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Window Open Call

Image: Retina by Clive Burton



 Window Open Call for hARTslane Artist Members

“There is a window from one heart to another heart”Rumi, Poet

We’re welcoming proposals for an artwork to be in our window from November 2025-26!

Open Call: 11th July – 31st August
Decision announced: End of September
Launch night: Saturday 8th November

Guidelines:

Window Dimensions: 83cm x 73cm x 5cm

Please note: The window has a shallow arch at the top.

Send your proposals in PDF format to info@hartslane.org

All artist proposals must include:

  • Artist name, Title of Work, Short blurb explaining the work (300 words max).
  • Any additional content that you think will give us a good idea of the work you are proposing – drawings, mock ups, images.
  • Material specification details, including external materials that are durable for one year.
  • Outline of your Self-construction and installation process including any required maintenance and upkeep for the year.
  • Health and safety issues must be considered throughout. A risk assessment will be required for the selected artwork.
  • The complete removal of the work at the end.
  • hARTslane has a public liability insurance and artists are highly advised to have a public liability insurance as the artwork is public facing for one year.

This open call is for hARTslane Artist members only. If you’re interested in joining, find all information on our website.

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hARTslane Artist Membership

hARTslane Artist Membership

Upcoming events:

Tin003 (the summer edition) Open Call 

Open call for our window installation

Next Open Studios: Saturday 8th of November 2025

Artist Members Annual Exhibition: 20-22 March 2026


hARTslane Artist Membership is a new initiative open to artists at any stage of their career and from any background, offering opportunities to showcase and develop their work while being part of an exciting and supportive creative community.

You’ll get:

  • Monthly newsletters
  • Participation in the yearly Artist Members’ Show at hARTslane  
  • The opportunity to contribute your writing & images to tin, our seasonal Art Zine up to 4 times a year. 
  • Participation in the Artist Members’ Open Studio in hARTslane  
  • The opportunity to propose an artwork for our window (annual open call for members only).

How to become a member:

The membership is open to all artists and creatives. Please choose one of the following options.

  • From £4 / month via Pay Pal 
  • £42 / year via bank transfer to Hartslane CIC, account number: 67219643, sort code: 08-92-99 and send us an email with your details.

** Membership Terms **

In the case of monthly membership, payments will be due monthly and will renew automatically month by month. In the case of annual membership, we will invite you
to renew before your membership comes to an end.

You will be eligible for a full refund of a monthly or annual payment if you cancel your membership within 14 days of that payment being made. We do not offer refunds for cancellations of memberships after this time except as described below.

We reserve the right to make changes to the terms of membership. We may make minor changes to reflect any changes in relevant laws or to implement adjustments that will have no significant effect on your membership benefits. For more significant changes we will notify you in advance and you may then contact us to cancel the membership before the changes take effect. Donations will not be refunded.

All membership benefits are subject to availability, and membership is non-transferable. For more information on how we look after your personal information please see our Cookies & Privacy Policy.

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Love Shack



Love Shack

hARTslane’s members annual show 2025

Love Shack is our annual members show taking place at hARTslane over the Valentine’s weekend.

Open Call 3rd of January -3rd of February 2025
Show opening on: Friday 14th February 5-8pm  
Open on 15th and 16th, 11-4pm

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Jennifer Nieuwland

Liew Shiang Her

Kelvin Atmadibrata

Yunzhi Li

Natalia Zagorska-Thomas

Sion Knight

Kate Vagurina

Angela Wright

Chloe Cooper

Ash Fitzgerald

Emily Grenville-Grey

Małgorzata Drohomirecka

Christine Stewart

Emma Coop

Biancamaria Martini

Georgia Salmond

Jose Abad Lorente

Melissa Burton

Loann Hutchinson

Kate Murdoch

Rachel Bowyer

Antonella ferrari

Sheena Zhang

Yulia Rotkina

Wolfgang Woerner

Ivana Redfern

Janet Currier

Stéphane Lambion

Louisa Mahony

Karen Byrne

Rachel Lonsdale

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All I Want For Christmas is… Peace – Exhibition

All I Want For Christmas is… PEACE

hARTslane’s International Winter Show and Fundraiser

Free, All welcome!
Artwork for sale all weekend.

