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.

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

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

www.joart.info

www.mikeygeorgeson.com

http://counterproductions.me 

  http://charliefox.org

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.

www.erbacce-press.com

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

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.

www.erbacce-press.com

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.