X ’S FOREMOST CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL WWW.DEPTFORDX.ORG 24 SEPTEMBER– 03 OCTOBER 2010

Photo by Liam Helm: www.flickr.com/photos/myxi/ 1 Deptford X 2010 24 September – 03 October 2010 Deptford X

Deptford X exists to promote the best Creative Crypt contemporary visual art and celebrate that art St. John’s Church with the widest possible audience. 73 Waterloo Road SE1 8UD It is an arts event born of Deptford’s creative 020 7928 1000 community and based on a belief in the [email protected] limitless potential of the area. deptfordx.org

For full listings please visit the Deptford X deptfordx.org

Credits Please read

Lead Artist: Mark Titchner Copy was correct at time Project Director: Matthew Couper of going to press. Project Assistant: Aroé Ortega Education Programme: Education Arts Network Press Officer: Sandra Ross Event Manager: Lis Ssenjovu Heath and Safety: Tim Byrne Banner installation: Concorde Graphics Evaluation: Terry Adams Design: Studio Raw

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Julia Alvarez Jane Hendrie Numbers listed refer to Natalie Brett Paul Marks the venue: # John Cierach Liz May Mark Davy (Chair) Simon Parris Bea Denton David Sullivan Amanda Francis Reuben Thurnhill Helen Goodier Alma Tischler Wood 2 Lead Artist Mark Titchner 27 31 34 flushed by the rain. It doesn’t matter what ‘it’ happens to be, The Old Police Station, Lewisham but ‘it’ is experienced and ‘it’ Arthouse and Seager Distillery is lived.

Deptford X has invited Daily discoveries uncovered by internationally renowned, local chance encounters on busy streets. artist Mark Titchner (nominated for the Turner Prize, 2006) as the Not art but everyday life. lead artist for Deptford X 2010. Get up, go to work, come home, His statement of intent outlines get up, go work, come home but our aims for this year. with an added element, something that wasn’t there the day before, Grand and spectacular, ephemeral something that actually makes or concealed, art qualified and you think about all this routine, created by daily life. this place we live and call life.

An incongruous video on the Ridiculous, odd, generous, CCTV monitors at the Job Centre, pretentious and maybe a bit strange sounds on the PA system stupid but something that reminds at the station, a message chalked us that real life is not elsewhere. on a wall, glimpsed and forgotten, It’s here.

Again, Again, Again: Artwork by Mark Titchner with original photography by students from Deptford Green School seen on refuse trucks around Deptford. 3 Photography Project Peter Anderson 6

HERE AND NOW Arch Gallery Private View: Friday 24 September 6 – 9pm Monday to Thursday, 10am – 5pm Friday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm

The exhibition comprises huge hand-printed black and white photographs capturing the street style of young people who live locally. Their urban attitude reflects the iconic early hip hop photographs Anderson made on the streets of New York City in the early eighties.

4 Deptford X Award Chris Rawcliffe 21 Artists were invited to make a response to Mark Titchner’s IN DEPTFORD EDITION statement of intent. Gallop Friday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm The following artists were selected by a panel of judges including Deptford Edition is a web-based Julia Alvarez (BEARSPACE), project, a random appropriation Amanda Francis (artist), of internet-generated images of Simon Parris (South London Deptford where anything and Gallery), and Mark Titchner. everything is indiscriminately One of the artists will receive gathered into an indefinite and the specially commissioned infinite visual catalogue of Renewal Award. the world.

The Deptford X Award is supported Many thanks to The Two Jonnys. by the Renewal Group. editionof1.org

Renewal’s focus is Surrey Canal: London’s Sporting Village — the regeneration of a 30 acre site in North Lewisham which will bring up to 2,700 new homes, 2,000 jobs and a regional centre of sporting excellence. For more information please visit: surreycanal.com

5 Harry Blackett, Bernat Daviu, 18 Samuel Whittaker

DRIVE-THRU (Old Bridge) Deptford Train Station

In 1565 Cosimo De Medici commissioned Georgio Vasari to build a bridge connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, in Florence.

This project presents abstracted images of that bridge, installed Eduardo Padilha 31 at the Deptford Train Station; a shifting of space and history CELL SPEAKERS connecting Deptford to Florence. The Old Police Station Thursday to Sunday, 12noon – 6pm

A site specific installation of found images and objects, newspapers headlines and fabric transforming the police cells into a welcoming environment. Cell Speakers will feature four guests who will discuss their disciplines with audience. Yasmina Reggad (Director of Photo-Festivals) Emma Smith (Artist and Co-Director of Delta Arts) Giorgia Mesquita (Artist and publisher of Artist Projects) Mario Pires Cordeiro (artist and Studio Manager at The Old Police Station) Please visit the Deptford X website for discussion times. Supported by the Arts Council, England.

