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1986
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DIY Gallery
DIY Gallery was a temporary exhibition and project space housed on the first floor of the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre for three months during 1986. The gallery was run by artists including Chris Saunders, Matt Hale, Lucy Spaniel, Sarah Jones, Keith Coventry and Andrea Fraser who presented solo and group shows of their own work as well as others, alongside shows and events involving young people from the local community.  Bypass Control at DIY Gallery, an installation and ‘newspaper’ with Ed Baxter (April, 1986) Read more... |
Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre
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2015 — 2015
119 Newington Causeway,
London, SE1 6BN |
Elephant and Castle Social Centre
 Elephant and Castle Social Centre. Image rights: Squat Net. The pub, closed due to having its license revoked earlier in the year, was squatted for 4 weeks of summer 2015. The building is now listed as an Asset of Community Value, requiring a planning application for any change of use. The site reopened as a pub in October 2016. |
Elephant and Castle Social Centre
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1966 — 1988
17 New Kent Road,
London, SE1 6TE |
The Odeon
 Odeon at Alexander Fleming House (now Metro Central Heights). The Odeon, now demolished, was built as part of Alexander Fleming House complex (now renamed Metro Central Heights), designed by Erno Goldfinger. The Odeon was built as a replacement for the 3,500-seat Trocadero Cinema, which stood near the site, demolished due to the construction of the new Elephant and Castle roadway system in the 1950s. The Odeon was a one-screen, one thousand person capacity cinema. It was run until its demolition in August 1988, following financial problems, to make way for a car park. |
At Alexander Fleming House |
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2003 — 2015
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Elefest
A free festival which has been held annually since 2003, based in multiple and changing venues within Elephant and Castle. The festival started as primarily as a platform to show films by local community groups alongside art and international films. The festival spans a long weekend and hosts music, performances and parties alongside film screenings. Longstanding collaborations and coverage by South London Hardcore Radio station, Hotel Elephant, The Coronet, The Cinema Museum as well as local and London-based artists, musicians and organisers. |
Rob Wray |
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2014
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Our Walworth
A short film which captures places on and off of the Walworth Road, directed by Peter Wells-Thorpe in collaboration with 3003 Group and Walworth local charity mission Pembroke House. Now closed Buddhist centre on Manor Place, BMXers in Burgress Park, a chinese restaurant and a lute maker. The film was first shown as part of Elefest 2014 at Hotel Elephant’s warehouse on Newington Causeway. It has since been screened at the Cinema Museum and at the Electric Elephant Café in Pullens Yards. |
Peter Wells-Thorpe
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2008 — 2008
Oakmayne Plaza,
300 New Kent Road, London, SE1 4AD |
Stag Scaffolding Sculpture
 Stage Scaffolding Sculpture, 2008. Ben Long. A sculptural installation sited over two-months in a cleared demolition site adjacent to the Heygate Estate, which forms part of the planned Oakmayne Plaza. A 10-meter high deer and plinth out a scaffold, commissioned by Man and Eve gallery. The sculpture has been installed in several places in the UK. |
Ben Long |
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2011 — 2014
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Walking The Rip-off
 Walking The Rip-Off, 29th April 2012. Southwark Notes Archive Group.
Southwark Notes Archive Group hosted walks around the Heygate and Aylesbury Estates before and during the regeneration planning and demolition, from 2011 until 2014. These walks were open to the public and often combined a regeneration archive session at nearby 56a Infoshop, SE1. The walks and workshops were always activist happening questioning the regeneration of the area, with Southwark Notes exploring and sharing ‘what we can do about it’. |
Southwark Notes Archive Group |
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1995 —
Tibetan Peace Garden,
Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, London, SE1 4EQ |
Samten Kyil, The Tibetan Garden of Contemplation and Peace
A garden designed by architect Guy Stansfeld with sculptures by Hamish Horsley, commissioned by the Tibet Foundation. Samten Kyil, or, Place of Contemplation, is set within the Northern area of Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum. The garden is in dedication to the Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet. |
Hamish Horsley, Guy Stansfeld |
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2013 — 2014
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Resourceful City: An Exploration from Elephant and Castle to St George’s Circus
– MSc City Design and Social Science 2013-14 Studio, LSE Cities |
MSc City Design and Social Science 2013-14 Studio, LSE Cities |
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2015
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Doreen
A short film by collaborators David Reeve and Patrick Steel, ‘Doreen’ was shown at the Open City Docs Festival in London in 2012. It is a portrait of Doreen Gibbs, a resident on Heygate Estate, in 2012 shortly after notice was given by Southwark Council of the compulsory purchase order on her home. The film was made from footage gathered over the process of shooting the directors’ 30 minute feature, ‘Larry and Janet Move Out’. |
David Reeve, Patrick Steel |
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2016 —
The Artworks,
Elephant Road, London, SE17 1AY |
People of Southwark
Mural at the Artworks at Elephant and Castle commissioned in 2014. The mural features people born or who grew up in Southwark. Famous names and faces include Damson Idris, Michael Faraday, Sokari Douglas Kemp, Giggs, Michael Caine, Dora Dixon Fyle, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Florence Welch, Giant Haystacks. |
Ibiye Camp |
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2015
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Larry and Janet Move Out
 Still, Larry And Janet Move Out_credit- caption-Larry And Janet Move Out. A film from collaborators David Reeve and Patrick Steel, ‘Larry and Janet Move Out’. The film chronicles the fallout of Southwark Council’s Compulsory Purchase Order and the relocation of its tenants from Heygate Estate from the personal perspective of a couple who have lived on the estate for more than 30 years. |
David Reeve, Patrick Steel |
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2014
London College of Communication,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB |
Activating Social Movement Histories
An event bringing together three key activist archive organisations from London and New York. The evening was held at London College of Communication organised by research unit the Design Activism Research Hub (DARH). Interference Archive, from New York, presented their work followed by a discussion with archivists from 56a Infoshop and the Feminist Library, both institutions a stone’s throw away from LCC with long and reputed histories of activism and collection. All three archives operate as autonomous centres of information, gathering and resistance in increasingly fraught surroundings and circumstances and where brought together to share principles and new tactics to navigate the contemporary landscape from an activist anarchist collective’s perspective. |
Interference Archive, Feminist Library, 56a Infoshop, Design Activism Research Hub |
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1974 — 1990
Illife Yard,
off Crampton Street, London, SE17 3QA |
See Red Women’s Workshop
 ‘Bite The Hand That “Feeds” You”. See Red Women’s Workshop. See Red Women’s Workshop was a feminist print collective based at Illife Yard, Walworth, from 1974 to 1990. The group assembled in protest against the dominant visual imagery of women as portrayed in the media and advertising. See Red produced predominantly silk-screened posters and focused on the depiction of all aspects of women’s lives and struggles. They produced work for the Women’s Liberation Movement, as well as for community and other activist groups. The collective’s studio at Illife Yard was a base for meeting, discussion, as well as the place of production of the posters and ephemera they are known for. Recently their work has gained increased exposure. In 2015 with an exhibition ‘ICA’s Feminist Pioneers: The Posters of See Red Women’s Workshop’ dedicated to the collective in the Fox’s Reading Room at the ICA, and the publication of ‘See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974-1990,’ by Four Corners Books, London, 2016. See Red posters are included in the 2016 – 2017 V&A touring exhibition ‘A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution’. |
See Red |
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2014 — 2014
Hotel Elephant,
Units A & B, 40-42 Newington Causeway, London, SE1 6DR |
Housed
Based on the accounts of over 200 Londoners, ‘Housed’ was written by David Watson in response to the mounting housing crisis in the capital. The first production by the Old Vic Community Company, ‘Housed’ was made up of thirty performers and 45 back stage participants. Two shows were held at Hotel Elephant and two at The Old Vic in July 2014. |
Old Vic Theatre Community Company |
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2012
Formerly Deacon Way, Brandon Street, Wansey Street,
Heygate Estate, SE17 |
Home Sweet Home
‘Home Sweet Home’ is a feature film directed by Enrica Colusso, shot over four consecutive years in and around the Heygate Estate from 2008 to 2012. Shot on the filmmaker’s home turf, where she has lived for twenty years, the film is an up-close portrayal of the streets and faces caught within the large regeneration scheme of the Heygate Estate. Since its release in 2012, the film has been screened at venues including Open Docs Festival, UCL’s Urban Lab and Heygate Pop-up Cinema. The film is available free to watch in full online. |
Enrica Colusso |
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2013
Formerly Deacon Way,
Brandon Street, Wansey Street, Heygate Estate, SE17 |
Heygate Estate Resident Displacement Maps
 Heygate Estate Leaseholder Displacement Map. Two maps showing the tenant and the leaseholder displacement from Heygate Estate from 2010 – 2013. Tangents connect residents former address SE17 to their new place of domicile. These maps have been used as key evidence across many media and comment outlets to demonstrate the reality facing residents relocating far from their homes and neighbourhoods within the context of regeneration. This map was constructed from data obtained by 35% Campaign for Social Housing from Southwark Council during the Heygate Estate Compulsory Purchase Order Public Inquiry of February 2013. |
35 Percent Campaign |
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2012
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Ghost Town
An online interactive work created by the director of ‘Home Sweet Home’ in collaboration with The Swarn, in which the participant enters a digitally mapped world of Elephant and Castle. The aim of the project is to engage in new means of exploring through a critical gaze the fabric and viewpoints of regeneration processes and facts on the ground. The project mines the extensive digital video archives Colusso amassed during the shooting of feature film ‘Home Sweet Home’ (90mins, 2012), over 200 hours shot over four years. |
Enrica Colusso, Jason DaPonte, Philo van Kemenade |
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2015
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Elephant Days
A London Film Festival, Official Selection 2015, this feature film follows the band The Maccabees through the recording process of their studio album ‘Marks To Prove It’. The film looks at the area around the music studio where the band practiced and recorded the record. A series of stories of local personalities, businesses and basketball team unfold interspersed with shots of the band’s progress. |
James Caddick, James Cronin |
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2007
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Elephant and Castle
