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Ode To Eros
Ode to Eros Maria Gaitanidi Part of The Crypt Residency 2016 The Crypt Residency is an annual project where the gallery is opened up to a selection of artists to create site specific work, generate ideas and respond to the space. Maria Gaitanidi is a performer and theatre director currently working on Manon Lescaut, a French novel of the 18th Century. Maria will develop a short choreography working with a ballerina, mixing structures from classical ballet with acapella singing in Italian, French…
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Truth Immaterial- Crypt Residency 2016
Truth immaterial 21 – 24 April Open: 13:00-17:00 daily Early evening event: Performance lecture, Let the light in… on Saturday 23rd April 18:00-19:00. A performance lecture presented at the opening of These Thoughts Form Between Us, NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Northampton, UK. The work explored the ideas and theories presented within Sirius Returns by the enigmatic author KH. The text combines a range of spiritual, pseudo-scientific and esoteric propositions into a system of belief often difficult to decode, yet distinctly subjective…
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Fallout
Crypt Residency 2016 William Lindley 3-5 May Open daily: 3-6pm Late opening 4th May until 7.30pm ‘I am thinking of all three days being a combination of research, making and display. Many of my projects are site specific, with the working process and outcomes emerging from getting to know the site. I will use the Crypt spaces as an archival resource, studio space and exhibition venue over the course of the week. I envisage that I will create works in…
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Dennison and Doy in residence at the Crypt Gallery
6-11 May Visitors are welcome any day between 2.30 and 4.30pm except for Sunday 8th May. Private View: 11 May 6.30-7.30pm with a live performance at approximately 6.50pm. Crypt Residency 2016 Lynn Dennison and Gen Doy will be artists in residence at the Crypt Gallery from 6th-11th May, installing works made with the assistance of an a-n new collaborations bursary and experimenting with new work including a specially created site-responsive performance.
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Collaborative Movements- Crypt Residency 2016
Rowena Boshier Open daily: 2pm – 6pm The crypt’s cavernous architectural confines will be the setting for Rowena and collaborators to make sight specific work. The space will be explored by the making of drawings and seeing how the lines on the page transfer into physical movements, becoming dance. The residency is an open process and welcomes viewers to come and inhabit the space while the artist is present.
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Crypt Residency 2016- Rowena Boshier
5-15 July The crypt’s cavernous architectural confines will be the setting for Rowena and collaborators to make sight specific work. The space will be explored by the making of drawings and seeing how the lines on the page transfer into physical movements, becoming dance. The residency is an open process and welcomes viewers to come and inhabit the space while the artist is present. Open daily: 2pm – 6pm.
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Crypt Residency 2016- Ismene King
14-21 July Open: 11-7pm with the exception of Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 July Ismene is a London-based artist from Athens, currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Arts. Her current work revolves around the visceral/mortal and is oftern inspired by aspects and imagery of ritual and exploration of new materials. During the residency, she aims to create a series of objects observing and responding to the architecture and atmosphere of the space. ‘ More about Ismene
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Crypt Residency 2016
10-16 October Opening times: 2-5pm daily Katarina Rankovic An MA student of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, I am a London-based artist working in jealous drawings, a one-woman empathy circus, a novel about a ‘lethargic line’ and fake Youtube tutorials. Above all, I am concerned with wriggling into my own work and wearing it like a second skin. I am interested in creating a performative reworking of my novel in the Crypt, which may be briefly characterised as a combination of Abott’s…
Find out moreCRYPT RESIDENCY DECEMBER 2016
For our final residency of 2016 we have 6 very different artists working in the Gallery to create work in response to its evocative spaces and history. Annie Ho Cooper My work borders between remembering and forgetting, the visible and the invisible, and the known and the unknown. As a fine artist, I have a deep interest in memory and identity issues. My work continues to ask questions about the ongoing relationships between individual memory and collective memory,…
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