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Upfront DeptfordDoubleDecker

‘Up Front’ is an interactive sound installation. You are invited to call a freephone number* and tell us your suggestions as to how the world could be improved. Your messages will then be broadcast on the front of a Double Decker bus.

Please call 020 3094 1660

*messages are free from UK landlines.

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WHY BIRDS SING UP Deptford Train Station

A sound installation of bird recordings, promoting an awareness of how songbirds are adapting to their urban existence. Liz Harrison’s installation, based in the echoing stairwells of Deptford Train Station, is inspired by recent scientific research into the rising pitch of birdsong and its fight to combat the noises of the city.

8 Trisant (Julian Hughes Watts) 20 Matthew Verdon

PRODUCT RANGE REPEAT HAMMONS PIECE A101 Faircharm Trading Estate 25 Tanners Hill Friday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm Three letters have been removed The digital animations use a from a statement made by artist vocabulary found in many David Hammons. commercial adverts — in the presentation of objects and in the The text is presented as a stimulation of desire. It explores discrete and subtle intervention the impact of advertising on the on Deptford High Street, taking individual, creating a frenetic a form that reflects the myriad of sequence that echoes the relentless surrounding signage and political pressure created by images of banners, while questioning luxury brands and consumer authorship, productivity products in modern life. and labour.

9 Artists in Residence Projects Deptford X has commissioned artists to work with groups representing the population of Deptford with the aim of producing new work.

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Drawing Marathon The Albany Drawing: 24 & 25 September 2010 Exhibition: 27 September to 2 October Anna Pickering 4 Dear Participants Creekside Artists will transform The Albany The Albany into a giant blank 3, 10, 17 & 24 September canvas. Attendees and local artists & 1 October 2010, 1 – 2pm will have the opportunity to draw on the walls to create a large Under the guise of a weekly exercise collaborative drawing inspired class, the project Dear Participants by their own day-to-day lives. (New Movements) at the Albany Passers-by will be encouraged to promotes the possibility that step in and participate or watch rhetorical tools for effective democratic others at work. communication may be sampled, danced and displayed by everyone. Drawing will continue over the weekend with local artists on hand To book your place on the workshop, for ideas and inspiration. The please contact Deptford X on: completed work will be on display 020 7928 1000 in the foyer of the Albany during the festival. [email protected] Spaces are limited All are welcome to come and draw! 10 Leila Galloway, Sophie Hope and 13 residents of Crossfields Estate

Saying No Mat Do 16 Crossfields Estate Sunday 3 October 2010 Deptford Market Friday & Saturday 24 & 25 September On this day, Sunday 3 October & 1 & 2 September 2010 2010, we call upon the citizens of Crossfields Estate, Deptford Utilising the core iconography to come together in a collective of Deptford, Mat Do will look uprising to celebrate your everyday to excavate the complex layers rebellions, different types of behind its history, archaeology doing and creative acts of refusal. and ongoing renewal. Constructed Together we will transform our around a merging of historical and community and for one day cultural references, Do will offer the reclaim our freedom from the common populous of the market, pressures of capitalist living. the traders and the punters, a new Down your tools and revel in your temporary artwork, to be held on common acts of resistance, no their person as along as they see fit. matter how quiet or concealed sayingno.org 11 Fringe Awards Deepa Chudasama 39 Cluster J Wavelengths Leisure Centre

A chance encounter with Cluster J is a momentary glimpse into a pseudo-scientific world, or maybe this week’s ‘new look’, transient temporary and fleeting.

Thanks to Parkwood Leisure.

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Drawing the likeness of brick The Old Police Station Thursday to Sunday, 12noon – 6pm

Annabel Tilley’s project Drawing the likeness of brick consists of a series of concealed miniature drawings that emulate our surroundings. These coloured pencil and paper mimics will be secreted on the brick surface itself, and in such a way that they are camouflaged and must be carefully sought out.

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The View From My Dentists Chair Wavelengths Library

A panoramic view featuring aircraft flying across the New York skyline. The aircraft never quite reach the Twin Towers....Above this is a smiling face. Aylward only ever sees these images briefly, when he visits his dentist and always finds them worrying.

13 Hanna Clarke and Kit Merritt

1 Week 17 Resolution Way Friday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm

The product of seven 24-hour instalments, 1 Week documents the heterogeneous archival practice of both artists. Undertaken whilst confined to a make-shift office environment, the artists submit to rigorously recorded performance using traditional communication systems; contacting over 350 non-mutual acquaintances with journalistic impartiality to yield confession-like responses.