 Elephant and Castle, Snape Maltings 21 June 2007. A project commissioned by Aldeburgh Music which took place during Aldeburgh Festival in June 2007 was directed by Tim Hopkins and devised for the stage by Pippa Nissen. An opera set in Elephant and Castle, a series of seven sets and backdrops was devised as a roaming performance across the Suffolk town and landscape of Snape Maltings. |
Tim Hopkins, Pippa Nissen, Tansy Davies, Mira Calix, Blake Morrison |
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2016 — 2016
Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TE |
Elephant & Castle: Memory And Place
 Memory and Place at Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, 19th March 2016. Image credit: The People’s Bureau. Siobhan Davies Dance, Entelechy Arts and The People’s Bureau together with local day centres and community groups in Southwark collaborated to create a durational dance piece performed at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre on 19th March 2016. Entelechy Arts led a series creative movement workshops in January across day centres in the area with local seniors groups. This was followed by several collaborative dance pow-wows hosted at Siobhan Davies Studios to bring together local memories and stories into a dance performance. This culminated in a durational dance piece at the Shopping Centre from 2 – 5pm on Saturday 19th March. |
Siobhan Davies Dance, Entelechy Arts, The People’s Bureau |
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2013 — 2013
syz.y.gy,
Arnside Street, London, SE17 2AR |
Astate
 Poster, Astate. isik.knutsdotter / Fourthland. An exhibition of material and durational event by Fourthland hosted at syz.y.gy on Arnside Street. In the format of a live research event, it was held to explore publicly work amassed by the collective across three London areas of Walworth, Wick and Wenlock from 2008-2012. syz.y.gy was “an organisation, a collective and space which kept the shifting tectonics of the local area as focus of their activities.” It was based off Arnside Road, SE17. |
Fourthland
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2010 — 2015
Erlang House,
128 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8EQ |
ASC Gallery at Erlang House
Artist Studio Company managed over 40 artists in studio spaces and an exhibition space in Erlang House at St George’s Roundabout, from autumn 2010 until spring 2015. Erlang House and the adjacent Hill House buildings were demolished in mid-2015. 128-150 Blackfriars Road is now a Barratt Homes development site, ‘Blackfriars Circus’, consisting of “one, two and three bedroom apartments and penthouses built around a new public plaza”. The site is scheduled for completion summer 2017. ASC is currently leasing space for artists and exhibitions at the Chaplin Centre on the Aylesbury Estate, SE17. |
Artists Studio Company |
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2005 —
London College of Communication,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB |
Creative Research Into Sound Art Practice (CRiSPA)
 Networked Migrations, CRiSPA. Creative Research into Sound Practice is a research laboratory based at London College of Communication led by co-directors Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle. The lab produces symposia, publications, exhibitions and events focused within sound art practice and discourse. Thematic avenues include Voice and Language, Sound and Environment, Listening Practices and Sonic Archiving. Past events and collaborations include Staging Disorder, Ethics of Listening, Migratory Dreams – Sueños Migratorios, Her Noise Archive. |
Cathy Lane, Angus Carlyle, David Toop, Dr Salomé Voegelin, Peter Cusack, Dr John Wynne, Thomas Gardner, Dr Ximena Alarcón |
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2009 — 2009
Unit 316,
Lower Ground Floor, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, London, SE1 6TE |
Frontiers
 Frontiers. Rights: Off/Modern.
Corsica Studios invited South East London arts collective Off/Modern to curate a group show at the roaming arts space The Elephant Rooms. The show, Frontiers, included young artists living and working in South East London showing painting, sculpture, mixed media, video and instillation works within a unit at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. Artists exhibiting: Ben Freeman Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, Philipp Von Frankenburg, Will Jarvis, Guy Gormley, Sam Craven, Harry Beer, Thomas Harrad, Jonathan Pinchard, Mitchell Bridges, Yuri Pattison, Bradford Bahamas and Claire Bailey. Off/Modern was a collective made up of artists, writers, promoters and curators based across South East London. From 2008 until 2012 the group put on monthly nights at Corsica Studios in Elephant & Castle and publish a quarterly arts magazine. |
Off/Modern |
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2008 — 2012
Unit 4-5,
Farrell Court, Elephant Road, London, SE17 1LB |
Off/Modern at Corsica Studios
 Off/Modern at Corsica Studios. Image rights: Off/Modern.
Off/Modern was a collective made up of artists, writers, promoters and curators based across South East London. From 2008 until 2012 the group put on monthly nights at Corsica Studios in Elephant & Castle and publish a quarterly arts magazine. |
Off/Modern |
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2012 — 2012
The Gallery,
London College of Communication, St George's Road, London, SE1 6SB |
From a Distance
 Rights: Paul Reas An exhibition of photographs by the documentary photographer Paul Reas, held at London College of Communication. The series was commissioned as part of The Elephant Vanishes project, portraying Elephant and Castle amidst change and large-scale urban transformation. The Elephant Vanishes was a six-year photographic research project based out of the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at LCC led by Patrick Sutherland. Reas was asked to respond to the project and the surroundings at the Elephant, contributing another experienced voice and lens to the ongoing collection of work. |
Paul Reas |
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2015 —
Unit 237,
Former Little Orient, Upper Floor, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, London, SE1 6TE |
Unearthing Elephant
Unearthing Elephant is an ongoing project by Eva Sajovic, Sarah Butler and Rebecca Davies to create work in response to the demolition and reconstruction of Elephant and Castle’s Shopping Centre. The work is to culminate with a film of the shopping centre, an artefact of its life from 195 until its. Panel discussion ‘Opportunity Area’ was held in June 2016 as part of this ongoing project in an empty unit inside the Shopping Centre. |
Sarah Butler, Rebecca Davies, Eva Sajovic |
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2012
Clubland, Walworth Methodist Church,
54 Camberwell Road, London, SE5 0EN |
Clubland
The story of Clubland, a youth club founded in 1925 at the Walworth Methodist Church. In 2012, Michael Holland brought together archive moving image and still photographs which recorded the club’s activities through to 1976, and collected oral history interviews with several members of Clubland. Walworth Methodist Church was the site of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, first sermon in London in 1849, and is now the largest Methodist congregation in the city. Clubland was set up by the Reverend Butterworth in 1925 as ‘a house for friendship for boys and girls outside any church’, housing a gym, an auditorium and a roof playing pitch at the church. |
Michael Holland |
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2008 — 2009
London College of Communication,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB and Cuming Museum, 151 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RY |
Home: The Elephant and Castle
 The Elephant Vanishes: Home. Image rights: Patrick Sutherland / LCC MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. Home: Elephant and Castle was the start of what became a three-part series documenting the changing landscape of the area, The Elephant Vanishes. Set as the year one project undertaken by MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography students at London College of Communication, led by Patrick Sutherland. The Elephant Vanishes was a six-year photographic and text-based documentation of the people and places amidst the context of large-scale regeneration projects taking place in the Elephant and Castle. Every new academic year students were set new themes with which to examine and portray the changes large and small. ‘Home’ is made up of 97 photographic works, exhibited at London College of Communication and compiled into part one of the publication The Elephant Vanishes. MA Photography students that participated in ‘Home’: Dougla Abuelo, Lihee Avidan, Mauro Bottaro, Thomas Brandi, Nicola Dracoulis, Shehani Fernando, Irina Popa, Lydia Polzer, Ben Speck. Read more... |
Patrick Sutherland
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2012 — N/A
London College of Communication,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB and Cuming Museum, 151 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RY |
Economy: The Elephant and Castle
 Book cover, The Elephant Vanishes; Economy: The Elephant and Castle. Image rights: Patrick Sutherland. Economy: The Elephant and Castle is the final part of three-part photographic series The Elephant Vanishes. The live project in its entirety spanned from 2006 to 2010, undertaken by students on the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication. The project, under the directorship of Patrick Sutherland, pursued a long-term photographic documentation of the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle. Every new academic year students were equipped with a new theme with which to examine and portray the changes that came with the regeneration of the area. An exhibition of the work was held at the Cuming Museum in the Old Town Hall on Walworth Road running from March until April 2012. MA Photography students which participated in Economy: The Elephant and Castle Rhian Clugston, Rebecca Harley, Michal Honkys, Julian Lass, Wing Ki Lee, Steve Mepsted, Marta Moreiras, Freya Najade, Marco Pavan, Tommaso Protti, Duncan Nicol Robertson, Francesco Stelitano, Sean Hayes White. Read more... |
Patrick Sutherland
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2010 — 2011
Old Town Hall,
151 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RS |
Walking In My Shoes
 Some of the shoes held in the Cuming Museum’s Collection. An exhibition based on the footwear collection at the Cuming Museum, which explored the real journeys young people make around Southwark. 50 pairs of historic shoes from the museum’s collection were shown alongside mapping, designs and artworks telling the stories created by young artists. The collaboration was facilitated by Artery Arts Visual and Performing Arts Project. |
Cuming Museum
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2009 — 2009
Old Town Hall,
151 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RS |
Lost Southwark
An exhibition of the lost buildings of Southwark, including Bert Hardy’s collection of photographs of Elephant and Castle taken in the early 20th Century. Due to the exhibition’s popularity due to its topical appeal with significant local redevelopment plans afoot, a second exhibition “Pictures, Places, People: Elephant to Camberwell” followed in 2011 which directly focused on and around the North-South axis of the Walworth Road. In conjunction with the exhibition, a guided walk ‘Lost Zoo of Walworth’ was conducted with Pasley Tenants and Residents Association and Southwark Council’s Arts Team. An event in Pasley Park about the former Surrey Zoological Gardens off Manor Place. |
Cuming Museum |
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2010 — 2010
Old Town Hall,
151 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RS |
Pictures, Places, People: Elephant to Camberwell
An exhibition of artworks and historic photographs depicting Elephant & Castle, Walworth and Camberwell held in the Southwark and Cuming Museum Collections. Some 196 pieces were on display, some brought out for public display for the first time in 25 years. The show was put together in response to the substantial popular appeal of the Cuming Museum 2009 exhibition Lost Southwark, focusing on this strip at the Museum’s doorstep undergoing such significant changes with numerous large redevelopment plans in motion. The exhibition included photographs of buildings subsequently lost to development or now re-purposed and transfigured. Central to the display were stories and evocations of the area captured through work with local groups from Blackfriars Settlement, InSpire, Southwark Pensioners’ Centre and Pembroke House. |
Cuming Museum
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2002 —
Unit 4-5,
Farrell Court, Elephant Road, London, SE17 1LB |
Corsica Studios
 Corsica Studios. Image credit: Fresh To Death.
