Due to major road works taking place right by Red Gate Gallery lasting until the 28th of March, all buses stopping opposite Red Gate Gallery have been diverted.

The best way to get to Red Gate Gallery from Brixton Tube is to take the P4 or 545 bus opposite the Tube station right by the Santander Bank (formerly known as Abbey National).

The stop you want is The Shakespeare Road stop, then cross the street and head direction Camberwell. Then you are only 3 minutes away from the gallery.

The best bet coming from the North of London to take Thames Link: West Hamstead, Kings Cross St Pancras, Farringdon, City Thames Link, Blackfriars, Elephant & Castle and Loughborough Junction. From the South: serving Wimbledon or Sutton, Tooting, Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction.

I have included a street map link for you.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=209a+Coldharbour+Lane+London+SW9+8RU&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=51.466066,-0.102611&spn=0.002674,0.005794&z=17&source=embed

If you have further queries please call: 020 73260993

We hope that this does not stop you coming to our fab opening nights.

Private View: Friday 5th of March 2010 - 6 pm to 11 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 5th – Thursday 11th of March 2010
Gallery Opening Hours: Mon - Fri: 11am to 6.30 pm - Sat: 12.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thursday 11th of March: 11.00 am to 5.00 pm

Themes and Variations’ is a group exhibition of works by Errol Linton, Dom Hanley, Justin Hindley and Maggie Winnall.

Errol Linton’s work transports the spectator immediately into a world of hustle and bustle filled with music, and voices, melting them into an explosion of colour, pattern and form. Some of Linton’s previous works take simple scenes to the extreme with magnified voices, shadowy figures and prying eyes. Bold in colour and brush stroke, Linton’s paintings at first remind the viewer of fauvism and surrealism yet they are very idiosyncratic in style and denote of the artist’s unique power of imagination and strength of expression. Brixton born, Errol starts from a small simple sketch, developing the composition from memory and imagination.

Maggie Winnall draws her textile inspiration from original art quilters such as the women from Gees Bend Alabama and other contemporary quilting practices from the US and Europe. Her favourite influences include Nancy Crow, Lisa Call, Eleanor McCain, and Pamela Allen. Drawing from these women Maggie uses recycled cloth, textures and lines to create colourful abstract art through her quilts. She combines her traditional influences with her contemporary vision.

Justin Hindley has had a growing fascination with nature and woodwork since he became a carpenter and furniture maker. He explores his love of nature through the wood material with its endless, varied, and fascinating material, its colour, texture and grain of the knots combining to create a unique beauty for each piece. Within this world of wood, images magically emerge. He uses the wood to explore its practical and creative potential.

Dom Hanley is showing his art as part of a creative reawakening after being dormant for many years. His work tries to embrace a variety of approaches; both abstract and figurative. Dom feels he is on a new journey, always discovering more about art; having said, “It’s like learning a new language, there is always more to learn (2009).”

For further info on Errol Linton’s music go to http://www.myspace.com/errollinton

Private View: Friday 26th of February 2010 - 6 pm to 11 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 26th of February 2010 – Saturday 27th February 2010
Gallery Opening Hours: Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat: 12.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Saturday 27th of February: 12.30am to 6.00pm

Club Tropical is a new and undiscovered collective of eight young London-based photographers. 

Red Gate Gallery is proud to present the first exhibition for this collective, showcasing new and eclectic photography by emerging artists and presenting and exciting opportunity to celebrate the launch of a potentially leading London photography group.

This exhibition focuses on how each individual artist perceives their surroundings through capturing images. Themes such as portraiture, landscape and documentary are explored throughout the collection of work.

Club Tropical is a great example to other young aspiring artists, showing them that there are no boundaries in the art industry. Anyone can showcase their own work with determination and direction and that is what this new group has done. Going against the conventional east London art scene, Club Tropical presents an innovative yet realistic approach to today’s art society.

An exhibition of photographs by Martin Edwards and dance by Sibylle Kockjeu.