Janine Harrington, Lizzie Sells, 16 Laura McLardy 31 Tiffany Charrington If the inside is nothing more The Welcoming Party than a fold of the outside Deptford High Street and Vicinity The Old Police Station

The Welcoming Party team offers A single-surface shape which the public the opportunity of an doubles back towards itself, eccentric encounter be this genuine forming a kind of floor, wall and help and information, a chance ceiling. These architectural features to get something off their chest, have a functional aspect, yet this a detour, a compliment, a brief function is not clearly defined as companion... This project aims to there is no clear designation of transform momentary encounters interiority and exteriority, no clear by installing performance artists division between an inside and an throughout Deptford. outside. The structure provides an inside in the outside.

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Future Prospectus#Installation The Old Police Station

Future Prospectus#Installation will bring a visual impact of colour and stretches the boundaries of futuristic collective imagination. The flags and the wall painting become a symbol for artistic production and social enhancement when placed on the outside of this high-impact art venue for the local community.

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From A Creekside Book of Hours CREEKERY The Creekside Centre Deptford Creek (via Ha’Penny 25 to 30 September 2010, 1pm – 6pm Hatch Bridge)

Paintings and prints produced Pieces of modern Willow Ware as the result of a residency at are placed in the mudbanks of the The Creekside Centre, Deptford Creek to replenish older material shown in situ.The work is based removed by mudlarkers. The new around ideas concerning a medieval pieces are subjected to the river’s Book of Hours and the diaries of dynamics of tide, current and flow, Gilbert White. perhaps eventually ending up on michmaroney.com the Thames foreshore as battered commonground08.wordpress.com fragments to be discovered by future beachcombers.

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Cafe 187 182 Deptford High Street

A photograph of the café at 187 Deptford High Street will be placed facing the cafe to allow the viewer to see both the image and the café itself. Passers-by who discover the photograph will be reminded of the beauty within the everyday. 16 17 18 Gallery Exhibitions Gallery Performances 5 Below is a list of gallery exhibitions that will be open during Deptford X. APT Xtra Space Saturday 25 September & 2 October, The exhibitions have been 10am – 6pm programmed by the galleries Deptford Last Fridays: themselves. Friday 24 September, 6.30 – 8.30 pm

Deptford is home to an ever The Deptford Art Map presents the increasing number of galleries. Gallery Performance Project. This To keep up to date on all gallery includes different performances exhibitions in Deptford throughout associated with a range of the year, please visit: Deptford galleries and responding www.deptfordartmap.com to the statement by Mark Titchner. aptstudios.org deptfordartmap.com

MicroPerformance

Rebecca Birch Saturday 2 October, 10 - 6pm

A tea break with MicroPerformance; a series of interactive and conversational performances that use the cafe table as a stage or trajectory for the performance will take place throughout the day. Visitors to Deptford X are invited to join a performer over a cup of tea. Put forward by gallery ‘The Agency’

Photograph taken by Steve Bliss

19 Gallery PLOTS 5 of solace from contemporary noise in all its forms. By employing the APT Xtra Space functionality of a faraday cage he Friday to Saturday, 10am – 6 pm attempts to create an environment Deptford Last Fridays: devoid of electronic communication Friday 24 September, 6.30 – 8.30 pm signals. The geometric panelling lining this space, reminiscent of The Deptford Art Map presents five modernist architectural decoration, satellite gallery projects by some dampens exterior sounds. of the most innovative galleries in Contained within this space is a Deptford and the surrounding area. sonic environment consisting of two Selected galleries have created a sound waves. One is controlled by unique installation or project our presence and the other remains based in a container in response constant. Each visitor’s physicality to Mark Titchner’s statement will determine the resulting for Deptford X. harmonies and discord. bearspace.co.uk Galleries include BEARSPACE, The Agency, The Pigeon Wing, and CORE Gallery Core Gallery exhibiting works by CAN’ ADAPTATION (2010) artists connected to their gallery. Elizabeth Murton Gallery PLOTS is curated by Hundreds of used cans create something the Deptford Art Map which spectacular in Can Adaptation (2010) promotes connectivity and out of the by-products of daily life. Lines collaboration between galleries, of cans are suspended as threads and giving visitors a positive experience build a wall of fabric out of an everyday of the diverse and fast moving art object in multiple. Can’s constructive scene on a daily basis. nature is a key part of the work. As the deptfordartmap.com cans remain as objects in themselves, BEARSPACE attention is placed on the notion of constituent parts. People can enter Can, THE CALIBRATION OF WE a contrast to the outside world. Steven Dickie coregallery.co.uk