Operating under two arches of Elephant and Castle’s rail station since 2002, Corsica Studios is a forward thinking arts and music venue. First known as Corsica Arts Club, holding exhibitions, performances and other events, the venue now focuses on hosting DJ and club nights. It has built a its reputation steadily and has become a pillar of nightlife for Londoners and clubbers and DJs worldwide. Read more... |
Amanda Moss, Adrian Jones
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2014 — 2015
The Paperworks,
48-50 Newington Causeway, London, SE1 6DR |
The Paperworks
 Photo credit: Toby Keane. The Paperworks was a meanwhile space for arts and music, in operation for the summer of 2014 and July 2015, an open-air yard off of Newington Causeway. Primarily used as a daytime venue hosting house, techno and disco DJs, it was run and managed by nearby Corsica Studios. |
Corsica Studios |
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2008 — 2010
Symington House,
151-189 Harper Road, London, SE1 6AP |
Seizure
 Image rights: Artangel/the artist.
First opened to the public from 02 September 2008 until November 2008, Seizure was reopened in 2009 and ran until 3rd January 2010 following the delay of the demolition and redevelopment of the site by Southwark Council. This project was supported by Arts Council England, Artangel International Circle, Special Angels and The Company of Angels. The installation was acquired by Arts Council England in 2010 in anticipation of the demolishion of the housing block and work contained there-in. This acquision was made possible by the artist, Artangel, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, the Art Fund and The Henry Moore Foundation.
Seizure was then moved and re-installed for display at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The work is on a ten-year loan from the Arts Council Collection, housed in a purpose-built structure designed by Adam Khan Architects |
Roger Hiorns
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2014 — 2015
The Paperworks,
48-50 Newington Causeway, London, SE1 6DR and Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George’s Road, London, SE1 6ER |
Designed Elements
Performance, Designed Elements. Photo by Gorm Ashurst. Designed Elements was a durational dance piece performed at the temporary arts and music venue, The Paperworks, located off of Newington Causeway. The performance was the result of dance workshops and iterative choreography led by dancer and choreographer Charlotte Spencer and landscape designer Anoushka Feiler with participants aged 14-21. The workshop used novel props and inhabited the venue, encouraging the audience to interact and think about the space around them. Designed Elements was made in partnership with Corsica Studios and Cityscapes, which work with artists, designers and organisations to test new ways the urban environment can be used and enjoyed. The Paperworks was run and managed by Corsica Studios as a meanwhile creative and social space. The venue was open for the summers of 2014 and 2015, an open yard off of Newington Causeway. |
Siobhan Davies Dance with Charlotte Spencer and Anoushka Feiler |
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1996 — 2012
Elephant and Castle Roundabout,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TB |
Faraday Monument Blue Peter Lighting Scheme
A nation-wide competition for improving a public space launched by Blue Peter in 1996. The award-winning entry was the submission of a schoolgirl from English Martyr R.C. Primary School, Walworth, to adorn the Michael Faraday Memorial at the centre of Elephant Roundabout with coloured lights. A lighting scheme was installed to illuminate the four-faces of the concave stainless steel panels which make up the facade of the monument, which clads the servicing for the Bakerloo Line. The Grade II listing of the memorial coincided with the lighting upfit in June 1996. Following the major upgrade works to the gyratory system and public realm of Elephant and Castle Roundabout from 2014, the lights have been re-fitted and are now modified to white-light uplighting. The Michael Faraday Memorial was designed by architect Rodney Gordon and crafted by Henry Grant, 1959-61. The memorial gained Grade II listing in. The memorial is named after the scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) for his contribution to the advancement in understanding of electricity, who was born in nearby Newington Butts. |
Schoolgirl from English Martyr R.C. School
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2015 — 2016
1st Floor,
Multi-Purpose Resource Centre, 5a Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7XW |
Writer in Residence: Caroline Smith
 Bardo. Image rights Caroline Smith/Feminist Library. Caroline Smith is a writer, artist and playwright. The writer-in-residence at The Feminist Library across 2015-2016, her aim is to create a piece of writing which embodies the voice of The Feminist Library and bring together some of the people and organisations that support a feminist writing practice today. As part of her residency, she has lead a series of audio device-led participative walks, Bardo, from the Library. She co-hosts a monthly performance evening, Louche Women, with Sue Kreitzman at the Poetry Place in Covent Garden.
The Feminist Library is a large collection of Women’s Liberation literature based off of St George’s Roundabout, SE1. Founded in 1975, the Library is led by a collective of volunteers. The Library has been required to relocate from Westminster Bridge Road and is in search of new premises from which to base its activities. |
The Feminist Library |
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2014
1st Floor,
Multi-Purpose Resource Centre, 5a Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7XW |
A Feminist Space Is…
 Cover, A Feminist Space Is… A Feminist Space Is… exhibition was held at the The Feminist Library in 2014. A zine produced by Feminist Graphic Arts documents the show and artwork, bringing together work by international artists and collectives including Allison Kotsig, Emma Shula, Jessica Scott, Kamila Wasilkowska, Louise Evans, Luana Venuti, Melita Matovic Fligler, Otilia Martin, Patricia Prieto Blanco, Sara Kelly, SQUID, Susana Mata, Ursula Hart. The Feminist Library is a large collection of Women’s Liberation literature based off of St George’s Roundabout, SE1. Founded in 1975, the Library is led by a collective of volunteers. The Library has been required to relocate from Westminster Bridge Road and is in search of new premises from which to base its activities. |
The Feminist Library |
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2016
South London Gallery,
65-67 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UH |
After Astra
The Feminist Library held an evening of poetry and readings based on material drawn from The Feminist Library’s archive and Feminist Library activist, artist and poet Astra Blaug (1927–2015). Astra’s work and poetry was recited and on display alongside work by invited artists. The event was held at South London Gallery and formed a part of Rhyme and Reason music and poetry festival. The Feminist Library is a large collection of Women’s Liberation literature based off of St George’s Roundabout, SE1. Founded in 1975, the Library is led by a collective of volunteers. The Library has been required to relocate from Westminster Bridge Road and is in search of new premises from which to base its activities. |
The Feminist Library |
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2015 — 2015
InSpire,
The Crypt, St Peters Church, Liverpool Grove, London, SE17 2HH and Peckham Platform, 89 Peckham High Street, London, SE15 5RS |
Cuming: A Natural Selection
 Exhibition image, Cuming: A Natural Selection. Image credits: Peckham Platform/the artist. In summer of 2015, artist Janetka Platun collaborated with the Cuming Museum, Peckham Platform and local women’s groups and families to create work inspired by the Cuming Museum’s collection and by the fire which forced it to close in May 2013. Janetka worked with community groups from Walworth Road in an exploration of the themes of loss and survival, taking inspiration from the objects in the collection that were rescued, the objects that miraculously survived and the traces of artefacts that were destroyed in the fire. Three workshops were convened and held in various locations. A workshop was held with children and their parents at Peckham Library, with a woman’s art group run by Inspire at St Peter’s Church off the Walworth Road and one with a young women’s art group at Camberwell Leisure Centre. |
Janetka Platun
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2014
Hotel Elephant Warehouse,
Units A and B, 40-42 Newington Causeway, London, SE1 6DR |
Changing Landscapes
The Hotel Elephant screening programme, ‘Changing Landscapes,’ selected archive films and footage focusing on large-scale building projects across London from the 1960s and 1970s. The films were shown courtesy of The London Metropolitan Archives in Hotel Elephant’s pop-up cinema on their previous site located off of Newington Causeway. The screening featured ‘Changing Face of London’, 1960, a short film on post-WWII reconstruction in London, ‘Somewhere Decent To Live’, 1967, contrasting at the old city slums and new housing provision for Londoners. ‘Living at Thamesmead’, from 1974, a rosy narrative depicting residents lives on the newly completed Thamesmead Estate. The screening programme was featured as part of the 2014 London Festival of Architecture. |
Hotel Elephant
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2012 — 2014
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Concrete Heart Land
Filmmakers Steven Ball and Rastko Novaković chronicle the emptying of the Heygate Estate using audio and visual material gathered between 2002-2013. Video shot in 2012 and 2013 make visible the final phases of the decampment of residents, full of hoarding, graffiti and boarded up windows alongside more intimate views of interiors of some residents’ flats. Audio recordings serve as testimony as to the impact on individuals and reactions to the redevelopment. The film has been screened locally and featured as part of UCL’s Urban Lab series in October 2014 accompanied by a Q&A with the directors. The film, lasting 25minutes, is freely available to watch in full through the Concrete Heart Land website. |
Steven Ball, Rastko Novakovic |
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2013 — 2013
Hotel Elephant Warehouse and Cinema,
40-42 Newington Causeway, London, SE1 6DR Room 93, Perronet House, Princess Street, London, SE1 6SB London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB First Floor Plaza, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, London, SE1 6TE Cosica Studios, Unit 4-5 Farrell Court, Elephant Road, London, SE17 1LB Electric Elephant Cafe and Gallery 186a Crampton Street, London, SE17 3AE Mobile Gardeners’ Park Wansey Street, London, SE17 1JP Hotel Elephant on Heygate Estate, Heygate Estate, London, SE17 1NA Pembroke House, 80 Tatum Street, London, SE17 1QR The Crypt at St Peter’s, Liverpool Grove, London, SE17 2HH |
Elefest 2013
Elefest has been an ongoing event since 2003, bringing together films, music and people over several days in and around Elephant and Castle. 2013 events included the only UK screening of the restored Jamaican cult film The Harder They Come with a DJ set by Don Letts, pop-up market by TheStockMKT, pop-up ping pong in the Shopping Centre, the UK Skateboarding Film Festival, Electric Elephant Cafe screening London: The Modern Babylon. Hotel Elephant are hosted exhibition Volume & Void in a site soon to be demolished on the Heygate Estate. Mobile Gardeners hosted Latin American music at their pocket park off Wansey Street and Edible Southwark made food that was grown, harvested and sourced in SE1. |
Elefest |
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2012 — 2012
Heygate Estate,
Cuddington House, Deacon Way, London, SE17 1SR |
Heygate Pop-up Cinema
 Heygate pop-up cinema opening night, 25 September 2015. Heygate Pop-up Cinema’s opening night screened the short film Doreen by filmmaking duo David Reeve and Patrick Steel as well as a preview segment of Reeve and Steel’s feature-length documentary, Larry & Janet Move Out. Both films focus on close-up character portraits of residents of the estate, at the time of filming undergoing pressures to relocate from the estate. The night was programmed by former resident and 35% campaigner Jerry Flynn, and featured edited topical newsreels. |
Better Elephant |
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2016
Camberwell Free Library,
39 Wells Way, London, SE5 0PX |
Camberwell Free Library
 Camberwell Free Library. Image credit: Bob Speel. Theatre Delicatessen are working with Southwark Council to transform Camberwell Free Library, also known as the Passmore Edwards Old Library or simply the Old Library. Situated in the middle of Burgess Park, bisecting it North South on Wells Way, this marks the first phase to transform the disused premises into a new arts and cultural space for the local community. The collective have taken on the space on a two year lease from the council and intend to run the building as a performance and rehearsal space and to host residencies for emerging companies to develop new works. They will be working with local dance and art performance collective Involuntary Movement, developing a series of programmes open to all living locally. The site was originally conceived as part of the late Victorian philanthropic project by Victor Passmore Edwards, who bequeathed funds to set up over 70 major public buildings including school, libraries, convalescent homes and art galleries in South and East London. Opened to the public in 1903, a municipal swimming pool, bathing rooms and a wash house were integrated into the construction of the library building, offering educational, social and health infrastructure to the area. |
Southwark Council / Theatre Delicatessen |
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2016
Nursery Row Park,
East Street, London, SE17 1ER |
Plaza Latina 2016
 Plaza Latina, 2016. Photo Credit: Zoe Tynan-Campbell.
