‘Patio Projects' is WW Gallery's rolling public art programme on view 24/7.
WW recently held an open call inviting proposals for a series of provisional, site-specific, outdoor installations in the 6 square metre street-facing patio space at WW, 30 Queensdown Road.
Selected artists are awarded a £100 bursary to assist them in the challenge of realising a public art work on public view 24/7 for 28 days.
Three artists were initally commissioned to kick off Patio Projects and WW subsequently selected a further 11 artists from the open submission, completing the programme up to January 2013.
Public response to the first few Patio Projects has been overwhelmingly positive and the works have engaged new art audiences, including local residents and children.
Please use the link below to donate what you can to help us fund the artists' bursaries. Thank you!
PP4: Kirsty Tinkler | Face Off
2nd – 26th February 2012
PV First Thursday 2nd February 6-9pm
(Drinks at Three Sisters Pub on the corner)
As a mute dialogue between two buildings, Kirsty Tinkler's project ‘Face Off’ is based on the notion of how society is reflected in its architecture.
The facade of the building and its typical Victorian bay window is reproduced as both mirror and architectural folly; the mise en scene creates a spectacular game in which the audience is an essential part: to be inside and outside of the building at the same time.
Kirsty Tinkler is a sculpture graduate of the Royal College of Art, London.
PP3: Lucy May |
Three Hundred Pounds of Heavenly Joy
1st December 2011 – 29 January 2012
WW's Patio Projects #3 is a newly commissioned public sculpture from artist Lucy May.
Inspired by the many kebab shops and Turkish Ocakbasi in the local area, Three Hundred Pounds of Heavenly Joy is a wry celebration of that iconic symbol of low culture, the doner kebab.
Lucy May's works are fantastical hybrids of consumerist materiality and decorative style, portraying a grotesque yet seductive vision of the world. Signifiers of bad taste and low culture are fused with the grandeur and excess of the Baroque. The work revels in the tension between high art and vulgarity.
Lucy May is a graduate of The Royal College of Art and The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. More info:
www.lucymay.net
Press:
The Telegraph 28/11/2011 - 'The best things to do this week in London' - Lucy May's "Patio Projects #3: 'Three Hundred Pounds of Heavenly Joy' at WW Gallery. In what could well be a first, the exhibition has as its focus the humble, and much-derided, doner kebab."
PP2: Jessica Herrington | Power Object 3rd - 27th November 2011
‘Power Object' by Jessica Herrington is the title of the second ‘Patio Project' at WW Gallery, 3rd - 27th November.
The artist will add further elements to 'Power Object' on a weekly basis, and actively invites viewers to investigate the many hidden view-finders nestled in the sculpture's black cloth exterior.
Herrington's work focuses on ideas of preciousness, value and excess and her new installation is an elaborate, shrine-like dreamcatcher, woven of glittery, colourful, visual ephemera, from wool and thread to charms, skulls and bones.
The first Patio Project Artist Eva Lis presents'Mudman', 8th August - 30 September 2011, viewable 24/7 at 30 Queensdown Rd, E5 8NN.
Clashing with the London riots when unveiled on Monday 8th August, Mudman had a close call as we reported in our August newsletter and the poignancy of Mudman's message received press coverage in The New York Observer, in FAD, in ArtLyst, and (rather sensationally given the image chosen for the article) in Art Daily.
PP5: Hanae Utamura | CONSTRUCT: Fountain
1st March – 1st April 2012
PV First Thursday 1st March 6-9pm
(Drinks at Three Sisters Pub on the corner)
'What are we doing on earth, if not constructing something and deconstructing it at the same time...?"
For Patio Projects #5, Hanae Utamura poses and responds to her own question, through a performance-based sculptural installation during the month of March.
'CONSTRUCT: Fountain' takes the form of an organic investigation; poured white plaster, shaped by the force of gravity, open to the interventions of the artist, the public and the elements.
Utamura actively invites this disruption or damage, before re-forming the fountain, imitating the continual flux that drives man to simultaneously create and destroy and questioning notions of monumentality and permanence in public sculpture.
artist statement: “I contemplate the human condition on the move, in different circumstances such as urban or natural landscapes. My intervention in these spaces is a response to the site and is never rehearsed before action is held. Sometimes putting my life at risk in politically charged sites, the work exposes a negotiation of life and how life survives in its own system. I explore a form of spirit such as love, courage, belief, faith and let my work to evoke the condition of these spirits – the beautiful side of it as well as provoking its absurdity, futility and the violence of it. Everything moves in flux, and it seems that is the only universal condition of matters at all times.”
Hanae Utamura
Utamura is an MA graduate of Chelsea College of art and a current recipient of the Axis/Florence Trust Award.
Hanae Utamura 'CONSTRUCT' (ongoing installation at the Florence Trust) 2011/12