Private View: Friday 19th of February 2010 - 6 pm to 11 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 19th of February 2010 – Thursday 25th February 2010
Gallery Opening Hours: Mon -  Fri: 11.00 am - 6.30 pm -  Sat: 12.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thursday 25th of February: 11.00am to 5.00pm

Carnivals form part of popular culture across the world, from the Nottingham Carnival of London, to carnivals in Brazil, Venice and China. They have featured in many films and literary works, and create powerful images of seduction, eroticism and mystery.

The exhibition “Carnival” explores the theme of carnival through works by Martin Edwards and dance by Sibylle Kockjeu. Photographs from “Carnival” were premiered in New York in November 2009 and follow two solo exhibitions held by Martin Edwards in London, also held at the Red Gate Gallery, during 2009. Martin has worked with dancers and period carnival costumes to create evocative and original photographic works that explore the concept of carnival in detail. The photographs focus on a story of seduction and flirtation between three dancers, dressed in costume for a carnival in 18th-century Venice.

Sibylle Kockjeu will be performing new dance work inspired by the theme of Carnival. Sibylle is a professional dancer, choreographer and teacher based in London and Germany. From 2006 to 2008 she was Art Director for the dance company Belacqua in Germany and has recently worked with celebrities including Cheryl Cole. Sibylle features in many of Martin’s carnival photographs on display in the exhibition.

The exhibition pushes traditional still photography and performance to their limits, in a rapidly changing world where multimedia and video are profoundly changing the world of lens-based arts. “A man and a woman dancing in a carnival mask is an ambiguous and haunting image. Their faces are hidden but their disguises offer glimpses of seduction and eroticism at play. We have tried to capture their mystery and excitement in the project,” say photographer Martin Edwards and dancer Sibylle Kockjeu.

For further info: www.formcolourandscale.com

A selection of recent works by Melanie “Shay” LaRocque

Private View: Saturday 13th February 2010 - 5pm to 10pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 12th February to Thursday 18th of February 2010
Gallery Opening Hours: Mon - Fri: 11am - 6.30 pm - Sat: 12.30pm – 5pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thurs 18th February: 11.00 am to 5.00 pm

“Citrus are composed of various fruits joined to form an apparently simple fruit.”

- pg.346, Healthy Foods by George D. Pamplona-Roger, MD

In the same way that a citrus fruit is a collection of smaller fruits storing a cocktail of nutrients, a simple painting can harbour a rich narrative. This is the basis of LaRocque’s second exhibition; to display a selection of works that are distinctly feminine in tone, Afro-Caribbean in perspective, yet universal in spirit.

Her paintings are long stories made short, conveying the action and the moral. They are “ordinarily exotic” scenes from her everyday life that are often viewed with curiosity by those outside of her cultural community. They focus on the serious, humorous, fickle and conscientious. They draw the viewer into the moment, inviting them to participate in the experience or relate to the sentiment, then walk away with a new topic of conversation.

Melanie “Shay” LaRocque was born and raised in London to Trinidadian parents. She is a self-taught Artist & Designer based in the UK and the Caribbean. You can view her works and read more about her inspirations at the following websites.

Shop: www.shaygon.etsy.com
Blog: www.cariblime.blogspot.com
Flickr album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaygondesigns/

A music performance and art exhibit by artist Giles Hayter

Private View: Friday 5th of February 2010 - 6 pm to 11 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 5th of February 2010 to Wednesday 10th of February 2010
Gallery Open Hours: Fri, Sat: 11 am to 6:30 pm

Creating a multi-sensory experience through his ’Entwined’ exhibition, Giles Hayter accompanies his art exhibit with his own melodic compositions.

The songs, pieces and pictures have been created together, drawing on each other for inspiration. The artist will be playing live in the gallery, among the paintings that the music sets out to describe.

Giles Hayter’s music is full of rhythm, with strong chords and soaring melodies. The base is a blues drive with the flexible harmonies of the piano. The songs are finely crafted with great care, in the search for depth and texture. The piano combines clear left-hand stride rhythm and harmony with complex right-hand syncopations in two, three and five time. The lyrics are colourful and vigorous, with a careful balance struck between the sounds of the words and their meaning.