For the seventh year running, Carnaval del Pueblo threw street celebration Plaza Latina, bringing Latin America to East Street this year. Nursery Row Park became a Latin Barrio for the day, hosting live music, food, dancing and art to cerebrate Latin culture. Billing included Latin Grammy Award Winner Juan Piña and orchestra, Colombian folk singer Maria Cristina Plata. In conjunction with Under The Same Sun exhibition at the South London Gallery, Argentinian artist Laura X Carle invited members of the public to create a large-scale collaborative artwork using wood and tissue paper, an ode to the traditional Pinata, followed by the ritual smashing of the object.  Plaza Latina 2016, Nursery Row Park. |
Carnaval del Pueblo, Laura X Carle
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2015
Aylesbury Estate,
London, SE17 2DJ |
Protest banners and quilts
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Fight For The Aylesbury
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2009
Unit 316,
Lower Ground Floor, Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, London, SE17 1LB |
The Elephant Rooms
A wandering art space occupying various empty shop units Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre throughout 2009. The roaming gallery was instigated by Corsica Studios founder Amanda Moss and brought together local art practitioners for week-long residencies within the shopping centre. |
Corsica Studios |
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2013 — 2013
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Sentient City
 Still, Sentient City, 2013. Image credit: Tom Wolseley
Sentient City is a film essay conceived and excecuted by Tom Wolseley in collaboration with social geographer Martine Drozdz and ethnographer Dr Kristen Eglinton. Wolseley’s practice is based in Walworth. Combining his latent knowledge gained from daily surroundings with engagement with the New Hanbury Project, Hackney. The film traces by night the trajectory between these two locales. |
Architrope |
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2016
Unit 237,
Former Little Orient, Upper Floor, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, London, SE1 6TE |
Opportunity Area
We wanted to ask: – Unearthing Elephant, June 2016 ‘Opportunity Area’ was a panel discussion organised by the People’s Bureau as part of Unearthing Elephant, an ongoing art and research project centred around the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. The event was held to debate the ethics and tactics in place-based artistic practice, with a focus on the current reality of regeneration Elephant and Castle. Participating panelists comprised of an academic, artist, local business owner and critic. Panelists were Jane Rendell, Andres Mendez, Barbara Steveni, and Isaac Marrero Guillamon, and the event was chaired by Sam Trotman. The event was prefaced with an introduction by The People’s Bureau on their engagement and artistic practice which has been based at Elephant and Castle since 2006. The event was part of the London Festival of Architecture 2016. |
The People's Bureau with Jane Rendell, Barbara Steveni, Isaac Guillamon, Andres Mendez and Sam Trotman. |
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2016 — 2016
Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ |
Mind Map of Anti-Nuclear Protest
 ‘Embrace the Base’ – 30,000 women link hands, completely surrounding the nine mile perimeter fence at RAF/USAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, 1982. Image rights: Edward Barber. Alongside the major exhibition ‘Peace Signs’ by Edward Barber, the IWM has commissioned a new graphic installation by Barber, ‘Mind Map of Anti-Nuclear Protest’. This new work draws together individual and collective responses to war as artwork and social record. The Edward Barber’s collected photographic works following the anti-nuclear protest movement in Britain in 1980’s, were shown in a stand-alone exhibition held at the Imperial War Museum in summer 2016. The body of work gathered together for this show, ‘Peace Signs’, depicts the people, places and politics of the protests held against the presence of American nuclear missiles in the UK, including key events such as the Greenham Common protests and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rallies. |
Edward Barber |
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2012
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Outside Bet
 Still, Outside Bet, 2012.
Based on the novel The Mumper by Mark Baxter, the story is set against the backdrop of South East London during the Wapping strikes. The central character is a print man on the picket line, who over a chance encounter, comes into the possession of a racehorse. Based on a true story, the film takes place around ‘Smudges’ home, in the pubs and streets around the Walworth Road. Outside Bet, stars Bob Hoskins in the role as Percy ‘Smudge’ Smith, with guest appearances by Rita Tushingham and Dudley Sutton. The soundtrack features as title song ‘No Need To Be Alone’ by Paul Weller. The film was directed by Sacha Bennett and adapted for the screen by Sacha Bennett, Paolo Hewitt and Nigel Smith. Produced by Gateway Films and Talent Films, the film secured a commercial release in cinemas in the UK with Universal Pictures. |
Sasha Bennet, Gateway Films |
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2007
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The Mumper
 Cover, The Mumper by Mark Baxter.
The novel is set against the backdrop of South East London during the Wapping strikes. The central character is a print man on the picket line, who over a chance encounter, comes into the possession of a racehorse. Based on a true story, the film takes place around the central character’s home, in the pubs and streets around the Walworth Road. First published in 2007 by Mono Media Books, the book was repressed in 2011 by Orion Publishing Co. The Mumper was turned into feature film ‘Outside Bet’ in 2012, starring Bob Hoskins and directed by Sasha Bennett. The film secured a UK-wide release in theatres and is distributed through Universal Pictures. |
Mark Baxter |
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2006 —
CoolTan Arts,
224-236 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1JE |
Largactyl Shuffle
 CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Midnight Walk, 21 June 2014. Photo credit: Matthew Mckenzie. CoolTan Arts organise a monthly walk, the Largactyl Shuffle, open to all. The walks are prepared by the Largactyl Shuffle volunteer group, who research a new theme for every excursion, bringing together the route with content drawn from the surroundings. Subjects are varied, ranging from CoolTan’s central focus, health and wellbeing, through to awareness, architectural and performative walks. Past walks including mudlarking along the Thames, a Black Heritage Walk, LGBT History & Performance Walk, Urban Landscape Walk, Pagan Walk. Walks have been taking place on the third Saturday of each month since 2006, and last between 2-4 hours. There is also a night-time walk held annually, the Largactyl Midnight Shuffle. |
CoolTan Arts |
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2014 — 2014
Wansey Street Pocket Park,
Wansey Street, London SE17 1JP Charlotte Sharman Primary School St George's Road, West Square, London, SE11 4SN Siobhan Davies Dance, 85 St George's Road, London, SE1 6ER |
The Mobile Meadow
 The Mobile Meadow Seedling Walk. Photo credit-Gorm-Ashurst In March 2014, The Mobile Gardeners invited the public to plant up wild flowers around Elephant and Castle. The main sites were outdoors at Siobhan Davies Dance, Charlotte Sharman Primary School and Wansey Street Pocket Park. In March volunteers gathered to sprinkle and sow wild flower seedlings in containers and in the ground. Come June, flowering, the plants were carried en mass in a choreographed event, devised by movement artist Simon Whitehead. The project wound to a close in the autumn with a talk by the Mobile Gardener’s held at their new planting station, with seed planting and sowing in preparation for next spring season’s bloom. |
Mobile Gardeners
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2008
Unit 238,
Upper Level, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, London, SE1 6TE |
Hotel Elephant at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre
 Our Condemned Area 1929. Image: Ruben Powell. Ruben Powell as was artist-in-residence in Unit 238 of Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre in 2008, showing a series of his mixed-media works. The exhibition was the first incarnation of Hotel Elephant, of which Ruben is director, has expanded as a platform for local people and artist to make and exhibit work. Hotel Elephant has held several temporary premises across Elephant and Castle. |
Ruben Powell |
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2010
Former Autocar Garage,
77-85 Newington Causeway, London, SE1 6BD |
The Elephant and Castle Tin Paintings
 Disused Garage, Walworth Road. Image rights: Ruben Powell. Series of mixed-media works on paper, depicting the contemporary urban landscape, buildings pending demolishion and building works around Elephant and Castle and Walworth. The works were exhibited at the former Autocar garage on Newington Causeway to coincide with the London Festival of Architecture, June 2010. Works include Heygate Garden, Heygate Winter, Our Condemned Area 1929, Elephant and Castle Tin Painting. The original works are oil paint, bitumen and oxide on tin-plate steel. The work, Elephant & Castle, was acquired by Southwark Council and hung in 106 Tooley Street.  Elephant and Castle, Elephant and Castle Tin Paintings. Image rights: Ruben Powell. |
Ruben Powell |
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2008
London College of Communication,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB |
Construction Drawings
 How Can We Hold Onto A Dream. Image rights: Ruben Powell. Series of graphite works on paper, produced by the artist between 2005-2008, primarily depicting the contemporary urban landscape, buildings pending demolishion and building works around Elephant and Castle and Walworth. Works include Clayton House, Heygate Estate, Coventry, Elephant and Castle, Crane 1, How Can We Hold Onto A Dream?, The Muncher, Stell Delivery, No. 83, View North, West Walworth. |
Ruben Powell |
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2012
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The Heygate Estate: Environmental Justice in Urban Open Spaces
– Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett |
Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett, UCL |
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2011
Heygate Estate,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE17 1JP |
Flashing Bodies Action Seven: ‘Quiet Revolution’
 Flashing Bodies Action Seven QR5 ‘Quiet Revolution’. Image: Completely Naked.
