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The Wharf Project
The Wharf Road Project brings more than 20 innovative contemporary art initiatives together for the first time in a central location, creating a seminal showcase for the more unusual and innovative. The Wharf Road Project is not an art fair, but a large-scale exhibition featuring the best of London’s specialist and experimental art spaces, complemented by a programme of performances, screenings, music and guided tours.
Participants have each been allocated one of the 5-storey venue’s rooms to curate exhibitions which reflect their artistic endeavours and curatorial ethos. This mash-up of different organisations will create an opportunity to engage with established art spaces as well as some of the newest and most exciting art initiatives in London.
The Wenlock building is owned by Workspace Group plc who have long been supporters of the arts and London’s creative industries. V22 is the first cooperatively run art collection, owned by artists themselves as well as external investor-patrons. Our ethos is to make the best new art accessible to more people in more ways. The Wharf Road Project is a celebration of artists, their supporters and the wider industry. V22 will feature new works for its collection selected by Martin Westwood and Martin Creed.
Participants include:
COLLECTIONS:
The David Roberts Art Foundation
www.galleryoneoneone.com
Martin Creed for V22 &
Martin Westwood for V22
www.v22collection.com
SPACES:
Carter Presents
www.carterpresents.com
David Risley
www.davidrisleygallery.com
E:vent
www.eventnetwork.org.uk
The Hex
www.hexprojects.org
Parade
www.paradespace.com
Seventeen
www.seventeengallery.com
Stedefreund, Berlin
www.stedefreund-berlin.de
Supplement
www.supplementgallery.co.uk
PROJECTS:
Collecting Live Art
www.collectingliveart.com
Everyday press
www.theeverydaypress.net
Fieldgate
www.fieldgategallery.com
igloo
www.igloo.org.uk
Linda Persson and Natasha Rees
www.lindapersson.org
PILOT:
www.pilotlondon.org
Poignancy passing Muster
TOM ROWLAND FINE ART
Truck Art
www.truckart.org
MOT Presents: THE NEW DOME
www.thenewdome.com
INVITED ARTISTS:
Fergal Stapleton, courtesy Carl Freedman
www.carlfreedmangallery.com
Laura White invites Alison Wilding, Bettina Buck and Phyllida Barlow
Peter Jones, courtesy of
Pizza Horse and the Fat Sisters
CURATORS:
Frog Morris with Lee Campbell
www.frogmorris.net
www.myspace.com/leejjcampbell
Matt Williams
Dallas Seitz, Lisa Penny & Trevor Hall
Show 4th October to 19th October
Wednesday to Sunday, 12 - 7pm
The Wenlock Building, 50-60 Wharf Road
London N1 7RN
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