ANNUAL OPEN // THE 30TH YEAR
AN OPEN EXHIBITION
The legendary unselected exhibition, unbelievably now in it’s 30th year, has led the field in ‘hang the lot’ aesthetics since 1984. Hundreds of small works at attractive prices, the Cafe Gallery Open Exhibition, representing all artists, consolidates its position as the Open
BY OUR SELVES THE INSTALLATION
Andrew Kötting & Iain Sinclair
Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and Andrew Kötting (dressed as a Straw Bear), made an eighty mile walk from Epping Forest to Helpston in Northamptonshire, following in the footsteps of the poet John Clare. Clare’s delirious march is the catalyst for the project.
Folles de leur corps // Crazy about their bodies
Sharon Kivland
CGP London is pleased to announce a new installation by Sharon Kivland. Entitled Folles de leur corps / Crazy about their bodies, the installation, which considers the relation between woman and her body, will include a reading room, a film-screening and an
The Mechanical Garden and Other Long Encores
A Woodmill production, conceived by Naomi Pearce
The Mechanical Garden and Other Long Encores takes a speculative diagram drawn by the late artist Stephen Cripps as its starting point. Over a period of two months, this is re-imagined by emerging artists Ben Burgis, Stuart Middleton and Richard Sides as
The Inner Self // Drawings from the Subconscious
A GROUP EXHIBITION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUTSIDE IN
CGP London is pleased to announce the opening of The Inner Self: Drawings from the Subconscious. Organised by Outside In, which is a national project providing a platform for artists facing barriers to the art world due to mental health issues, disability,
BEG, BORROW, STEAL #4
A Performance Event Curated by Laura Dee Milnes
The 4th edition of BEG, BORROW, STEAL returned to its original birthplace in Dilston Grove, in the form of an afternoon and evening of performance, video, sound, craft and music art works by WOMEN, for EVERYONE! Inspired by Riot Grrrlz (and every
SOUTHWARK PARK // 150 YEARS
A Friends of Southwark Park exhibition
A Friends of Southwark Park exhibition of historic and contemporary photographs and art works to celebrate the anniversary of the Southwark Park Act 1864. Prize giving: August 16 // 1-1:30pm Our thanks to sponsors Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Community Council and United St. Saviour’s
EMPTY, THEATRE, DREAM
BY CORALI DANCE COMPANY
A 30th Anniversary Commission for CGP London 1984-2014. Empty, Theatre, Dream is inspired by dreams the performers have had. Performed by: Graham Evans, Housni Hassan (DJ), Bethan Kendrick, Jackie Ryan Devised by: the performers, Sarah Archdeacon and Jacobus Flynn, with sound and music by Daniel
Sites of Collective Memory
A GROUP EXHIBITION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ANIMATE PROJECTS
Sites of Collective Memory features four new animated works by artists Jordan Baseman, Shona Illingworth, Delaine Le Bas and Damian James Le Bas, and Roz Mortimer that offer intimate portraits of individuals – witnesses to historic events at places that resonate with
THINKING THINGS
A GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY FRANCES LOEFFLER
Thinking Things has been curated for Cafe Gallery by Frances Loeffler and takes the relationship between art and the activity of thinking as its subject, exploring thinking’s ambivalent entanglement with sculptural and visual forms through the practices of a number of contemporary
Nothing Can Stop Us Now
Richard Grayson
In a series of partnerships between Matt’s Gallery and CGP London, Richard Grayson presents a multiscreen sound and video installation. Nothing Can Stop Us Now features the song ‘Stalin wasn’t Stallin’ memorably covered by Robert Wyatt on his 1982 album ‘Nothing Can Stop
THE UNEXPECTED
Photography students // London South Bank University
Digital Photography students at London South Bank University present their first group exhibition The Unexpected, offering individual interpretations around the ideas of the unforeseen, the eye opening, and the overlooked. The group has used both digital and film mediums, along with traditional
MARK TITCHNER
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the opening of Cafe Gallery and the 15th anniversary of the opening Dilston Grove, CGP London has, for the very first time, commissioned a single artist to present works across it’s two venues. At Dilston
YESTERDAY’S WRONG THINKING
Royal College of Art // Printmaking MA Year 1 students
First Year Printmakers, Royal College of Art: Amanda Wieczorek, Amy Gear, Eden Barrena Gonzalez, Daniel Clark, Eva Lerche-Lerchenborg, Georgia Harris, Gloria Ceballos, Ho-Jun Choi, Hyemi Kim, Jennifer Price, Jilly Roberts, Julie Roch-Cuerrier, Katja Angeli, Kate Fahey, Lou Atessa Marcellin, Maito Jobbe Duval,