Category: WORK

Invisible Visible – Exhibition

ARTISTS

Kelvin Atmadibrata
Gem Bryant
Ros Cairns
Freya Clayton-Harding
Vivienne Cohen
El Colman
Laura Crosbie
Theo Dunne
Aisling Gallagher
Lola Gillies-Creasey
Margaux Halloran
Sally Hernández (Yaiza)
Caitlin Howe
Anna lll
Usva Inei
Theo Jackson
Katrina Lyne-Watt
Roux Malherbe
Jaime Martinez Lopez
Robbie McKinstry
Eva Merendes
Efrat Merin
Saffron Mustafa (Saf)
Charlie Oppenheim
Alessandro Paiano
E.M. Parry
Sol Santana
Eva Sbaraini
Artur Siudem
Siao-Chen Wang (Sam)
Raffi Williamson
Yufeng Wu
Lianjiang Zhu
Xinyu XuXX

‘Invisible Visible’
A Celebration of LGBQT+ Bodies and Identities

EXHIBITION
15 – 24 MARCH, 2024

Open daily, 2-6pm / Sat & Sun, 12-6pm

Opening night, Friday 15th, 5-8pm
Family Drop in, Sunday 24th, 12noon-2pm (art workshop suitable for all ages)
Performances, Sunday 24th, 3-5pm

Part of The Telegraph Hill Festival 2024

‘Invisible Visible’ is a group exhibition hosted at hARTslane that celebrates LGBTQ+ identities and bodies, as well as the freedom of expression and identification in terms of one’s gender and sexuality. The aim is to bring together LGBTQ+ artists that live in New Cross and surrounding areas in order to support the community and its creativity. The exhibition is curated by queer visual artist Usva Inei.

List of Works List of Works

Programme of Performances:

Friday 15th:
5-7pm, E.M. Parry
5:30pm, Jaime Martinez Lopez
6pm, Freya Clayton-Harding
6:30pm, Caitlin Howe

Sunday 24th:
3pm, Jaime Martinez Lopez
3:30, Caitlin Howe
3:45, Freya Clayton-Harding
4pm, E.M. Parry

Family Drop in, Sunday 24th, 12-2pm:
Led by artist and curator Usva Inei.
Free art workshops to explore themes of inclusion, acceptance, and self-expression through thought-provoking artworks.
Suitable for all ages.

Supported by:

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Exhibitions, Opportunities

HA! (hARTslane Alternative)

HA!

(hARTslane Alternative)*

Link to the Frequently Asked Questions

What are artists doing in general? When they are not creating objects that are intensely exquisite, sharply thought-provoking, and simultaneously, shocking. When they’re not using their materials for company, creating a doll, and eating paint as sustenance. When they are not hanging out on the steps of the Tate…wondering. No but really? Is anyone else wondering?

Can we talk a bit more genuinely about the “true lives” of artists.

The artists who are outside of funding or a residency, the ones who are outside of an institution or loan, those who have graduated, those who haven’t, artists who don’t align with the working hours of other artists, artists who can’t find the time to hang out in the museum, or on its steps.

How do you find the time to collide with your other artists? Do you want to make your artistic life spicy? Again?

HA! Is an alternative “MA” Fine Art programme designed by artists in collaboration with hARTslane.

HA! provides artists with a focus on skill-sharing, affordability, and living/working life as an artist in London.

HA! responds to discontentment with mainstream art education models.

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* HA! is an alternative MA fine art programme which is not officially recognised or accredited, which is why we are “alternative”.

It’s an artist-run education model and takes place with collective resources and skill share at its heart. We learn from each other by sharing skills and knowledge.

This programme was designed around affordability and the working/living life as an artist in London. It is for those who want to develop their artistic practice but can’t afford the costs of higher university education.