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Completely Naked |
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2008 — 2008
Nursery Row Park,
East Street, London, SE17 1EL |
Haystack
 Haystack, 2008. Image: Tom Wolseley. At the coming of the season, Tom Wolseley conceived and executed Haystack I. Over two days with the help of volunteers, Wolseley cut and gathered with a traditional scythe the recently grown tall grasses of Nursery Row Park meadow. The grasses were pilled high and assembled into a haystack. A small act of resistance for this small area of land threatened by development. |
Tom Wolseley |
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2015 —
Various
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Ambient Jam workshops with Entelechy Arts
 Memory and Place, Ambient Jam. Image credit: Pari Naderi. The Ambient Jam multi-sensory workshops provided a creative space, blending improvisation, social dance and live movement. They were designed to be accessible to all generations and abilities. Homebound older people, their families and their carers were especially welcome. Ambient Jam is a collaborative project between Ambient Jam, Entelechy Arts and Siobhan Davies Dance with visiting guests. Past guests have include: Florence Peake, Spitz Jazz Collective, Barbara Kane, Rainer Knupp, Gill Moore. |
Siobhan Davies Dance, Ambient Jam, Entelechy Arts |
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2016 —
5 Spare Street,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE17 3EP |
Spare Street
 Image: Andrew Dawes, Zoda Architects Ltd.
Spare Street is a new street in the Elephant and Castle comprising of 8,750 sq ft of workspace and a public space across five railways arches. Hotel Elephant will create workspace for 80 –100 Emerging Artists and Creative Entrepreneurs including recent graduates, local micro business and growing creative businesses. Spare Street has been named by Hotel Elephant after the artist Austin Osman Spare who lived, worked and exhibited in the area from the early 1900’s until his death in 1956. This forms part of a project from Southwark Council and Network Rail to bring unused railway arches back into use. Hotel Elephant has secured funding for the project from Mayor of London through the London Regeneration Fund and from Southwark Council’s Arts and Culture Grant fund. Spare Street sees Hotel Elephant establishing the first permanent Creative Enterprise Hub in the Elephant and Castle. |
Hotel Elephant |
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2016 — 2016
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Beating The Bounds of The Elephant
 Beating the Bounds #3. Photo credit: Jake May.
As part of London College of Communication’s public programme, artists Corinne Silva and Eva Sajovic invited students and members of the public to join them for a series of walks around the Elephant and Castle over the course of the first half of 2016. The series gathered collaborators from previous projects and activity in the local area by Sajovic. The first walk was led by Alison Proctor of Siobhan Davies Dance, the second by fellow People’s Bureau collaborator Rebecca Davies and final by Danny Hollowell. |
Silva + Sajovic with Rebecca Davies, Danny Hollowell and Alison Proctor |
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2002
Elevated walkways,
Heygate Estate, Elephant and Castle, SE17 1NA |
Children’s Games
 Still, Children’s Games, 2002. Image: Mark Lewis. A camera glides effortlessly along the ramps and elevated walkways of the Heygate Estate on a sunny summer day. The camera propels endlessly forward, offering glimpses to the side of carefree play in the sunshine, kids passing a basketball, cartwheeling and playing in the grass below. Gliding along the empty walkways, frolicking children below, its as if we are held in a dream. A contemplation on the nature of place, perception and the everyday in the creation and destruction of our built environment. In February 2007, the Arts Council acquired the work ‘Children’s Games’ to from part of the national Arts Council Collection. The work was shown as part of ‘Somewhat Abstract: Selections from the Arts Council Collection’ at Nottingham Contemporary, April 2014 – June 2014, alongside work by artists including Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Helen Chadwick, Yoko Ono, Kathy Prendergast, Bridget Riley, Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread and Cerith Wyn Evans. Mark Lewis is an artist and filmmaker. He represented Canada at the 53rd Venice International Art Biennale. He has shown across film festivals and art galleries worldwide and his work is in many collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou. In March 2016, Mark received Canada’s Governor General’s Award for the recognition of outstanding achievement in art practice. |
Mark Lewis
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2002
Heygate Estate,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE17 |
Up The Elephant
 Still, Up The Elephant. Image: Julie Speechley Up The Elephant is a documentary which focuses around the murmurings and repercussions of the regeneration plans for the Heygate Estate and surrounding Elephant and Castle at its the early stages. Produced in 2002, it portrays the distant relationship the residents had in the decision making process of the future of the estate. The film includes interviews with a number of Heygate residents and Southwark Council’s Head of Regeneration, Fred Manson. The title of the documentary is derived from soap Up the Elephant and Round the Castle, televised from 1985 until 1986 on ITV. |
Julie Speechley |
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1999 —
Off of Walworth Road,
London, SE11 |
Occupation Studios
Occupation Studios is a co-operative artist studio organisation and site with 20 artists’ studios for non-commercial fine art artists across all disciplines. The building provides rates permanent workspace for 13 artists and further space for seven further artists on more short-term bases all at affordable across 7,000 sq ft. The building maintains its freehold of the site despite strong development pressures which it secured in 1999. |
Occupation Studios
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1991 —
56a Crampton Street,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE17 3AE |
56a Infoshop
A completely volunteer-run social centre, with Fareshare food co-op, an open access archive of anarchist publications, ephemera and literature, and a bike repair centre. |
Volunteer-run |
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2012 — 2012
syz.y.gy,
Horsley Street, London, SE17 2AR |
Motion 2: Here Comes Everybody
 Window Concert on Arnside Street, August 2012. Image: Nela Milic and syz.y.gy.
syz.y.gy, a housing cooperative group off of Walworth Road, invited the artist Nela Milic for a residency in the summer of 2012 to respond to the surrounding area. The work developed out of a series of encounters she made, beginning initially through happenstance, through her window. Greetings turned into conversations and the open window became invitation of a series of planned and unplanned encounters between the street and the studio. The photos, text and recordings gathered of this momentary locus serves as evidence and reflection of the powerlessness of daily life being interrupted and changed forever by the regeneration works. This work is the result of a ten day residency hosted at syz.y.gy, off of Walworth Road in South London. syz.y.gy was an organisation, a collective and space which kept the shifting tectonics of the local area as focus of their activities. |
Nela Milic
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2012 — 2012
Heygate Street,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE17 1JP |
Heygate Heaven
Heygate Heaven is a soundscape of the estate, intermixing the sounds of its streets and voices of former residents of Heygate Estate, alongside others including a former Southwark Council leader, an architect of the estate, the artist himself and academics. The piece was produced by Chris Wood during spring and summer 2012, recorded capturing the process of the relocation of residents from the estate.
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Chris Wood |
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2012 — 2012
Longville Road,
London, SE11 4TW |
Illumination Rig Elephant & Castle
 Image credit: Graham Gussin.
Illumination Rig Elephant & Castle was presented as part of Animated Environments, an exhibition series at Siobhan Davies Studios curated by Charles Danby running throughout 2012. Graham Gussin was invited by Danby as part of an ongoing series of collaborations between the curator and artists. Alongside works which hung in Siobhan Davies Studios, Gussin conceived to install his site specific series, Illumination Rig, within a setting in Elephant and Castle which evidence and dramatised the everyday reality of the changes being wrought to the area. |
Graham Gussin
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2012
Heygate Estate,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE17 1NA |
Heygate (19:33)
 Heygate, white-vinyl 12″ A and B sides. Image: Will Montgomery. “Heygate” is a composition by Will Montgomery, released by Winds Measure in 2013 as a white-vinyl 12 inch EP. A Side ‘Heygate’ and B Side features a spoken word piece by Robert Curgenven, entitled ‘Looking for narratives on small islands’. ‘Heygate’ is created from sounds sourced by Montgomery in and around the estate collected over a series of months. Facing imminent demolition, the piece aims to capture “an encryption of the acoustic environment” of the estate. This soudn piece is part of a wider work by Montgommery entitled ‘Sounding the Heygate Estate’, which features a written work of the same name, published in August 2011.
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Will Montgomery |
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2013
Heygate Estate,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE17 1NA |
400 Speeches
 400 Speeches poster ‘400 Speeches’ was a day of readings, conversations and performances by local artists and activists at the Heygate Estate in June 2013. Spoken word, singing and movement The programme included the first public screening of the documentary ‘Up the Elephant’, 2002, by Julie Speechley, which critically investigates the early regeneration plans of the Heygate Estate and includes interviews with residents of the estate and Southwark Council’s head of regeneration Fred Manson. |
Various
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2011
The Cuming Museum,
Walworth Old Town Hall, 151 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RY |
Collecting Home: Cuming Museum artists-in-residence
 Collecting Home rotating display. People’s Bureau photographic project in behind. Image credit: People’s Bureau Artist Eva Sajovic and writer Sarah Butler were invited to be the inaugural artists-in-residence at the Cuming Museum. The residency was devised to act as a research, representation and communication platform, entitled Collecting Home. Notions of ‘home’ where explored and expanded through the objects in the Cuming Museum collection and through the conversations, workshops and objects and events created by participants and the artists during the three months. The project featured a rotating exhibition hosted in the museum which brought a selection of artefacts unearthed from the Collection together with found and made objects brought forward by participants and collaborators across the three months of the residency. These were displayed side-by-side in museum vitrines, blending the contemporary with the historic, asserting the relevancy of the museum to everyday life through conversations between the objects and onlookers.
 Pieces from the Cuming Collection displayed side-by-side everyday objects. Image credit: People’s Bureau. |
Sarah Butler and Eva Sajovic
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2014
The Shopping Cart,
First Floor Outside Jenny’s Café, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TE |
The People’s Bureau
 Skills Exchange Poster. Image credit: The People’s Bureau.
