We celebrate our return to our home at the McKenzie Pavilion in Finsbury Park with the annual show Salon Locale, this year featuring sixteen emergent artists in a group show exploring issues of urbanism, domesticity and life on the edge of the city including four gallery:space artists on their second Salon Locale visit.

Private View 7 May 6-8pm
Admission free

Linsey Bell                    Richard Watkins
Andy Wicks                   Agnieszka Mlicka
Katie Orr                      Harvey Woodward
Richard McConnell        Reid Peppard
Jorge Lizalde                Kaoru Murakami
Graham Carrick            Grace Gelder
Anna Lewis                   Kate Rowles
Maito Jobbe-Duval        Kathryn Politis

Curated by Shiri Shalmy and Natasha Rivett-Carnac

Poster image: Reid Peppard
For further enquiries contact gallery@galleryspace.org.uk

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Join us on Saturday the 22nd of March for a free event celebrating the beginning of spring and the end of the show Greetings from Finsbury Park.

Free history walk + live music

Greetings from Finsbury Park
29 December 07 - 2 March 08
Saturday & Sunday 11-dusk

Public event on Saturday 19 January 12:00

Celebrating the end of a year long project exploring the history of the Park, Greetings from Finsbury Park is the second collaboration between gallery:space and the Friends of Finsbury Park.

Greetings from Finsbury Park presents the earliest known image of Hornsey Wood House, the oldest documented building in the area. Hornsey Wood House was located only yards from where the gallery now stands and in the mid 1700s  it became a fashionable tea house for Londoners escaping the city grime.

Eight large scale reproductions of postcards from a private collection illustrate the golden age of Finsbury Park in a time when postcards were a popular medium of communication.With six post deliveries a day, you could send a postcard in the morning to arrange a meeting later that day; an early version of emails and text messages.

Different maps of the area illustrate the great speed in which north east London developed. From woodlands and fields, far away from the dirty streets and factories of the city in to a busy, well connected suburb housing thousands of new residents within 60 years.

See what local Edwardians told each other about Finsbury Park and find your house on a 1894 Ordnance Survey map of the area. Become part of history!

During the winter the gallery will open on Saturday and Sunday from 11am and close at dusk.
Closing time will change throughout the show. Please contact us for exact times.

FREE

For more information please contact gallery@galleryspace.org.uk

Greeting from Finsbury Park is a gallery:space production curated by Shiri Shalmy and Linsey Bell.
The show is part of PARK project, organised by The Friends of Finsbury Park with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The book A Park for Finsbury by Hugh Hayes is on sale during the exhibition for £4.99

Silent Witnesses in Focus
The 10th Luis Valtueña international Humanitarian Photography Award

Opens on Saturday 17 November at 1pm

The show continues until 16 December
Tuesday - Sunday 12-5

Special poetry event on Saturday 15 December at 4pm.
Free. Booking essential on gallery@galleryspace.org.uk
                                                                                                                                            

Established 10 years ago as a tribute to four humanitarian workers who were murdered in the field, the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award invites photographers around the world to capture the essence of humanitarian and solidarity values and actions in scenes they have witnessed first-hand during the previous 12 months.

From the Lebanon to Sierra Leone, Spain to the Philippines, photographers in this year's award cover the experiences of people living in conditions unimaginable for most of us.
These disturbing images expose the cruelty, poverty and ignorance that are affecting the lives of millions around the world while focusing on the personal through the exploration of everyday stories.

The images in this show, including many by established international photographers , were selected from over 300 works submitted this year.
In addition to the photographs in the annual competition we are pleased to show a retrospective exhibition of winning images from the last decade.

To find out more about the work of Médecins du Monde visit www.medecinsdumonde.org.uk

The poetry event is organised by Siofra McSherry in collaboration with Exiled Writers Ink

Image: Lana Slezic
Invite design: Simon Goode

VISIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS 

18 October - 11 November
Tuesday - Sunday 12-5
Private view 17 October 6-8   

Wednesday 24 October at 6:30 - Sequins, Soca and Sweat a film by Stephen Rudder
Tuesday 30 October at 6:30 - Dream to Change the World a film by Horace Ove
Saturday 10 November at 4:00 - Gallery talk with the artists

Free. Booking essential. Please book your place on gallery@galleryspace.org.uk

Founded in 1966 by John la Rose, Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Andrew Salkey, the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) aimed to explore and promote the collective and individual experiences of artists from Caribbean heritage. The movement involved poets, writers, painters, sculptors, illustrators, designers filmmakers and artists working across disciplines including Horace Ove, Althea McNish, Errol Lloyd, CLR James, Paul Dash, Aubrey Williams, Art Derry and Linton Kwesi Johnson among others.