Steven Dickie has developed a new work that endeavours to foster a place

20 CORE Gallery of a place; making a location a The Agency locality.

UNTITLED See thepigeonwing.co.uk/Miniplex Sadie Murdoch and Giles Eldridge for an up to date list of artists and screening times. The Agency proposes to present a collaborative installation of Utrophia photographs, drawings and objects by Sadie Murdoch and Giles UNTITLED Eldridge reflecting on exoticism Pippa Johnson in art and the archive, especially African artifacts used in museum Pippa Johnson will be transforming displays. Utilizing re-drawn and the interior of the shed into the re-staged images of real life political corner of a drab, ordinary living and inspirational figures such as room. When the show opens, Haile Selassie and Josephine Baker lines of brightly coloured paint both artists will embark on a will slowly begin to run down the journey of discursive discovery how walls, over the framed pictures, the to represent cultural identity in the grain of the anglypta, the skirting context of today’s art practice. boards and onto the lino. After theagencygallery.co.uk around 24-48 hours, the room will be dramatically transformed into The Pigeon Wing an intricately striped, colourful madhouse. MINIPLEX/MINIPLUX utrophia.net Sally O’Reilly, Ruth Beale, Karen Mirza, Justin Berry, Matthew MacKisack, Luca Bolognesi, Ian Parkin, Steve Clayton, Beartrice Gibson, Inger Lise Hansen, Simon Payne and Giles Ripley

The Pigeon Wing presents two weekends of local and emerging artists’ films and videos to be screened in this intimate and unusual venue. Including selections focusing on capturing embodiment 21 Block 3 Art Hub 7

Cicatrick Art Hub ARTISTS Mat Rochford & Paul Coombs 25 & 26 September 11am – 5pm 25 & 26 September, 10am – 6pm An exhibition showcasing work by Block is a new pop-up art Art Hub artists. space for Deptford showcasing new work by new artists and housed in the bowels of the Faircharm Trading Estate on Creekside.

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World within Worlds Suzanne Moxhay, Zander Olsen, Jaime Tarazona, Jane Ward and Jenny Wiener Wednesday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm APT Gallery 5 Repair Manual Curated by BEARSPACE Director 16 September to 3 October Julia Alvarez, World within Worlds Thursday to Sunday, 12noon to 5pm features artists who make work that subverts our everyday visual An exhibition of graduate work landscape as a way to replicate from the MA Photography and and change a learnt environment. Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. As an extension of ‘World within Worlds,’ BEARSPACE is exhibiting For extra events please keep an a satellite project as part of the eye on our programme at: Gallery PLOTS. repairmanualexhibition.net

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The Museum of Still Life Monday to Wednesday by appointment Thursday to Sunday 12noon – 6pm

Created by 70 participants from local community groups on the ‘Drawing Experiment’ day in September 2010 with artists from Cor Blimey Arts, Creekside Gimcrack 24 Artists, Utrophia and the Old Police Station. Samples Chrissie Stewart 25 September to 3 October

Core Gallery 10 Gimcrack is a small shop in a small Open Submission triangle of some of the oldest Competition Exhibition properties in Deptford. It opens Private View and Award Ceremony: on a whim and sells ‘domestic 23 September, 6.30 – 8.30pm artefacts’, odds and sods, and 24 September to 3 October bric-a-brac. Chrissie Stewart Monday to Wednesday by appointment showcases samples of her work, Thursday to Sunday, 12noon – 6pm made using found objects with a nostalgic connection. An exhibition of outstanding contemporary art in a range of all media selected by prominent judges: Graham Crowley, Matt Roberts, and Kate Jones. The theme for this exhibition is inspired by Deptford X’s statement of intent; ‘Grand and spectacular, ephemeral or concealed, art qualified and created by daily life’. coregallerydeptford.blogspot.com

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Diverf Maliciouf Wordf Matthew Webbe, Benjamin Gwalchmai, Benjamin Jiva-Dasa Norris, Saturday 25 September 12noon – 10pm (performances at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm) Sunday 26 September 12noon – 8pm (performances 3pm, 4pm, 6pm)

Diverf Maliciouf Wordf takes the inglorious stabbing of Christopher Marlowe as its starting point. The Lewisham Arthouse 27 Museum of Curiosities presents RUFFLE performances and installations Natasha Rosling that trace a dubious history of Collaboration with Re-make South East London to reveal the 25 September to 3 October unquestioned, ritualised actions 12noon to 6pm which permeate everyday life, in order to incite debate about ‘objective’ historical and Natasha Rosling’s practice pushes social truths. the boundaries of architecture, domestic space, clothing and costume, twisting notions of function and decoration. Employing craft-like techniques she transforms everyday materials into large-scale .

