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Join an artist and lecturer to explore a painting in two different ways. First, listen to a short talk, then make your own response by making a drawing with the materials provided. Discover the collection from a new direction. Learn more about a painting and explore your creative side while developing new skills.   [more]

Artist Tracey Moberly’s Tweet Me Up! will use social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram along with SMS and MMS to invite audiences to participate in creating evolving digital exhibitions of photography, art and action. The works, photos and statements will also be projected within the Tanks. Tracey Moberly discusses her work in our Artist Talks on Friday 24 August., 3-4 PM   [more]

For the duration of the Olympics, ISYS Archive will take to the streets of London to film young people. They’ll be working alongside NTS Radio, who’ll be curating a programme of music for the night from their network of musicians and collaborators. The result will be a modern day ‘City Symphony’, tracing a day in the life of London through sounds and musical samples from artists, singers, po...   [more]

In 2010, New York’s Museum of Modern Art presented a Marina Abramović retrospective, famously featuring the uncompromising Yugoslavia-born performance artist herself in situ, impassively facing down a stream of museum-goers brave enough to sit across a table from her. Using the MoMA show as a springboard, Matthew Akers’ film is a fascinating depiction of a career spanning almost forty years,...   [more]

Photographer Laura Braun leads a one-day introductory workshop on how to take portrait photographs in natural light, around Soho and at the Gallery. Participants will learn new photographic techniques and tools for making portraits using their own digital cameras (preferably SLR). Itinerary 10.00 – 12.00Introduction to  location portrait photography, looking at: - How photogr...   [more]

Photo historian Jelena Stojkovic leads a tour of the  Contemporary Japanese Photobooks exhibition.   [more]

A chance to meet the 2012 Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary artist, Simon Raven, to discuss his work and plans for the residency.   [more]

New York documentarian Alison Klayman was granted exclusive access to groundbreaking artist and activist Ai Weiwei, from 2008 through to his arrest and detention by Chinese authorities in 2011. Providing a fascinating overview of Weiwei’s life and work, as well as a revealing insight into the state of contemporary dissent in mainland China, Never Sorry is politically charged, revelatory documen...   [more]

In 2010, New York’s Museum of Modern Art presented a Marina Abramović retrospective, famously featuring the uncompromising Yugoslavia-born performance artist herself in situ, impassively facing down a stream of museum-goers brave enough to sit across a table from her. Using the MoMA show as a springboard, Matthew Akers’ film is a fascinating depiction of a career spanning almost forty years, an...   [more]

Widely admired for his prolific and varied design work, ranging from architecture to his celebrated chairs, American designer Charles Eames had a profound influence on industrial design in the 20th century. This striking documentary takes a detailed look at Eames, whilst also acknowledging the far-reaching impact his artist wife Ray had on his life and work. Drawing on a wealth of archive material a...   [more]

90-minute lecture followed by 30-minute group discussion   Moving beyond the 'blurred identity trilogy', the second of the PROJECTIONS lectures examines the artistic implications of David Lynch's inimitable style, which marks the shared space between the investigative 'desire to know' in psychoanalysis, and the provocative 'knowledge subversion' in surrealism. This anarchic process emerges from th...   [more]

New York documentarian Alison Klayman was granted exclusive access to groundbreaking artist and activist Ai Weiwei, from 2008 through to his arrest and detention by Chinese authorities in 2011. Providing a fascinating overview of Weiwei’s life and work, as well as a revealing insight into the state of contemporary dissent in mainland China, Never Sorry is politically charged, revelatory docum...   [more]

Widely admired for his prolific and varied design work, ranging from architecture to his celebrated chairs, American designer Charles Eames had a profound influence on industrial design in the 20th century. This striking documentary takes a detailed look at Eames, whilst also acknowledging the far-reaching impact his artist wife Ray had on his life and work. Drawing on a wealth of archive material a...   [more]