East End Promise

 
Art & Culture

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO
EAST END PROMISE: A STORY OF CULTURAL MIGRANTS
PRIVATE VIEW: FRIDAY 8TH OCTOBER 7PM TILL 10PM
EXHIBITION 9TH – 24TH OCTOBER

Opening Times:
Weekdays 12 noon – 6pm Saturday/Sunday:
Viewing by appointment: +44 (0)777 247 7214

CATALOGUE LAUNCH: THURSDAY 21ST OCTOBER

RSVP for PV: redgalleryinfo@googlemail.com

Private View: Friday 8th of October
East End Promise a multi-media event documenting and exploring the explosion of artistic and cultural activity that took place in Londons East End between 1985 and 2000 is set to be one of the cultural events of the year. By exhibiting a large collection of representative artworks selected by the artists themselves, together with a mass of archive material (video, photography, audio), and a number of specially-commissioned new pieces, East End Promise will attempt to provide the first complete picture of one of the most significant movements of the late twentieth-century British cultural scene.

The show charts the activities of the cultural migrants who came to the East End from all over the UK and abroad, moving into derelict spaces and filling the vacuum left by previous migrants. Unlike preceding post-war youth and cultural movements, which had mainly been based on consumption, these individuals from a range of social and economic backgrounds took advantage of the cheap rents to create a culture based on ideas and the processes involved in bringing them to fruition.

To reflect the vibrancy and immediacy of the DIY ethos of the time and place East End Promise celebrates, an accompanying catalogue will be compiled and sent to press in the first week of the exhibition, and launched on the last Thursday.

Artworks: BANK art group (VIPER/BANK TV from the 1996 video show of 130 artists); Gavin Turk (tip bronze painted sculpture of bin bag and early works and archive reworked specifically for the show); Darren Coffield (artwork and personal Factual Nonsense archive); Anthony Oliver with Andrew Herman (Dogs Must Be Carried, 35 mm slide installation of over 300 portraits, at 30 Underwood St Gallery, 1996); Adam Dant (The Donald Parsnips News Stand, 1997); Stewart Home (Red London Video Promo); Swifty (Large scale Installation from the famous designer); Simon Bill; Cedric Christie; Sean Dawson; Cathy de Monchaux; Lucy Wood; Geraldine Swayne (East End the first ever Super 8 to Imax film a documentary short about Spitalfields, past and present, including Nick Cave, Ian Sinclair, Gallon Drunk, Nick Cave, Bill Drummond, among others); and many more.

Photographs, Video & Archive: Bonnie Venture (the ultimate shoreditch portraits or 90s and Liam Duke, unseen documentary photos of East London Strip bars from the early 90s); Giles Moberly; Diego Ferraris panoramas; Dafyyd Jones; photographic archive of important East End show throughout the 1980s and 1990s of Peter Lewis (Artist/Curator and editor of /seconds journal); Chris Shaw (never before shown Shoreditch Portraits 1996/7, from the photographer behind, My Life as a Night Porter); Normski (Photographs of the legendary Metalheadz Sunday Session Club Nights at the Blue Note from back in the day, Bjork and Giles Deacon on the dancefloor, etc), and more.

Archive Material: Containing photos and video of just about EVERYONE the great, the good, the beautiful, the bad and the ugly from the East End art and cultural scene 1985-2000. Including Tracy Emin, Gilbert and George, Bob and Roberta Smith, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Damien Hirst, Angus Fairhurst, Commercial Gallery, Matt Collishaw, Jarvis Cocker, Fee Doran aka Mrs Jones, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Carl Friedman, Sarah Lucas, Nitsch show at 30 Underwood St Gallery in 1997, Max Wigram, Gary Hume, Rachel Whiteread, Maureen Paley, and more.

Publications: Atlas Press; The Ditch Magazine; 30 Underwood St; Lo Recordings; Straight No Chaser; PMYCA/Sleaze Nation; Mute Magazine; Everything Magazine; and more.