Rebecca Davies and Eva Sajovic have been working in Elephant and Castle since 2007. There first collaborative project together was Studio At The Elephant, which ran from 2011 – 2013. They have pursued an ongoing participative space-based practice hosting public events, workshops and talks in the area in collaboration with different communities and individuals. |
Rebecca Davies and Eva Sajovic with Latin American Women's Rights Service, Rockingham Women's Group, HourBank |
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2015
The Shopping Cart,
First Floor Outside Jenny’s Café, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TE |
Reading Workshop with Prof Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
 Reading session with Prof Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, May 2015. Image credit: People’s Bureau. A reading session and story-led walk conducted by Prof Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law and Theory at the University of Westminster. The event took place around the People’s Bureau Shopping Cart installed on the first floor landing of Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre accross from Jenny’s Cafe. My Corridors Will Remain – Imaginaria of Spatial Justice:
Following the short readings from the text Invisible Cities, participants in small groups were asked to share their own personal and passed-on stories and histories of the immediate area. Prof P-M then knitted these fragments together to construct a route and new fiction to walk through the Shopping Centre with and bring it to life. At the event’s core was to bring forward hidden narratives constructed in new ways to project a future for the life of the Shopping Centre. |
The People's Bureau |
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2012
Elephant and Castle Roundabout,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB |
Going Home: The Odyssey
 The Odyssey, Nigel of Bermondsey. Image rights: Studio at the Elephant. Drawing inspiration from Sarah Butler and Eva Sajovic’s residency at The Cuming Museum entitled Collecting Home, a processional event was devised by Vanessa Woolf and Nigel of Bermondsey around Elephant and Castle Roundabout on the theme Going Home. Woolf recounted a new version of The Odyssey whilst participants walked over, under and around Elephant and Castle Roundabout, reimagining the tale of Ulysses in SE1. Going Home was led by Vanessa Woolf and Nigel of Bermondsey and organised by Sarah Butler and Eva Sajovic as part of their artists’ residency at the Cuming Museum. |
Vanessa Woolf, Nigel of Bermondsey
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2015
Ground Floor Space,
London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB and Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TE |
The People’s Bureau: Moose on the Loose
 Elephant and Castle Maypole. Image credit: The Peoples Bureau. People’s Bureau were invited to be part of Moose on the Loose festival 2015 for a week-long artist residency. They installed their skills exchange cart to the Ground Floor space at London College of Communication, holding workshops and events. The residency culminated in a Maypole dance and ceremonial return of the cart to its home in the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. In advance of this ritual, the Cuming Cabinet of Curiosity workshop invited participants to create their own objects inspired by the Cuming Museum collection. Messages about the area were added to a seasonal Maypole installed in the LCC forecourt, danced around and brought along the walk back to the shopping centre for another round. The project was conceived and developed in partnership with Petra Cox, Education Officer at the Cuming Museum. |
The People's Bureau |
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2015
Lower Street Gallery,
London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6SB |
Radical Attic
 Radical Attic Exhibition Catalogue The first exhibition from The Design Activism Research Hub, Radical Attic. The show was made up of posters, pamphlets and other ephemeral documenting social and political activism through its material culture. From Athens to Greenham Common, and Animal Liberation to recent university occupations the show was to bring out the histories and memories latent within the objects on display. |
Design Activism Research Hub |
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2006
Eckersley Gallery,
London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6SB |
Handing Down The Memory Cloth
 Exhibition Poster. Image: WD+RU. Handing Down the Memory Cloth was launched by Women’s Design + Research Unit at London College of Communication (more…) Read more... |
Women’s Design + Research Unit |
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2003
The Coronet,
28 New Kent Road, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TJ |
Cinema Furore Elephant and Castle Community Cinema
Cinema Furore was set up as a community cinema in late 2003 in the newly renovated Coronet on New Kent Road. According to its founder, Fintan McAlindon, the cinema would provide “a refreshing alternative to the antiseptic multiplexes.” It screened blockbusters alongside work from local film groups and distributors including NEON, the Community TV Trust, Kush Films, Freestyle and the Aylesbury Media Project (AMP). The cinema closed in the summer of 2006. Cinema Furore held the industry direct course ‘Basic Skills Introduction to Video’ at local further education institutions Morley College, London College of Communication and London Southbank University, with an explicit all ages, abilities and backgrounds inclusivity policy. |
Cinema Furore |
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2016
529 West 20th Street,
New York, USA, NY 10011 |
Concrete Elegy
Constantinople by David Hepher, 2012. Oil, acrylic, inkjet and concrete on canvas. Flowers East. An exhibition of major paintings by David Hepher, exploring suburban house-fronts and monumental tower-blocks and incorporating real architectural materials such as concrete and wallpaper. For more than fifty years, Hepher has painted domestic buildings, from suburban houses to modern tower blocks, capturing the formal beauty of their grid-like structures as well as the physical and emotional residues left by their human inhabitants. – Flowers Gallery, London and New York. |
David Hepher |
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1998
Ministry of Sound,
103 Gaunt Street, London, SE1 6DP |
The Manual: Ministry of Sound
 Cover, The Manual: Ministry of Sound. ‘The Who, the What and the Where of Clubland’, The Manual: Ministry of Sound, chronicles the world renowned venue from its beginnings, and includes words and photographs by the authors. Published in 1998, seven years after the club first opened, the book looks back at the history of the club during its zenith, cataloguing the parties, people, DJs, fashion and music that sprung out and reverberated through its walls. The book was published by Headline Book Publishing Limited, London. Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton went on to collaborate on the now go-to book on clubland and DJing, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey. |
Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton
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1991 —
Ministry of Sound,
103 Gaunt Street, London, SE1 6DP |
Ministry of Sound
 Guestlist queue outside of Ministry of Sound in 1991, its opening year. Image credit: Ministry of Sound. “My concept for Ministry was purely this: 100% sound system first, lights second, design third (in that order); the reverse of everyone else’s idea.” Justin Berkmann, a founding member of the club, in The Manual: Ministry of Sound. When it first opened in September 1991, inspired by the American East Coast 80’s club scene, Ministry of Sound opened with no alcohol license but fit out with the first Funktion1 Soundsystem on UK dancefloors. Its sound fit-out has been reveared world-wide ever since. On specially curated nights The Box, its original and most famous room, is now equipped with a Dolby Atmos 350 degree soundscape, boosting the number of speakers in the room by 22 to a total of over 60. The club is ranked with the most prestigious clubs past and present worldwide, alongside the likes of The Hacienda and its original inspiration, Paradise Garage. The list of artists who’ve graced its DJ booth is long and very comprehensive, from iconic early 90’s DJ sets from Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan, Todd Terry and DJ Harvey to Ibiza legends Roger Sanches and David Morales, to household names David Guetta and Armand Van Helden. Over the past decade, the MoS brand has expanding significantly, encompassing a magazine, video interviews and audio playlists, world tours, a record label and audio equipment range and merchandising. The club also hosts a fifth room on Thursday nights, The Gallery, with less established MoS has a back catalogue of over 200 label releases. In 2011, upon reaching its twentieth year, Ministry of sound held 20:20, an exhibition and tour celebrating the club. The club remains at its original site off of Newington Causeway, located in a former bus garage. There has been increasing media coverage of the threats to the venue with the encroachment of residential developments in proximity to the club. |
Ministry of Sound
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2011
Unit 207/8,
Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TE |
Studio at the Elephant Artist-in-Residence
 Image credit: Zoë Burt/Studio At The Elephant To bring awareness of it being climate change week, Zoë Burt will be hosting a free cyanotype workshop at Studio at the Elephant. Help make a unique photogram in the shape of our planet – the beautiful blue marble. What would be your unique contribution to our planet’s future? Use found natural objects from local green spaces around the Elephant to create your own patterns/writings/drawings and contribute to this collected blueprint fashion statement. |
Zoë Burt
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2011
Unit 207/8,
Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TE |
The Elephant Den
 Image rights: PLATS/Studio at The Elephant A workshop run by PLATS design collective around the building of a big cardboard map complete with a den inside. Add your your home, school or your favourite places to our map. Or, you can just crawl inside the Elephant’s den and write or draw your stories and memories about the area.