Her practice is influenced by the deep-rooted traditions of the circus, folk and carnival. Exploring these cultures’ nomadic existence, Rosling creates intangible environments where transient elements hover out of reach and the viewer’s sense of reality is suspended. 24 Black Site #1 consists of the research, construction, and exhibition of a CIA interrogation facility at 1-to-1 scale. Mitch McEwen, an experimental architect based in Brooklyn New York, will be adding aggressive performative actions into this structure, combining St. Pauls House 35 those with sound works by additional participants. FAMI–LIAR Wayne Lucas and Julia Bardsley Krimskrams features artists for Check website for times whom the habitual nature of scavenging and chancing upon Brooding on the notion of the objects influences the work that Family, Lucas and Bardsley form they make. a transgressive marriage, creating offspring that are incubated, pinned, bound and spanked into being. These mutant progeny are put on show in a domestic setting of dysfunctional bliss.

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Private View: Friday 24 September, 6 – 11pm Thursday to Sunday, 12noon – 6pm

Black Site by Mitch McEwen In the Interview Room, ground floor Idol magazine is teaming up with this generation’s artists to KRIMSKRAMS, by Royal Standard bring an exhibition melding Cartel (Shipping Container 1) fashion with the work of young IDOL X Go Getter, by IDOL creatives that delves into the fields of Art, Fashion, Music. Magazine (Archive Room) The ‘Go-Getter’, is the undiscovered talent. 25 The Pigeon Wing 33

WRITING / EXHIBITION / PUBLICATION 3 September to 3 October Check website for times

Writing/Exhibition/Publication explores how language moves between locations of voice, page, book, screen and gallery. This includes a unique installation of assembly zines and Fluxus publications 1970-2010 as well as a programme of conversations and performances within an exhibition of the following artists. For further information and event timings visit: thepigeonwing.co.uk/events

The Agency

PANINARO Ludovica Gioscia

Paninaro is a name that was applied to a group of youngsters that used to meet at the bar “al panino” in Milan, during the early 1980s.

Ludovica Gioscia has developed a series of works, utilizing the Paninaro phenomenon to create an anthropology of consumption strategies, consciously set in a more sinister context of today’s Berlusconi government and the current global economic meltdown. 26 Utrophia Project Space 36

The Ice Cream Factory DIY Deptford Enrolment Centre 23 September – 17 October Thursday – Sunday 12noon – 6pm

It’s time to take arms. Pick up that shovel. Tear off the roof of that car. Cast aside your jobs, your Tescos club cards. This is about to get real.

Enrolling the finest candidates for DIY teams aiding Deptford to move from a local economy based on things imported from all over the world to getting things produced in Deptford.

Viewfinder Photography Gallery 37 Johnny’s DIY 25

Busman’s Holiday ARTISAN Thursday & Friday, 12noon – 5pm Charlie Pi Saturday & Sunday, 12noon – 4pm Drawing/painting in the style Caroline Fraser, Katie of Guiseppe Arcimboldo’s Goodwin, Steven Jones, Anita portraits, using only Chandra. A group exhibition materials available at Johnny’s to of a series of photographs taken create a human figure formed of whilst supposedly being tools results in the Jungian male on holiday. archetype of the builder/maker/ artisan.

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APT 5 Below is a list of Deptford based studios that will be open to the Saturday 25 September and Sunday public during Deptford X. 26 September, 12noon – 6pm

Lewisham Arthouse 27 Licensed bar and food in the APT yard. Private View: 1 October, 6pm – 9pm 2 & 3 October, 12noon – 6pm Ekkehard Altenburger, Max Barnes, Heather Burrell, Fran Cottell, Tim Cousins, 35 artists. An opportunity to Tony Daley, Jeff Dellow, meet the artists, talk to them Safiye Denlisoz, Arnold and see their work. Cake and Dobbs, Germaine Dolan, Tea will be available. Cath Ferguson, Nic Godbold, Clyde Hopkins, Marilyn Hallam, Liz Harrison, Margaret Higginson, Catrin Huber, Stephen Jaques, Asaki Kan, Richard Lawrence, Steve Lewis, Paul Malone, Chris Marshall, Geoff Mowlam, Mali Morris, Alix Photograph taken by Steve Bliss MacSweeney, John McLean, Laurence Noga, David Oates, Brigitte Parusel, Nicola Rae, Victoria Rance, Geoff Rigden, Hideatsu Shiba, Lou Smith, smithnsmith, Paul Tonkin, Sheila Vollmer, Roxy Walsh, David Webb, Rob Welch and George Whetnall. aptstudios.org

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Friday 1 October, 6pm to 10pm Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 October, 11am – 6pm

Helen Flanagan, Ashley Greaves, Vic Bateman, Dave Lockett, Mich Maroney, Creekside Artists 11 Jonathan Huxley, Fernando Palma, Elizabeth Meadows, Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 September, Jane Lydbury, Chris Appleby, 11am – 6pm Tontxi Vazquez and Jim Cross. A chance to explore the studios of over 20 artists working in a variety of media, from painting, and drawing to video, lightbox and jewellery. Many of the artists will be present over the weekend, so come and have a chat.

