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Lambeth Country Show

Stockwell Studios will be at the Lambeth Country Show this year - 19th and 20th July in Brockwell Park. We'll be in the charities and authorites section outside the main marquee. We look forward to seeing you.

Mural Coming Soon!

Art4Space have secured an Awards for All funding bid to create a mural on the Stockwell Studios exterior entrance fence. Local young people will be involved, which is a great opportunity to continue our good work with community links. This is a new fence as the previous one was damaged by the wind storms in February 2007. The fence before had a painted mural that was created in 1998 by the artists and local children. It was always admired and never home to graffiti, which shows the value of this level of community artwork. We are going to paint the murals on wooden panels which can be re-positioned if necessary. The title of the artwork is 'Inside Out' and will be completed in September 2008 - watch the space!

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Art4Space Mosaics

2008 has been a busy start for Art4Space. Two large floor mosaics for Northala Park, Ealing and Chichester School. Both very successful community art projects. They have also installed a mosaic path in a playground in Walthamstow, plus Art4Space have worked on some design sessions for the Gaudi inspired Talacre benches in Camden. This is a large community project which will be completed in the Summer 08. More on our doorstep in Lambeth - a mosaic welcome panel for the Weir Link new community centre. Art4Space worked with the South Island Arts After School Club to create a beautiful glass and tesserae mosaic for local Durand School, Stockwell, which is a back drop to their new nature garden. Over 600 participants have been involved in these projects. Well done.

Stockwell Studios in the Press 2

Private Eye included Stockwell Studios in its 'Nooks and Crannies' feature of the October 2007 edition. These articles serve to highlight the plight of old buildings often allowed to deteriorate before being demolished to make way for new build. Mentioned is the earlier plan to use the hospital for social housing and the re-housing of Stockwell Studios' artists after a survey that considered the building to be sound.

Community Project Award Nomination

Art4Space were finalists for Best Creative Business under the Lambeth Business Awards celebrating innovative business. They were also recently short-listed for the 'Our Heroes Awards 2007' South London Press.

Stockwell Studios in the Press

An article titled "Art hub doomed?" appeared in the South London Press on 31 August 2007 highighting the plight of Stockwell Studios' current home of the former Annie McCall Hospital, which if sold by Lambeth Council to developers and their plans approved, will face demolition. Heloise Brown of the Victorian Society said "it's a credit to the council that they have allowed such a valuable resourse to thrive for the last 20 years. We hope they don't abandon it now". A council spokesman said plans for the site included space for artists as well as community facilities and a green area.

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Paradise Lost

Stained glass artists Kathy Shaw and Tim Cunliffe are showing new work in their exhibition 'Dark illumine' at the Cochrane Theatre Gallery in Holborn until December 2007. The exhibition is inspired by Milton's 'Paradise Lost', which interestingly connects with some lost paradises in Stockwell. Research on local history has revealed that the site of the studios is referred to in a map of 1598 as 'Seven acres called paradise', and in a later map there is mention of a Paradise Farm.

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May's Drawing and Painting Classes

Another successfull year at the Resource Centre and Ashmole Community Hall for May's drawing and painting classes. Some of the work done by local senior residents will be on display at Tate South Lambeth Library in October later this year. Classes are on holiday until mid-Sept hopefully we can all return to both venues in the new academic year pending support and funding. If you would like to know more about May's popular class please email m40anderson@btinternet.com.

Evening of Support at the Studios

Wednesday 27th June 2007

Stockwell Studios was the venue for this year's INURA conference party (www.inura07.org.uk).

INURA (International Network for Urban Research and Action) is a network of people involved in action and research in localities and cities. The Network consists of activists and researchers from community and environmental groups, universities, and local administrations, who wish to share experiences and to participate in common research.

We were fortunate to have the opportunity to share this experience and gain some insight, knowledge and find solutions which may help Stockwell Studios work towards securing the success of an agreed artist lead urban cultural development project.

Watch this space for more information.

Invitation Invitation

Summer Open Studios 2007

8th-10th June

Free admission
Café in the garden throughout the weekend.

Stockwell Studios opened the doors of the old Annie McCall Maternity Hospital to welcome close to 900 visitors for three days of art, music, performance and installation. This was an opportunity for the entire family to not only visit the building and garden but to see behind the closed doors of the artists' workplaces.

To coincide with the Open Studios, we took part for the first time in the Open Garden Squares weekend. This is the one weekend in the year when many of London's private gardens open their gates to welcome visitors.

We also participated in Arts Unwrapped, the London-wide artists open studio event which is supported by the London Development Agency.

