Unearthed : Carpenters Road Artists

These are the paintings I am showing at the 'Unearthed' exhibition and archive, currently on show at Warton House, Stratford, London E15 until 11th September. Two painting I made at Acme's Carpenters Road studios in 1996 (acrylic and watercolour on paper) - fifteen years ago! Can it really be fifteen years?

For further details about the show, please see my previous post. There's a wonderful group of artists exhibiting in this pop-up space and the work is beautifully presented. Not to be missed!

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Artists participating in Unearthed:

Simon ENGLISH, Inger Lise HANSON, Andrew STAHL, Ailsa PARRY, Shirley WHEELER, Mark de PANNE, Stella WHALLEY, Annelise MEIJEN, Tomoya YAMAGUCHI, Julie GREENSLADE, John HOOPER, Robert WORLEY, Catherine PURVES, Jordan BASEMAN, Julie UMERLE, Justin BAILEY, Andrew SMITH, Simon SENNGER, David OATES, Fiona RAE, Kate DAVIS, Susie HAMILTON, Andre WALLACE, Emma WILLIAMS, John PLOWMAN, Ines AMADO, Patricia BARKER, Abu JAFAR, Antoni MALINOWSKI, Mike WINDLE, Jim LATTER, Kai McCALL, Paul ROSENBLOOM, Jacqueline PENNEL, Sue KENNINGTON, Jonathan WALLER, Madelena COELHO, Louise CATTRELL, Joan GABIE, David JOHNSON, Neville GABIE, James DIXON and Stuart WATSON, Anji ARCHER, Judy CLARK, Geoff STAINTHORPE, Kay BAINBRIDGE, Ruth CALLAND, Andre JAGER, Madeline STROBEL, Graham SEATON, Roger KITE, Roz MORTIMER, Robert WELCH

UNEARTHED

UNEARTHED is a new project by Neville Gabie, the Olympic Delivery Authority’s Artist in Residence on the Olympic Park.

UNEARTHED seeks to reveal the cultural history of the Carpenters Road artists' studios in the former Yardley’s perfume factory, which now rests underneath the Aquatics Centre. These studios were managed by Acme and home to 500 artists. From 1985 - 2001, Carpenters Road housed the largest artists' studio building in Europe, with 140 studios on site. Since then the area has been transformed into the London 2012 Olympic Park.

UNEARTHED will be presented as an archive at Warton House, 150 Stratford High Street, London E15, from 3 - 11 September 2011, 10am - 4pm daily. 68 artists who previously had studios at Carpenters Road will be contributing to the exhibition, curated by Neville Gabie and Galit Mana.

Using notebooks, memories, photographic records, film and video installations, sculpture and painting, the work documents the influence of this unique juncture in the history of the East End of London and celebrates the artistic contribution of Acme Studios' Carpenters Road site.

Website: http://www.unearthedproject.org/

A collaboration between InSite Arts. Acme Studios, archaeologist James Dixon, and many of the artists, UNEARTHED is hosted by Ardmore Construction at Warton House, Yardley's former offices in Stratford High Street.