Steven Scott, Michael Hall, Herve Boscher, Geoffrey Harrison, Jaqui Gunn, Cor Blimey Arts / Core Gallery 10 David Ravenwood, Necole Schmitz, Alex Glenn, Mat 24 September, 6.30 – 8.30pm Rochford, Daryl Mohammed, 24 to 26 September, 12noon – 6pm Victoria Trinder, Sofie Pinket, Caroline Underwood, Cor Blimey Arts is an artist led studio Siobhan Keane, Marloen and gallery complex in Deptford, Hefer, Rachel Hale, Sally South East London with 22 national Waterman, Henrietta and international artist members. Loades-Carter, Betty Please visit corblimeyarts.com Woessner, Paul Coombs, for names of exhibiting studio artists. Bruno Mazotta and Brenda Brown.

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25 & 26 September, 11am – 5pm Friday 24 September, 6pm – 9pm Saturday 25 September, 12noon – 6pm Mick Armson, Fiona Saturday 2 October, 12noon – 6pm Athanasaki, Lewis Austin, Valerie Baltus, Aisha De Andrew Hladky, Alexandra Burgh, Lucy Chapman, Paul Unger, Charlie Pi, Gaspar Clayton, Maria Clemen, Below, Gary Northfield, Norma Cronin, Raymond Mario Pires Cordeiro & Ines Daley, Xenia Demetriou, Rebelo, Sally Cutler & Euan Hjordis Clark-Dreschel, Cunningham, Alexandra Sarah Durham, Michael Santos and Daniel Wallis. Earlyherz, Sandrine Fabris, Adrian Firth, Gordon Furn, On saturday 2 October between Charlotte Grierson, Adam 12 – 6pm: A programme of Goren, Stella Harding, special events will take place: Michael Hatcher, Kimino site-specific international Homma, Derek Hunter, projects curated by the Old Police John Jukes Johnson, Miho Station, installations, Deptford Kaneko, David Kappo, Dave X commissions and parties all Kingsley, Sue Lawes, Maggie over the building. The Old Police Learmonth, Ruth Miller, Kate Station’s Open Studios will take Maguire, Muun McDonald, place over five floors with an Ray Markwyck, Joan Molloy, opportunity to meet the artists. Lottie Muir, Kate Murdoch, Allan Norman, Therese Nortvedt, Kristina Page, Peter Park, Tim Ralston, Livia Rossi, Emilio Saraco, Laurence Roberts-Spears, Shiho Takizawa, Kirsti Tebbutt, Martin Ten, Debbie Morris- Thomas, Hannah Waldron, Carol Watts, Tristan Webber, Angela Wilkinson, Emma Wolfindale, and Carol Wyss.

30 Education Projects A Load of Rubbish Deptford X has commissioned artists to work with two schools Mark Titchner with original photography in the area to create new work. by students from Deptford Green School The project was managed by the Lewisham Education Arts Lead artist Mark Titchner used Network. leanarts.org.uk photographs taken by students from Deptford Green School, exploring the local environments, to create a series of images that have been reproduced on the side of three refuse trucks based in Deptford.

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Amanda Egbe and Rastko Novakovic Bridget Lycett-Smith with pupils from (Bashta) with pupils from Deptford Green Tidemill Primary School Hoarding by Waldron Centre and Waldron Health Centre Two classes of year 3 and 4 Taking the theme of ‘play’ as a children from Tidemill Primary starting point, the artists engaged School, just off Deptford High a group of year 7 pupils from Street have created a series of Deptford Green School in group interwoven environments based exercises and tasks to create a on their observations and feelings series of banners displayed on the about Deptford Market. hoarding surrounding Fordham Park. The images, created through The participants took inspiration a collaborative process of sharing, from nature’s ‘sculptors’ — creatures reflect that imagination, creativity such as bees, birds and spiders who and play are instantaneous when use natural or found materials to given space to explore. create a habitat.

