You can now see plates made in collaboration by coop co-founders Anna and Tatiana in the local park cafe Festa sul prato in Folkstone Gardens, New Cross. We are pleased to be delivering the last part of this commission, and it is a great pleasure to see our wares in use in our neighbourhood, and just a few minutes away from the cooperative studio.
Great thanks to restaurateur Martin Hoenle, and Festa team.
Structures That Cooperate: Get Paid! installation view, Cubitt Gallery, 2019.
Photography by Mark Blower, courtesy of Cubitt Artists.
We are delighted to participate in Structures That Cooperate: Get Paid! in January 2019. Please see the copy of the information from Cubitt, and check out the special programme website for more information.
Structures That Cooperate: Get Paid!
Private View: Thurs 17 Jan 2019
6.30–8.30pm
Cultural Capital Cooperative Object #2 (CCCO#2) produced by artists Nikita Gale, Candice Lin, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Nour Mobarak, Blaine O’Neill, and Patrick Staff, Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S) and Ceramics Studio Co-op and events with COOP Fund and Cooperative Lunch #2 hosted by Cooperativas de Alimentos
Open: 18 Jan–24 Feb 2019, Wed–Sun, 12–6pm
Events:
Cooperative Lunch #2 hosted by Cooperativas de Alimentos: Sun 24, Feb 1–3pm
COOP Fund: Sat 16 Feb, 3–5pm
Structures That Cooperate reopens for 2019 with a second configuration of the space designed by Mexico City-based artist Clemence Seilles. It will host newly installed work in the gallery and an ongoing public programme under the title Get Paid!
Structures That Cooperate: Get Paid! presents artworks, events and projects operating with politicised models of economy and organisation. These include Cultural Capital Cooperative Object #2 (CCCO#2) a cooperatively produced and owned film by produced by artists Nikita Gale, Candice Lin, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Nour Mobarak, Blaine O’Neill, and Patrick Staff amplified by the Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S) installed alongside works from the Ceramics Studio Co-op, London.
In continuation of a format established in October, where Cubitt’s gallery is used for an extended schedule of events, commissions, research and exhibitions, Get Paid! will present work across several formats and timeframes
For a 12-month period Cubitt will be licensing the CCCO#2 film as a process of dialogue and support of the Cultural Capital Cooperative group. CCCO#2 will be installed in the gallery for Get Paid! inviting Black Obsidian Sound System to amplify the sound of the film for the opening night. Black Obsidian Sound System is a collectively made and owned sound system established in the summer of 2018 with the intention of bringing together a community of queer, trans and non binary people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism.
After CCCO#2’s public installation in the gallery, the film will be available to view at Cubitt by appointment until December 2019, alongside a template of the CCC license agreement. This agreement will be made available as a free download from the Cubitt website as a resource for others, to be adapted and used in support of future cooperative art production.
Into this context, Get Paid! invites another cooperative, Ceramics Studio Co-op an artist-run worker co-operative in south London. Ceramics Studio Co-op will present a selection of works for sale by its members and, as part of a longer term conversation, are working with The Voice of Domestic Workers towards the production of a new collaborative ceramic work for sale later in 2019.
Ongoing collaborations include working with Clemence Seilles on the scenography of the gallery space, The Voice of Domestic Workers in residence, Schooling & Culture at AMSI and research with W.A.G.E.
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Structures that Cooperate is a programme of projects that began October 2018 that talk to Cubitt’s context as an artist-run co-operative. It is a call to question default approaches to programming a gallery space, looking instead to collective formats, imaginaries and realities.
Projects and artists who will feature in the 2019 programme include: Ain Bailey, Lucy Clout, Deborah Findlater, Aya Haidar with The Voice of Domestic Workers and Women for Refugee Women, Adelita Husni-Bey, Schooling & Culture with Arts and Media School Islington, Serena Lee, W.A.G.E, Cubitt’s Education programme and more to be announced.
This exhibition is supported by Arts Council England and Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
Our team are so pleased to be featured in this co-operative film. Have a look, you will love it.
A Silent Transformation is a film about the transformative power of the co-operative model.
The co-operative movement was built by people who took on the responsibility for their collective well-being in the face of government neglect, economic exclusion and cultural discrimination.