Giles Hayter’s art is vigorous, dynamic and inventive. Strong colours and shapes mix in layered textures, creating abstract pictures full of rhythm. The paintings employ a variety of tools and techniques - a pendulum, syringes, 3D contours, turntables, flowing liquid, pins, cocktail sticks, CDs, gaffa tape and so on… The purpose of all of these is the generation of movement and mix of colour.

Giles Hayter paints, teaches maths and writes and produces music in London. For more information visit www.gileshayter.com.

Alison Denbow ● Amir Khatib ● Cara Nahaul ● Caroline Bugby ● Charlotte Cranidge ● Claire Wheeler ●Daisy McMullan ● Deborah Nero ● Finn Stone ● Francesco Benenato ● Janet McKay ● Joanna Kay  ● James ● Juan Blanco ● Louise Ashcroft ● Liesel Böckl ● Lynn Todd ● Marcha Garnier ● Nazir Tanbouli ● Nurith Lumer-Klabbers ● Rakhee ● Sally Swingewood ● Shoran Jiang ● Sophie Fishel ● Stuart Alexander ● Tamar Lev-on ● Tari June Goerlitz ● With accompanying London sound-scapes by Aldis aka DJ Error

Private View: Friday 15th January 2010 - 6pm to 11pm
Exhibition runs from: Friday 15th January to Thursday 4th of February 2010
Gallery Opening Hours: Mon - Fri: 11am - 6.30 pm - Sat: 12.30pm – 5pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thurs 4th February: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

London Vox is an exciting new group show of 30 artists living and working in London. Featuring works in a variety of media held at Red Gate Gallery, the exhibition aims to showcase stimulating art by both emerging and established artists.

This exhibition looks at how these artists shape London’s vibrant and flourishing creative scene, celebrating its myths, secrets and identities. In this diverse exhibition, the artists seek to explore the city’s cultural fabric, its eclectic architecture and the collective experience of living in London. London Vox brings together a diverse and exciting range of contemporary art that will provoke and inspire new ideas about the city in which we live.

Unique Arts Bazaar, featuring an eclectic range of independent artists

Opening: Friday 18th of Dec 2009 - 6.30 pm to 1.00 am Exhibition runs from: Friday 18th to Thursday 24th of December 2009 Gallery Opening Hours: Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues, Wed: 11.00 pm - 6.30 pm Last day of Exhibition: Thurs 24th of December: 10.00am to 5.00pm

Searching for unique Christmas presents? Want to escape the crowds, to see captivating art and bag a beautiful gift?

Come and visit the South London Arts Bazaar hosted by Arts en’ all, from Friday 18th - 24th Dec 2009. We are presenting an exhibition with a twist; an Arts Bazaar at agreeable prices.

Showcasing an eclectic range of independent artists, whose work will stimulate the senses and excite your eyes.

Selling large format screen and mono prints, high quality photographic prints and printed canvases, illustrations, street art canvases, hand printed greetings cards, second hand art books and more…

Join us for an evening viewing of diverse and affordable art, set in the beautiful South London ‘Red Gate Gallery’ from 6.30- 1am on Fri 18th Dec. Take it all in at your own pace, to a back drop of music and enjoy a glass of wine, a cocktail or some mulled wine. Support local independent London art this year and buy a future masterpiece before anyone else…

See you there!

Presenting an exhibition with a twist – an Arts Bazaar, featuring an eclectic range of independent artists, whose work will stimulate the senses and excite your eyes.

Arts en’ all brings together 10 artists – championing innovative inspiration and creative expression within a contemporary art market. Arts Bazaar will show a diversity of fine arts, craft and photography with a fresh approach to technique the and use of more familiar traditional mediums. Also selling a range of other unique art works and used art, design and photography books…

Works by Richard Watkins are expressive sketches, commentary and sideways glances at life. Big concepts, sharp turns of phrase, as simplistic and sincere illustration.

Over the past twenty years, William Spring has worked as a cartoonist, artist and illustrator. Achieving a unique style of expressive work, taking the form of collage, pen and ink and digital drawings to produce an honest and direct response to the subject.