If you’d like to see other alternative school programmes, I’ve attached a link here:

https://videomole.tv/alternative-art-education/

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HA! (hARTslane Alternative) 2024

Location: hARTslane Gallery

Duration: 4 months (15^th April – 5^th August)

Commitment: 2 x evenings per week (Monday and Wednesday)

Credential: Certificate in Master of Art by the authority of the assembly *

*held at the convocation

Course content:

Studying in the belly of the beast and between the walls and afterhours of hARTslane

We will have a large selection of crits, talks, workshops, visiting artists/experts and off-site visits, gathering as a group 1-2 times a week.

There will also be the chance to test exhibiting work in a weekend interim show with your cohort at hARTslane Gallery.

Your graduation will be captured in a final 9 day show at the end of the course, also taking place at hARTslane Gallery, with a total of 8 artists.

All the sessions will be happening between hours of 6-9pm on a weekday evening, staggered over the course of 4 months.

This is a launch of a project we’ve been crafting for the past year. This year we only have 8 places available, but we are hoping to keep the project returning year after year, with many cohorts and hARTslane alumni.

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Breakdown

3 expert-led sustainability talks

– Cristiana Botigella.

Founder & director of hARTslane, established the artist in residence at the Pistoletto Foundation (Italy), research in international work (Artquest), self-determination and economic sustainability for artists.

– Charlotte Warne Thomas.

Artist, lecturer, freelance researcher and advocate for artists’ fair pay; author of Artists as Workers (2021), editor of Structurally F~cked (2023); founder of Peer Sessions post-graduate crit group; and current practice-based PhD candidate (AHRC-funding) at Kingston University.

– Sophia Kosmaoglou.

Artist and organiser who works collaboratively and across media to address the construction of identity through relationships. Founder of the alternative art education network ART&CRITIQUE (2015) and co-founder of the Radical Pedagogy Research Group (2019). She is currently working on a participatory action-research project to start a co-operative art school, in order to provide a self-organised and sustainable alternative to mainstream art education.

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2 Group crits

– One crit will be with a group of 4.

– One crit will be with the whole cohort of 8.

2 visiting practicing artists talks

– Hanne Peeraer.

Artist, facilitator and interdisciplinary problem-solver.

– Alek Mechlinski.

Artist and curator with a painting practice, engaging with this dynamic environment by reiterating, digesting, and contemplating images.

1 x Workshop on a workshop

– led by founders Rachel Lonsdale and Sarah-Athina Nahas

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8 skill-share workshops

– Every artist on the course has to offer up 1 art related skill share workshop for the rest of the cohort. Skill share can take any form, but practice-based skill share is encouraged. Some examples include technician work/sewing machine skills/ archiving/ materials/ paper making / natural dye/ sculpture/ installing work/ movement based workshops

3 off site visits

– To an art space/event/opening

1 x weekend interim show

– May 2024

9 day graduation show at hARTslane Gallery

– July 2024

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Finance

We have set the fee for the course at £90 per month, coming to a total of £360 for the whole programme.

This will be in 4 instalments from April-July, expected on the 1^st of the month

The first instalment will be expected on 1^st March 2024. Instalments will not be refundable

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Project Lead(s)

– Rachel Lonsdale and Sarah-Athina Nahas

Rachel is a multi-disciplinary artist. Rachel puts questions to the environments she encounters (mainly spaces in London but sometimes in the Northeast of England when train fares are low and she goes home). She creates narrative in the form of performance, writing, text and film. She restages elements of contemporary life and interacts with everyday objects, misusing them to create unresolved mysteries, satire, and conflict.

After graduating from Wimbledon College of Art on the BA fine art course that has since been axed ~RIP~, she is now Programme Co-ordinator at hARTslane gallery where she programmes events, co-curates exhibitions and other action. She is the co-founder of GRAVEL* (2022-2023), and now is part of conch collective* as another extension of live performance projects.

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Sarah-Athina is Lebanese-French multidisciplinary artist with a particular interest for painting, textiles, sewing and any time consuming, painstaking activity. She studied BA:Fine Art at Wimbledon (UAL) and then had a very contrasting experience at the Royal college of Art. It reinforced her love for the alternative and underground culture in general.

