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South Bermondsey Art Trail 2025: Friday 5th & Saturday 6th September

The South Bermondsey Art Trail is a two-day event of open studios, exhibitions and creative events to celebrate the diverse range of artists and creatives working in the local area of South Bermondsey, SE15.

This edition marks the 7th year of SBAT. Participation is free for all, and we warmly encourage everyone in the community to take part. Contact: mail@sidmotiongallery.co.uk

To coincide with SBAT and to celebrate the breadth and diversity of the artists working in the local area, the gallery is hosting 'In The Company Of', a group exhibition of selected artists who practice in the surrounding streets of the gallery.

Special Edition Launch | Dafna Talmor

Ahead of her upcoming solo exhibition at the gallery in April 2025, we are excited to launch a special edition by Dafna Talmor from her Constructed Landscapes (Vol. III) series.

Untitled (DA-WR-2222222222222222-1), from the Constructed Landscapes (Vol. III) series, 2024
C-type handprint made from 8 collaged negatives
5” x 7.4” / 12.8 cm x 18.8 cm

Art Book Collection for the residents at HMP Grendon

Sid Motion Gallery is helping to build a library of Art Books for the residents at HMP Grendon who use the Art Studio and Gallery there. All donations of books are very welcome, and will be collected throughout the duration of James Lomax's exhibition 'A Tale of Two Cities' (14 November 2024 - 18 January 2025).

The exhibition expands upon Lomax's recent exhibition at HMP Grendon, a Category B men's prison that operates a unique psychodynamic therapeutic model. Lomax's exhibition at HMP Grendon was on view to residents of the prison only, and was the result of an Artist Residency undertaken there earlier this year.

South Bermondsey Art Trail: 24th August 2024

The South Bermondsey Art Trail is a 1 day event of open studios, exhibitions and events celebrating the artists based in South Bermondsey. Organised by Sid Motion Gallery, the Trail showcases the brilliant creatives working in the area.

10am-6pm on Saturday 24th August. All welcome. Start the Trail at Sid Motion Gallery to collect a printed map.

Download map and list of participating artists.

A collaboration with Tom Cole on a series of 4 exhibitions

Sid Motion Gallery is delighted to announce a collaboration with Tom Cole on a series of four exhibitions taking place across 2024-2025. Their partnership for the exhibitions builds on the spirit of collaboration that has characterised the gallery’s exhibition programme to date. With a shared respect for each other’s curatorial activities over the years, Motion and Cole are excited to come together for this programme which will highlight historical and conceptual overlaps across an intergenerational range of artists with materially rich practices.

Sid Motion and Tom Cole said, “Working collaboratively on this series of exhibitions represents a new challenge for us, and provides a fertile ground for new connections and associations to emerge. We have both previously championed craft influenced practices, and artists who use fibre-based materials and ceramics and in this new series of exhibitions, we hope to initiate dialogues between a generational and geographical mix of artists, demonstrating the conceptual possibilities inherent in a range of craft related mediums.”

The first iteration of the collaboration will take place at Sid Motion Gallery, opening on 20th September 2024. DUST TO DUST is a three person show, featuring Magdalena Abakanowicz, Phoebe Cummings and Robert Mapplethorpe, that considers the relationship between the organic world and the condition of the human body. Exploring decay and renewal, each artist uses motifs and forms evocative of the fragility and vulnerability of nature, positioning cycles of life within the temporality of the natural world.

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Following DUST TO DUST, the gallery will host a further three exhibitions from early 2025. The second exhibition in the series will include Elizabeth Fritsch, Kate Newby, Vicken Parsons, Jacqueline Poncelet, and Max Wade. Examining how different narratives of landscape and place are communicated and embodied through pattern and abstraction, the show will bring together ceramics, textiles and paintings – and will open in January 2025. Further details to be announced in due course.