Friday, 6th December, 12-8pm  
5-8pm, Opening event with bar

Saturday, 7th December, 12 – 6pm
12-2pm, “Peace in Every Language” –
A free postcard workshop with artist Jose Abad Lorente. Explore calligraphy and creative lettering as we design messages of peace in multiple languages. Children & adults welcome.
4-6pm, Mulled Wine & Mince Pies

Sunday, 8th December, 12-6pm
4-6pm, Mulled Wine & Mince Pies

hARTslane is pleased to present All I Want For Christmas is… Peace the first edition of its annual International Winter Show and Fundraiser. We have invited artists from all over the world to come together to exhibit and support hARTslane by donating a postcard-sized work in any medium. Each original work will be sold for £30 and all proceeds go to benefit hARTslane’s mission to bring people together and closer to themselves through the arts.  

This year’s exhibition theme focuses on a call for a more just and peaceful world.   

Billboard message sponsored by BUILDHOLLYWOOD

Participating artists:
 

Alba Imeri
Alessandro Paiano
Alexandra Warren
Ali Darke
Alma Tisher Wood
Andrew Clarke
Angela Wright
Anna Kiparis
Anne Mølleskov
Annie Ashwell
Antonella Ferrari
Ashley Fitzgerald
Aude Herail Jäger
Audur Mist
Ayane Tominaga
Ben Kelly
BENAISSA Norya / Birdsoffice
Brummy Artist
C J Simpson
Carolyn Clewer
Cash Aspeek
Catherine Clover

Catherine Knee
CD Lewis
Cecilia Rouncefield
Cesar Ceballos
Charlotte Grocutt
Chloe Cooper
Clive Burton
Dageong Han
Dana LaMonda
Daniel Miś
David Wiseman
Denise Laura Baker
Diana Pusztai
Duncan Brown
Edek Thompson
Ekaterina Vagurina
Ekaterina Valuk
Eli King
Elizabeth Baiden
Ella Doran
Elspeth – Billie – Penfold
Emily Ashbee
Emily Davies
Emma Coop
Emma McAndrew D’Souza
Emma Roper-Evans

Esme Gower
Evelyne Donnadieu
Felicitas Butt
Fiona Banner
Flora Cullerne Bown
Francesca Reynolds
Gill Roth
Graeme McNay
Hai Dinh Thanh
Hans Overvliet
Headless Greg / Greg McIndoe
Hui Yu Wang
Inga Pernes
Jenia Demchenko
Jill Connell
Johannes Christopher Gerard
Johnny Cole 

 
 

Jose Abad Lorente
Joshua Leung
Karen Byrne
Katerina Mandarik
Kath Leone
Kathy Lambert
Kelvin Atmadibrata
Konstantinos Chalaris
Lauren Jefferis
Lito Apostolakou
Liz Davies
Louisa Mahony
Malcolm Cadman
Malgorzata Drohomirecka
Marco Verner
Marenka Gabeler
Margaux Halloran
Maria Gerguis
Mayah Holmberg
Megan Lim
Melanie Bäreis
Melissa Alley
Melissa Burton
Melissa Goodwin
Michaela Nettell
Michelle R. D’Urbano
Nancy Singh
Natalia Zagorska-Thomas
Niamh Gibbons
Nicky Hodge
Nima Shafiani
Paul Tecklenberg

Pete Mountford
Peter Clossick
Philippa Tunstill
Rachel Lonsdale
Ragnheiður Ólafsdóttir
Rath Chun
Richard Twose
Riitta Hakkarainen
Roofer
Sandra Pamela Palmer
Saskia van der Sluis
Satori Kurosawa
Shaheen Saliahmohamed
Shamina Peerboccus
Shiroma Ratne – Greenspace Art Collective
Sion Knight
Sophia Kosmaoglou
Supanuch Sakdaphiphanit
Swaran Bains
Thona Tomissa
Thorunn Birna Gudmundsdottir
Tisna Westerhof
Tsvetanka Koykova
Uli Jaeger
Usva Inei
Valerie Didenko
Victoria Valuk
Wolfgang Woerner
Xing Yu Liu
Xingyi Qu
Yuki Sumner
Zoey Chang

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THE OPEN DOOR


Aude Hérail Jäger | Tisna Westerhof
THE OPEN DOOR – Women’s Quilt of Pride

25 September – 6 October 2024 at hARTslane

Opening event
Wednesday 25 September, 5.30-8pm
Opening Remarks 6.30-7pm

Exhibition Open Times
Thursday – Sunday, 2-6pm
Sunday 6 October, 12 noon – 3pm

Saturday 28 September – 12noon to 2pm. Free and open to all
PROTEST BANNER Workshop with Tisna Westerhof and Aude Hérail Jäger.
What message would you like to write to yourself to be reminded of your autonomy, aspirations and resilience?
The workshop will include quilting and appliqué techniques. Storytelling and freeing our creativity will be part of designing and making your Protest Banner.

