EXHIBITIONS
13 - 22 September 2024
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Staffordshire St presents Made Without Permission, as part of London Design Festival 2024.
Curated by bafalw, the exhibition celebrates a language of intervening in our shared spaces by ‘making it ourselves’ – greatly influenced by the different diasporas and communities that come together in our city.
The exhibition brings together the work and practice of designers, collectives, artists, groups and individuals alongside day-to-day rituals and everyday moments.​​
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30 August - 1 September 2024
Dinosaur Kilby
Staffordshire St presents Are the Stones Standing Still, an
exhibition-cum-symposium. The weekend event acts as a follow-up to Eastside Project's 2023 If It Thunders on All Fool's Day.
As England crumbles, arts funding is cut and Starmer’s Labour gain power – are there new ways of doing? Or are the stones standing still? From the regions to the capital, no one’s watching. Do something.
Are the Stones Standing Still is a symposium, a gathering of collectives from around the UK to come together and protest. Curator Dinosaur Kilby has invited five collaborative artist groups to come together: Prayer Room in Birmingham, Test Space from Bristol, PINK in Stockport, Studio Cybi from North Wales and The Field in Derbyshire to participate.
Each collective is asked to produce a banner; a statement of intent about who they are, what they are doing and where they want to be in five years.
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Thursday 25 July - 11 August 2024
Jimi & Madeleine Famurewa
Staffordshire St invite you to return to the water park with Pipe Dreams, a collaborative project conjured by Jimi and Madeleine Famurewa.
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Prepare to be transported to the half-remembered fantasia of a London orbital waterpark in the mid-1990s. The siren of the wave machine; the fog of chlorine and deep fat- fryers; the connective ridges of the water flume on your back.
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Thursday 25 July - 11 August 2024
Staffordshire St presents Festival of Community 2024: a collaborative programme of workshops, events, exhibitions and drop-ins that will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets.
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Exploring notions of community, place and belonging, Staffordshire St will become a locus for playful creativity and celebratory knowledge sharing.
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Our festival exhibition is Pipe Dreams by Jimi & Madeleine Famurewa.
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Thursday 30 May - Sunday 16 June
curated by Paint Talks
Staffordshire St x Paint Talk present A Painting Show. Taking inspiration from the work of Francisco Goya (1746 - 1842), 28 painters will exhibit an entire spectrum of work.
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Exhibiting artists: Karolina Albricht, Lulua Alyahya, Ned Armstrong,
Veronika Bezdenejnykh, Sophie Birch, Max Boyla, Luke Burton, Ethan Caflisch, Noemi Conan, Ruby Dickson, Grant Foster, Jake Freeman, Alex Gibbs, Alex Gilmour, Madelynn Green,
Lily Hargreaves, Sophie Lourdes Knight, Holly Mills, Andras Nagy-Sandor, Klaas Op De Beeck, Paige Perkins,
Francisca Pinto, Karolina Ptaszkowska, Olivia Sterling, Heidi Ukkonen, Ryan Winnen, Fen De Winter, Salomé Wu
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Monday 13 May - Sunday 19 May 2024
curated by Craft Show
Staffordshire St presents A Textile Assembly, curated by Craft Show: an exhibition of textiles and textile art opening as a part of London Craft Week’s official schedule. Showcasing the work of both celebrated and emerging makers the exhibition will explore textile construction and the personal stories woven into their very fabric.
The act of making will be at the heart of the space, with a programme of hands-on workshops, drawing inspiration from the exhibition itself. From natural dye and embroidery to yarn art and quilting, the exhibition will be alive with the hum of conversations and craftspeople sharing their skills.
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Thursday 18 April - Sunday 5 May 2024
Steven He and Seonguen Lee, curated by Jiayue He
Staffordshire St presents Stove by a Whale, a collaboration between Steven He and Seongeun Lee curated by Jiayue He.
Together, they draw inspiration from their different journeys. Steven’s utopian fictions are envisioned through tracing the source of ideas and cultural traditions back to their origins whilst Seongeun translates the harsh realities of life into the language of dreams. Jiayue brings these two together to explore the notion of contemporary archives questioning how individuals connect to their roots and claim their identities.
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Thursday 7 March - Sunday 17 March 2024
Julie Marsh and Shahed Saleem
Staffordshire St presents Faith, Place and Migration, co-curated by Shahed Saleem and Julie Marsh in collaboration with the congregation at the Old Kent Road Mosque.
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This multi-media installation will introduce the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of London's oldest Nigerian community, the Old Kent Road Mosque. Through this exhibition, the curators question the nature of a community archive and explore how the narratives of community members are embedded in and told through the architecture of their sacred spaces.
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Wednesday 7 - Sunday 11 February 2024
Ben Cullen Williams and Gaika
Staffordshire St, Ben Cullen Williams and Gaika present Mass.