She co-ran GRAVEL* (2022-2023) where she developed her drawing performances, exploring silky paints mixed with honey and spilled goblets of wine. She’s part of conch collective, a get-together of artists with a particular focus on performance(s) with a small P but with a big S.

(for both)

*a tri-monthly live performance art evening at hARTslane gallery

* a humble collective of seven

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Opportunities

The Dinner Art Project

A series of events for sharing food and stories

Saturday 23rd September, 1-4pm
Free entry, all welcome!

Intimate ingesting;
ingesting intimacy
by artists Fatima Alaiwat & Barney Pau

Creating three different dishes all using the same ingredients, exploring the variety that can be found in repetition.

A project by hARTslane.

In collaboration with:
Deptford RoyalNaval Place Allotments and GS Wines
Supported by Bold Vision

Rather than focussing on the novelty of an array of different foods, this event will focus on repetition as a means of care and intimacy. The artists will explore ways of activating food/eating as practise for relearning, reinvesting and rewilding things we care for. Over the course of the event, Fatima and Barney will create 3 different foods, all using the same ingredients, to focus on the variability that can be found in repetition. These could take place on the hour.

One part will be about the physicality of eating; one about provenance; one about a poetic intervention. The intention is to explore how these three separate approaches invite modes of intimacy in ingesting.

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Exhibitions

Artist Development and Access to Opportunities

DYCP Grant

Webinar
Artist in Residence Unwrapped

27 July – 16 August
One-to-One Sessions

Following discussions with artists, we have noticed there is a recurring theme surrounding a lack of support and accessibility to opportunities and arts funding applications. The creative sector deserves better than this – we want to collaborate by sharing our resources and experience.

We are offering a programme of artist development events and opportunities that take place either in hARTslane or online.

We currently offer:

Arts Council England DYCP (Developing Your Creative Practice) application writing group workshops and webinars.
ACE DYCP application support & review (both new applications and resubmissions)
We can help you obtain ACE Access Support for DYCP and NLPG funding applications and we can be your support worker
One-to-one advice & mentoring sessions: from career and practice development to funding, accessing opportunities, visibility, community engagement and project management.

Our group sessions normally cost £20 and one-to one online advice sessions are £40. For fees on application review and for more information please contact us via email at info@hartslane.org

DYCP Grant – Application writing webinar

Ongoing / Normally 4-6 times a year and near the ACE DYCP deadlines
Sessions last 90 minutes
New dates are announced on our Instagram page

Are you an artist looking to further develop your practice but you are not sure how to?
Are you planning to apply for Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) programme and are looking for inspiration, advice and support?
Join our Developing Your Creative Practice funding application writing workshop. We will share our knowledge and experience to help you create a strong Arts Council DYCP application.

What to expect:

During the workshop we will take an in-depth look at the DYCP programme application process: eligibility criteria and access support, the questions and what ACE assessors are looking for, how to create a solid plan and a budget.
We will look at examples of successful applications and we will share useful tips and resources to help you develop your ideas, plan and write your own application.
The session will be friendly and informal. There will be plenty of opportunities for discussion and questions.
This workshop is tailored to those who are planning to apply to Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice programme. However, it will be beneficial to all those who want to take a moment to reflect on how to develop their practice and decide to apply in the future or just want to bring their practice to the next level and don’t know where to start.

What is a DYCP?

Arts Council England’s DYCP supports individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development.

Artis Residencies Unwrapped

Run by Cristiana Bottigella (hARTslane director) & Rain Wu (Artist & lecturer)

Join us at hARTslane to get inspired and discover everything you need to know about artist in residence programmes:

Why you should go

What they are

Where to find them

How to apply…and be successful!

1-to-1 sessions

These sessions are bespoke and they can be booked as a one-off or as a series.

This is an opportunity to get practical advice, receive feedback on your work and find out more ways to support your practice. There is no expectation of prior knowledge about funding and project proposals.
The sessions are informal and conversational.

