECTS REVIEW 2013
Jun 22 - Jul 13, 2013
Private view Fri Jun 21 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Major public summer exhibition of works by 650 students studying at the world’s most international school of architecture.

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HELEN MAURER : THE ROCK GARDENS
Jun 21 - Jul 14, 2013
Private view Fri Jun 21 6pm - 9pm
Many of the works in this show continue Helen Maurer's interest in combining light and glass to create shadows and images that change the reading of the original source. Mundane objects, glass, light and turntables are used in these kinetic installations that manipulate the space they inhabit, distort scale and disorient viewers. They rotate, they loop and absorb our sense of time.

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JESSIE BRENNAN : NEW ARTWORK FOR EDGWARE ROAD STATION
Nov 19, 2012 - Nov 19, 2013

JACQUELINE PONCELET : NEW PERMANENT ARTWORK FOR EDGWARE ROAD STATION
Ongoing

LABYRINTH: A MAJOR COMMISSION BY MARK WALLINGER
Ongoing
Labyrinth: A major commission by Mark Wallinger with an artwork at all 270 Tube stations by summer 2013. The first in a series of special commissions marking the 150th anniversary of London Underground.

15 FOR 150
from May
Posters and special limited edition prints by 15 leading contemporary artists to mark the 150th anniversary of London Underground.

CANARY WHARF SCREEN : ART ON THE UNDERGROUND FILMS
Ongoing

NEW TUBE MAP COVER : MONA HATOUM
from 10 May
New Tube map cover entitled London: the world by Mona Hatoum.

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ROY OXLADE : IT’S WHAT YOU SEE. PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS
May 24 - Jun 21, 2013 FINAL WEEK
Paintings and drawings. Best of 50 years of practice.
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CAMP & COMPANY JEFFERY CAMP AND HIS CHOICE
Jun 28 - Jul 26, 2013
Private view Thu Jun 27 6pm - 8pm
Celebrating his 90th birthday with Jeffrey Dennis, Patrick George, Neil Jeffries, Henry Kondracki, Jock McFadyen.
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JEM FINER : LONGPLAYER
to Dec 01, 2999
At Trinity Buoy Wharf.

OREET ASHERY : PARTY FOR FREEDOM
May 1 - Jun 22, 2013 FINAL WEEK

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WINDOW SPACE | JENNIFER TALBOT
Jun 5 - Jul 4, 2013

MUTAGEN
Jun 7 - Aug 3, 2013
Josephine Callaghan, Joey Holder, Vicky Wright.
publication texts by Tom Trevatt, Sonia de Jager and Ben Craggs.
To remain buoyant, their flesh is a primarily gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water, displaying extraordinary adaptations to the arboreal browsing lifestyle. Their immensely long appendages make them very mobile, searching the bottom for soft stationary meals that cannot escape the regenerative slime, which they extrude from some 100 glands or invaginations. The males are often dwarfs, which remain attached to a single female for life moving around as a single body. Gradually their tissues dissolve into hers and eventually disappear completely. This highly unusual set of physical traits completes an all-seeing search engine in an otherwise unexplored area of Deepnet.
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JAMES LLOYD
Jun 28 - Jul 25, 2013

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VIEWPOINTS ON FOLKLORE
Jun 11 - Aug 30, 2013
Exhibition addressing the concept of folklore and the associated visual representations in the works of contemporary Austria-based artists. The exhibition brings together video works,photographs and installations by Johanna and Helmut Kandl, kozek hörlonski,and Sascha Reichstein. Curated by art historian Claudia Marion Stemberger.

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