Artists in the movement investigated the ideas and forms of Caribbean imagery, looking for a  unique, distinguished, Caribbean aesthetic. Through seminars and reading events, workshops and exhibitions the Caribbean Artists Movement invited members and audiences to exchange ideas and developed a body of works reflecting on their Caribbean, African and Amerindian inheritance, incorporating the people's language and musical rhythms into their work, and challenging the boundaries of European cultural domination.

Visions of Consciousness focuses on the early days of the Caribbean Artists Movement and on the journeys taken from the Caribbean to the UK, from individuals into a movement. The exhibition looks at the cultural, political and social landscapes of the era in the Caribbean and in the UK and examines the issues explored by the movement. Visions of Consciousness includes original works, books, photographs, films and publication from the Caribbean Artists Movement as well as a specially commissioned short film by filmmakers Mark Knight and Matthew Robinson.


Visions of Consciousness is a gallery:space production curated by Shiri Shalmy and Jakeline Londoño.

This show has been produced with support from the George Padmore Institute and The Friends of Finsbury Park

Invite design by Birdy
Exhibition graphics by Simon Goode

8 - 30 September

Tuesday - Sunday 12-6

Private view Friday 7 September 6-9pm

The Istanbul Project is a multi-cultural, cross-faith and inter-continental project, exploring the cultural, social and geographical landscapes of Istanbul through the eyes of Israeli photographers.

In the past eight years, students from the Israeli College of Geographical Photography have been traveling to Istanbul for their graduate year project and created a body of work that reveals the many faces of this most fascinating city.

The Istanbul Project is a joint production of gallery:space and the Israeli College of Geographical Photography, curated by Shiri Shalmy.

 

SALON LOCALE

9 August - 2 September

Private view  8 August 6-9pm

A group show featuring 20 artists living and working in the Finsbury Park area, representing the diversity of talents, interests and artistic expressions around Finsbury Park.

Salon Locale artists are predominantly dealing with various notions of the human condition in the urban environment, its breakdown, and the possibility of real or fantastic escape.

Noa Lidor and Beate Frommelt explore the emotional landscape of dreams, fantasies and the barriers for communication using the delicate techniques of line drawings and print while Pablo Ferretti and Fran Ortega use bold brush strokes and Judith Burrows uses underwater photography to illustrate similar notions.

Rick Jensen, Graham Carrick, Andy Wicks and Richard McConnell all show empty spaces where the evidence of human activity is clear in the environment but no faces are visible while Jules Boote and Miriam Nabarro are interested in the moments where the natural world is threatening and overpowering the human existence.

Katharine Codd and Christina Mitrentse look at the attempts to contain and control this natural world through topography and biology, creating quasi scientific images of maps, minerals and specimen plates but using traditional methods of drawing and painting.

More familiar, yet almost unrecognised, territories are represented in the works of Jono Kenyon and Judith Burrows who manipulate images of London landmarks and in John Crossley's 'pixelated' canvases of popular icons while Marianne Morild explores the surreal possibilities offered by the names given to local council estates.

The works of James Keniston, Maggie Jennings and Marc Summersgill offer some form of escape in the romantic, with images of fish, flowers and rolling hills; yet again, the absence of human presence adds something sinister to all these images. It is only in the abstract works of Richard Watkins that true escape is possible – a departure to a world where the human experience is irrelevant.

Curated by Shiri Shalmy.

Participating artists (in alphabetic order)

Andy Wicks               Beate Frommelt 
Christina Mitrentse    Fran Ortega
Graham Carrick        James Keniston
John Crossley           Jono Kenyon
Judith Burrows          Jules Boote
Katharine Codd         Maggie Jennings
Marc Summersgill     Marianne Morild
Miriam Nabarro         Noa Lidor
Pablo Ferretti            Richard McConnell
Richard Watkins        Rick Jensen

gallery:space would like to thank Caren Bland and Matthew Curtis for their help in producing this show.

