Landfill inspires Isabel Fletcher’s Offcut Two exhibition
Brixton designer Isabel Fletcher’s new exhibition Downstairs at The Department Store on Ferndale features clothing, textile-installation, dance and film inspired by a Thames Estuary...
Squire’s Winter Windows wins international award
Squire & Partners and eight children from Hill Mead Primary picked up an international design award on Thursday 20 February, at the Frame Awards in Amsterdam.
The...
Portraits of Brixton by Adrian Coleman
Brixton is a busy place – full of people, noise and activity. But local artist Adrian Coleman has found an extraordinary stillness and calm...
Journeys through time in Dulwich Picture Gallery
“Art can teach us about ourselves and the world.”
So said Jennifer Scott, director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, as she launched its new exhibition Journeys.
This...
SIXTEEN in Photofusion
The new exhibition at Photofusion is a show of many parts. The starting point is SIXTEEN, a touring photographic project using images and the...
Black Men’s Minds – a moving testament
Brixton based artist, filmmaker and psychotherapist Stephen Rudder talks to Brixton Blog at the end of his exhibition Black Men’s Minds at Brixton's Black...
Electric Avenue to become first patterned street
Electric Avenue could be Britain’s first patterned market street after Lambeth council and the Brixton Project – a successor to the Brixton Design trail...
Brixton library presents collage as cutting edge
Brixton’s Tate Library will host an exhibition of collages throughout January. Leslie Manasseh met the curator Sam Dodson to talk about the medium and...
In and out of body at Block 336
Block 336 is currently hosting two exhibitions – Pup and Blubber by Hazel Drill, and Nervous Systems by Teresita Dennis.
Nervous Systems is a series...
Squire’s winter windows in shortlist for international award
Squire & Partners Winter Windows installation created last year in collaboration with Hill Mead Primary school children has been shortlisted for an international design...
Coldharbour virtual reality project xmas crowdfunder
The Independent Film Trust is raising money to take the Coldharbour VR Project to local schools, youth centres, and to submit it to international film festivals....
Afro-Caribbean feminine culture
The Azawala Cafe Gallery at 55 Loughborough Road presents a debut exhibition by London-based Karen Alleyne, aka Oya Arts – The Deliverance of Womban:...
Embodiment of courage
Linett Kamala, the artist in residence at Lambeth town hall in Brixton this autumn has created “live art” in conversation with council staff, visitors,...
198 announces Womxn of Colour award
Brixton-based 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning has announced a new Womxn of Colour Art Award.
Mattie Loyce, curator and artistic programme manager said: “This new...
Lambeth artists open their doors
Artists and makers across Lambeth will open their studios, work spaces and homes to the public on Saturday and Sunday 5 and 6 October...
Story of a struggle to succeed as an artist
Djofray Makumbu’s story is about a struggle against the odds – how one young man’s talent, determination and hard work brought him artistic success.
This...
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New Ovalhouse director to oversee move to Brixton House
From the spring of next year Brixton will be home to a major new centre of the performing arts. Ovalhouse Theatre, with its long...