Participants can use the advice session as they choose. This could involve:

A creative review of a project idea
Practice development; plan of action and target-setting
Funding opportunities; where to start and how to select the right ones
Help finding partners and creating meaningful exchange in working with local communities
Reading and commenting on a funding application/artistic opportunity or residency

Each session is a confidential, relaxed discussion about your ideas or project to explore the key issues and challenges you have identified. An advice session generally ends with a clear set of tasks and priorities or resources in order to progress to the next stage of your creative journey.
Sessions last 1 hour and cost £40.

For more information or bookings, please email us.

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Opportunities

Come Dine in Blue

COME DINE IN BLUE

Inspired by the work of Tisna Westerhof.

Created and produced by artist Tisna Westerhof & Cristiana Bottigella.

Participatory art project bringing together more than 100 Lewisham residents with a migrant background creating a Blue-and-White dining room installation that tells personal and collective stories of identity and belonging, redefining heritage, celebrating different cultures and the journey to Lewisham.

Please read more about Come Dine in Blue project: An article by Miri de Villers for Eastlononlines and an interview by Ayokunle Oluwalana, community reporter for My London News.

Please visit our Come Dine in Blue Shop.

‘Blue Borough’ – Illustration by Tisna Westerhof
Buy it here

Supported by

‘Redefining heritage’ – Illustration by Tisna Westerhof

Artists and art facilitators: Tisna Westerhof, Amanda Holiday, Rain Wu, Clive Burton, Nadina Ali, Kai Christodulou-lee, Mary McInerney, Carla Thomas, Tang Victoria Hoi Yi, Amelia Yang and WhittyGordon Projects.

Participants:
Ainhoa Oleas, Al S. Family, Alan Chong, Alex & Lavinia Bajko, Anaya Hyde, Angeline Espinosa, April Lam, Asmahan, Aylin, Bella Alexandrova, Bernard, Biheri, Channan Warmington Lewis Moore, Dana, Deborah Thomas, Dulce, Edward, Elisabeth Grace Enriquez, Fabiola Jimenez, Fanyi Zhang, Farozan Saleemi, Farhnaz Saleemi, Faten, Fr. Grant Bolton-Debbage, Fiona Quadri, Flynn Richards, Fox Thomas Butler, Franklin Jackduring, Fransesca Telling, Freya Ye, Georgiana Hyde, Gustavo Barboza, Hanadi, Lloyd Richards, Hang Luc, Harris family, Iyamide Thomas, Jada Perry, James Attwood, Jane Dolores, Jessenia Parrez, Jinying Gao, Joshua, Julia and Jim Wells, Julia, Julia Deng, Julia Scoble, Kai Christodulou-lee, Ke Bao, Kiki Wong, Kyrah Warmington-Lewis, Leyre, Lia Ayuino, Lilyana Karavacheva, Limah, Linda, Lueillia Joseph, Luisa Chicaiza y Salvador Herrera, Maliha, Marianela, Marie Wotay Kamara, Marilyn Alfaro, Martha, Mary Shephard, Mateo Espinoza, Melvasquez, Mia Olaya, Mia Scoble, Mong Lang, Mutiat Oyesile, Nadina Ali, Naiala, Najm, Nicolas Saez, Petia Pakozdi, Pokuaa, Qianhui Sun – Alice, Quan Cao, Randolph Andy, Remmie Akibo-Betts, Rihanna Daño Cali, Ruby Seasy, Sabah, Sachi Slate, Sally Shao, Sanaya Havaldar, Sena Appeah, Serafina Min, Shoko Sakuma, Silvia, Sweeta jan, Tania Patiño Ariana Ruiz, Tolu Elusadé, Tom V., Vaura & Noah Viner, Veronica Ashley, Violeta Luna Enriquez, Waeed, Wiliam, Wagma, Woman from Syria living in Lewisham with her family, Xuemei Hwang, Yalda, Yen Trieu, Yiyun Li, Zainab, Zhuoyuan Zhang, Zoila y Luis Lema.

