T12 Tours: The Redsand Sea Forts
Concurrent with the Whitstable Biennale, Hive has devised a series of exclusive art tours to the heritage site of the Redsand Sea Forts. The new T12 Tours venture has been developed by our professional team of tour guides.
In keeping with the creative, educational and participatory spirit of Hive, the tours of these awe inspiring but forgotten architectural structures will include a wealth of events to stimulate the innovative spirit. We offer a range of bespoke tours for different tastes, aspirations, interests and budgets. Each specially designed route represents a unique adventure, woven from exploration, activity and sensory experiences.
Looking back from Redsand Sea Forts you can see in the distance, the harbour at Whitstable where Hive will be establishing a colony of its artists for the duration of the Whitstable Biennale. 2010 will be the third edit ion of this contemporary art festival, which features exciting and compelling new work by leading practitioners.
The Redsand Sea Towers or Maunsell Forts, after their architect Guy Maunsell, were built during the Second World War to report and deter attack, specifically - to protect important shipping lanes from mines and enemy air strikes. Redsand is the last remaining of six that were built to guard the Mersey and Thames estuaries. Save for a pirate radio station in the 1960’s, these monumental concrete and metal structures gracefully hovering above the sea waters were left unoccupied. Subject to years of blistering weather conditions recent work has rendered them once more safe for public visits. The Forts have recently been declared a heritage site and Hive are collaborating with the charity Project Redsand who are fighting to save them for future generations.
Tours are available during the Whitstable Biennale 19th June - 4th July or the Whitstable Oyster Festival 24 - 30th July.
For further information please download our brochure below
and contact us at tours@t12artspace.com.
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LA RUCHE ARTISTS' STUDIOS
40 new artists’ studios in new artistic development in the heart of Whitechapel:
La Ruche is a large studio and gallery complex that is currently under development by HIVE | T1+2 Gallery in Whitechapel, east London. Opening in May 2010, we are currently developing the site, which will incorporate several galleries and exhibition spaces, a canteen and a research library, as well as up to 40 studio spaces.
T1+2 Gallery has been running for 7 years as an artist led non-profit organisation, and was relaunched in 2009 as HIVE Projects, working in a number of sites across London. La Ruche is being formed with the objective of providing affordable studios for artists in a centre that offers a supportive network to develop artistic practices, and fosters creative engagement through a research library and workshops, talks and events. The canteen will place emphasis on healthy food and an overall sense of community through eating.
The studios will be developed to the requirements of the artists who will be renting them. Accordingly, we would like to rent the spaces to artists who feel they can invest in the community of La Ruche, and who are committed to their practice and critical engagement with work around them. We will have a committee responsible for running the studio spaces, and once the existing spaces have been filled, we will create a waiting list for further available spaces that will be offered to artists whose work fits and is compatible with other artists and the community of La Ruche.
Additional benefits to La Ruche membership will include open studios, and opportunities to be selected for international exchanges and residencies. The studios are conveniently located 1 minute from Aldgate East station by Whitechapel Gallery.
The proposed cost of studio space is £10.00 per sq ft per year*. The building will have 24 hour access, CCTV and 24h on site security. This is fully inclusive of business rates and insurance, with additional service and electricity charges. Therefore a studio of 300sq ft will be £3,000 a year, or approximately £250 per month.
*This price is subject to change dependent on negotiations over business rates and utilities.
Following a successful application for a space in La Ruche we will require a deposit of one month’s rent.
In order to express an interest in a studio, please download and complete the application form below as a pdf or Word doc:
Please send the completed form by e-mail to: t12gallery@googlemail.com
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Artist in Residence and Tea Ceremony
We introduce new artist in residence Marcin Dudek, and Timothy d’Offay celebrates a hybrid tea ceremony with T1+2 Gallery | HIVE director, Lisa K Samoto. Booking essential.
Date: Thursday 25th March 2010
Time: 7-9pm
Location: 276 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1BB
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Private View: Andrew Ranville – Roots Radical
This exhibition forms the culmination of Andrew Ranville’s artist residency in our east London space. Visit his weblog www.andrewranville.com/hive for details.
Date: Saturday 20th March 2010
Time: 7-10pm
Location: 8-10 Greatorex Street, London E1 5NF
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Private View: Macha Poynder – Lemon Geisha Conversation
Mariana Haseldine Projects and T1+2 Gallery | HIVE are pleased to present an exhibition of selected works by Russian-born Paris-based painter Macha Poynder.
Date: Monday 15th March 2010
Time: 7-9pm
Location: 276 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1BB
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Guided tour: T1+2 Gallery | HIVE Euston
A final chance to join a specially guided tour of 194 Euston Road | 1 Melton Street opposite the Wellcome Trust by T1+2 | HIVE director Lisa K Samoto. Built in 1906 and completed late the late 20's it is a magnificent building of Portland stone, Grecian in style and spanning seven floors built by Arthur Beresford Pite, a significant architect of his time. The tour will also include a 15 min tour through Wolfe von Lenkiewicz' studio and a visit to the HIVE workshop. Booking essential.
Date: Saturday 13th March 2010
Time: 2-3pm
Location: 194 Euston Road | 1 Melton Street, London NW1 2DA
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Closing Event: Sarah Rapson – The Buddhist Trader
Last opportunity to see Rapson’s first solo London show since 1984 at our new gallery space in Victoria.
Date: Wednesday 10th March 2010
Time: 7-9pm
Location: 276 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1BB
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I.W. + 1
HIVE Projects | T1+2 Gallery is proud to introduce the second installment of the Idle Women exhibition opening on Valentines Day. The artists in residence at Greatorex Street have each invited an artist whose work has a dialogue with their own to exhibit alongside.