 Image rights: PLATS/Studio At The Elephant |
PLATS
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2011
Unit 207/8,
Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TE |
Encontrando Latino-America en El Elephant: Raquel Villar Perez, Studio at the Elephant Artist-in-Residence
 Finding Home. Image rights: Raquel Villar Perez. Encontrando Latino-America en El Elephant, or Finding Latin-America at The Elephant is a collaborative project between Raquel Villar-Pérez and Latin-American women living or working at the Elephant area, we will draw the relationships between the different places of provenance and the Elephant & Castle through the reflection about the situation of each one, their fears, hopes, dreams, etc. Objectives: The realisation of a map of the Elephant where highlight the spaces/places which the women identify as places where they feel they are at home. The realisation of an emotional map in which the women would define these spaces with a smell, a flavour, a sound and a colour. |
Raquel Villar Perez |
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2011
Unit 207/8,
Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TE |
LAWAS: Latin American Workers at The Elephant
 LAWAS at Studio at the Elephant. Image credit: Studio at the Elephant. Trabajadores Latinoamericanos en The Elephant, or Latin American Workers at The Elephant, is a project that will be based at The Studio at the Elephant at the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre from April 10th to 30th. As an organization, LAWAS has been working to create a framework through which Latin Americans can defend their rights, dignity and well-being as workers. Through this project, we will introduce LAWAS to the Latin American community living, working or passing through the Elephant & Castle area. The central idea is to re-think the orientation of LAWAS, keeping in mind the key issues faced by Latin Americans in the borough. |
LAWAS with Studio at the Elephant |
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2011
ASC Gallery in Erlang House,
Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8EQ |
Crossing Centuries: Southwark Art Collection Works by Women Artists 1830 to 2000
 Crossing Centuries, Works by Women Artists 1830 to 2000 from the Southwark Art Collection. Image rights: ASC Gallery/Southwark Art Collection. Celebrating a century of Women’s International Day, this exhibition highlights historic, modern and contemporary work by women artists in the Southwark Art Collection. Through selected themes and genres, art by women working in the nineteenth century will be seen alongside works by some of today’s most well-known female artists. Crossing centuries: Works by women artists’ 1830 to 2000 highlights historic, modern and contemporary work by women in the Southwark Art Collection. Art by nineteenth century women is displayed alongside work by some of today’s most well-known artists, illustrating contemporary approaches to art historical themes and genres. Women are also represented in areas that have been a focus for collecting at different points in time. Works purchased since the 1920s as a way of recording the local area of Bankside are featured. Some of the most established women artists of the twentieth century are represented through the collection of prints acquired since the 1950s. |
Artist Studio Company |
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2011
Unit 207/8,
Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TE |
Studio at the Elephant
 Image credit: Studio at the Elephant. Studio at the Elephant is a project by artists Eva Sajovic and Rebecca Davies run from Unit 207/8 on the first floor of the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre bringing together different artists, practitioners, organisations and locals thorough a series of conversations, workshops and other events. The Studio also acted as a platform for locals to voice their opinions creatively and a place of temporary residence to visiting artists. Studio at the Elephant worked with organisations including the Latin American Workers Association, LCC, Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Modern. |
Rebecca Davies, Eva Sajovic |
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2010
The Bartlett,
UCL Faculty of the Built Environment, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT |
635×308 [Heygate Abstracted]
![635x308 [Heygate Abstracted]. Image rights: Simon Kennedy.](http://chartingtheelephant.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heygate-Abstracted-by-Simon-Kennedy-16.jpg) 635×308 [Heygate Abstracted]. Image rights: Simon Kennedy. An exhibition of the photographs took place at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London in November 2010. |
Simon Kennedy
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2010
Area 10 Project Space,
Eagle Wharf, Peckham Hill Street, London, SE15 5JT |
Nightcleaners Part I: A Woman’s Work – Screening and panel discussion
 Still, Nightcleaners Part 1. LUX Artists Moving Image. The screening of this film, Nightcleaners: Part 1 by the Berwick Street Collective, was part of Celebrating Women in Southwark season. The event was organised by Acme’s Southwark Artist-in-Residence 2008-2009, Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre. The screening was followed by a panel discussion with film co-director Humphry Trevelyan and people currently involved in researching and campaigning for better working conditions for night cleaners. For her residency, Ana Laura undertook a research project Night Time in Southwark consisting of events, walks and site-specific interventions. Focusing on the way people interact, Ana Laura’s work is influenced by different cultures, attitudes and how we live together, using a variety of mediums including sculpture, events and performance. Nightcleaners: Part 1 is a documentary created by members of the Berwisk Street Collective in 1975. Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan came together to portray the contemporary struggles of women who worked cleaning office buildings at night. The film chronicles the conditions with which the workers are confronted and their efforts to overcome through a vigorous campaign to unionise. Over the last decade the film is in gaining in recognition and has been screened across the UK in venues including Tate Modern and the AV Festival, Newcastle. |
Berwick Street Collective
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2009
Elephant and Castle,
London, SE1 |
Elephant and Castle; Towards A London Edible Landscape
 Photo credits: Jamie Barra. As appeared in Urban Agriculture Magazine, London, #22, pages 37-38.
– RUAF Foundation, 2009 An essay in the Urban Agricultural Review conveying the findings of a mapping project conducted by Mikey Tomkins and his team on the open areas around Elephant and Castle. The project measured t the the potential of the neighbourhood as a test site for urban agriculture. A survey was conducted gathering the range of land uses mapped to their potential productivity for urban agriculture, speculating on the amount of fruit and vegetables that could be yielded locally. The article published a summary of these results.  Land use types, their potential for UA and possible yields table, Urban Agriculture Magazine, London, #22, pages 37-38. Rights to the author. |
Mikey Tomkins
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2009
The Coronet,
28 New Kent Road, London, SE1 6TJ |
A Ritual for Elephant & Castle: Live at The Coronet
 Marcus Coates with Chrome Hoof live at The Coronet. Image credit: Nick David. Image courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery. Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle is a documentary film which explores the transitions currently taking place in the South London neighbourhood. The documentary follows artist/shaman Marcus Coates as he sets out on a ‘vision quest’ in the heart of this neighbourhood, Elephant and Castle, to search out animal spirits to help guide the local community through a period of change. The film includes scenes with residents from the Heygate Estate, Southwark councillors and a psychedelic doom rock orchestra, Chrome Hoof. All embark on a journey deep into the neighbourhood in search of alternative ways to find solutions to the overbearing problem confronting them all. A live performance with Marcus Coates and Chrome Hoof took place at The Coronet, New Kent Road, on June 5th 2009 with live visuals and sound from the collective. This live show forms the centre of the film as apex of the quest for answers and solutions. The feature-length film was the culmination of a four year local residency undertaken by Marcus Coates between 2009 and 2012. The film was commissioned and produced by Nomad Projects. It was directed by Marcus Coates and Michael Smythe, with cinematography by Annemarie Lean-Vercoe and editing by Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas. |
Marcus Coates and Chrome Hoof
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2009
Heygate Estate,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE17 1NA and The Coronet, 28 New Kent Road, London, SE1 6TJ |
Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle
 Still, Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant and Castle by Marcus Coates. Photo credit: Nick David. Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle is a documentary film which explores the transitions currently taking place in the South London neighbourhood. The documentary follows artist/shaman Marcus Coates as he sets out on a ‘vision quest’ in the heart of this neighbourhood, Elephant and Castle, to search out animal spirits to help guide the local community through a period of change. The film includes scenes with residents from the Heygate Estate, Southwark councillors and a psychedelic doom rock orchestra, Chrome Hoof. All embark on a journey deep into the neighbourhood in search of alternative ways to find solutions to the overbearing problem confronting them all.
A live performance with Marcus Coates and Chrome Hoof took place at The Coronet, New Kent Road, on June 5th 2009 with live visuals and sound from the collective. This live show forms the centre of the film as apex of the quest for answers and solutions. The feature-length film was the culmination of a four year local residency undertaken by Marcus Coates between 2009 and 2012. The film was commissioned and produced by Nomad Projects. It was directed by Marcus Coates and Michael Smythe, with cinematography by Annemarie Lean-Vercoe and editing by Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas. |
Marcus Coates
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2007
London College of Communication,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB and Cuming Museum, 151 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RY |
Home: The Elephant and Castle
The Elephant Vanishes: Home. Image rights: Patrick Sutherland. Home: The Elephant and Castle is the first of a three part collaborative photographic series, The Elephant Vanishes, documenting the lives and landscape of Elephant and Castle amidst its regeneration. The live project in its entirety spanned from 2006 to 2010, undertaken by students on the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication. The project, under the directorship of Patrick Sutherland, pursued a long-term photographic documentation of the area. Every new academic year students were equipped with a new theme with which to examine and portray the continuingly shifting faces and fabric around them. ‘Home’ is made up of 97 photographic works, exhibited at the Cuming Museum and compiled into part one of the publication The Elephant Vanishes. MA Photography students that participated in Home: The Elephant and Castle: Dougla Abuelo, Lihee Avidan, Mauro Bottaro, Thomas Brandi, Nicola Dracoulis, Shehani Fernando, Irina Popa, Lydia Polzer, Ben Speck. Read more... |
Patrick Sutherland
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2009
O-Central,
83 Crampton Street, London, SE17 3BQ |
O-Central
Marcus, 47, IT consultant. O-central by Freya Najade. Image credit: Freya Najade. ” The most significant changes of the regeneration project for Elephant and Castle will be the demolition of the Heygate Estate and The Shopping Centre. 5,400 new residential units in at least seven new big apartment buildings are planned. Two of the seven apartment buildings have so far been erected [June 2009]. One of them is O-Central. O-Central provides 188 residential and 14 commercial units. It is located around the top end of Walworth Road and along the rear of the railway line. A concierge monitors the entrance 24 hours a day. Most units in O-Central are rented out; but who lives there? For one month I went to O-Central to capture the tenants and to find out how they like their neighbourhood. ” – Freya Najade, June 2009 Read more... |
Freya Najade |
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2008
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In Memory of the Future
 Image rights: Tom Wolesley.
