Artist & Event Highlights released! Hackney WickED Art Festival 2010

Friday 30 July - Sunday 1 August 2010

• Three-day programme full to the brim with art, music, pop up events
• Gavin Turk returns as festival patron in Agile Rabbit show at The Lighthouse Pub
• 624 studios and more artists per capita in Hackney Wick than anywhere else in the world
• Live music stage in Queen’s Yard from 3-11pm all weekend
• Fete for the WickED brings culinary delights, art stalls and market
• Cabaret and comedy at the Peanut Factory Stage by Tax Deductible & The Hive, Fish Island
• Graffiti Jams throughout the Wick… follow us on Twitter
• ‘The Education Team’ working with schools in the community: Teachers V Kids boat races
• Art treasure hunts for kids by Alice James… and we just might allow the adults to join in too
• Harry’s infamous Coracle Regatta on Sunday 1 August 2-6pm at Eton Mission Rowing Club
• Closing party Sunday with carnival procession and burning of the Wicker Man by Adam Beale

Hackney WickED is back and you better get ready! The creative hotspot of East London is preparing to open hidden doorways leading to warehouse live-work studios for a unique chance to explore grassroots art and talent.
Galleries will showcase specially curated exhibitions for the WickED and the plethora of performance artists, photographers, dancers, film-makers, painters, sculptors and musicians will be enticing you to get involved.
Hackney Wicked Art Festival is “the most vital art event of the summer” (NY Arts), and is expanding year on year, so… Come for the art; come for the laughs; come for the minted-pea ice cream… but make sure you do come and experience the best of what the ‘wrong side of the Olympic fence’ has to offer.

Highlight Shows & Events Include:

The Agile Rabbit with Gavin Turk & Co: Extending the ever romanticized legend of artists congregating in bars and cafes, this exhibition brings together the work of artists connected by regular congregations in the Lighthouse Pub.

Queen’s Yard will be the place to shop, dance, eat and rest after traipsing around hundreds of open studios! With Fete for the Wicked and the official Live Music Stage hosting up and coming bands over the weekend.

The Peanut Factory Stage: 12-5 live theatre, cabaret and comedy, including performances by Hackney Wick’s resident Tax Deductible theatre company, and ‘The Hive’, followed by 5pm- 10pm live music and DJs.

Art Feelers specially curated tours of Hackney WickED… feeling a bit lost and want an insider’s helping hand? Join a specialist art tour to guide you around the labyrinth of galleries and studios on Friday.

Graffiti Jams, brought to you by ONITDesign.com, in the yard of 92 White Post Lane where artists will be painting in the famous Hackney Wick “Hall of Fame’.

Gadjes Collective presents Hackney Wikipedia celebrating the Wick, focusing on random and dispersed historical facts upon which it was founded and developed, from Charlotte Kaye’s Edwardian Hackney Wick chair to Uli Blanchets’s manipulated street signs.

Oriana Fox ‘No Pain Bo Gain’ and ‘Penny Social’ workshops: Oriana will lead a wellbeing workshop to help participants get in touch with their inner child and begin savouring each and every precious moment of life.

The Beard Gallery presents Hackney Wicked’s first ever Church Fete Fundraiser: CAUSE ‘the hole in the roof’! An interactive installation where contemporary art meets folk culture. Don’t miss Pimms o’clock; the Watercolour challenge; Jam judging and Raffles.

Anna Rondina And now!-YOGA presents Mindfulness through Stillness, a mutating installation of still body forms.

The Scottish Weirdo’s collaborate with Cosmic Megabrain to produce a SIT DOWN AFFAIR involving a dinner-based
performance and video art. Watch out for Flash Mobs with Punk Choir aka the Hackney Secular Singers.

On Sunday, The 5th Annual Hackney Wick Coracle Regatta: Head down to the banks of the River Lea to take part.
The closing ceremony will then see the Burning of the Wicker Man and a surprise to end this year’s festival.

Galleries:

Elevator Gallery The Tomorrow People: artists of the future now At Elevator Gallery showcasing a handpicked selection of the best work from emerging artists across the nation.

Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery “I see myself there, where I am not”, brings together the work of 10 artists who examine the various ways art is used as a heteropological accessory, a mode realised by the gaze of the viewer.

Maryland Studios The 11 diverse artists of Maryland Studios will open their studio doors to you, giving you the opportunity to explore and discuss paintings-in-progress, finished work, drawings and models.