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Staffordshire St presents Mass, an installation created by Gaika and Ben Cullen Williams, which investigates the demise of club culture as a ritual in London. Stemming from their own experiences of London club culture growing up and seeing these spaces be turned into commercial developments, forcing out grassroots club culture from the city.
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Wednesday 6 - Sunday 10 December 2023
curated by Louis Chapple and Sons of Craft
Staffordshire St, Sons of Craft and studio/chapple present ACall Arts Festival #3.
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For its third edition, multidisciplinary design lab Sons of Craft and Deptford-based project space studio/chapple collaborate once again for the ACall Arts Festival: A week-long exhibition and series of events that celebrates the intersection between art, music, fashion and design.
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Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 November 2023
Kirsty Badendoch with Tom Jeffries
Staffordshire St presents falling / fallen / felled ​an exhibition and book launch exploring the multi-species languages of forests through walking, writing and drawing by artist Kirsty Badenoch with writer Tom Jeffreys.
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Friday 27 October - Sunday 29 October 2023
Curated by Mariana Lemos
Staffordshire St presents DIG IN, a collaborative project that celebrates food growing and eating by artists Maisie Maris and Laura Mallows and curator Mariana Lemos. Looking at ancient knowledge, folk tales and indigenous growing methods, the duo exhibition sets the table for a dinner celebrating the harvest.
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Thursday 5 October - Sunday 22 October 2023
Hazel Brill, Kara Chin and Lewis Davidson
Staffordshire St presents a group exhibition by Lewis Davidson, Hazel Brill and Kara Chin. They are brought together by a shared drive to work with the mundane and nostalgic icons of material culture, both from the everyday and from the fictional worlds of disaster and horror films.
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Thursday 28 September - Sunday 1
October 2023
Curated by Isabel Muñoz-Newsome.
Staffordshire St presents a four day exhibition and program of events from queer artists, musicians and performers: Adam Christensen, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Tim Spooner, Eloise Fornieles,
Fiontan Moran and Isabel Muñoz-Newsome.
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Thursday 12 September - Sunday 24 September 2023
curated by Jan Hendzel Studio
For the 2023 London Design Festival, and as part of the Southwark Design District, Staffordshire St present 11:11 curated by Jan Hendzel Studio.
11:11 will showcase the works of 11 established designers, makers and artists, alongside 11 selected emerging artists from the local Southwark area.
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Thursday 10 August - Sunday 20 August 2023
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Staffordshire St presents a Festival of Community, co-curated with Peckham Platform and F.A.T Studio. The collaborative programme of workshops, events and fiestas will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets.
Exploring notions of community, place and belonging, over two long weekends Staffordshire St will become a locus for playful creativity and celebratory knowledge sharing.
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Thursday 1 June - Sunday 20 June 2023
Curated by Haydn Allbrow and Flora Bradwell
Staffordshire St presents Full to Bursting: encompassing sculpture, painting, sound and performance, this interdisciplinary show will bring together female and queer identifying artists to investigate the grotesque through the bodily, through language, and through an erotic lens.
Carnavalesque in its' fantastical exaggeration of contemporary contexts, the show's high-octane pitch reflects the excess of ramped up emotionality of living in a time of permacrisis.
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Thursday 11 May - Sunday 14 May 2023
Presented by Kaia Goodenough
and Tilly Wace
Staffordshire St presents The Store, an exhibition and collaborative programme of events centred around a potato store in Norfolk. Curated by Kaia Goodenough, The Store is a response to Tilly Wace’s interdisciplinary film and research project Between the Furrows.
Together they present an exhibition of film, photography and creative writing to create a metaphor for a source of energy through live activations. Questioning the multiplicity of dark spaces, embodiment, tangent thought and collective movement.
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Thursday 20 April - Sunday 7 May 2023
Presented by F.A.F
‘As a Child with a Matchstick Castle’ is a three week exhibition presenting the building of a large-scale installation by F.A.F Collective that explores how layers of history and myth are interwoven.
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F.A.F emerged out of a shared indifference to the financial and physical restraints placed on the creation of large scale sculptures in London. In a disused industrial site, which had been fly-tipped with construction debris, this shared sentiment first manifested itself with the creation of ‘Stephen Bhatti’s Diving Tower’. This show brings these three artists inside the gallery to unearth a mosaic hidden below a caravan complex.
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Thursday 23 March - Sunday 26 March 2023
Curated by Yifan He
Swords and Kisses is a four day programme of events around an exhibition of works by artists and gamers. The show centres around queer+trans visions of a non-linear time-space and experiences of diasporas. The exhibition space becomes a gathering space to create and inhabit other worlds. Queer and global majority artists build portals, props and false promises to critically approach the theme of fantasy.
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Opening : Thursday 16 February 6-9pm
17 February - 5 March 2023
5 - 8pm Thurs, Fri | 12 - 6pm Sat, Sun
A group exhibition curated by Georgia Stephenson and Rosalind Wilson, which examines the tools and burdens we carry with us.
