JERWOOD SPACE AND VISUAL ARTS

Excellent facilities for the Work of Art

Opened in 1998 as the first major capital initiative of the Jerwood Foundation, the Jerwood Space is now established as one of the best rehearsal spaces for theatre and dance in the country.  Young dance and theatre companies develop their work at a greatly reduced cost, working alongside established professional companies who pay competitive rates.  

A beautifully refurbished Victorian school also offers a contemporary art gallery, café and striking glazed courtyard; these are all open to the public and available for events.

Jerwood Visual Arts (JVA) is a contemporary gallery programme of awards, exhibitions and events at Jerwood Space, which then tours nationally. Jerwood Visual Arts promotes and celebrates the work of talented emerging artists across the disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture, applied arts, photography and moving image. It also aims to make connections and provoke conversations within and across the different disciplines. 

Love is What You Want...

HAYWARD GALLERY, SOUTHBANK CENTRE - TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT 

WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2011 - MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2011

Like marmite you either love her or hate her ....
On Wednesday I went to Tracey Emin's "Love is What You Want".... described as a major survey of one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary artists, the exhibition covers every period of her career and features painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video and sculpture...
some good some bad some just odd...but worth a visit just to see all her blankets in one place...

Since the early 1990s, Emin (b.1963) has used her own life as the starting point for her art, exposing the most harrowing and intimate details of her personal history. Sometimes confrontational or sexually provocative, her work resonates with the 'personal political' legacy of feminist art while at the same time speaking to relationships in general. Disarmingly frank and yet often profoundly private, much of Emin's art - as this show makes clear - is also animated by her playful and ironic wit...

Be warned this show contains works of an explicit nature...

All's Well That Ends Well...

SHAKESPEARE GLOBE THEATRE

The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse, first built in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his greatest plays.
Each year the theatre season runs from April to October with productions of work by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as modern writers. Each year over 350,000 members of the audience experience the 'wooden O' sitting in a gallery or standing as a groundling in the yard, just as they would have done 400 years ago.
Current show is 'All's Well That Ends Well' a story of love and magic, where Shakespeare defies all expectations in this comedy. Students with valid ID get in to the show for £10!!!! 
Also housed beneath the Globe is an exhibition bringing to life Shakespeare's Globe and world as it would have been in 1599. Surrounded by raucous taverns and bawdy-houses the Globe was the centre of London's most notorious entertainment district.

Festival of Britain at Southbank

Southbank Centre celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain with a four-month Festival of British culture and creativity.

Experience performances, new outdoor environments, talks and events by some of Britain’s leading artists and thinkers. Festival highlights include Ray DaviesMeltdown (June), Tracey Emin’s first major survey show in London at the Hayward Gallery (18 May to 29 August), plus appearances by Lang Lang, Heston Blumenthal, Billy Bragg, John Berger, Meera Syal and Tony Benn. Themed weekends celebrate just some of the highlights of British culture – from Stewart Lee’s curated weekend of comedy and music (27 to 30 May) to Light Fantastic in collaboration with the BBC (24 to 26 June), a hip-hop weekend (14 to 17 July) and Vintage Weekend at Southbank Centre (29 to 31 July).

Best of all though......

Experience a piece of the British seaside in central London - they have installed a 70-metre beach  on Queen’s Walk for the duration of the Festival of Britain celebrations.

Just don’t forget your bucket and spade!!!!!