31 Public Art Creekside Gates, 2002 12 Deptford is home to numerous public art projects, which you Heather Burrell can enjoy as you make way round Creekside Environment Centre Deptford X. Commissioned by the Creekside Ben Pimlott Building, 2005 23 Education Trust, these intricately Will Alsop designed stainless steel gates Goldsmiths College, University of London welcome visitors to the ecological and environmentally-friendly centre with entwined images of The unmistakeable metal ‘scribble’ local flora and fauna. wraps around the exterior terrace exhibition space as part of the college’s £10m arts complex. Feed the Cows, 2005 23 Artmongers Circumsphere, 1998 19 Road

Chris Marshall and Steve Lewis Deptford Strand Designed to promote recycling in the borough and to turn the humble dustbin into a work of The artist behind Lewisham art, these Friesian cow bins have Hospital’s Blue Well, works now been commissioned by other on a site specific basis. boroughs across the London. Having absorbed, researched, measured, and assimilated the space, Marshall built this His ‘n’ Hers, 2002 22 architecturally inspired work. Artmongers Giffin Square Deptford Marbles , 2007 30

Artmongers A piece of work from New Cross Square Artmongers. Its strikingly humorous appropriation of the A trompe d’oeil wall with the effect side of a Deptford High Street of lightening and opening out the shop was commissioned by surrounding area. Deptford X festival in 2002.

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Artmongers Deptford Reach

Stupidly uplifting work by Artmongers for the homeless drop-in centre, Deptford Reach. A large scale appealing to our most childish sensibilities to strike a hopeful cord.

Love Over Gold, 1989

Gary Drostle Creekside History Tree 28 Richard Lawrence Developed with nine local Margaret McMillan park primary schools on the theme of ‘Love over Gold’, the mural depicts The sculpture lists the history local urban landscapes peopled and achievements of Margaret with children and adults and their McMillan. Carved from a musings on their environment. Cherry tree, 2010.

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Richard Lawrence Margaret McMillan Park

Sculpture of various children’s toys. Carved from Ash, 2010.

33 Events Natasha Rosling in conversation with 27 Below is a list of events that Laura White Presented by Re-make will be taking place in Deptford during Deptford X. Thursday 30 September, 7pm – 9pm Lewisham Arthouse – Free admission

Exhibiting artist Natasha Rosling is joined by artist and lecturer at Deptford Art Tours 7 Goldsmiths College of Art, Laura White, to explore the use of craft- Saturday 25 September, 10am – 12 noon like processes in contemporary art Saturday 25 September, 2pm – 4pm practice today. The starting point Saturday 2 October, 10am – 12 noon for this talk and open discussion is Saturday 2 October, 2pm – 4pm Natasha’s new work for Deptford X, ‘Ruffle’, 2010. Enjoy a guided tour of the sights and sounds of Deptford X, led by Slammer bar by Stav Bee the Deptford Art Map. Take a Friday 24 September, 6 - 11pm behind-the-scenes look at galleries, Friday 1 October, 6 -1 1pm projects and artists, finding places that are off the beaten track Coinciding with the private view and meeting other likeminded of all the projects at The Old Deptford Art adventurers. Police Station for Deptford X will be the launch of this new charity Tours are £15, £7.50 for children fundraising bar - open every first under 12 and leave from BEARSPACE, and every last Friday from then 152 Deptford High Street.The tour on. will include a special tasting menu at the Rivington Bar and Grill in Stav Bee is renown for her ! Places are limited professional cocktails and also her and booking is essential. queer DJ nights around London. Please book online at: deptfordartmap.com

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Ben Parry and Jacques Chauchat 1 – 31 October Deptford High Street and around Festivity which happens on land and With the desire and laughter online, with partying, performance, of consumerism, artists Ben installation, creation and exhibition Parry and Jacques Chauchat at it’s organically evolving heart. have created a sonic junk street machine. A fully charged 1975 Created by the Music Tourist electric Milk Float and discarded Board of Rocklands, Artful objects of everyday life become inspired the Art Beat of Uniqulture an orchestra of discord. At the which uses friendship as finance, pres of a button the machine ironically increasingly relevant explodes into rhythmical life with in these times. The programme a cacophony of motors, pulleys, is varied and often experimental, wheels, cogs, horns, bells and happening in South East London other mechanisms as junk whirs and beyond. Entry is cheap or free. and whistles to a rinky-tink, clink-clank, ding, wallop-bang. Deptford X Pub Quiz 32 Monday 4 October, 7pm Royal Albert

The first annual Deptford X Pub Quiz. Test your knowledge of the arts, Deptford and Deptford X and try out our unique cocktail.