– Tom Wolseley ‘In memory of the future’ is a 5 mins video loop made on the Hetgate Estate in 2008 by Wolseley. The short was screened in a unit at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. Read more... |
Tom Wolseley |
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2004
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The Elephant Never Forgets
 Still from The Elephant Never Forgets A documentary on the memories of older residents of the Elephant and Castle. Produced as part of a community project funded by Elephant Links in collaboration with Groundwork Southwark and Community TV Trust, the documentary involved several clubs and groups working with older people in Southwark and about 30 residents. As well as celebrating individual’s reminiscences, ‘The Elephant Never Forgets’ explores the participants’ experience of the present and their vision for a future where the Elephant will be completely transformed by the forthcoming redevelopment of the area. The short film was shown as part of Elefest 2004 on 15th July at the Coronet on New Kent Road, together with a Q&A session with the production team and some of the people featured in the film. Read more... |
Unknown
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2008 — 2009
London College of Communication,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB and Cuming Museum, 151 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RY |
Community: The Elephant and Castle
 Book cover, Community: The Elephant and Castle. Image rights: Patrick Sutherland Community: The Elephant Vanishes is the second part of three-part photographic series The Elephant Vanishes. The live project in its entirety spanned from 2006 to 2010, undertaken by students on the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication. The project, under the directorship of Patrick Sutherland, pursued a long-term photographic documentation of the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle. Every new academic year students were equipped with a new theme with which to examine and portray the changes that came with the regeneration of the area. An exhibition of the work was held at the Cuming Museum in the Old Town Hall on Walworth Road running from December 2008 until May 2009. The exhibition consisted of 118 individual framed or mounted photographic prints by 11 photographers, of which one is a 350 image grid and one a 28 image grid. MA Photography students which participated in The Elephant Vanishes: Community Thomas Ball, Matteo Borzone, Maximiliano Braun, Eleanor Cleasby, Kate Hooper, Tom King, Adam Patterson, Jackie Dewe Matthews, Anna von Stackelberg, Jon Tonks, Anthony Wallace Read more... |
Patrick Sutherland
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2006
London College of Communication,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB |
The Elephant Vanishes
Economy: The Elephant and Castle. Image rights: Patrick Sutherland. The live project in its entirety spanned from 2006 to 2010, undertaken by students on the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication. The project, under the directorship of Patrick Sutherland, pursued a long-term photographic documentation of the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle. Every new academic year students were equipped with a new theme with which to examine and portray the changes that came with the regeneration of the area. The work culminated in two exhibitions held at the Cuming Museum in the Old Town Hall on Walworth Road in 2009 and 2012. A three-part photographic publication was coordinated with help from the Photography Archive Research Centre at LCC. Bringing the different strands across the years together for the first time, displaying the breadth of content, subject and technique employed by the students over time, and showing the ongoing transformations in the area in a variety of manners. These were assembled into an exhibition and a book The Elephant Vanishes together part 1: Home, part 2: Communities and part 3: Economy. This work is edited and curated into exhibition and book format by Patrick Sutherland. The overall project. The Elephant Vanishes, was launched with a PARC study day at LCC in 2006. Numerous LCC staff and affiliate artists have contributed to the project including, including Prof Val Williams, Prof Tom Hunter, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Paul Lowe, John Easterby and Brigitte Lardinois. Read more... |
Patrick Sutherland |
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2007 — 2011
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Home From Home
 Home From Home Main Navigation Home Page. Image credit: the People’s Bureau. Documenting lives through the Regeneration in Elephant & Castle. Maybe it isn’t surprising that a place called Elephant and Castle should be dominated by large spaces: the shopping centre, the Heygate estate, the two roundabouts; and a regeneration scheme hailed as the largest in Europe. Yet it is on a smaller scale that the Elephant reveals its energy and its identity. It is the individual people, flats, cafes, shops and stalls, and the connections between them, that make the Elephant somewhere people call home. Outputs include Home From Home Trail, made in 2011, as a collection of twelve photographs and stories from the Home From Home project produced as a set of postcards launched with a public walk in and around the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre with a poster installation. |
Eva Sajovic, Sarah Butler and Rebecca Davies |
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2006
85 St. George's Road,
London, SE1 6ER |
Ten Years of Siobhan Davies Studios
2016 marks the 10 year anniversary of the opening of Siobhan Davies Studios. In the past decade the Studios have become a hub for artists to work, create new partnerships and extend the possibilities for dance within the contemporary arts. Founded and led since 1988 by choreographer Siobhan Davies, Siobhan Davies Dance has evolved from a touring dance company into an investigative contemporary arts organisation. By 2002, Davies had moved away from the traditional theatre circuit and started making work for gallery spaces and alternative locations. Recent works have been presented at some of the most prestigious art institutions in the UK, including the ICA and Whitechapel Gallery (London), Turner Contemporary (Margate), Tramway (Glasgow) and Glasgow Museum of Modern Art. Davies works closely with collaborating dance artists to create new work and applies choreography across a wide range of creative disciplines, including visual arts and film. Read more... |
Siobhan Davies Dance |
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1995
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Elephant
 Cover, Untitled (Experience of Place), edited by Gregor Neuerer, published by Koenig Books, London. The piece first appeared in 1995 in the first outing of the journal Inventory, published by the collective by the same name comprising of members across the arts. Alongside written form, the group produced performance in open spaces, fly-posting and place-based research and mapping. Parallels of their work and working methods have led comparison and influence from the Situationist International art movement. The essay was brought to a wider audience in 2003 in the anthology on architecture and the city, “Untitled (Experience of Place),” edited by Gregor Neuerer and published by Koenig Books, London. Essay contributions by leading academics, theorists, artists and spatial practitioners including Steven Jacobs, Tacita Dean, Luisa Lambri, Liisa Roberts, with an introduction by Jan Verwoert.  Inventory. Vol.1. No.1. 1995. Deposited by Adam Scrivener and Paul Claydon at the MayDay Rooms. Image rights Inventory/MayDay Rooms. |
Adam Scrivener / Inventory |
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1986 —
Blackfriars Settlement,
1 Rushworth Street, London, SE1 ORB |
Changing Ourselves
Blackfriars Photography Project set out to convey the political and social discontent palpable to them in mid-80’s Britain. They did so through looking locally, recording community activities and political events taking place in South London, mainly in Southwark and Lambeth. Currently, the only documented material output of the collective is a four part documentary series completed in 1986. In July 1994, the project closed as a result of its funding being withdrawn. The Traps for Women, three of four a four part documentary film, scrutinises areas in women’s lives and livelihoods, questioning the “woman’s sphere”, from job choices, the pay gap, marriage, motherhood, through to the portrayal of women in the media. The Traps for Women is preceded by The Tale of Two Sexes and The Early Years, and followed by Changing Ourselves. The Project was started through the Blackfriars Settlement; originally known as the Women’s University Settlement, the organisation was one of the first to be founded as part of the settlement reform movement to provide social services and education to local migrant workers and families. The settlement continues to this day, providing diverse services to the local community and is based at its original address, off of Blackfriars Road, SE1. |
Blackfriars Photography Project
The Blackfriars Photography Project photographic archives are divided between Southwark Local History Library and Archives and Lambeth Archives. |
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1991 — 2013
Elephant and Castle Roundabout,
Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6TG |
Elephant and Castle Subway Murals
 Mural of Shakespeare at The Globe located in the pedestrian underpass at London Road, North Side entrance. A series of murals were commissioned by Southwark Council in 1991 to cover the walls of the seven pedestrian subways which ran underneath Elephant and Castle roundabout. Originally constructed in 1958 as part of the new street system implemented at the Elephant and Castle, involving the creation of the roundabout and funnel road New Kent Road, the subways connected the two exits of the Underground as well as opposite sides of the streets for pedestrians. Covering tiles laid in the 50’ss, seven of the subways were painted between 1991 and 1994 by a team of artists’ and poster painters. Distinct themes existed for each of the passages, ranging from aquatic life, to animals in the jungle, to scenes of the daily commute, to notable people and places in the local area. David Bratby led the work in five of the seven underpasses, and has since returned to the site to give talks and tours about the murals in the aid of local campaign to stop their demolition. They were demolished as part of the investment program and streetscape redesign of the Roundabout led by Transport for London, designed by Sterling Prize award-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann. |
David Bratby |
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1993
Heygate Estate,
Elephant and Castle, SE17 1NA |
Reconstruction 1
This short film features an interview with Timothy Tinker, the project architect who oversaw the design and build of the Heygate Estate in the early 1970’s. The interview is preoccupied with the notion of surface and surfaces, with a mosaic grid imposed over Tinker’s face. The film brings into question the foundation myths of such high-rise and large-scale council estates. Reminiscent of the face-blurring graphics used in TV crime reconstructions raises the question: is he a chief suspect, witness or accomplice in the production of spatial injustice? |
Chris Saunders |
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1986
Blackfriars Settlement,
1 Rushworth Street, London, SE1 ORB |
The Traps for Women
Blackfriars Photography Project set out to convey the political and social discontent palpable to them in mid-80’s Britain. They did so through looking locally, recording community activities and political events taking place in South London, mainly in Southwark and Lambeth. Currently, the only documented material output of the collective is a four part documentary series completed in 1986. In July 1994, the project closed as a result of its funding being withdrawn. The Traps for Women, three of four a four part documentary film, scrutinises areas in women’s lives and livelihoods, questioning the “woman’s sphere”, from job choices, the pay gap, marriage, motherhood, through to the portrayal of women in the media. The Traps for Women is preceded by The Tale of Two Sexes and The Early Years, and followed by Changing Ourselves. The Project was started through the Blackfriars Settlement; originally known as the Women’s University Settlement, the organisation was one of the first to be founded as part of the settlement reform movement to provide social services and education to local migrant workers and families. The settlement continues to this day, providing diverse services to the local community and is based at its original address, off of Blackfriars Road, SE1. |
Blackfriars Photography Project
The Blackfriars Photography Project photographic archives are divided between Southwark Local History Library and Archives and Lambeth Archives. |
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1986
Blackfriars Settlement,
1 Rushworth Street, London, SE1 ORB |
The Early Years
Blackfriars Photography Project set out to convey the political and social discontent palpable to them in mid-80’s Britain. They did so through looking locally, recording community activities and political events taking place in South London, mainly in Southwark and Lambeth. Currently, the only documented material output of the collective is a four part documentary series completed in 1986. In July 1994, the project closed as a result of its funding being withdrawn. The Early Years, part two of four, focuses on the gendered stereotypes latent within toys, books and comic books given to children. The Early Years is preceded by Part 1: The Tale of Two Sexes and followed by Part 3: The Traps for Women and Part 4: Changing Ourselves. The project was started through the Blackfriars Settlement; originally known as the Women’s University Settlement, the organisation was one of the first to be founded as part of the settlement reform movement to provide social services and education to local migrant workers and families. The settlement continues to this day, providing diverse services to the local community and is based at its original address, off of Blackfriars Road, SE1. |
Blackfriars Photography Project
Artists’ profile at the British Film Institute
The Blackfriars Photography Project photographic archives are divided between Southwark Local History Library and Archives and Lambeth Archives. |
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1986
Blackfriars Settlement,
1 Rushworth Street, London, SE1 ORB |
The Tale of Two Sexes
Blackfriars Photography Project set out to convey the political and social discontent palpable to them in mid-80’s Britain. They did so through looking locally, recording community activities and political events taking place in South London, mainly in Southwark and Lambeth. Currently, the only documented material output of the collective is a four part documentary series completed in 1986. In July 1994, the project closed as a result of its funding being withdrawn. Part one of four, The Tale of Two Sexes looks at sex-role stereotyping and airs the discontent between the sexes about their traditional roles. The later episodes in order are as follows; The Early Years, The Traps for Women, Changing Ourselves The project was started through the Blackfriars Settlement; originally known as the Women’s University Settlement, the organisation was one of the first to be founded as part of the settlement reform movement to provide social services and education to local migrant workers and families. The settlement continues to this day, providing diverse services to the local community and is based at its original address, off of Blackfriars Road, SE1. |
Blackfriars Photography Project
Artists’ profile at the British Film Institute
The Blackfriars Photography Project photographic archives are divided between Southwark Local History Library and Archives and Lambeth Archives. |