Saturday 5 October – 12noon to 2pm. Free and open to all
COMMUNITY MANIFESTO writing workshop with The Feminist Library (Peckham) for local residents of all ages. Together, we will think, converse, and map the intersections of our diverse stories and feminisms, exploring how the personal is political, and visualising what our collective power holds. Participants will explore intersections of feminist theory and how they relate to our everyday lives, and will collaboratively produce a collective manifesto that outlines their desires for imagining otherwise. By the end of the workshop, participants will have created individual manifestos and one communal one.
The workshop will include examples of Feminist Manifestos including:
SCUM Manifesto (Valerie Solanas)
The Black Women’s Manifesto
The Woman Identified Woman (Radicalesbians)
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Redstockings Manifesto
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman?”

Both workshops tale place in hARTslane Gallery (17 Harts Lane, SE14 5UP – Nearest tube: New Cross Gate). For more info & signing up, please email tisna.westerhof@gmail.com

THE OPEN DOOR is a collaborative exhibition about belonging and displacement across time and space by Aude Hérail Jäger and TisnaWesterhof. The project evolved from a series of conversations during the 2020 pandemic, when the two artists started exchanging thoughts and creative ideas about notions of home, the significance of childhood memories and family ties, especially during times of separation.

The result is a collection of intimate works based on personal experience interlaced with critical observations of contemporary life, in particular the role of women in society both past and present, expressed in works on paper, textiles and sculpture.

An integral part of the project is the Women’s Quilt of Pride, a collaborative piece of textile art created in workshops with members of the local communities in France and London. Participants were invited to dedicate a textile square to an inspirational woman, family member, friend or public figure. The experience of personal expression through an ancient craft forming a cathartic bond between the participants while the resulting quilts serve as testaments of togetherness and hope.

First shown in the vast vaults of a former vineyard in rural France this Spring, the exhibition has been adapted to the urban setting of a converted motorbike garage. For the London iteration, the artists have worked closely with members of The Feminist Library who will present a selection of their large archive collection of feminist literature to complement the displays.

The exhibition opens with a conversation chaired by The Feminist Library between the two artists and Nazira Mehmari, Operational Manager at IKWRO, the Women’s Rights Organisation whose members contributed to the Women’s Quilt of Pride, as well as Dr. Farhana Hoque, Social and Medical Anthropologist, University College London who contributed to THE OPEN DOOR catalogue, and Cristiana Bottigella, co-founder and director of hARTslane.

Originally known as the Women’s Research and Resources Centre (WRRC), The Feminist Library was set up in 1975, at the height of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) and a time of intense political campaigning and lively collective organising.

Based in Peckham, The Feminist Library supports research, activist and community projects in this field. The Feminist Library is trans-inclusive, welcomes visitors of any gender, does not require registration or membership, and provides an intersectional space for the exploration of feminism.

Images: Above: The Women’s Quit of Pride created in co-operation with community groups in Britain (top) and France (bottom). 
Below: THE OPEN DOOR at L.A.C. Lieu d’Art Contemporaine (Narbonne, France)

Partners:

LAC-Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Narbonne, France
hARTslane, London
IKWRO, Women’s Rights Organisation, London
The Feminist Library in Peckham, London
Atelier Couture et Patchwork A.C.A.D. (Académie du Temps Libre, Narbonne), France
Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Sète, France
Maison de Retraite EHPAD, Narbonne France
Institut L’Amandier, Section Internationale, Lézignan-Corbières, France

Film Remke Westerhof
PR support Meike Brunkhorst

Press: Souvenirs Sans Frontières, Trebuchet

Publication
Texts:  Aude Hérail Jäger, Bernard Tenon De Noilles, Marie Stefan Salgas, Dr Farhana Hoque, Miri de Villers>
Translations: Laura Bennett, Nathalie Reis
Graphic design: Bastien Candille
Photography: David Huguenin, Bastien Candille

Aude Hérail Jäger is a French artist who lives and

works in London. She holds a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from Central Saint Martin’s (UCL) and continued her post-graduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) and The Royal Drawing School in London where she currently teaches.

Her work has been widely exhibited, including solo shows in the UK, France and Japan. She is recipient of grants by the British Council, the Henry Moore Foundation and the Arts Council England.


Born in the Netherlands, Tisna Westerhof lives and works between London and Amsterdam. She studied Printmaking at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and holds an MA in Scenography from Central St Martins (UCL).

Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and London’s The Royal Academy, The Dutch Centre and Whitechapel Gallery.

She is co-founder and director of hARTslane Gallery, London.