Part of We Are Lewisham, Lewisham London Borough of Culture 2022

Exhibition opening:
Saturday 24^th of September, 3-7pm
Exhibition open, Sunday 25^th – Thursday 6th of October. Weekdays, 3-7pm, Saturday & Sunday, 2-6pm.

Programme of the opening day:
Launch of the Come Dine in Blue film created by WhittyGordon Project and the Come Dine in Blue publication.
Free creative family workshops available throughout the opening day.
Food and drinks made by the participating community groups.
Come Dine in Blue artworks, publication and gadgets available to purchase.

Partner community organisations:
Refugee Council – Lewisham
Migration Museum
The Confucius Institute at Goldsmiths, University of London
JOY & The Tai-Chi community at All Saints Community Centre
All Saints Church, New Cross
Be Seen Be Heard Youth Forum – Young black artists in Lewisham/SE London aged 16-25
The Latin-American community of Lewisham & SE London
The community of La Placita Mall

Funded by:
The Arts Council England
The Heritage Fund
Lewisham Council

The programme of 30 creative workshops was led by artist Tisna Westerhof and curated by Cristiana Bottigella, in collaboration with South East London based artists and art facilitators: Amanda Holiday, Rain Wu, Mary McInerney and Carla Thomas. The 100 participants engaged in various craft-based activities and learned new creative skills whilst sharing their personal and collective stories and memories of family rituals around food, domestic and national celebrations as well as the challenges of migration and building their home in a new country. The creative workshops varied from creating clay pots, decorating vintage crockery using onglaze enamels and decal transfers, embroidering and textile screen printing, spoken word and collaging extra-large cut outs, quilting, decorating tiles and kiln firing. All the artworks made during the workshops are featured in the Come Dine in Blue Exhibition. The gallery is divided in a dining room and a kitchen presenting The Table of Be-Longing, Two-Towels, The Story Tile of Joy, Messages to Blue, The Women’s Quilt of Pride, The Wish Dish Collection, Lewisham Toile and The Melting Pots.

Originated in China, the Blue-and-White ceramic technique has travelled the world. From Dutch Delftware to Portuguese Azulejos, from the Italian Maiolica to the English Willow Patterns and the tin-glazed earthenware from the British Isles. Often intended for the Middle Eastern market, the Blue-and-White ceramic was exported to Japan, Korea, South East Asia, Europe and as far as Africa and South America. The Blue-and-White is the unifying language through which the Come Dine in Blue participants tell their personal stories and recollect their memories, domestic traditions and ancestral words of wisdom.

Come Dine in Blue publication:
Buy it here
Editor: Frederica Agbah;
Design: Matteo Grotto (OpenEDU);
Contributors: Massimiliano Mollona, Amanda Holiday, Rachel Kanev & Chenjin Ying (Confucius Institute), Fr. Grant Bolton-Debbage, Jada Perry & Fiona Quadri (Be Seen Be Heard Youth Forum), Shoko Sakuma, Alice Qianhui Sun, Amelia Yang, Tang Victoria Hoi Yi, Fabiola Jimenez.
Supported by The Heritage Fund

Special Thanks to:
Frederica Agbah, Bella Alexandrova, Massimiliano Mollona, Amanda Holiday, Father Grant Bolton-Debbage, Mia-Violet Leech, Liberty Melly, Eve Maia Annesley, Lois Nutt, Jane Keane, Yen Trieu, Mong Lang, Rachel Kanev, Jada Perry, Francesco Strocchi and Matteo Grotto, Renie Westerhof-Pot, Sigrun Sverrisdottir, Rachel Lonsdale, Max Melvin and the Refugee Cafe.

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Exhibitions, Participatory, Shop

GRAVEL Ongoing Live Work Programme

GRAVEL

Paving the way for performance.

Co-run by Rachel Lonsdale, Sarah Nahas and Max Melvin.

