We would like to invite you to our Closing Event that will celebrate the culmination of our glorious three-month run funded by the Outer London Fund.
We have loved bringing you Construction Gallery and please keep in touch if you would like to hear what POST Artists get up to next!
Construction Gallery
Sculpture Show
Wed 21 – Sun 25 March, 12 – 7 daily
Closing Event: Saturday 24 March 2012
6.30pm to 9.30pm
after party at Brick Box’s 2nd Unorthobox event from 9pm
74 – 80 Upper Tooting Road, London SW17 7PB
www.constructiongallery.co.uk
Sculpture is the theme of our final exhibition and each space within Construction Gallery has been opened to a provocative set of juxtapositions.
With a multitude of materials, methods and motives the selected participants provide insight into contemporary sculpture.
From tongue-in-cheek inventions to surreal forms that suspend disbelief; from carefully balanced compositions to the sinister implications of obsessive design; from craft as a means to remember to craft as a means to forget; various concerns are introduced in a collision of intuitive and analytical means with which ideas and their forms can be celebrated
Our final exhibition takes a fun, humorous approach to sculpture, bringing cutting edge art into this unconventional gallery space and reflecting the wider interests at the core of the POST artist group’s ethos.
On Tuesday 27th March at 7pm, Construction Gallery will host its last, small and exclusive, event — a special secret screening of short films and video works by emerging and established artists inspired by being in Tooting + a couple of surprises. The full programmed will be revealed on the night!
Please book your FREE place soon, seats are limted to 20.
Bring a picnic, takeaway, or bottle of wine and settle in for the surprises to be revealed!
RSVP to: constructiongalleryinfo@gmail.com
On Sunday 18th March Construction Gallery presented a series of works in development from six artists: Heather Jones, Cradeaux Alexander, Rachel Gomme, Joe Stevens, Allan Taylor and Eldi Dundee. The artists all work with performance – whether as the primary focus of their practice or alongside other forms. In the last few weeks they have spent time in the gallery working together, discussing and exploring the gallery as a performance space, leading to this ‘in-progress’ showing. Thank you to Natasha Vicars for curating this performance programme, to the wonderful performers, and to everyone who came along to enjoy the afternoon.
Artist Biographies
Cradeaux Alexander’s practice encompasses live performance, moving image, experimental theatre, acting,
writing and sculpture. He is currently taking an MA at Royal College of Art and previously trained at
Strasberg Institute in New York and Chelsea College of Art in London. www.cradeaux.com
Eldi Dundee’s current artistic concerns include inhabiting a female form, feminism/anti-feminism,
beauty, violence, carnality and transcendence. Her practice consists of painting, photography,
assemblage, performance, installation, writing, drawing and sculpture. www.eldidundee.com
Rachel Gomme works in performance and installation, focusing on time and process as experienced
in the body of both performer and viewer. She is interested in the immediate moment of performance,
and to what extent it is possible to create a shared space of experience between performer and viewer.
www.newworknetwork.org.uk/RachelGomme
Heather Jones makes video and performance work and is concerned largely with cultural norms and
behaviour, looking at how these are manifest in specific spaces and how we experience them as
individuals and collectively. www.heatherjones.net
Joe Stevens is an artist who is concerned with the grid as a methodology for artistic production. He
uses the grid to provide structure to his life and art and to provide freedom from sensory overload.
joestevens82@hotmail.com
Allan Taylor’s work ranges from one-to-one performances and performance lectures to durational
performance. Using themes of repetition and ridiculousness, he asks us to look again at concepts
that are perhaps taken for granted in the modern age, such as success, love and the Western ideal of
beauty. www.allanstanleytaylor.com
Curated by Natasha Vicars for Construction Gallery.