ARTIST COMMISSIONS
In our commitment to supporting artists throughout the pandemic, as we hand over our building to become Wandsworth’s local Vaccination Centre, we have commissioned eight brilliant digital artworks to provide some Hope & Courage to our visitors over the coming months.
This March, we’ll be delivering these pieces across our social media channels, with each video shining light on the unique challenges of the past year.
Join us as we take a moment together to reflect, and look forwards, to a better, brighter, future.
These videos offer a unique perspective on the events of the past year, bringing focus to the things we’ve valued the most during the lockdown.
From Richard DeDomenici’s history of Courage along the River Thames, to artist Scottee & Friends touching interview with his mum, we hope that these commissions offer comfort and closure on what has been a difficult year in our history.
Follow our social media channels for a little more insight into the inspiration, and creation of these pieces, with artists taking over throughout the month of March.
RICHARD DEDOMENICI
Richard DeDomenici specialises in urban-absurdist interventions that strive to create the kind of un-certainty that leads to possibility. He’s the inventor of the Carry-Ok wearable karaoke system, crochéted crypto-currency Knitcoin and international office chair competition The Swivelympics.
ROSIE JONES
With her infectious laugh and high-energy performance, Rosie Jones is a must-see on the UK comedy scene. Her two completed sell-out runs of shows Fifteen Minutes and Backwards both received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and she’s been busy writing on hit-shows such as Netflix’s Sex Education.
SCOTTEE & FRIENDS
Scottee & Friends was established to support and grow the work of Scottee by Executive Producer Molly Nicholson and Artistic Director Scottee, both have been working with each other since 2014 to create cabaret, circus, drag, live art, dance and theatre shows that have won awards, toured nationally and internationally and got really good reviews, babes.
SHE GOAT
She Goat is Shamira Turner and Eugénie Pastor, a Franglais duo intent on blurring the territories of theatre and live music, extravagant multi-tasking and disrupting gender expectations. They’ve created DoppelDänger, Curious Hearts Song Club and transformed their live show The Undefinable into an audio art mini-series. Both are associate artists of award-winning Little Bulb Theatre.
ACCESS ALL AREAS
Access All Areas makes urban, disruptive performance by learning disabled artists. Their immersive performance events create intimate moments of interaction between performers and public, occupying unexpected spaces in venues, on the streets, and in public buildings.
the vacuum cleaner
the vacuum cleaner is the name of a UK based artist who makes candid, provocative and playful art about the world being messed up. With roots in activism and radical art, the vacuum cleaner has created one-man interventions and large-scale actions as well as performance, installation and film. His work has been shown in galleries, theatres, hospitals and schools and has appeared on streets and in public spaces internationally.
INUA ELLAMS
Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer and founder of: The Midnight Run (an arts-filled, night-time, urban walking experience.), The Rhythm and Poetry Party (The R.A.P Party) which celebrates poetry & hip hop, and Poetry + Film / Hack (P+F/H) which celebrates Poetry and Film.
coletivA ocupação
coletivA ocupação formed in 2017 by students and activists who met during the uprising of the high school movement which occupied schools facing cuts and closure in São Paulo, Brazil, between 2015 and 2016. They make performances and workshops that sit between rebellion and theatre, between formation and creation. coletivA ocupação is a research territory of different languages and narratives from urgent uprisings and battles of our time: bodies in revolt, which now occupy new spaces.
BERT & NASI
Recent recipients of the Forced Entertainment award, Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas have developed a strong reputation worldwide for making original political theatre. Creating work in an age of austerity, their work is stripped right back. Together they first created the trilogy EUROHOUSE, PALMYRA and ONE which explored complex political and social questions – Greece’s relationship with the EU; the Syrian crisis; the rise of the ultra right – in an accessible, immediate form.