35 Venues

1 110 Deptford High 7 Art Hub 12 Creekside Centre Street Framework Studios 14 Creekside 5–9 Creekside SE8 4SA 2 182 Deptford High Street Deptford Tel: 020 8692 9922 SE8 3PR SE8 4SA creeksidecentre.org.uk 3 Block arthub1.org 13 Crossfields Estate Unit A 8 BEARSPACE Faircharm Trading 14 Deptford Creek 152 Deptford High Estate (via Ha’Penny Street 8–12 Creekside Hatch Bridge ) SE8 3PQ SE8 3DX Creekside Tel: 020 8694 8097 4 The Albany bearspace.co.uk 15 DeptfordDoubleDecker Douglas Way 30 Deptford Church Street 9 Childers Street Studios Deptford SE8 4RZ 165 Childers Street SE8 4AG SE8 5JR 16 Deptford Market Tel: 020 8692 446 acme.org.uk/ Deptford High Street thealbany.org.uk childers.php 17 Deptford Reach 5 APT & 10 Core Gallery & Speedwell Street APT Xtra Space Cor Blimey Arts SE8 4AT Harold Wharf C101 Faircharm deptfordreach.org.uk 6 Creekside Trading Estate Deptford 18 Deptford Train Station 8–12 Creekside SE8 4SA Deptford High Street SE8 3DX Tel: 020 8694 8344 SE8 3NU Tel: 020 8691 1201 aptstudios.org corblimeyarts.com 19 Deptford Strand 6 Arch Gallery by River Thames 11 Creekside Artists 15 Resolution Way Unit A110–114 Deptford Faircharm Trading SE8 4NT Estate archgallery.net 8–12 Creekside SE8 3DX creeksideartists.co.uk

36 Creekside Centre 20 Faircharm Trading 27 Lewisham Arthouse 33 The Pigeon Wing 14 Creekside Estate 140 Lewisham Way Top Floor SE8 4SA 8–12 Creekside SE14 6PD Guild House Rollins Tel: 020 8692 9922 SE8 3DX Tel: 020 8244 3168 Street creeksidecentre.org.uk workspaceindeptford. Fax/Answerphone: SE15 1EP com/faircharm.htm 020 8694 9011 Crossfields Estate 34 Seager Distillery lewishamarthouse.co.uk 21 Gallop Deptford Deptford Creek 198 Deptford High 28 Margaret McMillian Deptford Bridge Road (via Ha’Penny Street Park (next to Deptford Hatch Bridge ) SE8 3PR Douglas Way Bridge DLR) Creekside gallop.co.uk SE8 4AG 35 St. Pauls House DeptfordDoubleDecker 22 Giffin Square 29 Museum of Curiosities 125 Deptford High Street 30 Deptford Church Street Giffin Street 3a Creekside, SE8 4RZ 36 Utrophia Project Space Deptford 23 Goldsmiths, 136 Tanners Hill Deptford Market SE8 4SA University of London SE8 4QD Deptford High Street Lewisham Way, 30 New Cross Square www.utrophia.net Deptford Reach New Cross Deptford Broadway 37 Viewfinder Gallery Speedwell Street SE14 6NW SE8 (opposite the 46 Greenwich SE8 4AT gold.ac.uk Anchor sculpture) Church Street deptfordreach.org.uk 24 Grimcrack 31 The Old Police Station SE10 9BL Deptford Train Station 21 Tanners Hill 114 Amersham Vale viewfinder.org.uk Deptford High Street SE8 4PJ SE14 6LG 38 Waldron Centre SE8 3NU tempcontemp.co.uk/ 25 Johnny’s DIY Stanley Street oldpolicestation3a.html Deptford Strand 150 Deptford High Deptford by River Thames Street 32 Royal Albert SE8 4BG SE8 3PQ 460 New Cross Road 39 Wavelengths Library ilovediy.net/gallery.htm SE14 6TJ Giffin Street 26 Laban Deptford Creekside SE8 4RJ SE8 3DZ Tel: 020 8691 8600 laban.org

37 Map How to get to Deptford Need directions? New to Deptford? To help festival goers find their Train: Deptford or New Cross way, Necole Schmitz, Victoria (from , Trinder and Caz Underwood London Waterloo East, of Creekside Artists will be tagging London Charing Cross) the pavements of Deptford with colour coded symbols which will DLR: Deptford Bridge direct you on a treasure hunt Greenwich of venues and events around Greenwich Cutty Sark Deptford. So tell your smart phone Buses: 21, 36, 47, 53, 136,171,172, savvy friends that there is no need 177, 188, 199, 225 for GPS, just remember Deptford X marks the spot! Boat: Thames Clipper to Greenwich

Deptford X information point Bike: The Thames path and will be based at the Arch Gallery several cycle routes pass where you can collect your through the area. programme and ask questions. Tube: Overground to New Cross, or New Cross Gate

Deptford X Rickshaws Saturday & Sunday only

There is no better way to explore the festival than on back of a Deptford X rickshaw.

You can pick a rickshaw up from the Deptford X information point at the Arch Gallery and it will take you to any Deptford X destination.

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