As the modern economy increasingly denies vast sectors of the population basic amenities for decent life, this co-operative spirit is as critical as ever. However, over the years the co-op sector has become insular and poorly understood.
The film sets out to explore the innovative self-help efforts of diverse communities across the Province of Ontario. By addressing their needs collectively they are helping to regain the radical vision of co-operation.
In these communities are the seeds of economic democracy, global solidarity, and a new popular movement to transform society.
The license for this screening had been kindly provided by Co-operatives UK, the regional cooperative body for the UK. The screening is co-organised by Sanford Housing Co-Op and Ceramics Studio Co-op.
There are few more days to see this lovely show in Copeland Park in Peckham.
One of the current studio members Sandra Lane had been working towards it for the last several month.
Our team were very pleased to join the opening yesterday, and see pieces we have helped to produce in action. It is always exciting for us to see how artists use ceramics alongside other techniques, and Sandra’s work is a really joyful example of it.
See more of Sandra’s work on her website:
Or follow her on instagram @artysandralane
Image by Sandra Lane.
OPEN: FRI 11 – 12-8PM | SAT 12 – SUN 13 – 12-6PM.
Sculpture, 2D and moving image work
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PV Thursday 10th May 6-9pm
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Art Hub Gallery
5-9 Creekside Deptford
SE8 4SA
Some of the work on show had been fired in Ceramics Studio Co-op, with help of our firing technicians. Contact us if you would like to know more about using our kilns.
Here are some results from People’s Pottery Class, our regular 12-week evening and weekend pottery workshops. Most of the pieces here were made in the winter term this year (2018). There is a bunch of plates made with hump moulds and few pieces thrown on potter’s wheel, examples of slip decoration and marbling.
We like to work with glaze, and encourage pottery students to experiment with form and decoration. One can see that with time projects become more experimental and confident. Some works in the gallery were made by students who have attended a class regularly for several years. Others were made by students taking pottery for the first time after joining our 12-week course. This small selection of pieces is here to give you an idea of what can be made in our studio during our regular weekend and evening pottery classes.
We are excited to see what will summer term students come up with, follow us for the updates on our social media.
More information about our pottery classes are on People’s Pottery Class page.
On the 5th of May the stars have aligned to organise this once in a lifetime event!
Ceramicist and Illustrator Fredrik Andersson (FreddeLanka) & ceramicist Gatopollo is in dear need of a spring clean. We have also invited The outside project to take part.
We are selling samples, tests and last years collections to bargain prices starting from £5 going up to £80. There will be Ceramics,Prints,zines and textiles available in the basement of Unripe banana.
Hosted by:
Fredrik Andersson: http://www.freddelanka.com/ & Instagram@freddelanka
Gatopollo: https://www.facebook.com/gatopollogallery/ Instagram@gatopollo_ceramics
The outside project: http://lgbtiqoutside.org/
If you have any questions please contact Fred on: freddelanka@gmail.com
As a part of Telegraph Hill Festival Open Studios Anna Baskakova, Lenka Kalafutova, and Tatiana Baskakova will present a small garden exhibition bringing together their recent pieces focusing on the exploration of body and ceramics as a medium.
Lenka Kalafutova will show several mural pieces from Bleach me, a collaborative project with poet Adae and graphic designer Dusan Kacan, which stems from a personal desire to understand the experiences of queer persons and people of colour in different cultural contexts. Murals focusing on whiteness as a commercial ideal and erasure of identity came about as a part of this conversation.
Anna Baskakova’s work have been reflecting on the fragility of body, and human resilience despite existing in the context of societal oppression and gendered relations. She works combining clays and colour slips to create pieces that explore material tension and illusions of delicacy.
Tatiana Baskakova’s recent work continues on-going experiential research into materiality of the body and culture of community boxing. Artist’s body and ceramics sculpture are the dominant mediums to continue investigating matters of embodiment, gender and violence in sport. She will show new skipping rope pieces and performance work.
Most recent handmade ceramic wares made by Ceramics Studio Co-op members will be available for sale.
More information about Telegraph Hill Festival, and the Open Studios are on the festival website
