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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
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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FLOW
An exploration of how it may be possible using sound to transpose and overlay the experience of one place onto another. 3pm-6pm 6th – 8th January 2017 Sound installation artists Timothy Crowley and Kate Ogley collaborate on a 3-day residency. They will be creating a series of sound installation from recordings taken along the river Danube in Slovakia. The residency will investigate how these two realms interact and how one transforms the experience of the other.
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NEGOTIATION BETWEEN MADNESS AND SANITY- Crypt Residency 2017
Negotiation between Madness and Sanity, by Zeynep Dagli A collective experiment unleashing the most primitive and urgent. If there’s one expression at once liberating and annihilating in the face of shock and pain, fear and surprise it must be the scream. Can it be said that a scream is an attempt for a negotiation between what we call madness and sanity? Remember the image of Augustine from Charcot’s iconic photography of hysteria patients in 1878 in Salpêtrière women’s hospital in…
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MINOTAUR MAZE
Enter the world of the Minotaur in this site responsive interactive installation that takes you on a minor tour through a maze of mythic resurrections and fantastical treasures. Combining performance, painting, video and the unexpected prepare to venture into the unknown. No one person’s odyssey through this maze will be the same. Participating Artists include: Amy Cochrane Bella Lordwarf Bianca Beckles Rose Boudicca Collins Can Sayinli & Jørgen E Ekvoll Catherine Scutts Drew Forrest Hoad Emily Morey Eugenie Rose Abbott…
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Artists Residency 2018: Luis Elvira
14-18 February 2018 Open daily 11-6pm As a migrant artist space is often a problem and in addition a subject of reflection. When I moved to London I used to walk through the streets trying to find a solution for my big paintings. Then I realized that this city is a city of migrants, movement and constant change. People move constantly leaving behind their trace but also their belongings…. Those objects as doors, furniture, domestic appliances are not only a…
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The Crypt Residency 2018: Loosing, Seeking and Finding
25 February – 1 March 2018 Open 1-4pm daily Nettie Edwards: Loosing, Seeking and Finding Over the last 20 years, I’ve been researching the lives of a family of artists who lived in the Parish of St. Pancras during the 18th and 19th centuries. For the duration of my residency, I’ll bring some of their stories to the Crypt: utilising photography, video and sound to discover lost or hidden narratives. I have invited musician and sound artist Matt Brock to…
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