Social Art Practice, East London

by | Feb 12, 2018 | Participation

Social Art Practice, East London 2009 – 2012 the drawing shed is led by visual artist / directors Sally Labern and Bobby Lloyd. Labern+Lloyd practice both collaboratively and individually; their work uses diverse media and engages with issues of resilience,...

Some[w]Here Now – Pump House Gallery

by | Feb 10, 2018 | Communities of Imagination, Curatorial, Drawing, print & text, Gallery, Installation / Films, Participation, Performance, Publication / on-offline, Research & Proposals, Residencies & Commisions, Sited

Some[w]Here Now – Pump House Gallery 2015 www.somewhereresearch.wordpress.com Some[w]Here Now invites artists, local people, and others interested to join the drawing shed for open conversations at Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park, exploring how artists may...

Cultural Wellbeing 2013

by | Feb 10, 2018 | Participation, Research & Proposals

Cultural Wellbeing 2013 Image from post 2011 riot exchange on the estate during the E17 Art Trail. In September 2013, we were invited by Wandsworths Arts Council to join other artists, academic and cultural commentators and leaders Cultural Well Being Provocation...

#BasicSeven7

by | Feb 10, 2018 | Communities of Imagination, Curatorial, Drawing, print & text, Gallery, Installation / Films, Participation, Performance, Publication / on-offline, Research & Proposals, Residencies & Commisions, Sited

#BasicSeven7 #BasicSeven7 is an ongoing project for co-lead artists Sally Labern and Bobby Lloyd of the drawing shed and was originally funded by London Borough of Waltham Forest, Hoe St Ward Funding alongside the UCL Bartlett Wild Screens research project (see below)...

SUNKEN GARDEN

by | Jan 16, 2018 | Communities of Imagination, Participation, Sited

SUNKEN GARDEN Trust for London have funded a community gardener for two years (2017-2018) to join local people living on The Drive and Attlee Terrace estates in garden design & regular planting workshops! Held in the ‘sunken garden’ area in front of Attlee Terrace...

SOME[W]HERE

by | Sep 29, 2017 | Communities of Imagination, Curatorial, Drawing, print & text, Gallery, Installation / Films, Mobile, Participation, Performance, Publication / on-offline, Research & Proposals, Residencies & Commisions, Sited

SOME[W]HERE https://somewhereresearch.wordpress.com Rethinking, reworking, reusing, retelling, remaking the drawing shed worked on a project Some[w]Here  on the three housing estates Patmore, Savona and Carey Gardens in Nine Elms, London referred to locally as ‘the...

BLACK LIGHT AT TATE MODERN

by | Sep 29, 2017 | Communities of Imagination, Curatorial, Drawing, print & text, Gallery, Installation / Films, Mobile, Participation, Performance, Publication / on-offline, Residencies & Commisions, Sited

BLACK LIGHT AT TATE MODERN Artists Labern&Lloyd “trace the curve of the sun’s rays as they just graze the surface” (James Maxwell, Physicist) What does society keep in the dark, and how can it be illuminated? Labern&Lloyd of the drawing shed, working at Tate...

IF…ISH

by | Sep 26, 2017 | Curatorial, Gallery, Participation, Sited

IF…ISH “…and I see the universe with widened eyes and I see I see I see” Between February and December 2013, the drawing shed developed an inter-generational project bringing together a diverse group of teenage girls and older people who reside in Hoe Street ward,...

CLAYOVEN COOKBOOK

by | Sep 19, 2017 | Participation, Publication / on-offline

CLAYOVEN COOKBOOK ClayOven was born in 2010 as an idea in response to the residents of the YMCA – which itself sits to the South of the two estates – most residents are still unable to cook their own meals and many talk freely of this as separating them off from being...

CLAYOVEN

by | Sep 19, 2017 | Communities of Imagination, Mobile, Participation

CLAYOVEN The idea of ClayOven came to us when we were making the drawing shed in the cafe garden of the Forest YMCA with the help of our carpenter and residents – the ‘Y’ sits to the South of the two Hoe St estate communities – many of the Y’s residents aren’t able to...

TOP BOY BAKERS

by | Sep 19, 2017 | Communities of Imagination, Mobile, Participation, Sited

TOP BOY BAKERS BAKING PROJECT LAUNCHING JANUARY 2017! Started by boys living on the estates, our fabulous baking & mentoring project, now for boys aged 12-16, will be supported by adult men who will train as mentors & encourage boys from the estates to develop...