Open studios is here again but this time in the new Wandsworth studios! Below are the where’s and when’s – for any further information please get in touch!
Dates:
- 1 st October: 12 – 6pm with an Evening Reception from 6 – 9pm
- 2nd October: 12 – 6pm
Address:
- 7-9 Church Row, Wandsworth plain, Wandsworth, SW18 1ES
- See google maps. Travel info: East Putney Tube (10 mins), Wandsworth Town Train (5 mins) Buses 87, 39, 156 stop directly opposite the front door!
Once inside the front door go straight along the corridor and through the door immediately in front of you. This take you out into the garden. There will be another door open to the building on your right, go in, turn left and follow the signs upstairs to my studio.
I will be showcasing my new paintings of Putney, alongside other works including my Etchings and collection of Toy and Puppet paintings, many of which will be for sale at special studio prices!
For those of you not yet familiar with the story, last December the lease expired on our old studios – also in Wandsworth but a bit more tucked away. For a month or so prior to eviction we (‘we’ being the wonderful Collective Studios which I am part of) were still uncertain of whether we’d have any studios to move to, then the good graces of Wandsworth council came to our aid along with a rather extraordinary Georgian building on Wandsworth plain. I am still to get the full history of the building but as far as I’ve gathered it’s been through some major tinkering in its time: turned from a house to flats, then back to a house, it now stands somewhere in between the two, with a warren of rooms that lead off of rooms and strange toilets and pink bathrooms that emerge suddenly round corners. Having been empty for a long time it was in a rather bad state when we took it on in January of this year. Now however I am pleased to say it’s really taken on a new lease of life under the care and management of Charlie Day and Mark Nader. There are just over 20 emerging artists like myself working there at the moment, all in a variety of different disciplines, which you can have a good explore of during the open studios. We have a large blossoming walled garden at the studios which leads back onto Wandsworth’s famed wandle, so if the weather is cheery all the more reason to pop along! This is also a chance to talk directly to artists about their work and discuss possible commissions.
