Please join us at the opening of our newest commission, MUSCLE WIRE, Saturday 25 March 2-5pm, 2017.

MUSCLE WIRE is a research led residency and exhibition involving two contemporary artists, Amy Ash and Emma Finn, and a diverse group of A Level students from three south London Schools.

For one month, Ash and Finn worked alongside fifteen dedicated young people, using Gerald Moore Gallery as their studio space. Together, they carried out collaborative action-based research related to future of memory.

MUSCLE WIRE aims to offer an alternative to traditional learning environments by inviting a group of young people to work alongside artists, both leading and assisting in the research generated. The artists were bought together by a shared interest in humankind's ever-evolving relationship with information gathering and storage. The young people involved were selected from the diverse communities of Eltham College, Thomas Tallis School and Erith School.

Amy Ash's practice moves between curatorial projects, teaching and learning, installation and other forms of making. Amy's work aims to reveal the staging within the construction and regeneration of personal and cultural cosmologies, through explorations of contiguity and situated knowledge.

Using moving image and narrative, Emma Finn aims to transport viewers to uncomfortable places that sit between reality and invention. Marrying hi-fi with lo-fi techniques, she constructs worlds where multiple planes operate independently of one another, reflecting how technology allows us to create our own private heterotopias, as we attempt to communicate with one another.

In keeping with the gallery's mandate to operate as a space which considers new approaches to learning, the MUSCLE WIRE commission is a space where regular educational hierarchies are dismantled. Everyone leads and everyone learns. The exhibition is the culmination of our research and experience together.

EVENT DETAILS:

When: Saturday 25th March, 2-5pm, 2017.

Sketchbook Circle 2017

On Saturday the 18th February art teachers gathered at Gerald Moore Gallery from all around the country. The event which has taken place for the last four consecutive years in the gallery, is a chance for art teachers to come together to celebrate the project Sketchbook Circle. This is a project which was established in 2009 and supports art teachers to continue to make their own work despite their busy lives as teachers. Each month art teachers exchange sketchbooks through the post, sharing ideas and developing an interesting creative conversation. The event at the gallery was a chance for the teachers to meet their sketchbook partners, to take part in some excellent workshops and to celebrate the circle through an exhibition.

 Matisse: Drawing with scissors exhibition

 Young visitors explore the Matisse show 'Drawing with scissors', through collage and projection, part of our weekly primary school Outreach programme, led by learning curator Laura Phillimore.  

This Saturday is the last chance to see the exhibition before it goes back on tour. Gallery opens from 10am till 4pm.