Date: Sunday 14th Feb 2010
Time: 5.30 - 8.30pm
Location: 8-10 Greatorex St, Whitechapel, E1 5NF
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Idle Women and Antonia Clare Grant in Conversation
Date: Sunday 30th January 2010
Time: 4pm
Location: 8-10 Greatorex St, Whitechapel, E1 5NF
Phillida Cheetham will be leading the artists from the current HIVE Projects exhibition Idle Women and artist in residence Antonia Clare Grant in a discussion on their works.
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HIVE PROJECTS | T1+2 Gallery presents ‘Bon’, by Denise Palma Ferrante
Date: Thursday 26th November 2009
Time: 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Location: 8-10 Greatorex St, Whitechapel, E1 5NF
Denise Palma Ferrante’s ‘Bon’ is a one-off live vocal performance from an international group of performers. It will take place in The HIVE’s warehouse space in Greatorex Street on the evening of Wednesday 26 November. The exhibition will be open from 7-9pm, with the performance taking place at 8pm.
The piece forms a part of the longer running interrogation of social conformity and indoctrination found in Ferrante’s work. In this one-off performance the artist explores the ability of language to create forms of entrapment, and also to create non-functional forms of existence. The piece explores the development of sound into expression and language.
Denise Palma Ferrante is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Berlin. Her work stretches between photography, sculpture, film, performance and gastronomical invention. Besides her solo-work she is part of the Basso collective who are in residence at the Waterloo Sunset Pavilion, the Hayward Gallery from 27-29 of November.
ROOMS WITHOUT WALLS:
SILBERKUPPE AT THE HAYWARD GALLERY PROJECT SPACE
25 NOVEMBER – 17 JANUARY
Please visit the Southbank Centre website for more information.
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Date: Wednesday 25th November 2009
Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Location: Northbank
HIVE PROJECTS | T1+2 Gallery presents Los Fundamentos, the third part of Javier Rodriguez’s three-month residency at The HIVE, and Anja Henckel’s Perspektivenweschsel | Change of Perspective.
Inhabit calls attention to the life of one urban site – St Paul’s Walk, an underpass on the North Bank of the Thames. Slated for regeneration - considered unused and lifeless - it provides shelter for homeless persons, illegal immigrants and refugees of all descriptions. The temporary artworks commissioned by HIVE assert the life of this non-place, engaging with the conditions of marginal existence.
Javier Rodriguez's intervention Los Fundamentos will take the form of a built structure or shelter made from wooden pallets. In addition, the walls and columns of the North Bank underpass will be pasted with the poster, which gives the installation its name. Its image, taken from a fascist military manual is a didactic graphic illustration of the effects of ill hygiene and human vices. This attack on 'degeneracy' will exist in suggestive conjunction with the structural piece, asserting a relationship between narratives of urban regeneration and social exclusion.
Anja Henckel's Perspektivenwechsel | Change of Perspective reflects upon the tension between opposing functions of the North Bank site; sanctuary and hardship. Her piece comprises two interrelated elements, cardboard carpet-islands reflect upon the isolation, arrivals and inadequate comforts of the place, whilst a womb-like shelter of soft-furnishings brings into relief the very fabric of comfort and home.
This will be the second in a series of interventions that HIVE is staging on this site as part of an ongoing dialogue with the urban landscape and City of London Corporation. It marks the location's final week as a 'public space' before a semi permeable wall is put in place as part of a five year regeneration strategy which will significantly change the status of the space. The term urban 'regeneration' carries undertones of resurrection. That is to say, it purports to bring 'life' back to an area. But who diagnoses its absence? To paraphrase Mark Twain - Have reports of its abscondment been greatly exaggerated? HIVE’s innovative artistic education programme will continue to engage with the site as it moves towards regeneration with a series of exhibitions and events scheduled to occur throughout 2010.
Inhabit will take place from 6-9pm on Wednesday the 25th of November. As part of this intervention there will also be a soup kitchen, staffed by HIVE workers and students from the nearby Courtauld Institute of Art.
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Date: Monday 19th October 2009
Time: 5.30pm - 8.00pm
Location: The Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art
Who Decides the Value of Contemporary Art? -A panel discussion, Q-Art London in collaboration with LCACE.
Chaired by Julian Stallabras.
Panellists include: Patricia Bickers (Editor Art Monthly). Jane Lee (Head of Fine Art Central St. Martins), Lisa K. Samoto and Wolfe Lenkiewicz (Director and artist/ founder of T1+2 Gallery), Kirsty Ogg (Curator, Whitechapel), Sarah Rowles (Q-Art London) and Sophie Hope (artist) Anne-Sophie Dinant (Curator, South London Gallery). Event co-ordinator Evelyn Wilson, LCACE.
This panel discussion will focus on how contemporary art is valued and by whom.
In doing so, it will examine how different parts of the art world (e.g. independent and publicly funded galleries, museums, critics, collectors, academics and artists themselves) set about creating the value of contemporary art and how indeed 'value' itself is defined by different stakeholders? It will also explore the nature of the connections that exist between different parts of the art world and what influence, if any, individuals and institutions have upon each other. It will also take a critical look at the ways in which global issues impact on what is valued, by whom and why.
The discussion is part of an ongoing process initiated by Sarah Rowles, founder of Q-Art London who, last year, decided to undertake research to unpick the art world and get to grips with it as part of her BA Art Practice at Goldsmiths. This research has resulted in her writing and publishing '12 Gallerists:20 Questions, a fascinating and revealing set of interviews with twelve London-based independent gallerists. The publication is now selling in Tate Modern and the ICA. Her work also led her to establish the Q-Art London network which, in the year since its inception, has established and run convenors for emerging artists at all the capital's arts schools.
For further details, please see http://www.lcace.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>events/index.php?event=109
