Please join us for SCREENINGS of Are the Stones Standing Still at Staffordshire St.

The banners are raised, the canopy is holding, come shelter under our framework for collective practice. Meet artist-led practitioners from across the UK to find out about what they do and where they want to be in 5 years time. We will be screening works by Dan Guthrie, Alex Billingham and Modern Painters, New Decorators.

Info:

Sunday 1st September
14.00 - 15.00

Tickets:

Free or PWYC.

If you are financially able, please consider paying more, to keep Staffordshire St events accessible to all.



Dan Guthrie | @danglefree :
Dan Guthrie is an artist who often works with the moving image to explore representations and mis-representations of Black Britishness with an interest in examining how they manifest themselves in rural areas. Selected screenings and exhibitions include Open City Documentary Festival, Devonshire Collective, Prismatic Ground, Berlinale Forum Expanded and LUX. Guthrie is currently working on a new moving image co-commission for Spike Island and Chisenhale Gallery which will open in 2025.

Alex Billingham | @billingham_alex : 
Alex Billingham is a practice based artist in the West Midlands UK. She often pulls from her own lived experience of being Disabled, Trans, Neurodiverse and Queer. Seeing how these identities collide and intermingle with the world we all live in. Her practice constantly adapts to whichever medium best delivers the work with research and experimentation at the core of her practice.

Modern Painters, New Decorators | @mpndprojects :
Modern Painters, New Decorators is an artist-led organisation running a gallery, shop and studios in Loughborough, East Midlands, UK. We believe that artists can positively impact where we live and why we live there. We make visual art projects, community workshops and creative networks.

About the exhibition:

Are the Stones Standing Still is a symposium, a gathering of collectives from around the UK to come together and protest.

Curator Dinosaur Kilby has invited five collaborative artist groups to come together: Prayer Room in Birmingham, Test Space from Bristol, PINK in Stockport, Studio Cybi from North Wales and The Field in Derbyshire to participate. Each collective is asked to produce a banner; a statement of intent about who they are, what they are doing and where they want to be in five years. During the four day event the banners will be raised as a makeshift tent for collective practice to shelter under. The symposium will seek to examine questions such as: what does rurality mean? How do artist-led ecologies talk to each other? What’s important for artists now?

The four day exhibition cum weekender will activate the project space with screenings, performances and conversation below, between and around the waving flags. Are the Stones Standing Still is a follow up to If It Thunders on All Fool's Day, which took place at Eastside Projects in 2023.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

For any upcoming opportunities, please sign up to our newsletter here.