List of all artists below.

Events and entertainment:
Spectacle video workshop
Poet Chris Tutton
Opera Singer Jane Whittaker
Bureau of Silly Ideas throughout the weekend.

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Crazy Golf at Stockwell Studios Open Show - June 2007

Featured at our successful Summer Open Studios was a crazy golf course created out of scrap, with the theme of futuristic buildings for Stockwell Studios. It was a recycled community arts project involving more than 40 youngsters from the local community. There were five courses, taking two weeks to construct prior to the show. During the show the young people managed the crazy golf handing out clubs and instructions to visitors who wanted to have a go. It was a busy activity and kept everyone amused for hours! The courses have now been dismantled and the main buildings are displayed in our front courtyard rockery for all to enjoy. This was an Art4Space commission and funding secured by the Local Network Fund. Please visit www.art4space.co.uk for further documentation.

Chris Tutton at Stockwell Studios

Stockwell Studios were delighted to have acclaimed poet Chris Tutton perform his work for visitors in our wild garden during our recent show. More info about Chris, whose workshops and performances also featured in Lambeth Readers and Writers festival in May 2007, can be found at www.christutton.co.uk.

Shows – Open Studios Event

Visitors are invited to view innovative and diverse art produced in the studios by professional artists and are offered the chance to access affordable, original works direct from the artists themselves. Shows are held at our studios in the old Annie McCall Maternity Hospital Building and Gardens (featured in London 'Open House'). Admission to the events, which also feature guest artists, entertainment and performance, is free!

Resident artists:

May Anderson
art4space
Neel Bakhle
Vanessa Billy
Sue Blandford
Jim Bradley
Lucy Casson
Jake Cook
Tim Cunliffe
Mathew Dart
Simon Gershon
Ilga Leimanis
Terry McCormack
Jo Miller
Julie Norburn
Munirah Olton
Teresa Paiva
Adrian Palka
Luke Pendrell
Sam Porritt
Sarah Riley
Geoff Routh
Elinor Seath
Kathy Shaw
Julie Sullock
Tod
Eva Verhoeven
Guest artists 2007:

Peter Baker
Sally Barker
Andrew Crawford-White
Tim Cunliffe
John Deller
Jane Denman
Alexe Dilworth
Anthony Elliott
Andrew Fung
Natasha Gomperts
Wendy Macmillan
Rebekah Narewski
Agamemnon Otero
Teresa Paiva
Emily Peirce
Yael Schmidt
Spectacle
Wolfram der Spyra
and Greg Miller
Susan Stark
Liz Toole
Phil Toy
Anthony Wilson
Doreen Wittenbols
Lawrence Yusupoff
Days of the Commune:

Simona Brinkmann
Cameron Irving
Matt Lippiatt
George Henry Longly
Chris McCormack
Terrence McCormack
Sarah Raine
Natasha Rees
Chris Shaw
Matthew Smith
Charlotte Thrane
Jackson Webb

Arts Outreach and Cultural Projects

Whilst providing sustainable workspaces for local artists within the community, the studios have a long history of delivering high quality contempory community arts projects. We are committed to promoting and generating interest in the value and practice of arts within local communities through outreach and cultural projects, successfully administering European and Lambeth arts funding. Projects include:

Annie Mc Call Heritage Project
Painting classes for the elderly
Lambeth MIND workshop
Sculpture and mosaic workshops
Mums the Word
Artist placements @ local schools
Stockwell Festival participation
Educational Open Days

Find out More!

More detailed information on previous outreach projects, the building and its history can be found at: Annie Mc Call Heritage Project

Photographs

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Stockwell Studios - a future venue for your group

The Studios have provided a community arts space for hire for groups and workshops at reasonable rates. Past regular workshops / events have included:

Capoeira for children
Painting classes
Avalon in London
The Singing Group
Tango classes
Improv workshops
Art exhibitions
Queer Spirit Circle

Campaign update

The Annie McCall site is undergoing re-development. Building Better Health have signed heads of terms with Lambeth Council. The next phase is to finalise the plans. The new development will include private housing, artists studios, a community arts space and a community garden. The process will take 6 months to a year to get through planning and building works will happen once planning has agreed the particulars. Stockwell Studios will be actively involved in the design and development of the new site. Updates will be posted as they happen.

Stockwell Studios recently welcomed five new resident artists who value this unique and creative space and are working hard to maintain it. There is high demand for studio space in Stockwell and our waiting list is growing with new enquiries weekly!

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Jeffreys Rd

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020 7978 2299
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