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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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Invisible Visible Open Call

Dates:

Open Call open: Tuesday 2nd of January 2024
Deadline for submissions: Sunday 21th of January 2024

Drop-off date: Wednesday 13 March 2024, 4-8pm 

Exhibition dates:
15-24 March 2024, 12-6pm
Opening night Friday 15th, 5-8pm

 Part of The Telegraph Hill Festival 2024

Supported by:

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

OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES

Deadline for submission: Sunday 21 January 2024

Submission Form

‘Invisible Visible’ is a group exhibition hosted at hARTslane that will be celebrating 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 will be curated by queer visual artist Usva Inei.

We are now looking for entries for the exhibition. We welcome artwork of any media that responds to the themes of the call, including, but not limited to drawing, painting, printmaking, video, workshop, performance, sculpture, and installation. Please note that since we want to include as many artists as possible, you may be asked to edit or resubmit work that is very large. Depending on the number and type of entries, video work, performances, and workshops may be shown during viewings or events rather than throughout the show.

We will not be accepting work that is derogatory or against hARTslane’s inclusivity policy.

Eligibility and Submission:

We welcome any work by individuals that identify as LGBTQ+ and live or work in New Cross or surrounding areas (e.g., Peckham, Deptford, Telegraph Hill).

This exhibition is to celebrate and bring together the work of local LGTBQ+ talent. For this reason, we have left the theme intentionally quite vague and open for you to interpret. Our main goal is to bring together local LGBQT+ talent.

Your work does not need to be completely finished for the submission, you may submit a sketch. However, we need to be able to get an idea of what you will be creating.

We will accept one work per artist.

We will not be accepting work that is derogatory or against hARTslane’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policy.

Submission of work and participation are free of charge.

Click HERE to submit your work. 

Drop-Off and Pick-Up of Artwork:

You will need to physically drop off your work at hARTslane on Wednesday 13 March 2024, 4-8pm (or have someone drop it off for you). The work needs to be ready to hang.

Please provide written detailed instructions on hanging and installing. We will have nails and screws but If your work requires special fittings, you will need to provide them and you may be asked to help with installation.

Artwork will need to be picked up on Sunday 24th of March between 6 and 8pm. hARTslane does not have the space to store work outside of exhibition dates.

Curation:

The exhibition will be curated by visual artist Usva Inei. Usva (they/them) is a trans non-binary visual and performance artist. Usva mainly works through mixed media installations, with printmaking being at the centre of their practice. Working from their own lived experiences as a queer immigrant, Usva’s artwork addresses themes of misuse of power, suppression of freedom of speech, and generational trauma.

Following hARTslane’s policies, we aim to take all submissions. However, please note that due to spatial restriction, we may need to ask you to adapt or resubmit work if it is large. Depending on the number and type of entries, video work, performances, and workshops may be shown during viewings or events rather than throughout the show.

Care of work and liability:

The utmost care will be taken of all work submitted, however hARTslane shall not be liable for any:

  • theft of, loss of, or damage to the artwork whilst on display/exhibition or stored in the gallery or the Artist’s property during the exhibition period;
  • personal injury of the artist except to the extent that this was due to hARTslane’s negligence;
  • exhibiting artists will assume the responsibility to insure their works. The gallery is covered by Public Liability Insurance policy.

Photographs:

Exhibiting artists accept and agree that all works in the exhibition may be photographed and used for publicity and promotion of the exhibition (including on social media).

For further information please email info@hartslane.org

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The Dinner Art Project

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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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 24th of September, 3-7pm         
Exhibition open, Sunday 25th – 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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WUNDERTÜTE Exhibition opening Thursday 1st September 6-8pm

Wundertüte

Exhibition by Michael Kaul & Nicky Hodge

29.August – 4.September, 12-6pm daily
Opening on
Thursday 1st September 6-8pm.

For this exhibition, two established abstract artists have brought together a selection of their paintings to hARTslane.

Michael Kaul (born 1957, Braunschweig, Germany) and Nicky Hodge (born 1957, Birmingham, UK) became familiar with each other’s paintings through instagram and felt that their work showed many affinities. Both painters make mainly monochromatic paintings in which the raw canvas is often exposed, putting emphasis on the edges and margins. Painting wet on wet, there’s a reliance on chance and accident, allowing the process to dictate with washes, bleeds and runs creating ambiguous forms. Differences and distinctions exist in subtle ways but it is the element of surprise – the possibilities that emerge once all the work is brought together in the space – that is the focus of this show. Even where paintings appear quite different in terms of style and feel, there is a sense of dynamism in the interplay as well as a quieter intimacy that exists between them.

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