Mohammad Ali Talpur at gallery:space

Private view - 12 July 2007 8-9pm
Exhibition continues to 29 July, Tuesday-Sunday 11-6

Mohammad Ali Talpur's current body of work stemmed from his desire to make "art without content"- to go back to the craft of drawing. Sitting on the rooftop of his studio, he began tracing the flight paths of birds with felt tip on paper and this developed into his current series of work where he meditatively,sometimes obsessively, immerses himself in the line:closely woven, intense clusters of lines in ink on paper/ and acrylic on canvas.
His lines loosen, yet his work maintains their woven quality in his machine drawings series, where he manipulates a printing press used to produce school exercise books.

Mohammad Ali lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan and graduated from Lahore's National College of Arts in 1998. His work has been exhibited in the subcontinent and more recently in London, as part of the "Punctured and Unravelled" exhibition by Green Cardamom. Mohammad Ali is one of 20 international artists selected for the "Best of Discovery" Exhibition at the inaugural Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair.

Green Cardamom is an international arts organisation.  It develops and run visual arts projects in collaboration with public museums and galleries. These are informed by a South Asian cultural perspective, and situate work in an international context not skewed towards a Euro-American outlook. The organisation runs a separate gallery programme, and represents contemporary artists from Pakistan, South and Central Asia and the Middle East. Green Cardamom works on a not-for-profit basis.

Link to Mohammad Ali Talpur's work (Green Cardamom)

Lee Simmons
Oxted Quarry Project and Q:2

Exhibition / Colouring Event

30 June – 8 July Tuesday – Sunday 11am-6pm

Private view / paint bombing Friday 29 June 6-9pm

Meet the artist Thursday 5 July 2pm

gallery:space presents documentation and remnants from Lee Simmons' art events that took place at Oxted Quarry and Betchworth land fill site.

FINSBURY PIE

gallery:space is hosting Finsbury Pie, a short documentary film by Ben Walker, Ewa Leszczynska, Francis Wilmer and Rosalie Spawls who worked over 10 weeks with artists Bern Roche Farrelly and Tom Richards from Reception Space.

Finsbury Pie records the living history of the park through the eyes of staff, visitors and residents of the surrounding area.

Finsbury Pie is shown on Tuesday - Sunday 11-6 until 24 June.

Closing down event on Sunday 24 June  5pm.

Finsbury Pie is produced by Shiri Shalmy as part of PARK, a multidisciplinary project exploring and
recording the heritage of Finsbury Park.
PARK is organised by the Friends of Finsbury Park with funding
from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

To watch the film visit www.parkproject.org.uk

NATURE TRAILS
A new show at gallery:space

Gill Hale
Noa Lidor
Jo Melvin
Gil Pasternak
Jakeline Londoño

Curated by Shiri Shalmy

26 April- 25 May 07
Private View - Thursday 26 April 6-8pm
Gallery Talk - Tuesday 1 May 6-8pm

NATURE TRAILS is the first show at Gallery:Space - a new space for art in the middle of Finsbury Park.

Situated in the heart of an urban park, NATURE TRAILS refers to its setting as a departure point for a discussion about human understanding of, and relationship with, the natural world.

NATURE TRAILS feature five London based artists, exploring issues of constructed nature, the ability to grasp spaces beyond human control or the nature of nature. Mapping, navigation, trade and travel are some of the ideas investigated in the show.

Noa Lidor's wall installation, made out of hundreds of metal thimbles,
creates a stunning visual effect in this poetic work while Jakeline
Londoño's sculpture, hanging from the gallery's ceiling, has an intense physical presence in the space. Jo Melvin and Gil Pasternak's video work, using footage of seascape, is an exploration of spaces, physical and mental while Gill Hale maps new, invented territories in a work dealing with the possibilities of public spaces.

The show is accompanied by a free educational resource for primary schools and families and a free Gallery Talk.
Admission is free.

Gallery:Space is a new independent space for art in the middle of Finsbury Park. It is a not for profit social enterprise and the first public art space in the Finsbury Park area.

NATURE TRAILS is supporetd by Haringey Council, Rowan's Bowling
Club, The Friends of Finsbury Park, Reception Space and Homebase.