A sculptural display of works presents an assortment of responses: from self-defence to coping mechanisms, compulsions or avoidances, self-medication, mantras, armour and antidotes. The works on display are vessels or vehicles for dealing with or undertaking the myriad journeys of life.
Categorised by ‘baggage size’, the carousel displays a variety of sculptural and video artworks by 46 artists based in London, the UK more widely and internationally.
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Opening: 10 November 18:00-21.00
10 November - 28 November
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A new body of work by Rudy Loewe examining Britain’s relationship to Caribbean Black Power movements during the 1960s and 70s. Recently declassified records from The National Archives have been used as source material for painting and drawing. The exhibition illuminates a part of British history that has been suppressed in the archive, weaving it into the genealogy of Empire.
Loewe’s practice explores black histories, gender and Caribbean folklore through visual practice. They interrogate what has become truth in the collective memory, envisaging alternate futures that centre black queer and trans experience.
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Opening: 20 October, 18:00-21.00
20 October - 1 November
A multi-disciplinary exhibition co-curated by Fauve Bickerstaffe, Jasmine Shigemura Lee, Isabel Castro Jung and Rosalind Wilson. The show includes sculpture, performance and video installation exploring different insects from the South London area. What we can understand by looking at non-human ways of being and how linear time can be disrupted, finding futures away from our current path of ecocide. Large sculptures and performance pieces will be collaboratively made from recycled and found materials by the four artists, to create a playful and riotous exhibition which will to help reassess how we see and encounter these creatures in daily life.
Opening: 15 September, 18:00-21.00
15 September - 2 October
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Poet and philosopher Paul Valery states in his book Sea shells ‘a crystal, a flower or a shell stands out from the usual disorder that characterizes most perceptible things’. He is taking solace in the geometrical structure in these natural forms as a secure point in nature to meditate on. This shell however, also has the ability to feel more like a pressure cooker than a refuge. Both acting as the intimate cocoon we try to maintain around our own personal chaos, as well as a protection from outside turmoil - the protective skin doesn’t
necessarily get crushed, but the pressure it endures around it is palpable.
Curated by HAZE, an artist-led curatorial project co-founded by Camilla Bliss and Solanne Bernard.
Opening: 1 September, 18:00-21.00
2 September - 11 September
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A group exhibition of 10 artists which reflect on this idea of the collective and containment. Born from a series of weekly zoom meetings between the curators during the pandemic where these womxn discussed personal histories and experiences of womxnhood. A collective was formed as means of survival and space for sharing and processing- a modern day campfire with the absence of heroes and violent battles won but rather a messy and intertwined collection of stories about struggle and survival. An endeavour grounded in collective healing and opening the conversation out to hear more stories of our shared realities.
Opening: 4 August, 18:00-21.00
5 August - 14 August
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A collaborative exhibition by Daisy Harvey and Flora Hunt which explores social choreography, ritual, storytelling and collectivism.
21 July - 31 July 2022
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Fels and Staffordshire St presents In The Direction Of Colour - a group exhibition celebrating the exploration and application of colour within contemporary design in London. Hosted in a refurbished Methodist hall in Peckham, the exhibition features works from 11 London-based designers who acknowledge colour in different ways. Be it a central tenet to their practice as a whole or a specifically informed project, varying approaches to materiality, process and finishing are exhibited as a colourful reflection of London’s vibrant design community.
NOVEMBER 2021
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Collaborative exhibition by Critics Club and its members: Eleni Papazoglou, Susana Bolton, Matilda Mersa, Rory Fallon and Rosalind Wilson.
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Opening: 21 July, 18:00-21.00
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NOVEMBER 2021
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A collection of 6 young creatives brought together by the Creative Ideas Fund programme. Through a series of round table discussions the group came to the consensus; To redefine Black History Month and challenge the narrative rooted in tokenism, which detaches many from engaging with their history.
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OCTOBER 2021
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An exhibition curated by Hannah Rowan exploring traces of touch that emerge through materials. Drawing on Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘carrier bag theory of fiction’ and Karen Barad’s writings on touching and the inhuman, Ecdysis draws together artists working with notions of vessels, ritual, the animacy of matter, and the temporal transformation of materials.
AUGUST 2021
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Works from the fifteen artists in the exhibition draw on the complexities of layering, the building of time and the uncertainty of dualities—incorporating themes found between two scientific principles: the law of superposition in geology and the principle quantum superposition in quantum mechanics. The first dictates that the layering of sediment is made in time sequence, with the oldest strata at the bottom and the newest at the top; while the second describes the dualities exhibited by wave-particles at sub-atomic level, including light’s simultaneous and inseparable manifestation as both a particle and a wave. Superpositions is also the title of a great track from Nathan Paul Fake's 2006 debut album “Drowning in a Sea of Love”.