Friday 26 June 2015

The Last Post



The Last Show at the gallery has now ended and indeed this marks the end of the Kitchen Window Gallery. 

I would like to thank all the artists and poets who exhibited their work and performed at the gallery, and all those who visited the gallery and attended the openings. 

Thank you.

During the twelve months the gallery exhibited the work of ~

Jessie Brennan, Daren Callow, Louise Carson, John 'Jazzman' Clarke, Josée Dubeau, Peter Evans, Charlie Fox, Mikey Georgeson, Caroline Gregory, Marie Pascal - Hardy, Louise Hart, Julian van Hauson, Anna Khan, Miyuki Kasahara, Calum F. Kerr, Alice Labant, Daniel Lehan, Martha and Ruby, Jo McCormick, Jude Cowan Montague, Frog Morris, Frog Morris and Family, Susan Plover, Nicole Polonsky, Anne Robinson, Steve Rushton, Tim Siddall, Chris Simonite, Ted Smith - Orr, Veronika Spierenburg, and Jacqueline Utley.

Thanks also to Daren Callow, Calum F. Kerr, and Phil Polglaze for their photographs - many of which are included in the posts on the blog.

Documentation of all the shows are on previous posts.


Saturday 6 June 2015

THE LAST SHOW



THE LAST SHOW opened on 31 June with performances by Jo McCormick, Alice Labant, Martha and Ruby, Charlie Fox, Mikey Georgeson and Daniel Lehan

Here are two videos made by Mikey Georgeson. The first an overview of the event, the second the performance by Charlie Fox and The Vessel of Showing You, Showing You, The Show In devised by Charlie Fox and Mikey Georgeson - followed by photographs of the afternoon taken by Phil Polglaze and Daren Callow






CAKE SMASH with Jo McCormick, Alice Labant, Martha and Ruby








Audience members were given pieces of the cake to place in The Kitchen Window Gallery















A real cake made to celebrate Martha's birthday




Showing You, Showing You, The Show In 
devised by Charlie Fox and Mikey Georgeson, performed by Charlie Fox and The Vessel 









Everybody gathered on the balcony and toasted ALL the artists who had shown at the gallery during the past year 



CLOSING by Charlie Fox and Daniel Lehan - the last performance of THE LAST SHOW - the last show at The Kitchen Window Gallery











Friday 15 May 2015

BURNING A PAPER PLATE & THE LAST SHOW



BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART 

Steve Rushton's exhibition - which coincides with the launch of his recently published chapbook collection of poems - continues till 29 May - videos of readings from this collection are viewable on the previous post.

Then 

THE LAST SHOW
opens on Sunday 31 May from 2 to 5pm

THE LAST SHOW celebrates the year anniversary of The Kitchen Window Gallery and will also be the last show to be held at the gallery 

Featuring ~

Cake Smash
Jo McCormick, Alice Labant, Martha and Ruby
Cake Smash as a live art and interactive process takes place, as Huizigna wrote - in the realm of dream, enchantment, ecstasy and laughter

Show Me, Showing You, The Show In - World Premiere
A musical and text performance celebrating The Kitchen Window Gallery - devised by Charlie Fox and Mikey Georgeson
performed by The Vessel and Charlie Fox

CLOSING
Charlie Fox and Daniel Lehan and Audience





Saturday 2 May 2015

Opening of BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART



At the opening of his show on 26 April Steve Rushton and Lorrain Baggaley read from Rushton's recently published chapbook collection of poems BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART 







and talked about the relationship between the poems and his technique of burning paper plates to create his paintings. 



Burnt Paper Plates












Images by Phil Polglaze

Video Felix Frixou


Copies of BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART are available from
the sales page of the publishers, erbacce-press price £4.95.




Saturday 25 April 2015

Review of Steve Rushton's - BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART



Review in the Southwark News - April 23 2015

BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART

Opening on Sunday 26 April at the gallery from 2pm to 5pm





Friday 10 April 2015

A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING and Burning A Paper Plate - Towards A New Art



Nicole Polonsky's A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING a site-specific installation 
at the gallery continues until 24 April. 

In her work Polonsky responds to the domestic window as a liminal arena in which the private and public realms meet. Polonsky is interested in this as a locale where gestures towards activism may be performed, and political affiliations, belief systems and cherished hobbyhorses are voiced within the constraining parameters of the surrounding frame.

Steve Rushton's Burning A Paper Plate - Towards A New Art
- chapbook launch and exhibition - opens on 26 April from 2pm to 5pm - please note the opening will end promptly at 5pm but will reconvene at The Montague Arms nearby - 289 Queen's Road, London SE14 2PA

Burning A Paper Plate - Towards A New Art is both an exhibition and a collection of poetry about art, food and transformation, and at the opening Rushton will read from this collection.



He will also feature on Poets Anonymous - croydonradio.com - 12 April at 2pm and The Hello Goodbye Show - Resonance 104.4FM - 25 April at noon. 

Copies of the book will be available at the opening, and also at the sales page of the publishers, erbacce-press price £4.95.




To burn a paper plate is great.
The stains of food that you just ate
Become with fire and smoke,
Much better not much worse, become
Another kind of universe.