Stylized screenprints, lo-fi photography and cyanotype images, by graphic designer Carla Sam. Capturing the essence of interaction, expression and passion – glimpsed in waking moments of everyday life.

Pen and ink illustration, spiritually inspired by nature and the old religion – captivating and ethereal, works by Jenny-Ray Bridgewater are available as beautifully framed prints and greetings cards.

Photography that captures striking, yet intimate observations into the lives of other cultures. Highlighting the unique beauty and richness of the subject matter via composition and colour. Kerry Simmons is a watcher of places, things and people… Here she will show a range of prints from her extensive travels, far and wide.

With a unique approach to minimal expressive illustration, Rob Thom is a filmmaker and visual artist producing big and bold artworks.

Influenced by the crossovers found within music, subcultures and psychedelia. Ashraf Khan produces intricate, mesmerising pieces that draw the viewer in and leave a lasting impression.

Colour, texture and pattern act as an inspirational catalyst for the work of Claire Cooper. She has produced a range of beautiful greetings cards for this show, directly inspired by nature, architecture, environmental colours and texture.

Time stops for no man and this man doesn’t stop for anything when it comes to screen printing… Peer into the creative mind of Sean Wild who is currently studying at the London College of Communication.

Kamran Khan’s street art inspired pieces range from edgy illustration to evocative sensual female portraits. Working within the mediums of pen & ink, spray paint on canvas to customised found objects.

Arts en’ all’s Arts Bazaar will be bringing all of this and more to the Red Gate Gallery in the run up to Christmas.

For more information about this event and the exhibiting artists work, please visit www.artsenall.blogspot.com

An exhibition of works by artist Phillip Harris

Private View:                    Friday 11th of December 2009 - 6 pm to 11 pm
Exhibition runs from:         Friday 11th to Thursday 17th of December 2009
Gallery Opening Hours:      Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs: 2.30 pm - 6.30 pm
Last day of Exhibition:      Thursday 17th of December: 11.00am to 5.00pm

Emotional Expressions is based on the importance and impact of emotions translated into expressions. Harris’ work pays special attention to the unique and diverse nature of mimicry and how it marks us out as individuals.

He is drawn towards the intriguing story that lies behind a fleeting glance or beaming grin that can be instantly captured within a single static frame.

Having a broad fascination for and the ability to draw an abundance of things from buildings to landscapes to animals, the subject of the human face was something Harris found the most challenging. Marked with the frustration of not feeling confident to draw that which was most fascinating to him, the human face, in particular the live quality of human expression; his work came to focus solely on the study of human emotion.

In order to achieve a natural and unforced quality in his subjects Harris takes photos without the subject’s knowledge. This method has produced a more honest portrait and Harris finds that as he paints more of the subject’s personality begins to shine through.

His interest in iconic figures delves into the verisimilitude of public expression and the extent to which truth is conveyed within a public arena.

Graphite pencils or black Acrylic paints are used by Harris to accomplish the desired effect for his portraits, giving his subjects a play of shadow and light as well as accentuating human emotion.

A Reportage including Film & Photography documenting contemporary music in Morocco By Yann Sivault & Nicolas Orsini

Exhibition runs from: Friday 4th to Saturday 5th of December 2009

Film Screening: Friday 4th of December from 9.30pm

Gallery Opening Hours: Fri & Sat: 2.30 pm - 6.30 pm

“This is Maroc“, is a reportage documenting recently emerging trends of contemporary and eclectic Moroccan music. The exhibition will include photographs representing the spirit of present day Morocco as well portraying cultural aspects that are not readily associated with the tourist image shown in travel brochures. Yann Sivault and Nicolas Orsini during their trip in Morocco have not only collaborated on all visual imagery as well as film footage for the project, but have equally worked very closely with local musicians.

The exhibition will also feature a screening of different footage and interviews realised during the visit of different cities such as Rabat, Casablanca, Meknes, Marrakech and Esserouera. Yann and Nicolas are showing an exciting new face of current musical and cultural trends that are true eye-openers.