Schwartz Gallery presents the work of Doug Burton showing a new body of work, ‘Continuum’ consists of a wax sculpture installation, computer-generated animation and a large-scale 3D stereoscopic floor installation.

Stour Space is proud to present an exhibition featuring residents of the space, plus a Corner Carnival Designers Market with beer garden and barbeque with live art!

The View Tube is built from bright green shipping containers on the Greenway, presenting new works by local designers, painters and 3D sculpture makers. You can also grab a snack at the industrial chic Container Cafe.

Artists Include:

Abigail Thomas; Adam Beale; Adam Dewhirst & Nadine Mahoney; Anna Rondina; Bernard Rangel; Caroline Styles; Celina Teague Roundabouts; Deviant comics; The Die Mortal; Gosia Prokop; Jonathon Nixon; Jacobo Natoli; Jaime Valtierra aka Marlon Random; Jenny Beardshall; Jessica Piddock ; Josie Faure Walker; Kate Baden Fuller; Kirsty Dixon; Late at… Hackney WickED; Lucie Winterson; Luke Hart; Mark Bayley Institute of Light; Mia Gulati & The Found Art Society; Olly Holland Sarah; Oriana Fox; OTHER DESIGNERS Marc Trotereau & Pierric Verger; Robert Cary-Williams; Rosie Emerson; Ruth Calland; Sam Scott-Hunter ; Seb Sussman Double Negative Darkroom ; Simona Dellagi; Stage Factory; Barend Furniture & Art and many more….

For full events listings and artist/studio websites please refer to hackneywicked.com
Getting there: Hackney Wick Overground station and Buses 388, 26, N26, 30, 8, 276

Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light is the first monographic exhibition of paintings by Christen Købke (1810-1848) to be shown outside Denmark. Købke is the greatest of the Danish Golden Age painters, yet he is still insufficiently known outside his native country. This exhibition will introduce one of the most remarkable European artists of the nineteenth century to British audiences.

This show comprises 48 of Købke’s most beautiful and distinguished works spanning a variety of genres: landscape, topography, portraiture and his charming depictions of national monuments. They present some of the most innovative aspects of his work - including outdoor sketching, his fascination with painterly immediacy, and his unique treatment of light and atmosphere.
Scenes include those of his home town, Copenhagen (The Northern Drawbridge to the Citadel in Copenhagen, 1837,National Gallery, London); portraits of many of his family and closest friends (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, Cecilia Margrete Købke, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh); portraits of fellow artists (Portrait of the Landscape Painter Frederik Sødring, 1832, The Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen) and of Danish national monuments (Frederiksborg Castle View Near the Møntbro Bridge, 1835, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen).

Denmark’s ‘Golden Age‘ - the term used to describe the amazing diversity of intellectual, scientific and cultural achievements of the first half of the 19th century - was nevertheless a time of social inequality and economic collapse as the nation was declared bankrupt in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars. Yet Denmark recovered with remarkable swiftness and creative endeavour to produce in its art defining images of a peaceful, innocent, ordered society. Painters such as Købke reflected this renewal of national pride, depicting their lives and reflecting their surroundings through their art. Købke’s work demonstrates his ability to endow ordinary people, places and simple motifs with a universal significance, creating a world in microcosm for the viewer (Cigar Seller at the Northern Exit from the Citadel, Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Købke never strayed far from his home city. He left Denmark for only one brief period between 1838 and 1840, reluctantly making the obligatory artists’ pilgrimage to Italy and painting scenes such as Castel dell’Uovo in Naples, (1838, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen). He found his inspiration more readily in Copenhagen painting his immediate surroundings, almost all of which were within the fortified walls of the Danish capital (View from Citadel Ramparts Towards Langelinie and the Naval Harbour, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen). The ‘Golden Age’ has become known as ‘the age of Købke’ and his precise and clear-cut manner, sharp focus and pristine light are now synonymous with our image of this era.

Michael Clarke, Director of the National Gallery of Scotland said: ‘Købke is a really wonderful artist, but until now he has remained a well-kept secret as far as the British public is concerned. We have had tremendous support from the Danish museums, who are lending very generously to this show. We, and our partners at the London National Gallery, are the only British galleries who already own works by Købke so it is very fitting that we should collaborate on this project.’

Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light is organised with the National Gallery in London (17 March - 13 June 2010). It is curated by Professor David Jackson of the University of Leeds. His research has been generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

NATIONAL GALLERY COMPLEX
How to go: The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
Telephone 0131 624 6200
www.nationalgalleries.org
Admission £7 (£5 concessions)
From 4 July to 3 October 2010