Every two months at hARTslane gallery we will be hosting an evening of live art. This is an evening showcasing a small group of artists who experiment with live and performance based work. Each artist is given a 10-15 minute slot – there is no pressure for finalised work and it is encouraged to submit snippets and works in progress.

What to expect: performance/ live drawing/ spoken word/ happenings/ live action

We have: A projector, mic, mic stand, tables, chairs, the gallery space, the space just outside of the gallery

If you are an artist experimenting with something live and want to bring it to hARTslane gallery to test, keep a watch out for our next open call on our instagram @h.artslane

GRAVEL V
Saturday 18th of May 2023
Pit of the water’s tongue

Guest curator: Siin Lee

Niamh Hannaford
Claudia Ramirez
Ruby Reding
Aimée Lyon
Rachel Lonsdale and Max Melvin
Shuyi Gao
Chloe Kelly
Michal Adamczewski and Sarah-Athina Nahas

GRAVEL IV
Saturday 3rd of December 2022
If it was my trolley

Emma McAndrew D’Souza
Amy Gillies
Unamed Collective
Marta Burhan
Max Melvin
Karen Okpoti
Rachel Lonsdale
Sarah Athina Nahas and Michal Adamczewski
Charlotte Warne Thomas

GRAVEL III
Saturday 27th of August 2022
Floor Tat

Guest curator: Anthea Hudson

Rachel Lonsdale Floor
Tu Pham and Eloise Benson Meal of belonging – bữa ăn gắn kết
Mars Leon and Mircha Ivens The creation of safe space
Charlie Norton The daily act of getting dressed
Zack Mennell Parasite
Definitives Anatomy

GRAVEL II
Saturday 2nd of July 2022,
Bills, Drills and Thrills

Guest curators: Michal Adamczewski & Margarita Loze

Rachel Lonsdale and Max Melvin Most people don’t know about confetti
Matilde Converio Makey Makey
Georgie Ellul Do you feel me, do you feel you
Catarina Moura and Conrad Armstrong
WENXIN Be a child
Jaime Martinez Don’t let me forget you

GRAVEL I
Friday 18th March 2022
No, I Don’t Want No Scrub

Guest curators: Sarah Nahas & Max Melvin

Rachel Lonsdale and Kyran Gilbert Audio Guide to the gallery
Siin Lee Receivers
Sarah Nahas and Michal Adamczewski Sun Man
Max Melvin The big black box
Kara Hondong A lecture performance (about the awkwardness of sitting in a swimming pool for aliens)
Theia Maldoom Surfing on the surfacing
Hayley Harrison Projection
Serafina Min Sungwon Give Me Something to Erase

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Live work, Opportunities

Moving Harts

About

Moving Harts

Outdoor screening programme to celebrate art together again

A programme of Covid safe, walk-through art video projections to enjoy the arts and get together again.

Every Friday evening Moving Harts brings you a different collection of short films from artists from around the world.

Screenings start at dusk, around 9pm, and last roughly 1 hour.

On from Friday 7th of May – 15th October 2021 (except August).

An informal set up outside hARTslane gallery, projected onto the back of TKMaxx in New Cross Gate.

Curated by:
Nikos Akritidis
Rachel Lonsdale &
hARTslane

In collaboration with:
VideoWords

Follow us on Instagram @ h.artslane for latest updates: some screenings will include an artist talk or other special features.

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Screenings

RETINA – hARTslane’s first ever permanent artwork

Retina

Intervention by Clive Burton

hARTslane’s first ever permanent artwork!

‘Retina’ is an intervention for the façade of hARTslane; an installation that is integral and totally integrated as part of the building as not to look added or alien.

A window reflecting both physically and metaphorically the environment that hARTslane as an Experimental Art Project Space inhabits, serves and inspires.

A visually mysterious, magical and kinetically interactive experience that symbolically mirrors the artistic, social and community work that is the beating heart of hARTslane.

Clive Burton Instagram: @clive_burton

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Exhibitions